All Aboard The Last Train To Callington
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Bere Alston to Callington was one of those beautiful LSWR lines cutting through some of the most vivid terrain in Devon and Cornwall. This long awaited documentary features the journey with unique archive footage, rare photographs and modern day aerials to show the route of the track bed.
In 1966, the section from Callington to Gunnislake was cut short, and Luckett, Latchley and Chilsworthy, as stations in between, were axed as a result of cut backs. But, thanks to amateur cinematographers such as John Sandercock, we are able to reconstruct those nostalgic days of steam and early diesels to tell the story.
First, we take a brief look at the history of the East Cornwall Mineral Railway and the building of Calstock Viaduct. Then we journey from Bere Alston to Callington, linking each station from the air. Using more archive footage we undertake the return journey at ground level, calling at all stations, including those now closed. John Snell, a veteran of the line, narrates some fine experiences and also included is a montage of steam-powered units used on the line in those memorable days.
The section ‘now and then’ shows how things looked in the vintage days and how they look today. With interspersed shots of the beautiful Tamar Valley, this documentary will invoke happy memories of those great days on a unique vintage branch line.
Chapter:
0:00 Introduction
2:35 A railway was needed
5:16 The journey
6:28 Bere Alston
10:13 Calstock
16:47 Gunnislake
27:23 Callington
30:40 Archives of the line
40:25 The workers and locomotives
43:54 The Last Train to Callington
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Who’s that handsome guard changing the points at Bere Alston? I do believe it’s me!
That's great! 😀
Myself & a friend travelled this line on 12.08.64 behind 41206. We,also travelled all the other lines of the L.S.W.R. Withered Arm” & the S.& D.J. as they were all under threat then. Many thanks for the memories evoked.
That was brilliant I really enjoyed it
Thank you so much
Greetings from Switzerland. Thanks for great footage of times past. I did the return trip from Gunnislake to North Road, Plymouth last year. 😀
Excellent video. Thank you. More needed documenting ex LSWR lines west of Exeter.
Greetings from an Australian rail fan. A fantastic piece of history and well produced.
Amazing film. Thankyou so much for that!
We live in Launceston Tasmania Australia, our river is tha Tamar and Exeter not far away
A most interesting look back at the quieter and slower past. I've only recently become interested in Brit railways, and have traced this line, amongst others, when I get into my "Where did it go" mood - google Earth has proven a great source for tracing old rights of way. Thankyou for presenting this video to the world... I hope you get 1000s of views.
I do have, unfortunately, a couple of quibbles. It would have been easier to follow if you'd put some identification markers during the over-flights - just a village name, a point of interest, etc. The second is that John Snell's voice-over from around the 31 minute mark was made difficult to hear because of the (squark-y) music. Other than those, an entertaining video.
What a great video, being a callington and kellybray boy m
for Geoff Savage Deffers!
Another case of Beeching almost foiled in his indifference due to there being no road beyond Gunnislake. Plans are afoot to bring it back to Callington.
Fantastic videos as always, what Is the clarinet music playing please?
As I remember, it was written for us by a friend of my dad's. The rest of the music would have been from copyright free music we used to use.
Yes, I'd like to know more about the Clarinet music too please
If I may ask, where is the photo at 41:56 from please?
I'm sorry, but I don't know. It was dad who originally complied all of the photos and permission to use them.
@@AarchiveRailways No worries. It looks like an interesting set of rolling stock and suitable for a micro layout, I already have most of it in OO so good to know a prototypical mixed train existed. Thank you for the reply 👍