The History Of Britain's Railways Vol 1: The Cradle Of The Railways DVD

This programme traces the history of the railways of the north east of England and those major companies which came together to form the London and North Eastern Railways. The early days of George Stephenson and the pioneering engineers are told with reference to museum and reproduction locomotives whilst the developments of the successor railways to the Stockton and Darlington the North Eastern Railway the Great Northern Great Eastern and Great Central are told through previously unseen video archive footage of their locomotives in the 1950s. Further footage from... the 1950s and 1960s adds to this whilst preserved locomotives such as Flying Scotsman and Mallard take the story on to the present day with Class 91s on the electrified East Coast Main Line. The archive footage includes film of locomotives such as Gresley's P1 2-8-2 North Eastern and Great Northern Atlantics and 4-4-0s and Great Eastern 'Hikers'. [show more]

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