Description

A full commentary, diagrams and action sequences provide a fitting portrait to the designs of Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth.

A Class by Class Profile featuring the workaday designs of the Great Western, from small dock shunters through to the massive 2-8-0s designs.

Churchwards 0-6-0ST ‘1361′ Class
Colletts 0-6-0PT ‘1366’ Class
Colletts 0-4-2T ‘1400’ Class
Hawksworths 0-6-0PT ‘1500’ Class
Hawksworths 0-6-0PT ‘1600’ Class
Churchwards 2-6-2T ‘4500’ Class
Colletts 2-6-2T ‘4575’ & ‘5101’ Class
Colletts 2-8-0T ‘5205’ Class
Colletts 0-6-0PT ‘5400’ Class
Colletts 0-6-2T ‘5600’ Class
Colletts 0-6-0PT ‘5700’ Class
Colletts 2-6-2T ‘6100’ Class
Colletts 0-6-0PT ‘6400’ Class
Colletts 2-8-2T ‘7200’ Class
Colletts 0-6-0PT ‘7400’ Class
Hawksworths 0-6-0PT ‘9400’ Class

All are illustrated using a wealth of archive film from the 1950s & 1960s. This is complemented with action shots of the survivors in preservation.

90 mins approx