DVD B&R 178: Steam Memories of the Sixties Part 1

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DVD B&R 178: Steam Memories of the Sixties Part 1DVD B&R 178: Steam Memories of the Sixties Part 1 19. 75 THE CHRIS NOYLE COLLECTION No. 2. Chris Noyle filmed railways in Britain and Europe from 1962 to 1972. This is the second volume from his collection and features the steam scene in England, Scotland and Wales in the 1960s. We start in Scotland at Aberdeen and Perth for B1s & A4s including 60016 Silver King before views at Derby in 1962 of the last remaining unrebuilt Patriot, 45543 Home Guard

Our next section is another route learning video aboard EMU 313013 on 1st March 1997

Branch Lines to Skegness and Mablethorpe

At Waterloo there is quite a lot of activity in and around the station itself as well as lovely panoramas of the approaches filmed from (the well known and overlooking) block of flats to the west of the line

including the newly completed GBRf 69009 which was wearing the Western Region maroon

The book therefore introduces us to Caprotti valve gear

The great variety of traffic by rail to and from Newport Docks is portrayed dramatically

Factory 8-22 York Gasworks 23-29 York Corporation Depot 30-33 Leethams Mills 34-36 York Layerthorpe (BR) 37-41 York Layerthorpe (DVLR) 42-58 Osbaldwick 59-60 Murton Lane 61-64 Murton Park 65-70 Dunnington Halt 71-74 Dunnington for Kexby 75-84 Elvington for Sutton 85-92 Wheldrake 93-102 Cottingwith 103-105 Thorganby 106-108 Skipwith & North Duffield 109-113

Other locations visited are Redhill and the Guildford line

A4s and Black 5s

together with the associated 4-wheeled car-carrying wagons and the heavier-duty designs

as he narrates the first ever gala held at the railway

More scenes at Dumfries station include 4472 on a special and we return to the WCML at Lockerbie for some depot shunting with a Pickersgill tank

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