Trains including Class 37s and DMUs at Grange-over-Sands Cumbria

Between 2010 and 2016 John Briggs, a regular visitor to Grange-over-Sands (Cumbria, UK) filmed passing trains. "Trains at Grange" (17 mins) forms a cavalcade of clips, giving a good impression of the typical, commonplace and the unusual, that can be seen on this part of the Cumbrian Coast Railway during this era. The film is presented without commentary or music and train sound is as much a part of the record as the moving images. A young train-spotter with a camera on a selfie-stick starts the sequence, and continues a family tradition well-established by his elders! Grange is a lovely place for a visit, it's beside a tidal estuary on the edge of the iconic English Lake District, and the town has a long promenade that's great for viewing both sea and trains. The advent of websites giving real-time train information enabled many of the trains to be captured in a way that would have been somewhat ‘hit and miss’ in the past. This film is a must for armchair train-spotters of any age, especially those who like to see the famously noisy Class 37 locos being 'thrashed' as they accelerate away from the station, their being regularly used in more recent years on this line. Brief glimpses of adjacent stations at Kents Bank and Arnside are also seen.