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ASIA

World Steam Today – The Far East and Australia Asia 78 minutes; VHS; ABC; 1995. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Features steam at work in China, Japan, Indonesia and Australia, mainly with excursion trains but also freight trains.) ViR36190 $8.00

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AUSTRALIA

Railway Adventures Across Australia – Vol 1: Last Frontier Australia 60 minutes; VHS; Rialto; no publication date given; 1990s. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Covers the development of railways in Queensland.) ViR42279 $8.00

Steam Around The State – Victorian Railways – Late 1950s to Early 1960s Australia 50 minutes; VHS; Channel 5 Productions; 1999. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Steam hauled trains on mainly branch lines throughout Victoria. Great archive footage.) ViR36042 $8.00

Steam In Australia 2 Queensland Australia 45 minutes; VHS. (Restored Queensland locomotives at work together with arhival footage from the 1960s.) ViR55248 $5.00

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EUROPE

French Expresses – Yesterday and Today Europe 45 minutes; VHS; IPL. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Black and white and colour footage of steam hauled express trains of the late 1940’s to the TGV of the 1990’s.) ViR55251 $5.00

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JAPAN

Rail Report 65 Japanese Rail Report series Japan 75 minutes; Produced in 2000 and 2001 and are NTC. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Reports of Japanese train operations. The commentary is in Japanese but a description of the contents is attached to each tape.) ViR33318 $8.00

Rail Report 66 Japanese Rail Report series Japan 80 minutes; Produced in 2000 and 2001 and are NTC. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Reports of Japanese train operations. The commentary is in Japanese but a description of the contents is attached to each tape.) ViR33319 $8.00

Rail Report 67 Japanese Rail Report series Japan 80 minutes; Produced in 2000 and 2001 and are NTC. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Reports of Japanese train operations. The commentary is in Japanese but a description of the contents is attached to each tape.) ViR33320 $8.00

Rail Report 69 Japanese Rail Report series Japan 80 minutes; Produced in 2000 and 2001 and are NTC. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Reports of Japanese train operations. The commentary is in Japanese but a description of the contents is attached to each tape.) ViR33321 $8.00

Rail Reports 65, 66, 67 & 69 Japanese Rail Report series Japan NTC. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Reports of Japanese train operations. The commentary is in Japanese but a description of the contents is attached to each tape.) All 4 tapes ViR33322 $32.00

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NEW ZEALAND

From Rust To Splendour New Zealand 59 minutes; VHS; Rochelle. (Covers the restoration of C 847, restored by Glenbrook Vintage Railway for Silverstream Railway.) ViR55234 $5.00

Matamata To The Mount – Matamata – Waharoa – Mount Maunganui New Zealand 60 minutes; VHS; coloured; E J Video; 2000. (A trackside look at Tranzrail in action at Matamata, Waharoa, Kaimai Tunnel, Tauranga and the Metro Port at Mount Maunganui. Containers, logs annd fast paced trains.) ViR55235 $5.00

Steam On Parade New Zealand 60 minutes; VHS; NZ National Film Unit[ 1988. (Features the Cavalcade of Steam that was a feature of Ferrymead 125 together with the steam hauled excursions and archival film.) ViR55242 $5.00

The Parade Of Steam New Zealand 40 minutes; VHS; Majik Video; 1995. (Features the double-headed excursion with Ka942 and Ka945 netween Taurarunui and Ohakune and return in May 1995.) ViR55243 $5.00

Wings, Wheels & Rails (three tapes) New Zealand 180 minutes; Silver & Ballard. (Features A Dream of Steam, Wings and Wheels and Pirelli Classic Vintage Cars.) ViR55245 $15.00

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NORTH AMERICA

CSX Henderson Sub – Nashville to Evansville North America 60 mins PAL Neff Video Productions nd 2000? Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (The best of CSX trains at work between Nashville and Evansville.) ViR41187 $8.00

Marathon Of Steam – Volume 1 North America 120 minutes; PAL; Music World; 1996. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Features riding on the Durango and Silverton and the Cumbres and Toltec and the people who operate them and the rotary snow plough at work on the Cumbres and Toltec.) ViR36141 $8.00

Marathon Of Steam – Volume 2 North America 120 minutes; PAL; Music World; 1996. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Features the Reading 4-6-2, Pacific #425 and GP-30 hauling trains, the two famous railroads of Santa Cruz – logging to Roaring Camp and return to the Boardwalk and a tour of the Illinios Railway Museum.) ViR55252 $5.00

Marathon Of Steam – Volume 4 North America 120 minutes; PAL; Music World; 1996. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Features excursions at the National Rail Historical Society’s 1990 convention at St Louis with 4 steam locomotives present and then the Sierra Railway in California with both freight and passenger working.) ViR36144 $8.00

Railways Worldwide – United States – Georgetown Loop Railroad North America 25 minutes; VHS; Pruett. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Trains on the Georgetown Loop tourist railway, noted for its massive viaduct.) ViR36154 $8.00

Railways Worldwide - United States – Portrait of a Railroad North America 25 minutes; VHS; Rochelle. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Burlington Northern in action across the wheat fields of the Mid West. Big trains in a big country.) ViR36155 $8.00

Scenic Railway Journeys Of The World – New Worlds, Old Worlds North America 56 minutes; VHS; Readers Digest Video; 2000. (Features passenger train journeys in USA, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru.) ViR55253 $5.00

World Steam Today – North, Central & South America North America 81 minutes; VHS; ABC Video; no publication date given; 1980’s. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Covers preserved steam in USA, Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Chile and Paraguay.) ViR36184 $8.00

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UNITED KINGDOM

Decades Of Steam – The 1920’s – The Big Four United Kingdom 60 minutes; VHS; ABC Video; 1997. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (The creation of the Big Four, and how they developed through the later years of the decade is discussed.) ViR36057 $8.00

Decades Of Steam – The 1940’s – Austerity and Nationalisation United Kingdom 60 minutes; VHS; ABC Video; 1997. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Considers British railways at war, and how they coped with new demands and then the advert of British Railways.) ViR36059 $8.00

Steam Days 2 – Workhorses and Going Great Western United Kingdom 60 minutes; VHS; BBC; 1988. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Archive and modern film of the British goods train and the Great Western – why was it so famous?) ViR36089 $8.00

Steam Supreme United Kingdom 57 minutes; VHS; Castle Vision; no publication date given; 1960’s. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Steam on The Bluebell Railway, Ffestiniog, Severn Valley and Keighley and Worth Railway.) ViR36091 $8.00

The Great British Trains United Kingdom 59 minutes; VHS; MSD Video; 1987. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Covers the Coronation Scot (filmed in 1937), Elizabeth Express (filmed in1954), Blue Pullman (filmed in 1960) and Intercity 125 (filmed in 1982)) ViR36100 $8.00

The Railfilms Collection – Volume 1 United Kingdom 52 minutes; VHS; Arts Magic. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (3 films – The run of LNER 0-6-2 tanker from Manchester to Wilson’s Brewery to celebrate 150 years of brewery, an enthusiastic trip to Holland and building a model of an old time American sawmill.) ViR36104 $8.00

The Steam Railway United Kingdom 90 minutes; VHS; Classic Pictures. (The age of the steam locomotives in the UK is covered with good footage of preserved steam.) ViR55250 $5.00

Titans of Steam United Kingdom 60 minutes; VHS; Artsmagic. Returns will only be accepted should the tape be faulty. (Preserved steam in action hauling trains throughout the UK – includes the Flying Scotsman.) ViR36109 $8.00

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