Steaming Through Wessex - Part 2
Railways • Documentary, Special Interest
The second volume in the remarkable series of archive films taken by Douglas Seaton in the 1940s and 1950s. This volume contains more 16mm film in full colour and some very rare black and white footage taken in the 1920s and 1930s providing such scenes as early Southern locomotives on the South Western main line in the Bournemouth and Weybridge areas. From British Pathé TV's Railway Collection.
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