Story of the Great Central Railway – DVD
August 17, 2024
Return to the Hayling Island Branch
September 12, 2024
Arlington Fleet Services at Eastleigh – digital Streaming Version
£12.95
‘The Story of Arlington Fleet Services’
Based at the former BREL works at Eastleigh, this is the story of how the work’s was rejuvenated
from 2006 into a new repair and maintenance facility for all the major train operators.
An extensive look around the works and the huge site with locomotives under repair or in the new paintshop
facility with interviews with the proprietors as to how it all started. Scenes of work progressing in the main workshops, paint shop, wheel shop and even heritage progress on Merchant navy Class No. 35005 Canadian pacific. Class 47s, 57s and 73s all under the works’ roof.
Digital streaming version – 53 minutes duration
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Steaming to Hampshire and Dorset
£16.95STEAMING TO
Hampshire and Dorset
A nostalgic journey by train from London’s Waterloo station down to the counties of Hampshire and Dorset.
We begin our journey at the London & South Western Railway’s terminus station at Waterloo which was completely rebuilt following the First World War and opened in 1922 by HM Queen Mary. Its many platforms and bustling atmosphere is seen in the mid 1960s at a time when steam haulage to the south coast was nearing an end.
Soon after our departure, we get glimpses of the depot at Nine Elms and scenes from the trackside of Bulleid pacifics at work and at speed through Clapham and on to the county of Hampshire. We stop at Winchester and Eastleigh where we view the main line trains and some local services added to a visit around the motive power depot and view older Southern classes at the end of their service periods and visitors from the LNER in the form of Flying Scotsman, the Great Marquess and Blue Peter.
After Northam and Southampton Terminus is seen, we stop at Southampton Central for an indepth survey of steam services in 1966 and 1967. We progress through the New Forest to Brockenhurst and a stopover to take a journey down to Lymington with various engines including Standard tanks and Ivatt 2-6-2Ts.
Our onward journey takes us to Bournemouth and the magnificent station buildings and locomotive depot where we see many engines on shed.
Finally, we spend time at Wareham and a trip through Purbeck down to Swanage before we reach the end of the South Western Main Line at Weymouth and its depot full of locomotives either in service or waiting to depart for scrapyards in South Wales.
80 minutes duration
