Scotland and Wales have their own peculiar railway histories and this programme gives a brief overall look at each in turn starting with Scotland. Archive footage from the 1930s shows the Scottish railway variety with features on both Edinburgh's Waverley station and Glasgow's St Enoch as well as the locomotive sheds at Inverness. The many rare views include a North British Atlantic and a GSWR 'Baltic' tank as well as the many 4-4-0s which were so characteristic of the country. 1950s and 1960s footage extends the areas covered and all the major companies' stories... are told; the Caledonian North British Glasgow and South Western the Highland and the Great North of Scotland. Today's ScotRail brings the story up to date. In Wales the story is that of the LNWR in North Wales the Cambrian in Central Wales the narrow gauge lines of the mountains and the myriad small companies serving the famous coal valleys in the south. Again 1930s footage is supplemented by 1950s archive including as the opener to our story the last days of the earliest of all the Swansea & Mumbles Railway. The coal story takes us from the heyday through the 1950s and 1960s to the end in the early 1990s. [show more]
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Fourth volume of the documentary series looking at the history of Britain's railways. This volume looks at the challenging conditions in Scotland and Wales, and the development of the railways in those countries. Includes rare archive footage.
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