The steam is up; the engine bright cmd gold.
The fire-king echoes back the guard's shrill cry.
The roaring vapour shrieks out fierce and bold
A moment - and like lightning on we fly. (ANON)
A light-hearted look at the pleasures and hazards of railway travel in Britain in the age of steam, from the first journey of George Steph enson's 'Locomotion', from Stockton to Darlington on 27 September 1825. to the last scheduled train to be pulled by a steam locomotive on 8 August 1968.
Narrator David Mahlowe
Written by NORMAN LONGMATE Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON