This section was introduced as a trial to gauge the practicality of introducing a permanent movies section on the site. Unfortunately it’s proved to be very time consuming so this is as far as I’ve got. Movie files tend to be large so I don't recommend anyone without a broadband connection attempts to view the bigger files.

NOTE: QuickTime files are compressed using the H.264 Codec, which produces the highest quality output but may not work on older PCs.

Five clips of Chinese diesels at work in the north-east during October 2008 including orange and green DF4Bs, a passenger DF4D and a pair of DF8s, all unsilenced.

These videos are hosted on YouTube and should be viewable by anyone with a reasonably up to date computer and web browser. Alternatively, you can visit the Railography page on YouTube where the videos can be viewed in higher quality by those with a fast broadband connection.

go to Chinese Diesel Videos

742 076 @ Brankovice

The first (and so far only) QuickTime movie I’ve done. It features a noisy 742076 climbing from Nemotice to Brankovice with Sp1724, the 06:53 from Vlarsky Prusmyk to Brno on 2 May 2005. This train is booked for a class 842 railcar but on this occasion was loco hauled.

Lower Quality: Windows Media Player (800kB)

Higher Quality: Windows Media Player (1.8MB)

Higher Quality: Quicktime H264 (1.5MB)

A large selection of Chinese steam videos for Windows Media Player, mostly by Bryan Acford.






go to Chinese Steam Video Clips