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Standard 4 tanks used to slip quite easily even starting quite light loads. Great to hear again!

Looks like schoolchildren were riding in the cabs ,of various engines on the last few days Those were the 😊days

Quite a few station buildings are still here but others have since disappeared and being replaced by residential houses and industrial areas and of course they disappear without a trace

Can you believe it’s been 58 years since the Somerset and Dorset railway closed

Where were all these people before? Same thing happened all over the country. A Crying shame

So many memories. My dad was a hairdresser and used to cut bettys hair. Remember my mum n dad taking us there when we were small. And I believe I took one of children there before it closed. Thanks for uploading ❤

I used to go in the 90s with Grandma. I remember the railway very fondly

Wonderful video.

Omg I went there twice as a kid. First time it was all open and working, then went back few years later and then it had all closed down. For the last 10 or more years I been trying to remember what this place was called I can now finally lay to rest that thought

Great film and sound - thanks for sharing.

13 Frederick Place Clifton Went there once in the 60's with my best friend and his father (both sadly no longer with us). The memory of watching the S & D at work and some subsequent trips to Bath and two journeys over the line with my school railway society will never fade.

The only decent man out of ICI? Sir John Harvey Jones. Beeching misused the Pareto 80/20 rule, makes one wonder who were his puppet masters - I seem to recall links with the RHA et al. The other useless type was Bob Horton (ex BP). As with the old M&SWJR, and some Southern routes the S&D would have been very useful in 2024. Thanks for sharing wonderful footage 💜✌️👍 My tribute in O Gauge? A 4F and three SR MK1s🤞🤞💜👍

Thanks for sharing this video of long gone halcyon days

Never forgave the Western Region for shutting down the S&D. What a superb tourist line it would make today.

0:10 Every now and then You Tube mamages to actually give some modicum of delight instead of its usual annoyances. Here is one such example: The sub - par subtitles translate Biggin Hill as Begin and then to my schoolboy's sense of humour's joy, the steam locomotive Bude passes through the mangle and is spewed back out aa Spewed. If only!

I never saw the line in operation, but this film brings it to life. The sound adds so much! Well worth all the painstaking effort you put in.

The last steam locomotives to run on the line were late on the Sunday evening when 1 engine in steam towed 2 dead engines to Bornemouth for disposal ! I rode on the footplate of one of the dead engines from Sillingstone to Blandford Forum. The movement is recorded in Tim Deacons book S&D - aftermath of the beechings axe. Thank you for this record of those last days.

Class 14 and class 47 why

Class 14 at bath green park

A lovely record of the sad end of this branch and the joy of it reopening.

25:13 'Buses better hearing told' and that's how they destroy something precious, with a simple lie.

RIP Philip, good to hear your voice again

Happy memories of visiting here as a child in the 70s/80s , didnt know it had closed. Such a shame.

Tão lindo!

8:10 - Good to know they couldn't shut the sun down

5:28 “You must be bloody mad, why do you want two?” 😃

Thank you for sharing. It was nice to see the station as I was born there but in 1971 so only saw ruins. I expected more people to be out watching the last train at Mangotsfield and hoped to spot relatives.

Fascinating. Respect to you Phil for posting up this piece. I wasn't aware of this line - it was just that I recently stopped in the Ibis Temple Meads hotel and learnt that it sat on the Bristol Bath Railway path. Working back to TM station from the Kingsland Road (railway?) bridge I am have trouble in tracing the path of the tracks back to the main railway bridge over the Avon. Can you provide any info? is there any trace of the tracks immediately to the east of TM?

Wonderful footage - thank you!

Thank you for posting this, very interesting.

Many thanks Philip - you may recall that we met many years ago when I was involved at Washford and it is to my eternal regret I never travelled over the line. Hence my lifetime's efforts ever since to get the Midsomer Norton project off the ground so others can enjoy a little of what this wonderful line was like. And when we come to that day when 92207 steams again and goes up the gradient towards Chilcompton that will really bring what it was like to travel behind a 9F up the line albeit not with 9 or 10 coaches!

How sad 😔 to see it all go great video thank you for show it 🙏 😊

I wonder if anyone has the log book and pen still? hope it was saved. shame the box wasn't intact with those artefacts for posterity.

Great video, it’s always amazing to see old footage of long closed lines! One tiny criticism though, try fine tuning your sound editing a bit more, as you can clearly be heard clicking your mouse many times through the video!

Very interesting video with lots of research, 1966 original photography, and clear narration throughout. A joy to watch and listen to. Thank you!

Wills Tobacco Factory Bedminster was also flooded, Thousands of cigarettes thrown on the tip,, Many people salvaging what they could ,scavenging through to find any dry packets, My Father was one of them,, loose cigarettes all around the house

Thanks for sharing your films Philip, they show how we are often led by people who don’t appreciate what we have till it’s gone, your final winter records how dismal conditions could be for footplate crews and provides a good historical record for future generations.

Sup,er. Thanks for sharing

Beeching crippled the Raul network. Makes it hard to be competitive with road transport. Lovely scenes in this film enjoyed that locoman interview. This film could use a good digital restoration. I'm guessing Ivo Peter's used a higher grade film? Ivo didn't make audio recordings sadly so this is an improvement have some original sound. Thanks for sharing this old great footage.

My great grandad drove this train and my grandad was his fireman anc also drove the last train to ever pull in to green Park

Glorious stuff. Some prize footage here. Was Ken Barter related to Harry Barter?

Staff and crew struggling in difficult weather conditions but it was more in an effort to keep supply lines going in isolated communities. I doubt that there would have been many passengers.

At the very end, I spotted a Ford Anglia and a VW Beetle...but what make was that red van?

Great film footage. I have been looking for historical maps of the Line passing through Ashley Heath..impossible!

Had to go get a hot water bottle whilst watching 😵‍💫

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Thank you.. these films will be here forever.. let all of us youngers learn.. support your local, support your industries, don't be fickle.

Brilliant

Oh to go back to those days....

Wow