Filmed between 8 May 1993 and 16 September 1995. Locations visited: South Hampstead, Harrow and Wealdstone, London Kings Cross, London St Pancras, Vauxhall, Preston Park, Kensington Olympia, Wandsworth Road, Willesden Junction, South Kenton, Burgess Hill, Sydenham Hill, Hove, Brighton, Three Bridges, Paddington, Acton Main Line, Acton Wells Junction, North Wembley, East Croydon, Carpenders Park, Redhill, London Euston. Footage includes: Two tone green liveried 47833 Captain Peter Manisty RN hauling an excursion at South Hampstead, 56s hauling freightliners with 90s and 86s dead in train at Willesden Junction, 33052 Ashford and 33012 (both in rail blue) hauling a heavy spoil train through Wandsworth Road, 56114 Maltby Colliery departing Paddington with the Clug and Clog Grid railtour, 37201 and 47805 on the Ramsgate XC at Kensington Olympia, 47519 and 47786 Roy Castle on The Roy Castle Tour of Hope train at Hove and assisted by 73101 Royal Alex at Brighton, 86401 and 86243 double heading a mail train at South Kenton, 73129 City of Winchester on a night mail at Redhill, 31405 Mappi Mundi and 31423 Jerome K Jerome tailed by 56004 on a ballast at Harrow and Wealdstone, 455868 on the Kenny Belle at Kensington Olympia, and 777 Sir Lamiel at Burgess Hill.

Filmed: 20/24 February 1993, 7 May 1995 and 12 December 1992 Locations visited: Redhill, Clapham Junction, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon and a short visit to Salisbury. Footage includes: 73001 and 73003 double headed using diesel power on an engineers train, 73006 on a ballast, 73133 Bluebell Railway and 73104 double headed using diesel power on an engineers train, 73134 Woking Homes using diesel power, 73105 on a ballast, 73138 hauling 33108 LE, 73201 Broadlands, 73204 Stewarts Lane, 73208 Croydon and 73212 Airtour Suisse on Gatwick Expresses running in Inter-city livery, 33057 and 33103 double headed on a ballast, 37219 and 37676 LE, 37194 British International Freight Association, 37380, 37220 and 37245 in convoy, with 37194 leaving a huge smoke screen.

We go back in time for Volume Three to 1992 (with one sequence filmed in 1991 at Bournemouth). Locations visited: 27/07/1991 Bournemouth, 28/06/1992 Ropley, Romsey, Salisbury, 03/07/1992 Paddington, Kings X, St Pancras, 04/07/1992 Horsted Keynes, 11/09/1992, 12/09/1992 19/09/1992, 24/10/1992 Clapham Junction, 19/09/1992, 17/10/1992 Redhill, East Croydon and 24/10/1992 Gatwick Airport. Footage includes: 47439 arriving and departing Bournemouth with a holiday express to Glasgow, 33102 diverted through Romsey with a Waterloo to Exeter express, 47431 arriving Paddington with a service from Oxford, Mail trains at St Pancras, 56046 and 56044 Cardiff Canton on Sheerness to Cardiff Tidal steel train, West of England loco hauled expresses (loco’s featured 33008 Eastleigh, 33102, 33114 Ashford 150, 47350 Scorpion, 47449, 47526, 47579 James Nighthall GC, 47703 The Queen Mother, 47704, 47705, 47706, 47707 Holyrood, 47708 Templecombe, 47709, 47711, 47714, 47715, 47716 Duke of Edinburgh’s Award), 47711 t’n’t with 47708 Templecombe ecs in to Clapham Yard, Diversions through Clapham Junction because of electrification of the West London Line (freight and XCs from Dover), 60006 Great Gable + 33025 Sultan and 33065 Sealion on a ballast, 73110 and 73101 Royal Alex t’n’t on a Water Canon train.

This volume features East London. We visit: 06/02/1993 Gatwick Airport, 13/02/1993 Liverpool Street, Stratford, Barking, Dagenham Dock, 15/05/1993 Stratford TMD, Ripple Lane TMD, Colchester TMD, Ipswich SP, 17/04/1993 Three Counties Steam, Bishops Stortford, Stansted Mountfitchet Triangle, 10/04/1993 Stratford.

