During the January lull in railway activity I decided to create a video based on the rail transportation of freight in the U.K. using my library material. Goods trains have always fascinated me and it is a great pleasure to hear the clank of buffers and staccato wheel beat of short wheelbase goods vehicles as, until relatively recently, it was a sound that seemed lost forever. The video features preserved goods trains from the steam era right through to the high speed freight trains of today.
The majority of the steam era scenes were shot at the Great Central Railway with additional footage from:
The Severn Valley Railway, The Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway, The Battlefield Line, Chasewater Railway & Foxfield Railway, The mainline clips were shot on the West Coast Mainline just south of Lichfield and at Stafford Station.
A companion video showing railways at work can be seen on: https://youtu.be/xvGduhCTX4I And another video devoted to goods trains is: https://youtu.be/C6NvHuPijvU
For the 2018 Great Central Goods Galore Gala see: https://youtu.be/rE0hSajmXxI