DVD B&R 246: Southern Steam Miscellany, Part 8

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DVD B&R 246: Southern Steam Miscellany, Part 8DVD B&R 246: Southern Steam Miscellany, Part 8 19. 75 The fifth and final instalment in our series of all new and never previously seen, high quality cine films taken by the late Brian Parnell. Here we feature footage taken from one side of the erstwhile Southern Region to the other; from Kent, Sussex and Surrey to Hampshire, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. We begin on the Withered Arm at Barnstaple Junction, with film of trains crossing the Torridge at

Tallyllyn (the world’s first preserved railway)

and latterly how trough deflectors were fitted to a number of engines

We follow the route of the Torbay Express in the late 20th century and right up to 2018 with steam-hauled services on both the main line and on the Dartmouth Steam Railway from Paignton to Kingswear

15 – Summer 1988 £14

An ex-Crosti 9F makes a stirring sight on an express

seeing and travelling behind engines of these classes in the 1950s and early 1960s

Light Pacifics at Honiton Tunnel

1660 is shunting)

The archive film is in both colour and Black & White

83 Bath Green Park 1-19 Weston (Bath) 20-24 Kelston 25-27 Bitton 28-41 Oldland Common 42-45 Warmley 46-53 Mangotsfield 54-71 Staple Hill 72-76 Fishponds 77-82 Lawrence Hill 84-88 Bristol St

he did not put his cameras away when the age of steam ended in 1968 and he continues to record the changing railway scene

Charlbury troughs and Westbury

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