Steam Byways Volume 3
This third volume of Geoff Bannister's archive begins in the Cotswolds on the old Midland & South Western Junction Railway and terminates, one hour later, in the quiet backwaters of the Somerset & Dorset line to Highbridge and Burnham-on-Sea. In between, we visit many branches then operational in Gloucestershire, Somerset, Devon and Dorset, ranging back along the south coast as far as the delightful Hayling Island line in Hampshire.
The following routes, which split roughly fifty-fifty between former Great Western and Southern lines (plus, of course, one or two LMS intrusions), are featured:
Cheltenham - Andover
Banbury - Cheltenham
Fairford - Lechlade
Kemble - Tetbury
Chippenham - Calne
Berkeley Road - Sharpness Coaley - Dursley
Taunton - Minehead, Barnstaple and
Tiverton - Hemyock
Bere Alston - Callington
Halwill Junction - Torrington
Wadebridge - Wenford Bridge
Exeter - Barnstaple
Axminster - Lyme Regis
Weymouth Harbour
Maiden Newton - Bridport
Wareham - Swanage
Poole- Brockenhurst
Havant - Hayling Island
Brockenhurst - Ringwood - Broadstone Jn.
Bournemouth- Bath
Evercreech Jn - Highbridge / Burnham-on-Sea
Duration 64 minutes
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