Video 125

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Video 125 is a company that produces films known as driver's eye views, or DEVs. The technique uses a camera placed inside the cab of a train to record a film (or its modern equivalent) of its journey. Such films exist in VHS or DVD format, covering a variety of lines in Great Britain, including London's Underground. There are also DEVs of lines in Ireland and France.

Video 125 was formed in 1984 by Peter Middleton^[1] , a television cameraman and director who worked for London Weekend Television. The companies first DEV was Settle to Carlisle.

The company also produces a number of archive and feature titles, such as old steam footage, railway newsreels, and bus archives. Titles are also expanding to aviation.

Recently, Video 125 have converted their VHS titles into DVD format after 21 years of releasing their titles on VHS.

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1066 DC DVD cover

1066 DC, filmed in 1989, is one of a number of driver's eye view films made by Video 125. The film documents a train driver's eye view of a journey from Hastings on the Southern England coast, to London's Charing Cross railway station. The train was a late 1980s 8-car 4Cep in the popular "Jaffa Cake" livery. The ninety minute film was written by Peter Middleton and narrated by Peter Egan.