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NEW! Video footage of 5690 Leander at the "Giants of Steam" weekend at the Bluebell Railway on 23 October 2004

Leander arriving at Kingscote in seasonal weather conditions.

27 seconds - 15.1 MB - Click here to download

Leander leaving Horsted Keynes with a northbound train.

64 seconds - 32 MB - Click here to download

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Please note that these are large files! Users with low connection speeds may have difficulty downloading these files without a download manager. I may make them available on a CD at some point in the future, but this is not available at present. Please also note that they are supplied "as is" - they play without problems on my machine and media player, but I make no guarantee that they will work on other systems. I cannot offer any technical assistance I'm afraid. Finally, these videos are copyright Simon Robinson. You are welcome to copy them for your own use, but please do not reproduce them or link directly to the source file without my permission.

Request for help - These files seem to be extremely large compared with others I've seen on the net, of similar quality. If anyone has any tips or advice of how to make these files smaller, without noticeably reducing the quality, I'd be glad to hear it. The originals are on 8mm digital tape.

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Recordings

5690 Leander at York, hauling the Scarborough Spa Express
(photo courtesy of Ray Brown)

In the early 1980's British Rail ran a regular series of steam specials in North Yorkshire. Known as the Scarborough Spa Express, the trains used preserved locomotives, and ran from York round the Harrogate - Leeds - York circle and on to the seaside resort of Scarborough, before returning to York along the same route. On Tuesday, 2nd August, 1983, the train of nine coaches was hauled by LMS Jubilee No. 5690, Leander. The following excerpt is of the train leaving Harrogate for York, on the final leg of the journey.

This 49 second recording is available in two formats:-

mp3 - 389K
wav - 1,075K, but slightly better quality.

See the video clips above for information about downloading files.

A 90 minute recording of the journey, together with other steam journeys, is available from:-

Air-Rail Recordings
PO Box 175
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO11 2ZU

My thanks go to Air-Rail Recordings for allowing me to use this excerpt.

Coming soon... (as soon as I can find which tape it's on!)

Video clip of 45593 Kolhapur at Barrow Hill

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