For over 20 years, Channel 5 Productions has been recording events featuring preserved steam in action.

Most of the material in this programme was  released on VHS as part of  our  `Steam In Focus’ magazine series, but until now has not been released on  DVD.  

We feature:

Film of fan trips on the Victorian lines that were about to close, including  Cudgewa, Daylesford, Mansfield and Wonthaggi.

Y 112 on a parallel run in 1997 on the Geelong line in Victoria as well as In  2000, when the Y travelled between Ballarat and Maryborough before  running to Castlemaine on this now abandoned cross country line.

The Swanbank Railway in Queensland in 1997.

The extension of the Puffing Billy Railway from Lakeside to Gembrook is  covered including test runs by the Peckett and Na class locomotives as well  as the official opening.

The West Coast Wilderness Railway in Tasmania, where the ABT rack  locomotives operate on the steep gradients between Queenstown and  Dubbil Barril.  We travel as far as Rinadeena.

Steam traction engines gather at Maldon in Victoria where they meet up with  locomotives at the `Victorian Goldfields Railway’.

R 700 being transferred to Ballarat in it’s first steps towards restoration.

                                            Running Time: 75 minutes aprrox.