Description
The Streamliners & Air Smoothed Pacifics from the 1930s and 40s.
The programme comprises:
The Gresley A4 Pacifics; the history of these legendary locomotives starting in the 1930s, continuing through the 1940s and the British Railways era, and finishing in the preservation era. Includes archive from the 1950s.
The Duchess Pacifics; Staniers powerful ‘Duchess’ Pacifics from the 1930s through to the era of British Railways and into preservation.
Bulleids Pacifics; a profile of these distictive 4-6-2s developed in the 1940s. Includes the original air smoothed ‘Merchant Navies’ the rebuilt examples as well as the ‘Battle of Britain’ and ‘West Country’ variants.
67 mins approx
