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Here is a film produced by British Transport Films titled "Elizabethan Express." It is the story of a top link service operated from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverly. The featured locomotive is Gresley Class A4 60017, "Silver Fox." The film contains great footage of 60017 including pacing and cab ride sequences. One particularly interesting scene shows the famous on-the-move engine crew change made possible by the corridor tender which provided access to the cab from the first car. We're also in the cab as the locomotive passes over the track pans.

 

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Bob

 

     

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I remember seeing a lot of that footage in the A&E documentary series Locomotion (episode 2: Taming the Iron Monster). That series still remains one of my all-time favorite railroad documentaries, and has helped solidify my interest in European railroading.

 

Elizabethan Express is available in a three-DVD box set called Great American & European Railroads.  I received a set as a gift, but I'm sure it's available online if anyone's interested.  The other short films in the set are excellent as well.  (Note: although there is a German loco on the cover, "European" in the title means "British with a little bit of French.")

 

Aaron

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