Steam World Archive
Volume 5
Wessex & the West Country

Featuring a huge nostalgic cross section on one superb tape including:-

Action all along the fondly remembered Somerset & Dorset line including the Highbridge branch.

The London & South Western route from Salisbury to Exeter including the rare 1947 footage of the Devon Bell at Exeter Central.

Great Western branch steam operations on the Bodmin branch, Chard to Taunton, Gloucester to Stroud and the Cheltenham to Kingham line. 

Great Western main line steam from Bristol to Plymouth highlighting Weston-Super-Mare, Taunton, Exeter, Dawlish Warren, Newton Abbot, Plymouth. Paddington to Swindon including Twyford, Sonning Cutting, Reading. Express workings between Kingham - Oxford & Gloucester to Broadway.

London & South Western branch line operations from Lyme Regis to Axminster with the famous Adams 4-4-2 tanks, plus the Seaton branch .

Cornish Branch Lines Bodmin - Wadebridge featuring the Beattie 2-4-0 well tanks on China Clay workings.  Operations around Fowey Docks, Lostwithiel & Saint Austell. 

Steam loco classes:- S & D 7Fs, Bullied West Country & Merchant Navy, Maunsel S15 & U class, M7, T9, Beattie & Adams tanks, Castle, King, Hall, Manor, Grange, County, 1400, 4200, 4500, 6100, 9400, and various pannier tanks, Standard 4MT & 5MT Ivatt 2MT, 4F, 8F, 9F.