VHS videotapes ‘One day on the West Coast Main Line’

Amateur video ‘One day on the West Coast Main Line’ filmed on one of two VHS videotapes by Mark Watson in August 1997. Total duration: 90 minutes. Filmed train journeys between Stafford-Carlisle and return, with stops at multiple stations, filming passing traffic. Travel made with a Rail Rover ticket. Content: Stafford, local workings before boarding a train, Morton Bridge station, LNWR shed outside Crewe, class 304 electric multiple units; Crewe, North Wales Coast service, GWR carriage, class 305 units and boogies, wide variety of services; Warrington, diesel depot, British Railways diesel-electric locomotives class 37, electric locomotives class 86; Wigan, pacer units, merry-go-round wagons (MGR); workings at Preston, Lancaster, Oxenholme, Penrith, Carlisle; other MGR and nuclear flash; return to Stafford train led by O2 Robbert Riddles, No. 5 signal box, Stafford Arms pub; video ends on a shot of the list of locomotives filmed and the Rail Rover ticket used.

Amateur video ‘One day on the West Coast Main Line’ filmed on one of two VHS videotapes by Mark Watson in August 1997. Total duration: 90 minutes. Filmed train journeys between Stafford-Carlisle and return, with stops at multiple stations, filming passing traffic. Travel made with a Rail Rover ticket. Content: Stafford, local workings before boarding a train, Morton Bridge station, LNWR shed outside Crewe, class 304 electric multiple units; Crewe, North Wales Coast service, GWR carriage, class 305 units and boogies, wide variety of services; Warrington, diesel depot, British Railways diesel-electric locomotives class 37, electric locomotives class 86; Wigan, pacer units, merry-go-round wagons (MGR); workings at Preston, Lancaster, Oxenholme, Penrith, Carlisle; other MGR and nuclear flash; return to Stafford train led by O2 Robbert Riddles, No. 5 signal box, Stafford Arms pub; video ends on a shot of the list of locomotives filmed and the Rail Rover ticket used.