Our Digitally Remastered Series are bigger, better and in stunning HD for the very first time! These are the original programmes which have been put through the upscale and remastering treatment with improvements to audio, colour balance, contrast and most of all - picture quality. Some of the trains featured here were never filmed in HD or in broadcast quality. Now, for the first time - you can enjoy just that!

A day with each of these two unique locomotives. K1 is the first Garratt locomotive built from 1909 and is the only compound working in Britain today. Taliesin is the only single Fairlie. Both are articulated but that is where the similarities end.

This film takes a behind the scenes view of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways. Taliesin is given the task of moving the Victorian train set from Minffordd yard to Harbour Station, then doubles back to bring tipper wagons and open trucks down the line. K1 is to operate the daily service train from Caernarfon to Rhyd Ddu.

We see both locomotives being prepared from lighting up to light engine movements travelling with the crew on the footplate. Line side footage is included.

Produced by - Belhurst Productions
Running time - 63 minutes
Blu-ray and DVD
Originally released - 2008
Re-released - October 2024