Decades Of Steam - 1920s-1960s (5 Disc Box Set)

This is a wonderful series of five 100 per cent archive film programmes which trace the story of steam locomotives from each decade from the 1920s right through to the 1960s.

The starting point is the great amalgamation, the grouping, of the Victorian companies in 1923 to form the “Big Four” railways: The great Western, the Southern, the London, Midland and Scottish and the London and North Eastern.

Visit familiar and not-so-familiar locations to see steam at work, from the great main lines to rural branches. Locomotives seen include: Great Western ‘Halls’, Panniers, Prairies, ‘Kings’ and ‘Castles’; Southern Maunsell-designed classics; LMS ‘Duchesses’ ‘Black 5s’, 8Fs’, ‘Jubilees’ and ‘Royal Scots’; LNER Pacific’s, including streamlined ‘A4’ Silver Jubilee

From the Standard classes built by BR itself through to one-offs, there were many steam classes still at work through to the 1960s, and this programme includes ‘9Fs’, ‘Britannia’s’, ‘West Countries’, ‘Jubilees’, ‘Castles’, Gresley-designed Pacific’s and many goods and tank engines as they pass into history.