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Southern Railways~Films with connections to the South Coast of England~~~983~989~~

Southern Steam - The Post War Years~Steam in action throughout the Southern Region in the 1950s and 1960s
Including:
1950s Southern
Eastleigh in the 1950s
Southern Sheds in the 1950s
The Isle of Wight in the 50s and 60s
Southern Steam off the Beaten Track in the 1950s
Reading Southern
Specials in the 1950s
The last Steam worked Main Line
Colour and Black & White archive film - 70 mins~Steam in action throughout the Southern Region in the 1950s and 1960s

1950s Southern. ‘King Arthurs’, ‘Lord Nelsons’, ‘Bulleid Pacifics’, ‘Schools’, a G6 0-6-0 tank & Standard designs at Victoria and on the main line to Basingstoke and Southampton.

Eastleigh in the 1950s featuring the Works and Steam Shed including the Open Day of August 1957. Includes some veteran motive power of the period including a T9, B4 tanks and a Brighton Atlantic.

Southern Sheds in the 1950s featuring Feltham, Ramsgate, Ashford, Folkestone, Stewarts Lane, Tonbridge. Tunbridge Wells West and Nine Elms with a range of steam power.

The Isle of Wight in the 1950s and 1960s.

Southern Steam off the Beaten Track in the 1950s including the Seaton & Lyme Regis Branches and the West Country with Beattie Well Tanks.

Reading Southern a detailed portrait of the station, steam shed and its approach lines in the years leading to closure in 1965. Includes passenger and freight and a wide variety of motive power.

Specials in the 1950s the Rother Valley Limited of October 1958 featuring Terriers to Tenterden, the Southern Counties Limited in February 1957 with Brighton Atlantic ‘Beachy Head’ plus the Atlantics last run in service and a tour of Brighton Shed in 1958.

The Last Steam Worked Main Line - steam on the route from Waterloo to Basingstoke in 1964.~Southern Steam%3Cbr%3EThe Post War Years|SSPWDVD|~983~1230~~

The Southern Way West~Mike Arlett takes us back to the days of working steam on the Southern Region main line to the West Country. Along the way we explore the passenger and freight workings, stations and gradients to provide the definitive portrait of a fascinating route. We conclude with a brief overview of the line in the years since the demise of steam.94 mins~Salisbury to Yeovil Junction - Salisbury station and shed, and a journey over the undulating line through Templecombe to Yeovil Junction.

Around Yeovil - A detailed look at this busy junction and the services to Penn Mill and Town. Includes everything from special workings to auto trains, railbuses and Bulleid Pacifics.

Axminster and the Lyme Regis Branch - with the veteran Adams Radial Tanks and the Ivatt tanks introduced during the last years of steam.

Seaton Junction and the Seaton Branch - including a detailed look at the junction with a wide range of steam power. Great Western 0-4-2 and Panniers are featured on the branch along with BR Standard power.

Seaton Junction to Honiton - with main line traffic over the steep grades to the summit at Honiton tunnel.

Sidmouth Junction & the Sidmouth and Exmouth Branches - A brief view with BR Standard and Southern motive power.

Exeter Central a classic Southern station in the latter years of the steam era.

Decline & Resurgence - the rationalisation of the route in the late 1960s, and the diesel traction scene of the post steam era.

94 mins approx~The Southern Way West|SWWDVD|~983~1231~~

Aspects of Southern Steam~Marking 40 years since the end of Southern Steam - an exploration of steam on the Southern Region of British Railways, from branch to main line. Plus Bonus footage 75 mins~Three steam worked branches.
Wareham to Swanage, Lymington to Brockenhurst, Havant to Hayling Island with M7 tanks, Standard tanks, ‘Terriers’, Bulleid Pacifics and a ‘Q’ Class.

The cross country Redhill to Reading line in the early 1960s including Maunsell 2-6-0s, Standard 5s, ‘Schools’ and a Great Western ‘Mogul’.

Inter regional trains bound for the Southern with scenes of Bulleid Pacifics around Basingstoke and Oxford.

The last steam worked main line from Waterloo with Bulleid Pacifics, an H16, an S15, ‘Schools’, Standard and Ivatt tanks, Standard Tanks and a pair of Beattie Well tanks.

Steam variety on the Southern with an M7 at Salisbury, a B4 tank at Winchester, a Lord Nelson and the usual pacifics.

The Bournemouth to Weymouth main line in the period 1962 to 1967.

Plus Bonus Footage:

30th Anniversary of the Bluebell Railway.
Bulleids in the North of England.
Bulleid Revival with scenes from various preserved railways.~Aspects of Southern Steam|AOSSDVD|~983~1198~~

Britain's Lost Railways
Vol 1 - Southern England~An Exploration of long closed branches and secondary lines in Britain in the 1960s

Approx 58 mins (For a limited period available at a special price - ususal price £16.95)~Great Eastern Survivors with the Audley End to Saffron Walden and Bartlow branch and the Buntingford branch. Features rare footage of the short lived railbuses.

