This Video 125 Driver’s Eye View covers the superb journey up the east coast of Scotland from Edinburgh to Aberdeen. As well as the sights, you will be delighted to hear the stereo sound of the original Paxman Valenta engine too!

The route is from Edinburgh Waverley, out through the tunnels to Haymarket and followed by that great railway structure – the Forth Bridge. The journey also includes Britain’s longest bridge – that over the River Tay. With a helicopter flying alongside these phenomenol structures are seen from an aerial viewpoint too.

North of Dundee, with the sun gradually sinking in the clear blue sky the HST calls at Arbroath and Stonehaven. Lots of semaphone signals to see too. This really is the Northern Lights!

Filmed in 1996 – Running Time 95 Minutes.

During summer 2004, 125 Group was given exclusive authority by Midland Mainline to record the view from the cab of a Project Rio service.

In order to ‘keep the sun on our backs’ we nominated the 0900 from London St. Pancras as first choice train. On the day, there were two things that we desperately wanted to avoid, one was rain, the other a VP185! Fortunately the rain kept away and we were not disappointed with the set provided, 43198 leading and 43158 trailing gave a flawless performance. Despite a random signal check and some horses on the line, Leicester was reached early so we were away ‘right time’. Remarkably, the next time we stopped was in the platform at Manchester Piccadilly having run via the regular Rio route of the Erewash and Hope Valleys and then via Romiley as the Stockport area was blocked for West Coast Route Modernisation work.

This DVD features over 100 HST movements filmed between 1986 & 2011. It shows the HST in a variety of liveries and with both Paxman Valenta and MTU engines. The DVD covers the route from Penzance to Taunton and includes a look at the lines to Newquay, Paignton and Exeter Central.

Running time of the DVD is 77 minutes.