Eric, I've always loved the British Transport films, although one or two of them don't repay repeated watching, which is why I haven't paid £100 for the set (yet). The absolute crackers IMHO are "Elizabethan Express", "Snowdrift at Bleath Gill" and "Snow", for different reasons.

A4s, like A1s, are of course the canine genitals, and anyway I cabbed "Silver Fox" at Grantham around 1961 so "EE" is always watchable. As long as modern viewers don't think all Fifties passenger trains were like the Coronation set used for the Elizabethan! (For our friends over the pond, it was the equivalent of the Daylight or similar before WWII and the diesel takeover)

"Snowdrift at Bleath Gill" is fab because it shows the physical grind of keeping the steam railway going in a bad winter. Also, it was filmed on the Stainmore line which was closed before I got mobile. The Scouse narrator always makes me laugh - how did Deryck Guyler get onto the North Eastern?

"Snow" is just bravura film editing and reminds me of a time when the whole country didn't stop because of a few snowflakes (yeah I know, cue the Four Yorkshiremen Python sketch).

To get back to the thread, Tornado happenings:
Settle & Carlisle again this Sat 10th Oct
Barrow Hill nr Chesterfield Sun 18th Oct
Severn Valley Railway Sat 24th Oct- Sat 7th Nov
Gloucester-London Victoria also Sat 7th Nov
Kings Cross-York and return Thursday 26th Nov
Sorry, don't have the timings but please support the A1 Trust!