Video including two footplate rides of GWR & BR(W) tank engines at work on preserved railways and the Metropolitan in Britain. Classes include 14xx, 57xx, 15xx, 45xx & 5101. Video was taken on the East Somerset, West Somerset and Severn Valley Railways between 1992 & 2000. Dramatic sound as 1450 storms up the bank from Mendip Vale and sets a number of lineside fires and as 4144 makes a speedy departure with slipping from Rickmansworth.