This second of two programmes, again using extensive unpublished archive
footage, allows a rare behind-the-scenes insight into the motivation and
methods of those who became known as the deviationists. Through hard work
and determination, this hardy band of optimists rebuilt their unique
railway all the way back to its old terminus at Blaenau Ffestiniog. And
thanks to the camera work of Dr. Brian Rogers and others, we have a moving
picture record of this incredible feat the beating, against all odds,
of a mountain of bureaucratic and practical challenges. Many said it
couldn't be done, but it was - and here is how !
(Running time 58 minutes
approx.)