WHAT’S ON YOUR FREE 1967 ANNIVERSARY DVD…

Steam Railway has again teamed up with Unseen Steam - the online and DVD home of rare and captivating railway footage - to present a half-hour, action-packed programme, FREE with this issue. We’ve selected an eclectic mix of sequences from 1967; steam’s last full year on British Rail. Highlights of the all-colour material include melancholy footage from the very last day of Southern steam on July 9 and, in the same month, the last of the region’s suburban steam-hauled passenger services traversing the Thames. The year was also renowned for its eclectic mix of railtours, which is epitomised by the double-headed brake van tour of the severely graded Cromford & High Peak, juxtaposed with preserved Garter blue ‘A4’ No. 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley romping along the East Coast Main Line at Little Bytham. Space here precludes including details of every sequence included in this action-filled programme; suffice to say that you’ll see doubleheaded Bulleid 4-6-2s; banking over Shap; ‘9F’ No. 92203 (‘Black Prince’) at Shotton steelworks immediately before preservation; and Britain’s last working pre-Grouping engines on coal duty in the North East. However, my particular favourite reel is taken from the footplate of ‘Jubilee’ No. 45593 Kolhapur on railtour duty over the Settle & Carlisle line charging through Garsdale. The same engine is then seen again moving gingerly on Carlisle Kingmoor shed, with a small child leaning from the driver’s cab window! We hope that you enjoy your free, exclusive gift.