Geoff Holyoake's South Western Lines
Railways • 52m
A selection of archive films from the camera of Geoff Holyoake. His material covers a wealth of steam locomotive types from the South Western, including the oldest-surviving member of the LSWR, to the last Bulleids running on the Main Line in 1967. From British Pathé TV's Railway Collection.
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