Episodes

8 episodes in this season

King for a Day

80 min

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Green Arrow Goes West

70 min

Orient Express Steam

69 min

Flying Scotsman: A Day in the Life

70 min

Clan Line: A Day in the Life

70 min

Black Five Green Train

76 min

Castle and Manor on The Torbay Express

62 min

Driving and Firing the Western Engines

77 min

Classic Steam Train Collection

TV Series

20051h 10m

Documentary

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Green Arrow Goes West

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Jan 1, 2005

In what is believed to be the most intensive coverage of a single steam railtour, a team of professional TV cameramen follow “Green Arrow” to the West Country. But it was a railtour that Green Arrow was never scheduled to make. The original plan was to take a Gresley A4 to Plymouth. Filming had already started aboard 60007 “Sir Nigel Gresley” when mechanical faults ruled the engine out. As luck would have it, the only survivor of the V2 class, “Green Arrow”, had just come back from major surgery and she came to the rescue in spectacular fashion. No-one could have imagined the volcanic efforts the big 2-6-2 engine would have to produce, particularly on the infamous Devon banks, in order to reach Plymouth. This brilliant programme reveals the drama of steam traction at its most volcanic.

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Classic Steam Train Collection

TV Series

20051h 10m

Documentary

Now playing

Green Arrow Goes West

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Jan 1, 2005

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