"Actor: Albert Rowse"

• Britain's Railway Heritage - Driving And Firing In The North West - Vol. 1 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this first part of two programmes we take a nostalgic look at the railways through the eyes of Albert Rowse who describes his early days working on the London Midland and Scottish Railway from 1941 onwards. He started shovelling ashes in the yard and graduated to driving Royal Scotts Britannias and Princesses on routes such as Settle and Carlisle the Cumbrian Coast the West Coast Main Line over Shap and Carnforth to Crewe.

• Britain's Railway Heritage - Driving And Firing In The North West - Vol. 2 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this second programme Albert Rowse - who started shovelling and later became a driver - describes the change over from steam to diesel and the sometimes haphazard way in which this was accomplished. The routes covered in this programme are the Glasgow and South Western to Dumfries the Waverely route to Edinburgh and the West Coast Main Line to London. Albert gives his opinions on some of the engines based at the Barrow-in-Furness shed.