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Steam trains at speed at Brock, between Preston and Lancaster, near Garstang, on the West Coast Mainline, filmed between 2012 and 2019. The majority of these shots have not been uploaded before. Locomotives featured include:
- 46233 Duchess Of Sutherland (LMS Stanier Princess Coronation);
- 6201 Princess Elizabeth (LMS Stanier Princess Royal);
- 46115 Scots Guardsman (LMS Stanier Royal Scot);
- 45699 Galatea (LMS Stanier Jubilee);
- 45407 The Lancashire Fusilier (LMS Stanier Black 5);
- 44871 (LMS Stanier Black 5);
- 45231 The Sherwood Forester (LMS Stanier Black 5);
- 48151 (LMS Stanier 8F).
- 60009 Union Of South Africa (LNER Gresley A4, sister to 4468 Mallard);
- 4464 Bittern (LNER Gresley A4, sister to 4468 Mallard).
The locomotives were hauling a variety of workings including:
- The Fellsman;
- Cumbrian Mountain Express;
- The Cumbrian Ranger;
- Loaded Test Runs;
- One-off excursions.
Brock is located ca. 7 miles north of Preston railway station on the West Coast Mainline. The former station, which was located close to the modern overbridge (and former foot crossing), closed in 1939; water troughs were located to the north of the station in steam days. Originally built as the Lancaster and Preston Joint Railway in 1840, this section of railway was later subsumed by the London and North Western Railway, and continues to form an essential part of the West Coast Mainline. The LMS struggled to find a stretch of railway straight and flat enough to challenge the LNER world speed record, and perhaps this section was amongst the best it had. The stone badger shown at 5:24 is, I believe, the crest of the local Fitzherbert-Brockhole family, set into an overbridge which local gricers refer to colloquially as 'Badger Bridge'.