Steam Byways

Volume 3

South & South West

This third volume of Geoff Bannister’s archive begins in the Cotswolds on the old Midland & South Western   Junction Railway and terminates, one hour later, in the quiet backwaters of the Somerset & Dorset line to Highbridge and Burnham-on-Sea.  In between, we visit many branches then operational in Gloucestershire, Somerset, Devon and Dorset, ranging back along   the south coast as far as the delightful Hayling Island line in Hampshire

The following routes, which split roughly fifty-fifty between former Great Western and Southern lines (plus, of course, one or two LMS intrusions), are featured:

Cheltenham - Andover

Banbury - Cheltenham

Fairford - Lechlade

Kemble - Tetbury

Chippenham - Calne

Berkeley Road - Sharpness Coaley - Dursley

Taunton - Minehead, Barnstaple and

Tiverton - Hemyock

Bere Alston - Callington

Halwill Junction - Torrington

Wadebridge - Wenford Bridge

Exeter - Barnstaple

Axminster - Lyme Regis

Weymouth Harbour

Maiden Newton - Bridport

Wareham - Swanage

Poole- Brockenhurst

Havant - Hayling Island

Brockenhurst - Ringwood - Broadstone Jn.

Bournemouth- Bath

Evercreech Jn - Highbridge/Burnham-on-Sea

Running time 64minutes approx.

"....The tape has had sound dubbed on - this has been done very carefully and skilfully,..... well researched."  (Steam Railway)