Radio 5 Live Up All Night 'Steam Night'

You can still listen to the Steamnight programme presented by Howard Benson, which he recorded at David Shepherd's studio and at Toddington, when the artist and wildlife conservationist celebrated the 50^th birthday of his locomotive, Black Prince.

Some of you have told us that the link to the Up All Night 'Steam night' programme on BBC Radio 5 Live is no longer available (see News, 29 August 2009).  But it is still on the website, it has simply been moved - and to save the trouble of searching you can listen to it on the following link.  For those who haven't heard it, Steam night is a series presented by Howard Benson, the Editor of Up All Night and they are well worth listening to.  Each programme is a little less than an hour long, interspersed by the news.  Maybe not too many people get to hear the broadcast given that it's broadcast at 3am - but the series has a strong following from anyone interested in railways.
David Shepherd and Black Prince on the GWR, on Radio 5 Live  Especially enjoyable is the final sequence recorded from the footplate of Black Prince as it accellerates away from the 15mph slack at Bishops Cleeve.  To find it scroll down beneath the picture of David Shepherd, under the headline 'David Shepherd interview'.

Here also is a link to an excellent discussion with the well-known railway author and former Western Region signalman Adrian Vaughan.  Adrian has written about 30 books, most of them histories and biographies that bring railway life of the past very much alive.  This, too, is well worth listening to!
Adrian Vaughan on Radio 5 Live