Steam into Summer
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Steam into Summer
An affectionate look at the Dart Valley Railway.
CHANNEL | BBC2
FIRST BROADCAST | 2 December 1979
DURATION | 29 minutes 20 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1979
Synopsis
The Dart Valley Railway was closed in the late 1950s as part of Dr Beeching's reorganisation of Britain's railway network, but it reopened in 1968 as a volunteer-run association to provide a commercially viable steam passenger service between Buckfastleigh and Totnes. This programme hears from some of those volunteers to find out why they're so determined to preserve their own treasures from the age of steam.
Did you know?
The poem recited in the middle of this programme ('Faster than faeries, faster than witches...') is 'From a Railway Carriage' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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