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The Catalogue - CDs and DVDs.
Most shows are now sold out, and we have now withdrawn from active trading.
However the sample pictures from each show are still here to be enjoyed.
Click on the picture to see samples and a more
detailed description of show contents.

CDs:- All the shows except where stated include full captions, not merely technical details. Prices include UK p&p.
DVDs:- All run as video slide shows and are intended for tv viewing. Some of the DVD Shows comprise two associated presentations, eg 'A Wessex Journey' and 'Return to the Strong Country'. Voice-over narration except where stated. Running Times are Approximate Only. Prices include UK p&p.
 

A Wessex Journey, covering mainly SR steam on former LSWR territory, 1965-67. 80 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD01, Price £12.95. SORRY, CDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'A Wessex Journey - Return to the Strong Country' Ref DVD01 Price £19.95 Running time 73 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 


 
 
 
 

Return to the Strong Country. A second volume covering Southern Region areas, this features the Isle of Wight and more (but different) of the same sort of stuff as on the 'Wessex' CD.  80 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD18, £12.95 .SORRY, CDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'A Wessex Journey - Return to the Strong Country' Ref DVD01 Price £19.95 Running time 73 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE

Way Out West, covering the railway system in the West Country, as it was 1964-72. This is an expanded version of the show that has been a best seller ever since we started. Quite a few extra pictures, mostly diesel - there's two steam shots included now, plus ‘Hydraulics’ and the former SR ‘Withered Arm' as before. 76 image panels now, an increase of 13 on the old show.
CD Version Ref CD02, Price £12.95
DVD Version Ref DVD02, Price £14.95 Running Time 37 min. SORRY, CDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
DVD has bonus shot of Minehead when it was still a BR affair - this has been discovered very, very recently and isn't on the CD-Rom version. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 


 
 
 

Tales of Old Toton, and Other Stories, covering the East Midlands 1965-1968. A mixture of traction, general scenes and human interest etc. 79 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD03, Price £12.95. SORRY, CDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
DVD Version Ref DVD03, Price £14.95 Running Time 37 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 
 


 
 
 

West Midlands and Wales - Gloucester to Holyhead via The Cambrian, Fishguard, Central Wales and the Marches. 1964-1972, mixed traction. 79 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD04, Price £12.95
DVD Version Ref DVD04, Price £14.95 Running TIme 38 min. SORRY, CDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
DVD Includes some recently rediscovered pictures as a bonus. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 


 
 

Ireland also the Isle of Man, 1967-1969, a lot of railtour coverage and real working NIR steam, plus sample views Isle of Man Railway 1965 and 67. Over 80 image panels.  The sample IoM views also appear on the Isle of Man show.
CD Version Ref CD06, Price £12.95
DVD Version Ref DVD06, Price £14.95 Running Time 38 min.
 
 

G.C. A personal view of the last days of the Great Central Main Line, mainly in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire 1964-1970 with GC views from farther (eg Manchester to Sheffield) afield plus GN connections, demolition/dismantling and some, but not too many, 'then and now' comparisons.
87 image panels containing 110 photographs.
CD Version Ref CD07, Price £12.95.
DVD Version Ref DVD07, Price £14.95 Running Time 45 min. SORRY, CDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
DVD Version includes bonus image -  the well known Lost Citadel shot of 70054 'Dornoch Firth' in Notts Vic by night. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 


 

Green.  All diesel, and almost all Green. Home Counties to the North of Scotland, a memory of what the railway system was like just after dieselisation, 1964-1968. Complements the 'Blue' show. 79 Image panels.
CD Version Ref CD09, Price £12.95.
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'The Green and The Blue Years',  Ref DVD09, Price £19.95 Running Time 73 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 

BLUE.The era of corporate blue, 1967 to 1986. Complements the 'Green' show.  80 Image panels.
CD Version Ref CD22, Price £12.95. SORRY, CDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'The Green and The Blue Years',  Ref DVD09, Price £19.95 Running Time 73 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 
 
 
 


 
 

The Last Drops, the Very Last Drops - 1968 in Derbyshire and the North West, virtually all steam.  77 Image panels.
CD Version Ref CD10, Price £12.95.
DVD Version Ref DVD10, Price £14.95 Running Time 36 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 
 
 


 
 

Germany, shot in 1969-1973 in what was then West Germany.
A sampler from a large, quality collection. 81 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD11, Price £12.95
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'Germany and The Lowlands',  Ref DVD11, Price £19.95 Running Time 73 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 


 
 

The Lowlands, something rather different. Belgium and
The Netherlands in the early '90s. Some surprises, British expatriates and steam too.  75 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD12, Price £12.95
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'Germany and The Lowlands',  Ref DVD11, Price £19.95 Running Time 73 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE


 

North. Part 1., Manchester area, North Derbyshire, Preston, Carnforth, Lune Gorge, Penrith, Carlisle. Just a couple of views at Shap Wells (one is of 'Scotsman', the other of a pair of 50s), also includes a marvellously gloomy, atmospheric shot of 70042 Lord Roberts leaking profusely out of Carlisle in February 1966 on the morning Perth train. 74 image panels,
CD Version Ref CD13,£12.95.
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'North',  Ref DVD13, Price £19.95 Running Time 78 min.


 

North. Part 2., This is the Settle and Carlisle, Yorkshire inc. Leeds/Bradford, Tyneside/County Durham, and ends with a visit to the Alston branch. Mixed traction, and a good feeling for the timespan which is 1964-73. 77 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD14, £12.95.
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'North',  Ref DVD13, Price £19.95 Running Time 78 min.
 
 


 
 

Industry, some of it quite rural, not just coal mines. The industrial homeland of the railway. This show also includes the Cromford and High Peak Railway, and the Longmoor Military Railway. 85 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD15, £12.95. ONLY A FEW CDs LEFT, NO MORE AVAILABLE AFTER THEY'VE SOLD OUT.
DVD Version Ref DVD15, £14.95 Running Time 46 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE
 


 

Narrow Gauge Railways in Wales, 1966-1976. A look at Welsh Narrow Gauge Railways in the 1960s, long before the term 'Heritage Railways' had been thought of. Quite a bit of human interest plus not a few forgotten items of railwayana. A companion to the 'Early Days' show. 79 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD21, £12.95.
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'Narrow Gauge Railways in Wales and Early Days'  Ref DVD21 Price £19.95 Running time 73 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE


 

Early Days.Standard Gauge Heritage Lines, 1966-1976. Preservation in those far off days when it was all a huge adventure. A companion to the Narrow Gauge Railways in Wales volume. 80 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD24, £12.95.
DVD Version is combined show entitled 'Narrow Gauge Railways in Wales and Early Days'  Ref DVD21 Price £19.95 Running time 73 min. SORRY, DVDs SOLD OUT. NO MORE AVAILABLE


 
 
 

Sprinters and Pacers.  The new generation of DMUs, when they were still fairly new, 1986-1994. 79 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD23, £12.95.
DVD Version Ref DVD23, £14.95 Running Time 35 min.


 
 

The Isle of Man.   The timespans are 1965/67 and 1975/76, and all systems that were still in existance appear. A large selection - 100 different pictures, including the 13 sample IoMR images that are also on the 'Ireland' show plus a great many more - arranged over 93 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD 25, £12.95.
DVD Version Ref DVD25, £14.95 Running Time 43minutes.
 
 


 
 
 

'The Silver Age'.
Monochrome slide show dealing with 1977 (only, hence the title), England and Wales.
180 image panels.
CD Version Ref CD26, Price £19.95.
DVD Version Ref DVD26 Price £19.95 Running time 78 min.
 
 

 
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