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DVD Review
by Neville Whitmore
Added to website 21 July 2010
This video does exactly what it says on the tin (sorry, package). It provides a visual record of most of the vehicles which attended the
Transport Festival held over the Bank Holiday weekend of 1st to 3rd May 2010 in Llandudno. However, it does more than this for me. It would have
been easy to have simply taken a video camera onto the parking area and filmed the vehicles parked up. This has not been the case, instead there
are several locations such as Conwy, where the vehicles are seen and heard passing beneath the castle walls (and one or two of the spectators
are also heard, but this did not spoil it for me), and the Great Orme where the vehicles are once again seen and heard struggling up the steep
incline. There is a great variety of vehicles seen and although interested principally in the buses and coaches (of which there is a fabulous
cross section), I was also fascinated by the range of lorries, tractors and other sundry vehicles which this gathering seems to attract in large
numbers. I also enjoyed seeing the "native" service buses of Arriva (why are they allowed to use local branding?) and the open toppers of both
Arriva and City Sightseeing. Again it would have been easy not to include these as strictly speaking they are not part of the event but this
simply adds to the interest for me and are part of the street scene. For anyone who missed this event or who just wants to remind themselves
of a good day out last summer on a cold dark winters evening then this video is recommended.
CLASSICS IN NORTH WALES VOLUME 3 is a DVD published by Terminus Publications price £12.95
Terminus Publications, 15 Woodbridge Rise, Chesterfield S40 3LL UK
Telephone: 07565 752572
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www.terminusvideo.co.uk.