To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the steam locomotive, West Sussex Record Office in conjunction with the South East Film and Video Film Archive  produced a railway DVD dedicated to the age of steam in Southern England.

The films included on the DVDs are both professional and amateur and were discovered by archivists at the Record Office.With the cooperation of the film makers and the South East Film and Video Archive the films were digitised and then transposed to enable production of the first Record Office DVD entitled Southern Steam.

The earliest film dates back to 1897 and is the work of George Smith a film pioneer who made fiction and non fiction films. This short film shows the entry of a train into Hove Station with the normal hustle and bustle of passengers trying to board a train.