BBC4, next Monday (10th December) at 9pm.
"Two-part documentary telling the remarkable story of a band of visionaries who rescued some of the little narrow gauge railways that once served Britain's industries. These small railways and the steam engines that ran on them were once the driving force of Britain's mines, quarries, factories and docks. Then, as they disappeared after 1945, volunteers set to work to bring the lines and the steam engines back to life and started a movement which spread throughout the world. Their home movies tell the story of how they helped millions reconnect with a past they thought had gone forever."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p8w38
The Greenwich & District Narrow Gauge Railway Society has contributed some footage (I think of Leighton Buzzard) to this programme and there is also some footage of Rob and David Waller's Dduallt in 009 as a stand in to helicopter shots of the real spiral!
I shot this video on one of the days they were on the FR interviewing luminaries from the Deviation years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6y7AfLK4Ag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6y7AfLK4Ag)
It was a lovely sunny day, in fact it was the afternoon after we had the Olympic flame pantomime in the morning.
John W
F&WHR