More exceptional British Steam footage...great stuff.

Very nice video.  Thank you for posting it here.

Stuart

Over the past couple years, I've been getting more and more into British railways, and YouTube is an endless source of amazing footage!  Also, look up the Railway Roundabout series from the late 1950's into the early 1960's.  There are compilations of each year out there on YouTube, and those are amazing!

Actually, I love that the UK will show railway documentaries on the BBC!  Heck, there was even a great documentary on the history of model railways called, "The Joy of (Train) Sets"!

The one in the original post is amazing to watch.  Thank you!

Beautiful!  Great combination of steam and scenery.  

As an unapologetic Anglophile, I enjoy the scenes in movies and on TV of a "quaint" British steam train pulling into a "quaint" station in a "quaint" English village; however, these shots rivaled any of the many videos of the surviving big American steam locomotives charging through the spectacular scenery of our own western United States.

I am primarily an American Flyer collector and S Gauger, but that hasn't stopped me from acquiring some British HO equipment over the years.  Some day when I finish my home S gauge layout, I hope to do a small HO layout featuring British railways.  I just have start the S gauge layout first.

Cheers!

Alan

Alan B posted:

Beautiful!  Great combination of steam and scenery.  

As an unapologetic Anglophile, I enjoy the scenes in movies and on TV of a "quaint" British steam train pulling into a "quaint" station in a "quaint" English village; however, these shots rivaled any of the many videos of the surviving big American steam locomotives charging through the spectacular scenery of our own western United States.

I am primarily an American Flyer collector and S Gauger, but that hasn't stopped me from acquiring some British HO equipment over the years.  Some day when I finish my home S gauge layout, I hope to do a small HO layout featuring British railways.  I just have start the S gauge layout first.

Cheers!

Alan

 

 

I'm an Anglophile as well (having visited the UK as a high school graduation present in 1989, as well as having part English ancestry helps that along!) and seeing scenes like that in current TV series or movies is always beautiful to see!  Looking at series like Downton Abbey or the one scene in Victoria with the Planet locomotive for examples never cease to have me fall in love with British Heritage Railways and their steam altogether.

I think that's why I appreciate a place like Strasburg so much.  I can go there and lose myself in another time and place, the rural setting with gorgeous passenger trains running through it.