Discovering the UK
Margaret & Denny tour the UK with Collett Tours, July 2017. This version is without VO narration. Narrated version to follow. Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector 15
Days Out Ep.10 Midsomer Norton
A trip to the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust at Midsomer Norton near Bath.
S&D Railway Heritage Trust-
North Dorset Trailway Southern Section
Recently discovered - by us - and a great cyclepath
The Dorset Clubmen - History Project
Mine, Geo and Ezzy's creative history project on the English Civil War, detailing the Dorset Clubmen
The Pines Express - 1960's Rail Travel with SOU34!
Hey Guys,
This week we Show you the elegance of railway travel in the spirit of 1966, as we travel from Eastleigh to Bournemouth aboard the Pines Express.
More information about the original train can be found here:
Enjoy the Film!
Next up?
We Begin our Summer of Steam with a Football train, (and yes you are seeing this, a steam hauled footex!)
Also, We take our first Glimpse of The world famous Flying Scotsman as she pulls into Salisbury! But not just once.......twice!!!!
All here to kick off the Summer with SOU34!
This is SOU34 in 2016.
Website: sou34.co.uk
Facebook: Facebook.com/sotontrains
Fiddleford Manor, Must watch!
I went on this visit to Fiddleford Manor with my friend James Peatling of Wimborne. He had my old Panasonic HCV100. I used his clips in the intro and outro and one clip in the movie. I did all of the filming of myself, although I did go back at 10am which was opening time and luckily I was the only visitor, I'd had the idea for the speech after the first visit. nIt would have been difficult to do with other visitors there!
I've used 3 editing programs, Adobie Premier Eliments 11, Windows Movie Maker, and the YouTube editor. I guess I spent about 10 hours editing on and off, I'll have to time my next big project, but the editing was a way of resting from more physical work.
I'm reasonably chuffed with the result!
Keywords used with this video: Dorset, Sturminster Newton, English Heritage, English Manor House, English Country House
Shillingstone, River Stour, Visit places for free, free visits, frss visits in dorset.
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Pet Friendly Holiday Cottage In Sherborne, Dorset
- Pet Friendly Holiday Cottage In Sherborne, Dorset. This Dog Friendly Holiday Accommodation In Dorset Allows 1 Well Behaved Dog & Sleeps Up To 4 People
Milton on Stour -North Dorset by professional artist Samantha Adams.
Enjoying a lovely tranquil walk with sunshine and gaining inspiration in the Dorset scenery.
Okeford Fitzpaine, Shaftesbury and Milton Abbas March 6th 2011
A lovely tour of three Dorset villages.
List of British heritage and private railways | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:06 1 England
00:01:15 1.1 South West
00:01:23 1.1.1 Standard gauge
00:01:58 1.1.2 Railway centres and museums
00:02:22 1.1.3 Narrow gauge
00:03:00 1.1.4 Miniature gauge
00:03:32 1.1.5 Tramways
00:03:43 1.2 East of England
00:03:51 1.2.1 Standard gauge
00:04:19 1.2.2 Railway centres and museums
00:04:36 1.2.3 Narrow gauge
00:05:06 1.2.4 Miniature gauge
00:05:33 1.2.5 Tramways
00:05:44 1.3 East Midlands
00:05:53 1.3.1 Standard gauge
00:06:25 1.3.2 Railway centres and museums
00:06:50 1.3.3 Narrow gauge
00:07:22 1.3.4 Miniature gauge
00:07:55 1.3.5 Tramways
00:08:07 1.4 North England
00:08:15 1.4.1 Standard gauge
00:09:09 1.4.2 Railway centres and museums
00:09:39 1.4.3 Narrow gauge
00:10:10 1.4.4 Miniature gauge
00:11:02 1.4.5 Tramways
00:11:41 1.5 South East
00:11:49 1.5.1 Standard gauge
00:12:25 1.5.2 Railway centres and museums
00:12:57 1.5.3 Narrow gauge
00:13:39 1.5.4 Miniature gauge
00:14:43 1.5.5 Tramways
00:14:54 1.6 West Midlands
00:15:03 1.6.1 Standard gauge
00:15:44 1.6.2 Railway centres and museums
00:16:04 1.6.3 Narrow gauge
00:16:45 1.6.4 Miniature gauge
00:17:13 1.6.5 Tramways
00:17:25 1.7 Tramways
00:18:20 1.8 Proposed
00:18:28 1.8.1 East of England
00:18:49 1.8.2 North of England
00:19:03 1.8.3 South and West of England
00:19:40 1.9 Defunct
00:22:15 2 Northern Ireland
00:22:28 2.1 Broad gauge
00:22:39 2.2 Railway centres and museums
00:22:57 2.3 Narrow gauge
00:23:12 2.4 Defunct
00:23:29 3 Scotland
00:23:37 3.1 Standard gauge
00:23:46 3.1.1 Central Highlands
00:23:54 3.1.2 East Coast of Scotland
00:24:06 3.1.3 Scottish Borders
00:24:18 3.2 Railway centres and museums
00:24:32 3.3 Narrow gauge
00:24:48 3.4 Miniature railways
00:25:10 3.5 Tramways
00:25:22 3.6 Proposed
00:25:37 3.7 Defunct
00:26:00 4 Wales
00:26:09 4.1 North Wales
00:26:17 4.1.1 Standard gauge
00:26:29 4.1.2 Railway centres and museums
00:26:49 4.1.3 Narrow gauge
00:27:26 4.1.4 Miniature railways
00:27:47 4.1.5 Tramways
00:28:02 4.2 Mid Wales
00:28:10 4.2.1 Narrow gauge
00:28:18 4.2.2 Miniature railways
00:28:29 4.3 South Wales
00:28:38 4.3.1 Standard gauge
00:28:51 4.3.2 Narrow gauge
00:29:10 4.4 Proposed
00:29:18 4.5 North Wales
00:29:37 4.5.1 Narrow gauge
00:29:48 4.6 South Wales
00:29:56 4.6.1 Standard gauge
00:30:07 4.7 Defunct
00:30:39 5 Isle of Man
00:31:09 6 Channel Islands
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This is a list of heritage, private and preserved railways throughout the United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies whether operational or former, for charitable purposes or shareholder profit. Some also provide a local economic transport purpose. For rail museums, see List of British railway museums.
Many of the standard-gauge railways listed (thus including former branch lines and ex-mainline routes) were closed by British Railways (later shortened to British Rail) under the Beeching Axe of the 1960s. Others later or earlier closed. All ceased their public financing with up-to-date rolling stock and often avoided electrification and electronic signals to be restored and operated as heritage lines. A smaller number of lines were formerly both industrial and colliery railways.
Many of these preserved railways and railway centres such as stations, engineering workshops and collections of old locomotives are mentioned in national and international tour guides, and visits may form part of a school curriculum and centres of other studies including in civil engineering, mechanics, social, economic and political history, visual arts and drama.