Locations visited: Saturday 8 March 1997 Willesden, Acton Lane, Wembley Central, Euston. Friday 14 March 1997 Kensington Olympia. Saturday 15 March 1997 Reading, Tilehurst, and Didcot. Exceptional footage includes: D9000 Royal Scots Grey hauling the ‘West Coast Deltic Pioneer’ railtour through Willesden Junction, and arriving back at Euston, Preserved Hastings Unit 1001 at Willesden Junction on ‘The Shakespeare’ railtour, Res 90020 Colonel Bill Cockburn CBE TD hauling sleeper ecs at Willesden, 37141 on a Quidhampton to Willesden Brent China Clay additional working at Acton Lane, 37611 and 37603 dragging a Eurostar through Kensington Olympia, 37071 and 37883 on rail panels at Kensington Olympia, Main-line blue 60011 on stone at Kensington Olympia, Main-line blue 58008 on the Sheerness – Mossend Enterprise at Kensington Olympia, 47634 Holbeck on the Ealing Broadway to Didcot leg of The Quantock Ranger at Reading, , Main Line blue liveried 37013 and 37055 Rail Celebrity on an engineers train at Didcot, 33116 Hertfordshire Railtours in immaculate condition passing through Didcot and arriving and departing Reading hauling ‘The Queen of Scots’ on a rugby special to and from Cardiff, An immaculate 47306 The Sapper on Eastleigh to Crewe Transit Vans, 47s dragging 92s.

Locations visited: Saturday 22 March 1997 St Pancras, Kings Cross, Alexandra Palace, Kensington Olympia, Acton Lane. 27-28 March 1997 Kensington Olympia. Exceptional footage includes: Immaculate 33051 Shakespeare Cliff and 33116 Hertfordshire Railtours on ‘Swineshead Revisited’ railtour at Kings Cross and passing through Alexandra Palace, GW liveried HST passing through Alexandra Palace on an excursion from Norwich, 47846 Thor in white under-coat on the GW sleeper to/from Waterloo Main Line blue 60011 hauling 37238, 37071, 37227 and 37219 through Olympia to Hither Green, 73104 hauling the Dungeness to Willesden flask complete with brake-van through Kensington, 73129 on the Dover to Willesden TPO through Kensington, Main Line blue 73136 Kent Youth Music and IC liveried 73140 on an additional Quidhampton to Willesden Brent china clay outward and return through Olympia, 37 and 37505 British Steel Workington unexpectedly on the Snailwell to Sheerness scrap metal A selection of 47s dragging 92s.

This DVD features rush hour at: London Bridge (forty-eight minutes) and a trip over the Thames and a look at Cannon Street (four minutes) on 30 October 1992, and East Croydon (fourteen minutes) and Purley (two minutes) on 20 February 1993. Unit classes seen at London Bridge are: 2 and 4 EPBs, 2 and 4 refurbished EPBs, (some of which are still in the BR blue and grey livery with the letter S prefixing the coach numbers), 4 Veps, 4 Cigs, 4 Ceps, 456s, 455s, 319s and ‘Thumper’ units 205016 and 205001 are seen departing with an Oxted Line service. We also see the new order of things to come with 465215/214 on test between London Bridge and Cannon Street. A trip over the Thames is taken with a look round Cannon Street Station. At East Croydon we see packed platforms with arrivals and departures of the Sussex Coast units, Horsham services, East Grinstead line, Thameslink services and 73s on Gatwick Expresses. ‘Thumper’ units 205025/205018 and 205001/205016 are seen departing. At Purley we see 60040 stabled in the yard and a road-railer on engineering duties. A London Bridge to Brighton service also arrives.

Locations in order of visits are: Yeovil Junction, Crewkerne, Yeovil Pen Mill, Yeovil Junction, Gillingham Viaduct, Buckhorn Weston Tunnel, Templecombe, near Semley, Castle Cary, Templecombe, Waterloo, Clapham Junction, Reading, Basingstoke, Southampton, Bournemouth, Millbrook, Southampton, Poole, Wareham, Poole, and Wareham. Loco classes: HSTs, 47, 50, 60, 73. Units: Wessex Electrics, 205, 207, 6Rep, Cig, Vep, Heritage DMUs, 150, 158.

