This is the RMweb Blog and Information source for The British Railway Series, an historical Youtube series set in the years 1950-1964, and in a railway yard named Copley Hill.

I started making the series of videos with some friends for a module assessment in 2007, and while the rest of my team have gone onto better things, I found I enjoyed making the videos so much that I kept on making them! Over the last three years the series has improved greatly in terms of modelling and filming, evolving from the early, "filmed on a train set" video into the latest epsiodes, made as HD/Widescreen videos specifically for the constraints of Youtube.

One of the most notable changes to the series has been in the length of videos, and how they are uploaded to Youtube. The original episodes (one to six), and episodes seven onto fifteen were all filmed as one, two, or in Episode Ten's case, a four parter! As the major constraint for a normal youtube account is that videos must be under ten minutes long. With the Youtube channel gaining partner status in June 2009, it has been possible to upload videos longer than ten minutes, and thus a few director's cuts have been uploaded to show the episodes as originally intended.

The series has a finite length, as per the original directive of being historical. The series will finish in the year 1967, when the last of the ex-LNER express locomotives leaves the rails for the scrapyard, and it's a certainty that only a few locomotives (including Scott the A3 pacific) will survive.

But that's a long way off, and of course, there are many, many stories still to tell...