This short, silent film captures one of Britain's minor little railways: the Leek and Manifold Light Railway on the Staffordshire Moorlands. The railway opened in 1907, linking the villages of Waterhouses and Hulme End, and was built mainly for agricultural traffic, with a passenger service being a secondary consideration. Its route went through beautiful countryside in Staffordshire, and it is unfortunate that the intertitles state it as being shot in Derbyshire! In 1934 the entire line was closed by the North Staffordshire Railway. There is little in the way of recorded film material of this quaint little train, so this gem gives an invaluable insight into the railway. (Stuart Smith,...

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This video is my garden railway - AKIGASE Light Railway - in Japan. www14.big.or.jp

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My 6th visit to the Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway, 'The Nations Holiday Line' on Wednesday 13th August 2008. Now I know a hell of a lot of enthusiasts are against the P&DSR, saying that they don't keep locomotives in original liveries along with naming them, using coloured lights etc, but I think the P&DSR GWR liveries are better than the GWR real ones, come on, your saying 'Lydham Manor' looks rubbish?, and do the signals really matter? So if you hate it so much why do they keep going there? - because you know its one of the best lines in the country. The views are superb of Torbay, the sea and of the River Dart. I can understand naming locomotives because holiday-makers...

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A collection of clips depicting former United States Army Transportation Corps S100 Class 0-6-0T locomotives, better known in the UK as the Southern Railway "USA Class". Traversing the roadway Southampton Docks, 1962. Shunting at Southampton Docks, 1962. No.30072 at Guildford Shed c1963. No.30064 at Southampton Central on a railtour, 25/03/1967. No.30064 on the Fawley Branch during the same tour, 25/03/1967. The Southern Railway purchased 15 of these locomotives (which had hardly been used and were lying around awaiting disposal) after the Second World War for use at Southampton Docks where their short wheelbase and ample power were a great advantage. Fourteen entered traffic, one being...

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SOME CLIPS OF SHUNTING TRAINS ON MY MODERN IMAGE OO GAUGE LAYOUT.

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A short film of men making connecting rods at Ashford Railway Works in 1947.

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This video is my garden railway - AKIGASE Light Railway - in Japan. www14.big.or.jp

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This SVS Film DVD is available now from www.svsfilm.com The Bluebell Railway is one of Britain's finest preserved railways and runs through the beautiful Sussex countryside about 35 miles south of London. Join British railways 'Standard Class 4' 4-6-0 number 75027 and watch the entire journey along the Bluebell Line from Sheffield Park to Kingscote from the footplate of the locomotive. One mobile and two fixed cameras on the engine plus another camera onboard the leading coach of the train all help to give a comprehensive and varied insight into the action. Expert narrative guides the viewer through the various stages of the trip. Archive cine film and still photographs from the steam era...

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The Kent & East Sussex Light Railway. known in it's first few years as the Rother Valley Railway, was opened between 1903 and 1905 and ran from Robertsbridge on the Tonbridge-Hastings line to Headcorn Junction on the South Eastern main line. The line became part of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948 and, in common with many similarly unprofitable rural branch lines was steadily run down, closing to passenger traffic on 2nd January 1954 (at which point the section from Tenterden Town to Headcorn Junction was closed altogether) and to all traffic on 12th July 1961. The K&ESR survived as one of the first preserved railway lines in the UK and is now a very successful tourist...

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This UK PAL DVD is available from www.svsfilm.com The 30939archives Silent Cine Series features restored cine film footage and colour slides from the 1960's. 'RAILWAYS of FRANCE Volume One' is photographed by Mike Hudson from 1963 to 1970. Part One (55 minutes) contains archive Standard 8 colour cine film, with some colour slides and caption pages. It is presented without a narration or soundtrack. It features Reseau Breton 4-6-0T & Mallets, POCorreze Mallet, Vivarais Mallet, SNCF 241P, 231D, 231K, 231G, 231E, 141P, 242TA, 141R, 141TC, 141TB & CFTA 130B. Part Two(25 minutes) includes archive colour slides, with caption pages, plus sound recordings of SNCF 141R & 141TC locos in...

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The PNR is still alive! Taken March 25, 2009 around 4:30 PM at P.Gill (Paco) Station. Check their site at pnr.gov.ph

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IR SR WAP-4 AC loco hauls the Coimbatore-Madras Kovai Express at top speed

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Irish Railways 071 & 141/181 Class hauled passenger & freight trains in Dublin, Ireland. *079 Sligo-Dublin service at Maynooth. *081 North Wall-Sligo empty timber, 160 light engine at Drumcondra. *082 Dublin Port -Tara Mines empty, *185+147 empty ballast , *083 on loaded Tara Mines-Dublin Port at Killester. www.eiretrains.com

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Ashford Works in September 1959. Seen underoing overhaul are members of classes C2X (ex-London Brighton & South Coast Railway 0-6-0), Bulleid's 'Austerity' Q1 (ex-Southern Railway 0-6-0, the most poweful engines of this wheel arrangement ever to run in the British Isles, see www.semgonline.com ) and N (ex-South Eastern & Chatham Railway 2-6-0, see www.semgonline.com ). We then move outside to view the 'Elephant's Graveyard' of engines destined in the main for the cutters torch. Here we see ex-London & South Western Railway B4 class 0-4-0T No.30084 (see www.semgonline.com ), recently displaced from Dover docks, an ex-LSWR '700' class 0-6-0 (see www.semgonline.com ), an ex-LSWR T9...

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Friends of the Rail's South African Railways Class 19D Steam Locomotive #2650 "Cheugnette" built in 1939 by Friedrich Krupp of Essen Germany departing on a pleasure trip around Pretoria. Video Recorded at Capital Park, Pretoria, South Africa. www.friendsoftherail.com

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