Features continuous traffic activity that includes over 80 locomotive hauled trains and 14 HSTs. It features the very busy West Coast Main Line at Watford Junction and Carpenders Park on Saturday 08/11/97 and Saturday 15/11/97 when it was being used by diverted cross country traffic to Poole and Brighton and by diverted freightliners to Southampton during the blockade of the Birmingham – Reading line. On Saturday 08/11/97 we also see the early morning freight at Kensington Olympia and diverted traffic through there. Loco classes: 31, 37, 43, 47, 58, 60, 86, 87, 90, 92. Units: DMU, 205, 313, 319, 321, Euro-stars. Some of the interesting workings: 60074 Braeriach on the Willesden – Cardiff Tidal metals running round at Kensington Olympia, 47307 and 47145 Merrddin Emrys passing through Kensington Olympia with a ‘Connect rail’ to Dollands Moor, 58050 on the enterprise, 158964 and 158846 on diverted Carmarthen – Waterloo services at Kensington Olympia, Cross Country 47s (including Porterbrook liveried 47817) using the WCML, 31450 (BR Blue livery) on an electrification train at Carpenders Park, 37350 LE at Carpenders Park, 47372 in PW livery on the Manchester to Grain freightliner at Carpenders Park.

This volume continues the theme of diverted traffic over the WCML and continues on from Volume Nine at Watford Junction on Saturday 15/11/97, where we see 47s on freights, 47 hauled XCs, 90, 87s and 86s on WCML ICs, HSTs, 87101 Stephenson on a south bound intermodal and D9000 Royal Scots Grey powering through light engine. Another unusual sight is a 31 on a special southbound enterprise. Dates and Locations: 08/11/97 Watford Junction, 03/04/99 Kensington Olympia, Acton Canal Wharf, 05/04/99 Burgess Hill, Keymer Junction, 10/04/99 Milton Keynes. Loco classes: 31, 37, 43, 47, 55, 60, 86, 87, 87/1, 90, Units: 158, 319, 321, Euro-stars.

This volume was filmed in 1992 at the following locations: 28/10/1992 Clapham Junction; 30/10/1992 Stratford, Liverpool Street; 07/11/1992 St Pancras, Kings Cross, Farringdon; 28/11/1992 Redhill, Clapham Junction, Waterloo. Exceptional footage includes: 47s on the final days of loco-hauled West of England Main Line expresses including; 47704, 47717, 47712, 47708 Templecombe, 47701 Old Oak Common Traction and Maintenance Depot, 47703 The Queen Mother, 47711, 56025 hauling an mgr with 60006 dit, Thumper unit 205033 on the ‘Kenny Belle’, 47204 on the diverted Dover to Willesden freight at Clapham Junction, De-icer unit 006, 47270 Swift in BR blue livery on a lwr train, 37238 and 37057 Viking (in large logo blue livery) hauling the Stratford to Grain freight-liner, 90132 in IC livery hauling a freight-liner, 47060 Halewood Silver Jubilee on the Ripple Lane to Southampton freight-liner, 90018 arriving with the Royal Train at Kings Cross, 90016 departing Kings Cross with Regional Railway liveried coaches on an excursion.

It was filmed on 03/07/1992, 14/11/1992, 19/12/1992 at Euston, and 06/03/1993 at Camden and Primrose Hill Tunnel (South). Loco’s featured are: 08696, 08934, 86207 City of Lichfield, 86103 Andre Chapelon, 86208 City of Chester, 86209 City of Coventry, 86210 City of Edinburgh, 86213 Lancashire Witch, 86224 Caledonian, 86228 Vulcan Heritage, 86234 J B Priestly, 86236 Josiah Wedgwood, 86240 Bishop Eric Treacy, 86245 Dudley Castle, 86247 Abraham Darby, 86249 County of Merseyside, 86251 The Birmingham Post, 86252 The Liverpool Daily Post, 86257 Snowdon, 86401, 86411 Airey Neave, 86417 The Kingsman, 86419 Post Haste, 86424, 86426, 86430, 87002 Royal Sovereign, 87003 Patriot, 87008 City of Liverpool, 87010 King Arthur, 87012 The Royal Bank of Scotland, 87015 Lord Nelson, 87017 Iron Duke, 87018 Lord Nelson, 87019 Sir Winston Churchill, 87023 Velocity, 87028 Lord President, 87032 Kenilworth, 87033 Thane of Fife, 87034 William Shakespeare, 87035 Robert Burns, 90002, 90003, 90004, The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 90005 Financial times, 90007 Lord Stamp, 90009 Royal Show, 90010 275 Railway Squadron (Volunteers), 90013 The Law Society, 90015 BBC North West, 90133. Interesting footage includes: Loco’s leading into Euston, 86251 hauling the ecs sleeper with the Stagecoach Rail liveried seating coach in the formation, 86213 Lancashire Witch with Mark 1 coaches in its train formation, 08696 shunting Motorail coaches, 90133 in IC livery hauling a freightliner at Camden, 08934 LE at Primrose Hill.