... topic: 1048 BBC Steam Railway Archive posted: 18 Feb 2010 00:02 from: Andrew Fendick I found this link on the BBC's web site to a collection of archive clips related to steam railways. http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/index.shtml Many are just short clips but some are full programs, such as this one following Alan Pegler's running of Flying Scotsman non-stop from Kings Cross to Edinburgh in May 1968. http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7307.shtml posted: 18 Feb 2010 20:43 from: donald peters Hallo, I appear to be suffering from my usual ineptitude at things computer in getting the best from what look like a really enjoyable set of videos. My problem is straightforward and crippling. The contrast and brightness of the images. In most of those I have looked at they appear to have been made at the centre of a tropical thunderstorm. Taking the start of the video of the ride round the dales the opening scene is a sepia black with a blurred yellow band getting wider ...