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Amateur video ‘Norton Bridge and Kidsgrove, two signal boxes’ filmed on VHS videotape by Mark Watson in 1994 and 1995, on the West Coast Main Line. Total duration: 40 minutes. Filmed in 2 parts. Part 1, December 1994, traffic at Norton Bridge Railway station, filmed in station and from inside signal box. Part 2, April 1995, journey from Stoke to Kidsgrove-Etruria railway station, Kidsgrove, signal box, Peter Pan locomotive No.86259.

VHS videotape ‘Norton Bridge and Kidsgrove, two signal boxes’

1994-1995

Amateur video ‘Leeky Pot and Culmination, two rail tours’ filmed on VHS videotape by Mark Watson in 1994 and 1997. Total duration: 45 minutes. Filming of two Pathfinder rail tours. Video in 2 parts. Part 1, Leeky Pot rail tour on 28 May 1994 led by class 31 diesel locomotives, departing from Stoke-on-Trent, filming local traffic, including Co-Co diesel locomotives class 58, journey to Cauldron Low Quarry and stop at Leekbrook. Part 2: The Crompton Culminator rail tour on 6 September 1997, with two class 33 Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives to Holyhead, Shakespeare Cliff and Hertfordshire rail tours locomotives.

VHS videotape ‘Leeky Pot and Culmination, two rail tours’

1994-1997

Amateur video ‘Silverdale Branch’ filmed on VHS videotape by Mark Watson in November 1998. Total duration: 45 minutes. Filming of a Pathfinder rail tour 'Cheshire Mole’ (Magical Mystery tour) on the Silverdale Colliery Branch. Journey starts at Madeley, passing Madeley signal box, Madeley Chord Signal box, passing in Keele tunnels, journey to the colliery and route back. Steam locomotives leading the rail tour are EWS diesel locomotive 56114 and Co-Co diesel-electric locomotive 60038.

VHS videotape ‘Silverdale Branch’

1998-11

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.

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

1997-08

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.

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

1997-08

Amateur video ‘British Rail's last Saturday at Stoke-on-Trent’ filmed on VHS videotape by Mark Watson between 1994 and 2004. Total duration: 45 minutes. Filmed in 3 parts. Part 1, filmed on 26 March 1994, the last Saturday before privatisation began, traffic and operations at Stoke-on-Trent station. Featuring: Inter City electric locomotives class 87 and class90, Cross Country diesel-electric locomotives class 47/8, electric locomotives class 86/2, class 304 electric-multiple-units (EMUs), 310 EMUs, diesel freight locomotive class 56 Shelton rolling mill steel train. Part 2, filmed in August and September 2002, featuring the last cross-country operations with diesel-electric locomotives class 47/8 and electric locomotives class 86/2. Part 3, filmed in March 2004, diesel-electric multiple units Virgin Voyagers, electric high-speed train Pendolinos, diesel-electric freight locomotive class 66 on the English China clay service

Original video recording 'British Rail's last Saturday at Stoke-on-Trent'

1994-2004

Amateur video ‘One day on the West Coast Main Line’ filmed on 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.

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

1997-08