Steaming Through Wessex - Part 1
Railways • 1h 27m
A first volume of remarkable films shot by Douglas Seaton on his 16mm camera - all in colour from the 1940s through to the mid-1960s. These films portray a crucial period in railway history. From British Pathé TV's Railway Collection.
Up Next in Railways
-
Steaming Through Wessex - Part 2
The second volume in the remarkable series of archive films taken by Douglas Seaton in the 1940s and 1950s. This volume contains more 16mm film in full colour and some very rare black and white footage taken in the 1920s and 1930s providing such scenes as early Southern locomotives on the South W...
-
Steaming Through Yorkshire
A selection of archive films covering the whole county of Yorkshire, including Main Lines around York and Doncaster, Leeds, Bradford, Keighley, the Settle-Carlisle Line, the Grassington Branch and North Yorkshire Moors, with fascinating footage of the East Coast Main Line in the 1930s.
This is a...
-
The Story of the Swanage Railway
The full story of one of the UK’s premier steam branch lines. This documentary looks at the growth of the fascinating Swanage line – its British Rail days, its closure period in the early 1970s, its subsequent reconstruction, and its ongoing preservation.
