THE LAST DECADE OF STEAM

RUNTIME: 60 MINS

CAT: AWA301
UPC: 881482330195
RRP: $14.95

This superb program features mainline steam operations on both the Short North and Main South during the last 10 years of regular steam operations in New South Wales. Opening with scenes of the Enfield depot in the mid-sixties, we see the great roundhouse chimneys belching smoke while 38s, Garratts, P-Classes and Standard Goods are prepared for service.

Featuring spectacular footage of:

Double Garratts and double 36 class locomotives climbing Fassifern.
Double headers battling Hawkmount, the Short North’s steepest grade.
Shots of the Newcastle Flyer hauled by 3820, 3822 and 3824.
Early morning on the Main South at Bowral and Moss Vale with 3810 on the Paper Train.
3802 in the last week of operations on the Main South.
Rare footage of 3813 and 5910 double heading.

‘The Last Decade of Steam’ is an important record of a part of Australia’s history, professionally shot on 16mm film and using the original soundtracks, featuring mighty machines which have disappeared forever.