In this video, RailView showcases a compilation, and we see the best of steam in the winter from a period of four years 2016 to 2020 from places such as the East Midlands, West Midlands, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire scenes. From cold sunny winter days, cloudy, moody days to scenes in the snow and frost including the Beast from the East in March 2018.
Highlights in this video include:
- 60009 Union of South Africa steaming through the winter light on the East Lancashire Railway in January 2020 & climbing up the 1 in 60 incline of Sapperton Bank on The Cotswold Venturer in February 2020.
- 34046 Braunton climbing through the High Peak, Derbyshire, on The Christmas White Rose in December 2020.
- 7029 Clun Castle blasting around East & West Midlands during February & December 2019.
- 60163 Tornado speeding through Doncaster in the winter sun on The Christmas White Rose to York in December 2019
This video sees a variety of 16 steam locomotives from all the big four regions and British Railways from locomotives such as:
- GWR:
- 4144 x1
- 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe x2
- 7029 Clun Castle x5
- SR:
- 34046 Braunton x2
- 35018 British India Line x1
- LMS:
- 47406 x1
- 43924 x1
- 46521 x1
- 41241 x1
- 48624 x1
- 44871 x2
- 45305 Alderman A.E. Draper x2
- 45407 The Lancashire Fusilier x2
- 45596 Bahamas x1
- 45690 Leander ‘On the rear of a train with 45407 The Lancashire Fusilier as 45157 The Glasgow Highlander’
- 45699 Galatea x1
- 46100 Royal Scot x2
- 6233 Duchess of Sutherland x2
- LNER:
- 60163 Tornado x1
- 60103 Flying Scotsman x1
- 60009 Union of South Africa x7
- BR Standards:
- 73156 x2
- 70013 Oliver Cromwell x2
Locations:
- Bury Baron Street, East Lancashire Railway ‘Intro’
- Ramsbottom, East Lancashire Railway
- Swinton (South Yorkshire) x2
- Tapton Bridge (Chesterfield) x2
- Sapperton East
- Quorn & Woodhouse, Great Central Railway x2
- Bolton-upon-Dearne
- Lapworth
- Grantham x2
- Keighley, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
- Barrow Hill
- Quorn Straight, Great Central Railway
- Burrs Country Park, East Lancashire Railway
- Chinley East Junction
- Beeches Road, Great Central Railway (Loughborough) x2
- Cholsey
- Doncaster x2
- Slitting Mill x2
- Buxton
- Haworth, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
- Colton Junction
- Irwell Vale, East Lancashire Railway
- Oxenhope, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
- Wydfordby Level Crossing
- Retford
- Chesterfield
- Damems Loop, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
- Goldthorpe
- Sapperton
- Widney Manor
- Cowburn
Heritage Railways include the Great Central Railway, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and the East Lancashire Railway.
We would like to wish everyone reading this article a Happy New Year!
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