Marsden Rail
Between 1959 and 1968, railway enthusiast and cine-cameraman, Michael Marsden, recorded views and sounds of the rapidly changing face of Britain’s rail network. For over twenty-five years after steam ended, he captivated audiences throughout the country with his unique film collection that captured steams' last decade and the full emergence of the diesel locomotive.
Between 1959 and 1968, railway enthusiast and cine-cameraman, Michael Marsden, recorded views and sounds of the rapidly changing face of Britain’s rail network. For over twenty-five years after steam ended, he captivated audiences throughout the country with his unique film collection that captured steams' last decade and the full emergence of the diesel locomotive.
The blending of this film and that of other cameramen with true sounds of the era, plus an informative narrative, has resulted in the creation of a superb range of railway videos detailing the last decade of British mainline steam operations.
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Marsden Rail Volume 16
Market Weighton
£ 19.95
The East Yorkshire town was at the centre of a rail network linking York, Bridlington, Driffield, Beverley and Selby. Although the main traffic was freight, the summer months witnessed many seaside excursions passing through. In addition to scenes at Market Weighton, York station, the busy Bridlington line, and Beverley with its historic North Bar also feature. The local pick-up goods were recorded on film, before they too succumbed in the wake of the Beeching cuts, scenes of closure notices and last-day services bringing the video to a close. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 17
North Durham
£ 19.95
This video looks at the are south of the River Tyne, the programme starting with a trip on the ECML in the cab of a Class V2, hauling freight from York to Newcastle's Tyne Yard. At Gateshead, freight trains to and from Dunston cross the King Edward Bridge en route to Tyne Dock and Sunderland, followed by scenes at Felling Station, Bolden Station and Colliery, Pontop Crossing and Tyne Dock shed with views of numerous freight workings. The famous iron ore workings to Consett are shown in detail plus unique film taken in 1957 of a Class T1 4-8-0 tank loco rescuing a stalled freight! Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 18
Retford
£ 19.95
On the ECML, twenty miles south of Doncaster, lies the small market town of Retford, which until the 1960s was an important rail junction. The ECML was crossed by a freight route linking Sheffield and the West Riding of Yorkshire to East Anglia and the port of Harwich. Thrumpton (GC) and Retford (GN) engine sheds are featured together with the building of the Retford 'diveunder'. Other locations shown are Gainsborough, Doncaster depot and works plus a journey on a steam hauled stopping train from Retford to Sheffield, where the city’s Victoria station is viewed. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 19
City of Leeds
£ 19.95
At one time, Leeds had three large stations, Central, Wellington and City, many suburban stations and goods depots, plus five engine sheds! In 1962, Leeds Central still handled extensive passenger services with freight handled at the adjacent Wellington Street Goods depot, both locations filmed from Holbeck High and Low Level Stations. All five loco sheds are viewed together with scenes at Hunslet Goods Depot plus intensive traffic through the numerous junctions in and around Holbeck. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 20
York and District
£ 19.95
This programme complements Marsden Rail No 1, but contains no repeat film from the earlier video. In addition to the regular ECML traffic, more unusual traffic in around York is viewed such as the sugar beet factory locomotive at Poppleton and the arrival of Billy Smarts Circus at Holgate cattle dock! Filmed locations include the loco sheds and workshop, Leeman Road Engineers Yard, Skelton New Yard, the former excursion platforms south of the station where immense volumes of traffic passed plus scenes at nearby Church Fenton. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 21
Birmingham Two
£ 19.95
The programme opens at a bustling Snow Hill station, with steam much in evidence, before leaving for Stourbridge Jct. via Soho and Winson Green, Handsworth and West Smethwick. Scenes at Stourbridge are followed by a return to the industrial Midlands, where trolleybuses still occupy the streets of Wolverhampton and Low Level station is host to Halls, Patriots and ‘Western’ diesels. WCML traffic at Lichfield finds Duchesses, Jubilees, and Britannias in the company of blue electrics and ex-LMS diesel no 10001. To the north-west, Codsall, Shifnal and Shrewsbury are featured and to the south, the Lickey Incline and Bromsgrove. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 22
The Lickey Incline
£ 19.95
The most famous gradient in England - over 2 miles at 1 in 37.5 - and lying between Birmingham and Gloucester, it posed major operating difficulties during the steam era when banking of northbound trains was required. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 23
Gloucester
£ 19.95
