Learning to Steam - DVD
£15.95
Stock type: -
Stock reference: 143.001
£15.95
Stock type: -
Stock reference: 143.001
How to drive a steam train, through the eyes of life-long steam enthusiast - HTV Wales presenter, Arfon Haines Davies.
Arfon spent a week on the Great Central Railway finding out everything a trainee footplate member needs to know.
Starting at the bottom, just as a real trainee would have done on BR, Arfon first becomes a cleaner then gradually progresses up the ladder with ex-Fireman Ray Martin teaching him the art of firing.
Ex-BR Driver Bill Gwitt then takes over to explain how to oil and prepare the loco followed by how to drive. Arfon then takes the controls of Clun Castle in charge of a seven coach express running from Loughborough Central to Rothley.
Multiple cameras capture all the thrills of this ultimate footplate experience, as they happen!
Arfon Haines Davies
Duration 92 minutes
DVD
Return to
British Steam (more)
Saxon Court Books, part of Blue Heron Network Ltd, PO Box 235, East Molesey, KT8 1WE
Telephone or Fax: 020 8783 1024