Category: trains

Walschaerts Valve Gear

https://youtu.be/O6rlfXCsoPk?si=zF_PiJ3mfXneXdXv Shows and describes all the parts of the Walschaerts valve gear and describes why each is necessary and why it is shaped and sized the way it is.

Patagonia Express

https://youtu.be/qUimDtT2W0o?si=DZMPNi0VCJbhj2UJ Argentinien – Patagonia Express – German • Great Railways…In German…

Rimutaka Incline – The Worlds Last Fell Engine Railway

https://youtu.be/HRlATlojnD4?si=N1kqasfUZGDWzLMe In this unique programme, produced by the international award-winning Memory Line Team, a surviving fitter, driver and fireman return to the abandoned Incline to relive takes of agony and triumph of the Fell engines battling the mountain range. Also featured is the world’s only remaining Fell loco. H199, shown in its restored splendor in…… Continue reading Rimutaka Incline – The Worlds Last Fell Engine Railway

Rails to the North West Frontier

https://youtu.be/UYvmIRRQupw?si=AHVNxbsM6Pj9k8s_ Rails to the North West Frontier – English • Great RailwaysOne of NICK LERA’s finest documentaries is this 1990s account of a great railway adventure from the Baluchistan mountains to the legendary Khyber Pass. We start with vintage 1950s cab unit diesels of the Alco DL500 World series on the 4% grades of the…… Continue reading Rails to the North West Frontier

Eritrea – Rebirth of a Railway

https://youtu.be/fncZmHEFSaU Eritrea – Rebirth of a Railway – English • Great Railways.Producer NICK LERA took his cameras to the Horn Of Africa in 2002 and 2003 to record the dramatic revival of a war-ravaged mountain railway they said could never be rebuilt. This highly visual portrayal of a railway reborn follows vintage 95cm gauge Mallet…… Continue reading Eritrea – Rebirth of a Railway

Winter Steam Special

https://youtu.be/oex838q2fck?si=qLP7lRHl4qxebs3B 2018 Winter Steam Special – „Kriegslok” doubleheader to Zakopane.

Vintage Steam Train

https://youtu.be/M4qmAFloSDI?si=Qq5Xfz0_2Eu9Xre3 “Via Galician Transversal Railway to Żywiec” Ty42-107 “Kriegslok”On 2nd October 2016 special steam train event took place on a part of Galician Transversal Railway between Chabówka and Żywiec. Steam train which ran from Chabówka to Żywiec and back consisted of Ty42-107 (also known as BR52 „Kriegslok“) steam locomotive and five passenger coaches built between…… Continue reading Vintage Steam Train

Decades of steam – 1930s

https://youtu.be/GBamHmEzQfI?si=fNijShd2panOEA9_ This vintage railway footage, takes the story of the steam locomotive in Great Britain into the cold years of the Depression. For the railways it was a period of austerity as they tried to meet the competition of the roads. The GWR, LMS and LNER embarked on massive steam locomotive construction programmes to replace…… Continue reading Decades of steam – 1930s

The last train to Woodford Halse

https://youtu.be/VMjomS52YlY?si=i8MZPZqbqb9_bWaZ Vintage railway film – The last train to Woodford Halse – MACE (Media Archive for Central England)Remembering the lost stations and lines that didn’t survive the modernisation of British Railways in the 1960s. From major hubs like Nottingham Victoria to the smallest branchline halts of the Midlands region, this compilation of rarely seen archive…… Continue reading The last train to Woodford Halse