Scenes at Gloucester focus on the wide variety of services at both Eastgate and Central Stations, together with the attendant locomotive depots of Barnwood and Horton Road. A journey to Severn Tunnel Jct. shows the now demolished Severn Rail Bridge and at Severn Tunnel Jct steam and diesel traction is featured, including a SR ‘Z’ class on the shed. Gloucester was also a port and traffic is shown on the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal. In addition to mainline traffic, ex-GWR autotrains are shown in the Golden Valley between Gloucester and Chalford, and railbuses are shown on branchline journeys from Kemble to Cirencester and Tetbury. Finally, a journey to Bristol Temple Meads, with a mixture of ex-GWR and LMS locomotives on view, closes the programme. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 24
Somerset and Dorset
£ 19.95
Starting at Bristol, the programme travels to Bath, the northern terminus of the 72-mile former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. After views at Bath Spa and Green Park Stations, and the locomotive depot the line south to Evercreech is followed, and from here the route to Glastonbury and Highbridge is traced, plus views at Wells and Witham. Rejoining the main line, Templecombe Jct. follows, where the S&D passed under the LSWR London to Exeter route, and the complex everyday shunting movements between the Upper and Lower Stations are shown. Following the line south, scenes at Poole, Parkstone and Branksome precede arrival at Bournemouth, and here, film of the West and Central Stations, together with the former L&SWR loco depot is complimented by street views that show the once-extensive trolley bus system. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 25
Southern Region Steam
£ 19.95
Starting at Waterloo, and filmed between 1958 and 1965, the programme follows the mainline to Exeter and Plymouth, pausing at many locations including Basingstoke, Salisbury, Templecombe, Yeovil, Axminster, Chard, Chard Central, Seaton, Sidmouth and Exeter. After scenes at Exeter and Plymouth the rural scene is highlighted with film of Bude, Halwill Jct, Barnstaple, Padstow and Wadebridge. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 26
East Midlands Steam
£ 19.95
On 16 October 1965, the ‘Midland Loco Requiem’ railtour, headed by 43953, one of the last Midland Railway Class 4F 0-6-0s, left Nuneaton. The tour followed the ex-MR line through Shackerstone and Gresley to Burton–on–Trent, from where it took the freight-only route to Trent Junction. Leaving north from Trent Junction the tour headed for Kirby–in–Ashfield, Mansfield and Staveley, after which it journeyed down the Bolsover and Glapwell Colliery branch. From here it ran via Chesterfield to the Erewash Valley en route to Pye Bridge and Ambergate, where filming of the tour came to an end due to failing light. The programme also features many scenes at Derby and Nottingham, where trolley buses were still an everyday sight. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 27
Over the Settle and Carlisle
£ 19.95
Film taken between 1963 and 1967 shows vividly the rugged Pennine landscape, together with many of the numerous viaducts and tunnels that gave the S&C its unique appeal. In addition, views of the line's larger stations at Carlisle, Settle and Appleby are shown, plus many of the stations which succumbed to closure in 1970. These include Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Ribblehead, Dent, Garsdale, Culgaith and Little Salkeld. At Kirkby Stephen, both the town's West and the former North Eastern Railway East stations feature, together with sequences on the long-closed Stainmore Route from Barnard Castle. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 28
Harrogate and District
£ 19.95
After views of Leeds’s Central Station, Bramhope, Arthington Jct. and Pool-in-Wharfedale feature, followed by Harrogate, which in 1964 was a busy rail centre, handling both freight and passenger traffic. Diverging from the Ripon line on the northeast outskirts of Harrogate was the line to York, and on this route Starbeck and the Boroughbridge branch are shown. North of Harrogate, workings are shown at numerous locations, including Nidd Bridge and Ripley Jct.: most stations between Ripon and Northallerton plus a journey from Ripon to Melmerby Junction and Masham. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 29
Southern Region Steam Part Two
£ 19.95
This second programme in the Marsden Rail series to feature the Southern Region of British Railways complements Volume 25 ‘Southern Region Steam – Part One’. London’s Waterloo Station is followed by views at Vauxhall, Clapham Jct. and Nine Elms Depot, together with the last scheduled steam service from Clapham ct. to Kensington Olympia. Also included are fascinating 1947 views at Clapham Jct.and 1931 views at Kensington Olympia. Learn More
Marsden Rail Volume 30
Sheffield & North Derbyshire
£ 19.95
The programme starts at Sheffield, with film taken at the now-closed Victoria Station between 1932 and 1979 showing a wide variety of steam traction, ranging from Great Central Railway and Great Northern Railway designs through to British Railways ‘Britannia’ Pacifics. The unique 1500dc-electric system that linked Sheffield to Manchester via the Woodhead Route is also featured, with the BR-built electric locomotives shown at various locations on the tortuous line, which closed in 1981. Another electrically-powered transport system could also be found in Sheffield in the 1950s, in the form of the city’s original tram system and a film made in 1958 from Beauchief to the city centre is an interesting reminder of the period.
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