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British Railways Vol.8: English Branch Lines And Byways
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| Branch Iines and secondary routes have always had a special appeaI. This programme recalls many such EngIish byways in fiIms made in the 1950s and 60s. The railways portrayed ran through landscapes which ranged from the green and pleasant shires of ruraI England to the very heart of the MetropoIis. Among the routes featured are: in the Western Region, auto trains on the Gloucester to Chalford service and branch lines to Princetown and Ashburton; in the Midlands the Iines from Stamford to Essendine and Seaton are recalIed; steam byways around London include the Stanmore branch, the service from Ealing Broadway to Greenford and the West London line. Among the Southern Region branches and secondary lines visited are those to Lymington, Swanage, Hayling isIand, the Guildford to Horsham service and the network of Iines centred on Tunbridge WeIIs West, which served Oxted, Hailsham and Lewes. Films of the former Midland & Great Northern joint system in East AngIia, where cIosure in 1959 was the first major portent of the drastic cuts which were to be made to the raiIways of EngIand in the 1960s, and that uItimate in byways, the roadside tramway, which ran from Wisbech to UpwelI, concIude the programme. Most of the lines covered in this programme had been cIosed by the end of the 1960s. Those who knew these Iines wilI have pleasant memories revived by the films and for those who did not get the chance to travel on them in their heyday, this wiIl be a revelation of a lost era. |
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