there is much coverage of the LNWR-designed G2 class 0-8-0 tender engines,the last LNWR class to survive in any numbers. These engines are contrasted with their lms-duilt successsors, the 8F 2-8-0s. Other types which feature in the film are Black 5s, Horwich Moguls , Fowles tanks, jinties, lvatt2-6-0s and serveral of the Bitish Railway Standard designs ranging from Britannia pacifcs to the class 4 Moguls. These machines,often work-stained and unkempt,are seen on a succession of coal and steel trains and long mixed freigths,traffic flows which have either deen shut down or nowaday go by road. Passenger trattic is not forgotten. LNS pacifics are seen at work on the main line and in one poignant sequence several of these magnticent machines are seen making their last journey to the scrap yard. The role of the Great Western in the Midlands is not overlooked. Branch lines such as that which once served Wolverton work parade forthe camera.Centred on Staffordshire, but with much of the footage drawn from train go by in the 1950s and 1960 and will be arevelaton of a lost age to those too young to recall those halcyon days.
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