Southernway Adventure: Exploring Plymouth To Exeter

Southernway Adventure: Exploring Plymouth To Exeter - Watch The Full Video

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When the LSW/SR ran into Devon and Cornwall, mighty steam engines crossed the national park of Dartmoor. In later years, DMUs were prominent on the line just before its closure. Now, brought to the screen with the aid of archive cine footage taken from the 1940s to the 1960s, comes this latest production from the Aarchive team.
Featured are all the stations from Plymouth Friary, including St Budeaux, Tamerton Foliet, Bere Ferrers, Bere Alston, Tavistock North, Brentor, Bridestowe, Meldon, Okehampton, Crediton and other stations, as they used to look and as they are today.
This video was originally made in 1998 and has been restored as best we can, including now enhancing the original movie footage, some of which dates back to the 1960s.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
3:24 Yelverton
4:05 Leaving Plymouth
8:39 Bere Ferrers
13:08 Tavistock North
20:06 Oakhampton
28:28 Into Exeter St Davids
29:41 The last passenger train 1972
33:12 Conclusion
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@markclifton14 Ай бұрын

What a great video. Even now things have moved on . With passenger trains returning to Okhampton. And the failure of HS2 hopefully paying to open the line back to Tavistock. The pace of life back then was a lot slower. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@dougmorris2134 2 ай бұрын

It is sad to see the closures of the old railway lines. I really liked “Beechings Folly” but Beeching was not the only culprit in the folly, Ernest Marples, the government’s Minister of Transport at that time and as a co-founder of Marples Ridgway, with substantial in road building contracts, would be in breach of conflicts of interest. The old film footage is fascinating, for if a picture is worth a thousand words then a contemporary film/video is historically priceless. Thank you for making it available. Best wishes from Oxfordshire where Abingdon (-on-Thames) lost its branch line passenger service in 1963, but open to goods and the last passenger excursion on 30 June 1984.

@akrills 2 ай бұрын

What a lovely, very thoughtful and interesting film, well presented and filmed. It's good to know, in hindsight, that the Okehampton line has been re-opened to passengers after all that time.

@AarchiveRailways 2 ай бұрын

I am planning an update of this video, do I'll be visiting Okehampton again.

@Furno1991 Ай бұрын

Closing the Tavistock North station was very short sighted and to hear it being mentioned that attempts were being made to open it when this documentary was filmed makes me laugh as we seem no closer in 2024!

@Beatlefan67 2 ай бұрын

We were at Okehampton station yesterday. We went on a 'Devon Ranger' ticket - look out for it - highly recommended. A bargain.

@SpoonyMcSpoonface 2 ай бұрын

The driver of the last passenger train was Den Burrage. He is briefly seen standing beside the Mayor of Okehampton in the 4 foot at Okehampton. Sadly he was killed in a shunting accident in Exeter Riverside in the early 1990s. The guard who is briefly seen prior to departure from Exeter I have not been able to identify Perhaps somebody will know.

@EllieMaes-Grandad 2 ай бұрын

The station at Okehampton is high above the town, with a steep hill to climb in order to access it. The British Army's 'Southern Command Battle Camp' was even further up the hill . . .

@EllieMaes-Grandad 2 ай бұрын

Bulleid light pacifics, the original versions, were not streamlined but 'air-smoothed'.

@garethmatthews7939 7 күн бұрын

if i am right princetown was also known for its sign warnimg travelers with dogs about the dangers of adders

@EllieMaes-Grandad 2 ай бұрын

Images, but no mention, of tunnels under Devonport. From the back of my flat in 1987, I could see the demolition of St.Levans viaduct. It had been plagued by acts of vandalism apparently.

@colinlambert882 2 ай бұрын

Privatisation didn’t bring the possibility of steam trains running up the Tamar valley. Instead 30+ years on class 150s in GwR colours are still running services to Gunnislake. “Tentative plans“ to reopen the line to Tavistock are still “tentative”, with 2029 the earliest possible date for reopening.

@EllieMaes-Grandad 2 ай бұрын

Houses have been built on the right of way, years ago . . .

@davemitchell9941 Ай бұрын

@@EllieMaes-Grandadwhere there’s a will there’s a way HS2 beats on. Simple, compulsory purchase orders will sort all that nonsense if theirs a will?? & especially if the Parliamentary railway land order hasn’t been revoked either?? Always very foolish to build on ex railway land that’s liable to return & bite you. Even west Devon council acknowledged that things might have to change at Tavy north when they built their edifice there.