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THE STORY OF STEAM
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Director: VARIOUSFormat: PAL
Language: ENGLISH
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: E
DVD Release Date: 02/07/2007
Run Time: 162 min
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Synopsis
Britain’s Great Western Railway (GWR) was a legend in its own time. It had a style and elegance all of its own that few other railway companies could hope to match. The GWR is long gone now, but its unique liveries, locos and rolling stock still live on thanks to the work of volunteers from the GWR.
This fascinating DVD takes you behind the scenes at the Didcot Railway Centre to meet the volunteers, look at their skilled restoration work on the derelict locos and rolling stock, and discover how the heritage of the GWR is being painstakingly preserved.
Every aspect of the societies work is covered, from ‘steaming up’ at four in the morning though signal box, shunting and turntable operations to the preservation of GWR artefacts in the Society’s Museum and its detailed recreation of a 1920s branch line station in Didcot Halt. A must for steam train lovers everywhere!
This fascinating DVD takes you behind the scenes at the Didcot Railway Centre to meet the volunteers, look at their skilled restoration work on the derelict locos and rolling stock, and discover how the heritage of the GWR is being painstakingly preserved.
Every aspect of the societies work is covered, from ‘steaming up’ at four in the morning though signal box, shunting and turntable operations to the preservation of GWR artefacts in the Society’s Museum and its detailed recreation of a 1920s branch line station in Didcot Halt. A must for steam train lovers everywhere!