The Newport Pagnell branch in the final months of steam operation.

Southern Branches including Three Bridges to East Grinstead, the Lydd branch and the Hailsham and Eastbourne lines with steam and diesel haulage.

The Southern Regions Fawley branch.

The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway with both special and schedules services.

The Didcot to Newbury cross country branch.

The Hemyock Branch.

Steam operations on the Wadebridge to Wenford Bridge and Bodmin line with classic Beattie ‘Well Tanks’ and Great Western ‘Panniers’.~Britain%27s Lost Railways%3Cbr%3EVol 1 - Southern England|BLR1DVD|~983~1111~~

Reflections on Southern Steam~A look at various aspects of steam on the Southern from the 1930s to the present day. PLUS a bonus programme - Reflections on Main Line Southern Steam. 50 mins plus bonus footage.~To many the Southern is, and always has been, an all electric railway. However, in the days of steam the Southern had more variety of motive power than its neighbour the Great Western. In this programme we reflect on the various aspects of Southern Steam, from the pre-war years through to the present day.

*  Archive film from the days of the Southern Railway with steam at work on the Isle of Wight and on the former London and South Western system, plus a look at freight traffic.

*  Freight traffic in and around Feltham Yard in th 1960s showing a wide range of classes at work.

*  Rare colour film showing steam at work in and around Waterloo in the years before Nationalisation.

*  The Merchant Navy Class, with a look at their development in the 1940s plus 'Swanage' on the Mid Hants Railway.

*  The Bulleids 'Leader' design using rare black and white film of the engine on test at Brighton.

*  Bulleid passenger coaches.

*  The Hayling Island and Guildford to Horsham line.

*  Railways of the Isle of Wight.

*  30 years of the Bluebell Railway.

*  Railtours on the Southern.

PLUS a bonus programme -Reflection on Main Line Southern Steam' featuring main line steam tours in 1992 to Ashford, Eastleigh and the South Coast.~Reflections on Southern Steam|ROSSDVD|~983~991~Reflections on Southern Steam~

Southern Electric~The third rail electrics of the Southern. Plus bonus footage – A cab ride from Purley to Victoria in the 1930s. Approx 85 minutes.~A programme using archive film to explore the development of electric power on the third rail electrified routes of the Southern . The Southern Railways units from the 1920s and 1930s, the 4 COR units, the ‘Brighton Belle’, the EPBs of the British Railways era, the last of the 2 BILs and special trains are all featured using film shot from the 1920s to the 1980s. In addition we look at the Mark One stock of the British Railways era, with the CIGs, VEPs, COPs, BIGs, and CEPs using archive film shot over a period of 40 years. Finally the Class 71s and Class 73s are illustrated on a range of traffic.

Locations include Waterloo, Victoria, London Bridge, the Brighton main line, Clapham Junction, the main line to Southampton, Wandsworth Road, Worthing and Surbiton.

Plus bonus footage - A Cab Ride from Purley to Victoria in the 1930s.~Southern Electric|SEDVD|~983~699~Electric, Southern~

By Southern to the Coast~Following the Southern Railway from Waterloo to Weymouth. PLUS bonus footage - Steam on the Swanage Railway, The Mid Hants Railway and Southern Main Line Steam. Approx 80 mins~A detailed look at the former Southern main line from Waterloo to Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth using a wealth of rare archive film, from the years from Nationalization to July 1967.

The programme comprises:

A History of the Route - from LSWR days to Nationalisation.
Waterloo to Clapham Juntion - Steam at London's last terminus and Nine Elms, plus Clapham Junction in the 1960s.
Clapham Junction to Basingstoke - Bulleid Pacifics at speed on this distinctive main line with its pneumatically operated semaphores. 'King Arthurs', and '700' Class 0-6-0s are also featured in the early 1960s.
Basingstoke to Southampton - From quadruple to double track with more Bulleids at high speed for the run through Eastleigh. Includes Southampton Docks and the 'Bournemouth Belle'.
To the Dorset Coast - M7s at Brockenhurst, the 'Castlemans Corkscrew', Bounemouth Central and Shed, Wareham, Dorchester and the 1 in 50 grade of Upwey Bank, plus Weymouth.

PLUS

Steam on the Swanage Railway - featuring passenger and freight with M7 30053, 34072 '275 Squadron' plus archive views.
The Mid Hants Railway - with steam 'Crossing the Alps' in the preservation era.
Southern Main Line Steam - with the first daylight steam to weymouth and Basingstoke in the preservation era.~By Southern to the Coast|BSTTCDVD|~983~993~By Southern to the Coast~