This week's featured publisher is FHP Audio Visual whose European titles are highly informative professionally produced DVDs featuring European railways. Transport Diversions has over 150 FHP Audio Visual DVDs in stock in the Ticket to Ride and Between the Lines series. To give a taste of what these videos have to offer why not take a look at this short YouTube clip from Out & Oslo - Bergen .
The Ticket to Ride series consists of five genres: contemporary documentaries on European railways by geographical area, films on European freight business, Out & About travel guides which cover specific cities or regions, driver's eye view cab rides, and model railway show reports from major shows across the continent.
FHP Audio Visual are region free PAL format so may be enjoyed in many countries around the world
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To complement the Ticket to Ride series, Between the Lines magazine style films feature European railways in bite size portions.
The coastal route from Yarmouth and the inland line from Beccles had contrasting origins and features. The architectural details and changing rolling stock are fully illustrated. From the series Branch Lines
The second of three volumes looking at what happened to the North Staffordshire Railway after it became a part of the LM&SR in the Railway Grouping of 1923. This was a period of great social, political and economic change and turmoil, which climaxed with the Second World War. Shortly afterwards, ...
The Chris Noyle Collection No.1. Chris Noyle filmed railways in Britain and Europe from 1962 to 1972. This is the first part from his collection and features rail tours in England during the period 1964 to 1967. The area covered was from south to north including some long closed lines and using ...
In typescript, the account of the Furness Railway runs to over 300 pages. To this must be added the many maps and diagrams that help to clarify the story. The book also includes many of the photographs Mr Andrews himself took as well as valuable contemporary items loaned from the archive of the ...
The scenic joys of the North Coast of Wales are varied and often spectacular. Many can be appreciated better from the pages of an album than a train. So herein are multiple pleasures, as the evolution of the stations and the rolling stock can also be savoured.
There was a good variety of goods yards and a staggering number of staggered platforms on this once entirely rural section of the direct route for London to Cambridge. The changes st the stations and the development of passenger trains are illustrated in detail, along with the improvements in ...
The story begins in the early 19th century with the young George Bradshaw perfecting his skills as a cartographer, in the canal era. This he extended to railways as they began to expand and railway timetables were added to his output from 1839. Told herein is how he created a massive business with ...
This is one of our most requested programmes for re-release on DVD. This is a Wired for Sound cab-ride filmed on board D431 when it and D449 worked the ‘Celtic Hoovers' railtour from Glasgow Central to Crewe in September 2000. This trip took the two Class 50s back to their original LMR stamping ... From the series Wired for Sound
DVD Video (also available as Blu-Ray HD Disc ). The term Welsh Marches refers to the border area between Wales and England. The railway diverging from the South Wales Main Line at Newport closely follows the border through Abergavenny, Hereford, Shrewsbury and Nantwich. We join a 3-car class 175 ... From the series Driver`s Eye Views
Blu-Ray HD Disc (Also available as standard DVD Video ). The term Welsh Marches refers to the border area between Wales and England. The railway diverging from the South Wales Main Line at Newport closely follows the border through Abergavenny, Hereford, Shrewsbury and Nantwich. We join a 3-car ... From the series Driver`s Eye Views
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