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DVD B&R 30: Farewell to Steam 1968DVD B&R 30: Farewell to Steam 1968 19. 75 Cine film of the steam railway was well into its stride by 1968 when hundreds of photographers were recording the dying days of steam traction on British Railways. We are fortunate in that we have access to thousands of feet of film taken of these events and needed only to use the best from cameramen who had already been filming for years and had therefore got the hang of it by 1968, thereby producing some

with diesels galore

The numerous BR Sulzer Type 2s operated throughout the UK

newly restored and running on preserved lines plus the replica broad gauge engines at Didcot Railway Centre

London Transport was still using steam for things like permanent way trains with ex-GWR pannier tanks doing the job

75069 (now preserved on the SVR)

‘Tiger’

The long closed main line between Whitacre and Hampton-in-Arden is shown in detail

featuring matched vintage trains – the AIX with Maunsell green coaches and the ‘P’ with a mixed freight

stitch sewn

Being part of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway for many years

* Royal Scot being delivered

Langwith and Frodingham & Scunthorpe