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Total Steam

It's before the advent of diesels and New Zealand Railways are dominated by huge black locomotives, panting steel dinosaurs that breathe smoke and fire. You will enter the lost world of TOTAL STEAM.

Live the spectacle of steam and snow on the trans alpine railway through the Southern Alps and the tortuous route of the North Island Main Trunk Line.

Take an exciting ride on the South Island Limited Express between Invercargill and Christchurch as it races at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, or lurch at walking pace on a "bush lokey" along a tramway into a remote forest in Westland.

Potter around the quaint branch railways of the Waikato Coalfields and the smoky shunting yards at Auckland station where suburban trains connect with tramcars into Queen Street.

Travel sedately behind a Baldwin loco dating back to 1901 on the "Hokitika Mixed" or hitch a free ride on a freight train from Frankton to the Bay of Plenty through the spectacular Karangahake Gorge and its notorious tunnel, hated by engine crews.

Make a nostalgic trip on a rural branchline into New Zealand's heartland then take in the breathtaking scenery on the Country's only railway journey by water on the historic steamship "Earnslaw".

Brought to life in sharp brilliant colour with a painstakingly recreated sound effects track, entertaining anecdotes from the men and woman of the time add a personal touch to this tribute to the great era of TOTAL STEAM.
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IN HI-FI STEREO SOUND

Total Steam

Narrator: IAN JOHNSTONE
Sound Design: KIT ROLLINGS
Written, Directed & Edited by: DAVID SIMS
Cover Photography: DAVID SIMS

In Colour and Black & White

© Copyright Memory Line Productions, Vol. Five

Running time 1 hour approx.