Saturday April 13th sees the start of the 2024 edition of the Railway Touring Company’s “Great Britain XVI” steam rail tour of the U.K. concluding on Sunday 21st. Now firmly established as an annual event (with a couple of exceptions), this year’s tour does not include the far Southwest in its itinerary.
With that in mind, I thought it would be interesting to compile a history of visits to the Southwest of England, starting with the very first “Great Britain” tour back in 2007 followed by short clips of every tour since.
I hope you will find it fascinating, not only looking back at the motive power combinations over the years but also the change in video quality as camera equipment improved over the time.
For the technically minded:
This video is presented in 1920 x 1080 50P (FHD) format which involves the up scaling of most of the original clips:
The first clip was produced from a mere 720 x 405 30i (DVD letterbox) and the second clip from 850 x 480 25i (SD 16:9) both exhibit interlacing effects during fast movement when converted here to “progressive” scan.
The last two clips were captured at 3840 x 2160 50P (UHD) and therefore down scaled here. It is interesting to note that when recording in this format 50 images of 8.3Mp are captured every second and each image is close to the image quality of the very best SLR still cameras back in 2007!
All other clips were captured at 1280 x 720 25P (HD).
Chapters:
00:00 Titles & Great Britain
01:24 Great Britain 2
02:05 Great Britain 3
03:20 Great Britain 4
03:58 Great Britain 5
05:03 Great Britain 6
05:46 Great Britain 7
07:15 Great Britain 8
08:45 Great Britain 9
09:56 Great Britain 10
11:24 Great Britain 11
13:14 Great Britain 12
14:12 Great Britain 14
15:17 Great Britain 15
Links to the original uploads *:
Great Britain 2: • The Great Britain II, ...
Great Britain 3: • 44871 + 70013 Oliver C...
Great Britain 4: • 44871 + 70013 Oliver C...
Great Britain 5: • 34067 + 70013, The Gre...
Great Britain 6: • Heroic "Black 5s" to t...
Great Britain 7: • The Great Britain VII....
Great Britain 8: • 70000 Britannia "Flat"...
Great Britain 9: • 46100 Royal Scot Surge...
Great Britain 10: • 34052 + 46100 Six Cyli...
Great Britain 11: • 45212 + 31806 Top & Ta...
Great Britain 12: • Magnificent 46233 Duch...
Great Britain 14: • 6233 Duchess of Suther...
Great Britain 15: • Black 5 44932 Heads Da...
* Note: the original Great Britain tour pre-dates my current RU-vid library.
17 авг 2024