Paul Davis Videos
Paul has provided us with a wide range of his own high-quality videos and they deserve a page of their own. Click on video to start.
Paul's video is bang up to date with a pair of Black5's on the Heart of Wales line on the 24th April with the Liverpool-Swansea leg of the Great British XVI Tour seen at Llanwrda and Ffairfach
Video is from a 'Plandampf' in 1998 where steam is/was rostered on normal trains in Germany. Three locos on an empty potash train at Oberrohn near Bad Salzungen.
The ex LMS Jubilee Leander on Shap September 2017.
"No modelling this month but video is a bit of Americana. Nebraska Zephyr at Illinois Railway Museum 2005 (don't know why they call it railway and not railroad but there you go)."
This is a Somerset and Dorset recreation on West Somerset line in March 1996 with ex-LMS 4F on a short mixed train
Nunney Castle at the East Lancs Railway in December 1997. Truly evocative sound of steam
Foxfield Colliery
On a chilly day in November 2003.- great soundtrack!
A Deltic on the Great Western Main Line.
They have visited very occasionally but the Aug 2011 runs with 55022 Royal Scots Grey were particularly spirited with shots at West Ealing and Langley.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic RR September 2000
The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, often abbreviated as the C&TSRR, is a 3 ft narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 64 miles of track between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, in the United States
A recent Network Rail inspection saloon from Shrewsbury to Barmouth and back, seen at Aberdovey and Tywyn.
A Winters Tale
To be accurate an Autumn Tale from October 1997 with Saxony's Unterwiesenthal and Oberwiesental railway in action
Turn up the sound
This month's video is an industrial steam recreation at Workington steel works, March 2001.
Filmed in the Tehachapi Mountains in 2003. These are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California and extends for approximately 40 miles in
southern Kern County and northwestern Los Angeles County. A reminder of the reality of US railways.
Black Five 44932 on a St David's Day working 2014 from Victoria to Cardiff and back, filmed at Syon Lane and Ashford
Union of South Africa showing the effort needed to get a full passenger train on the move. This was a Waterloo Special from January 1995.
Many preserved lines are now running winter lights trains which double up as Halloween trains and Santa workings in daylight bringing much needed revenue. The Gwili Railway is no exception and this year ran trains between Xmas and New Year for the first time ever.
Decembers video is an atmospheric reminder of the yesterdays of steam from the Harz Mountain Railway, showing one of the 1meter gauge locomotives in action in February 2015
November's video is some Irish steam from 1995 at Limerick Junction. GN(I) No85 Merlin departs for Cork whilst ex Dublin and South Eastern Railway No.461 is serviced.
Steam in Poland 1997
October's video is from Poland in May97. A PKP 2-6-2 OL49-81 departs Włoszakowice (pronounced vollskaveetza) with a train from Wolsztyn to Leszno. Paul said "Little did I know that in 18 months time this would be the first steam loco I'd drive, and on this very route."
Have you ever seen a prison train?
One runs every day M-F between Zurich and Bern operated by Securitas on behalf of Swiss authorities. Seen here at Olten in 2011 the train still runs, but with a loco in place of the class 540 motor coach which has been retired.
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe on a working from Tyseley-Cardiff in March 2017
Steam at Stoke Steelworks
A re-creation of steam at work April 2002
La Grange Kentucky July 2006
This is the annual visit of the Weedkiller Train to the Heart of Wales Line at Ffairfach (Llandeilo) on June 28th 2021
Not on Every Sunday
On a couple of Sundays Jan 2013 they operated steam on London Underground in the heart of the city, not just the outer reaches of the network. Met Mo.1 did the honours supported by Sarah Siddons. Shots at Barbican and Notting Hill Gate.