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The Colin White Collection No.4
The overwelming popularity of Colin White's superb archive material has enabled us to produce this fourth installment.
Here there are nine sections in starting with LNWR 790 "Hardwick''. This remarkable veteran stretched her legs for a short time in the 1970s. Colin White followed her. On one trip to York double-heading with ``Flying Scotsman'' he was even in 4472's cab for part of the journey offering an almost unique filming opportunity. Other scenes see her in action in the Lake District.
Heaton Mersey, coded 9F, with a study of Stanier's 8Fs coming and going on this shed in its last months of operation where manual work on the coal stage was the order of the day.
Doxford shipyard tucked away in Sunderland had an incredible flleet of crane tanks used to service and supply the Yard from 1902 to 1970. The first batch of 0-4-0 locomotives was built by Hawthorne Leslie, the second by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorne in 1940-42 all of which survived into preservation. Filmed in 1970 they work hard around the yard before returning to the shed for a lunch break which used to lead to complaints from road users of smoke nuisance.. and what smoke!
This is followed by more unusual locomotives in the guise of narrow gauge articulated types. Fairlies on the Ffestinog are followed by Saxon-Meyers in East Germany with transporter wagons and the amazing Herberlein brake; engines sporting a steam operated bell. The Mallett articulated engine is next studied again in Germany where 0-4-4-0 tanks work hard in the snow. Then to Portugal for some 2-4-6-0 Mallett tanks around Regua and the smaller 0-4-4-0 types at Porto.
Back to the UK in 1967 with preserved A4 No.4498 "Sir Nigel Gresley" working special tours on the Southern along with unrebuilt Bulleid pacific 34023 "Blackmore Vale" still in capital stock of course. We see scenes from Waterloo, Nine Elms, Southampton and Bournemouth. Ah! the charm of the chime.
We return briefly to the continent for a few minutes to sample super power with a potted look at West German Class 50 and 52 2-10-0 types in Germany and Austria. TY51 and TY246 types are seen in Poland, followed by a Class 556 2-10-0 in Czechoslovakia. Double headers are seen in the snow plus a train with three of these giant 2-10-0s pounding on a northbound freight out of Ceske Lipa. Even if your loyalties lie with the Big Four you cannot but help marvel at the power of some of these continental giants and in some superb locations.
Back to our shores when 6115 "Scots Guardsman'' in post war LMS black livery had two main line outings in 1978 from her then base at Dinting to York and around Manchester. Both occasions were captured before she disappeared from the scene to re-emerge in the second decade of the 2000's.
We cover the Isle-of-Wight in Volume 21 and will do so in later productions but this section is a tribute to the last day of steam on the 31st.December 1966. Very little record of this last day appears to exist but here we have a rare short film of many of the remaining O2 tanks in action for the LCGB tour on that day. At the time they were the oldest locos in BR stock.
Finally a few Bullieds act out their last duties on the Southern main line and around Bournemouth and Poole including 34001 and 34100.
Availability: AVAILABLE
Filmed by/when: Colin White
Narrated by: Colin White
Screen aspect ratio: 4:3 SD
Classification: Exempt
Number of discs: 1 DVD-R
Media Format: DVD-R
Origination: 8mm cine-film
Running Time: 55-mins (0hr 55min)
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