5193 at Steamport southport documentary

Hi guys

before my last pc died, I had downloaded an old documentary from about 1979-80, about the rescue of GWR large prarie 5193 from Barry, it documented its departure and travel to steamport southport.

Im trying to find it again, but I cant think what it was called?

it was very good, well worth putting on youtube or similar,

and quite sad as there was quite a lot of celebration and hope about restoring it, a Liverpool couple bought it, they cracked a champagne bottle on it when they got it to Southport.

but nothing seemed to happen to it until it went to the West somerset and was converted to the mogul

if anyone knows it please tell

cheers

Mike

 

I too remember the program, narated by the late great Jonny Morris. It was Called "One Iron Horse" I think. I remeber the loco was loaded at Barry with help from a Sentenel steam lorry and unloadted at Steamport by the Jinty now at Llangollen which has long since lost it's LMS black for Thomas blue

 

Mike, when you say the PC died, was it the hard disk that failed or something else, in which case might you still be able to recover files from it?

 

not sure what happened to it, it was a laptop that had power problems.


thanks, it was indeed called
"One iron horse-handle with care", from 1980.

now to try and find it.

one interesting part of it was the care they had to take loading and unloading the loco, the trailers wernt as big or specially adapted as they are now.


cheers

Mike

 

I probably have a copy somewhere on Video, will have a look soon.

 

many thanks

really sorry to hear about Dave

Mike

 

Hi All.
The documentary was called Iron horse handled with care.
I was the lorry driver.
I have it on video somewhere.

Regards George

 

I think thi was it

 

Yes i think you are right i moved quite a few and have lost track.

Regards George

 

Mike,

I too had the same problem, I bought a new laptop but took the old hdd out and used a Sata IDE Transfer kit from ebay to transfer all my files and videos.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-IDE-SATA-Adaptor-Kit-2-5-3-5-Hard-Drive-HDD-/260619848783?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item3cae274c4f