This programme is the story of one of the most important days on the Settle-Carlisle Railway for decades. On 22nd March 2005, HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, visited the region aboard the Royal Train, hauled by steam locomotive Princess Coronation Class No. 6233 "Duchess of Sutherland". From British Pathé TV's Railway Collection.
This film explores the incredible achievement by the engineers and navvies of the mid-Victorian period who designed and built the viaduct at Ribblehead and the legendary tunnel at Blea Moor. There is more fascination about this great viaduct than any other facet on the wonderful Settle-Carlisle R...
Britain’s best-loved railway, with its route over the "roof" of England, is the spectacular Settle-Carlisle railway (called "the line that should never have been built"). Running through some of the most breathtaking scenery in Britain, it takes in the architecture of bridges and viaducts en-rout...
The very special Somerset and Dorset Class 7F 2-8-0s. Their working lives were spent entirely on the famous Somerset and Dorset Railway and such was their charisma that two examples, 53808 and 53809, have been saved for posterity. From British Pathé TV's Railway Collection.