A celebration of the Great Western Railway with men who actually worked for the GWR from the 1930s through to the 1960s.
This film is for all those who love the sight and sound of the steam railway and is a tribute to the dedicated bands of people who ensure that the most living of man’s machines, the steam engine, continues to bring hours of pleasure to hundreds of thousands of people everywhere. No stuffed museum...
In this programme, we feature heavy metal in action as the unrebuilt Pacific 34567 "Tangmere" heads a heavily-loaded mainline rail tour on the Torbay Express service to Kingswear. Everything is against her; there's rain in the air, she's running late and the engine is not steaming particularly well.
If the is one thing Britain is not short of, it is Bulleids. The story of this engine revolves around a group of people who simply would not let it die. They are the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society.