Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Probably the most ambitious Neville Grove video yet - this one features 5 steam hauled trains plus a banking locomotive pushing hard at the rear of a scale length freight.
See the whole banking procedure from the approaching goods train "whistling ahead" for assistance, right through to the banking engine dropping away from the guards van at the summit and returning for its next duty at the rear of another train.
The continuous sequence at "Vigo Lock" shows both locos working hard on the same train. The video footage has been accompanied, uninterrupted, by a classic Peter Handford recording of two clapped out, but ever strong 8F's on the Heart of Wales Line in the 1960's near Llangunllo. The scene was created on the model railway using two 8F's working a train of matching length and speed as the archive recording.
With resident 8F 48045 on banking duties, the sequence was only possible because a second 8F (also 48045 by extraordinary coincidence!) was sent by @BlufferstoBuffers and had just been outshopped from the Neville Grove weathering workshop. Since named Colin, this filthiest of filthy locos can also be seen at work on their excellent YouTube channel. Be sure to check them out!
A constant source of inspiration for me are the recordings of Peter Handford that were taken during the last two decades of steam trains on British Railways. Thank goodness that a large portion of his work is available in digital format via Old Thundridge Records who have been kind enough to grant me permission to use the material. Thoroughly recommended, take a look at the link below:
oldthundridgerecords.bigcartel.com/artist/peter-handford
Last week I was blown away by some recent superb footage taken by @sam6200 of Jubilee "Leander" roaring through the Mallerstang Valley towards Ais Gill Summit. I had to include this in a video and is used here in the opening sequences of my Bachmann model of "Alberta". Again, the audio has been used with kind permission from the owner, Thanks Sam. See the actual video here:
youtu.be/nxmYHOXIqW4
Probably the most ambitious Neville Grove video yet - this one features 5 steam hauled trains plus a banking locomotive pushing hard at the rear of a scale length freight.
See the whole banking procedure from the approaching goods train "whistling ahead" for assistance, right through to the banking engine dropping away from the guards van at the summit and returning for its next duty at the rear of another train.
The continuous sequence at "Vigo Lock" shows both locos working hard on the same train. The video footage has been accompanied, uninterrupted, by a classic Peter Handford recording of two clapped out, but ever strong 8F's on the Heart of Wales Line in the 1960's near Llangunllo. The scene was created on the model railway using two 8F's working a train of matching length and speed as the archive recording.
With resident 8F 48045 on banking duties, the sequence was only possible because a second 8F (also 48045 by extraordinary coincidence!) was sent by @BlufferstoBuffers and had just been outshopped from the Neville Grove weathering workshop. Since named Colin, this filthiest of filthy locos can also be seen at work on their excellent YouTube channel. Be sure to check them out!
A constant source of inspiration for me are the recordings of Peter Handford that were taken during the last two decades of steam trains on British Railways. Thank goodness that a large portion of his work is available in digital format via Old Thundridge Records who have been kind enough to grant me permission to use the material. Thoroughly recommended, take a look at the link below:
oldthundridgerecords.bigcartel.com/artist/peter-handford
Last week I was blown away by some recent superb footage taken by @sam6200 of Jubilee "Leander" roaring through the Mallerstang Valley towards Ais Gill Summit. I had to include this in a video and is used here in the opening sequences of my Bachmann model of "Alberta". Again, the audio has been used with kind permission from the owner, Thanks Sam. See the actual video here:
youtu.be/nxmYHOXIqW4
