RANWELL VIDEO PRODUCTION

 

British Passenger Express series

British Passenger Express Steam Locomotive in clos up and detail  Parts 1 - 4
 Using rare archive still photographs and cine film footage, this is a series of programmes looking back at the heyday of British Steam. Part 1: Eastern Region Pacifics, Part 2: London Midland Region 7P and 8P Locomotives, Part 3: Bulleid Pacifics & Lord Nelsons of the Southern Region, Part 4: Western Region Locomotives The Kings & Castles.


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Our Foreign Video series

Those Beasts from Overseas    Only £12.99
 Ranwell Video Cross the English Channel!  We are please to announce the launch of our first foreign railway video! "Those Beasts from Overseas" (cat# GVF300) is a study of some of the last steam trains to run on revenue earning services in Europe. Our programme covers West Germany, East Germany and Poland in the last quarter of the twentieth century, and features main line steam at it's best.

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The Britain's Railway Heritage series

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The Heyday of British Steam  Parts 1 - 5
Video technology came too late to record the golden years of Britain's railways during the steam era, but thanks to a handful of amateur cameramen armed with 8mm cine cameras, many images of the 'Iron Horse' have been saved for posterity.  This series is a collection of some of those shots. Part One covers the South Midlands, London and the South West. Part Two covers the East Midlands and the North East of England. Part Three covers the Birmingham area, the North Midlands and Central Wales. Part Four covers the West Midlands and the North of England, and Part Five covers The Isle of Wight, The London area and Scotland.

     The Britain's Heritage series are available from Amazon and all major Video Stores.
     For further details see http://www.dukevideo.com/Railway-and-Steam/DVD/Steam/Heyday-of-British-Steam-5-DVD-Box-Set.aspx



The Britain's Railway Photographic series

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 Ranwell Video is currently compiling a collection of hitherto unseen black and white photographs of British steam locomotives dating back to the early 1920s. It is hoped that we will be able to supply at least one example of every type to operate during the last 20 years of steam operations - namely the British Railways years, 1948 - 1968, plus many more from the 'Big Four' days.

 

    For further details contact Nigel Fletcher via email: merlynrhoobarb@gmail.com