Return to Steam
A video of the steam day to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Bletchley to Bedford Rail line , 80079 ran on the 21st  of December 1996 back and forth  , we have the inspection of the engine on the 20th in the Electric & Diesel Maintenance Depot at Bletchley then film from a number of locations on the track side & on the train through out the day and evening . Run time approx. 1 hour .
 

Written & Narrated by Richard Crane .

 
*Rails Thro’ Oxfordshire
A video covering the line from Didcot to Oxford and on to Banbury using cine film and video scenes are depicted from 1961-2 and the following thirty years of steam operation on this line . Run time approx. 1 hour .
 

Other video’s are :-

The Oxford to Cambridge ( the history of )
Series in three parts and based on the two volume book of the same name by Bill Simpson .

*Part One , The Bedford Railway from Bletchley to Bedford , most of the video footage was taken in the summer of 1989 of the D.M.U.s operating this attractive country line. Run time approx. 45 minutes .

 *Part Two ,  The Buckinghamshire Railway from Oxford to Bletchley . We take a journey from Oxford to Bletchley and compare the then present in 1992
with film of 1981 and former days old photographs . Run time approx. 1 hour .

*Part Three , The Bedford & Cambridge Railway  from Bedford to Cambridge . Using archive film , stills and video this tape seeks to assemble a representative history of the line, before it finally passed beyond all living memory. Run time approx. 1hour.

*Bletchley Bedford Railway 150 years 1846-1996
A video to celebrate the 150 years of this line , it includes archive film of , early brick trains from Stewartby , holiday trains from Bedford in the Twenties & Thirties, The first Fletliner  & Landfill trains of the Seventies & Eighties , the experimental rubber-tyred Michelin train and much more . Run time approx. 75 minutes .

* This means All the above video’s were directed , written & narrated by Bill Simpson .