Winner of the Royal
Television Society Regional Programme of the Year Award 1987
In the days before motorway madness, there used to be a saner, altogether more pleasant way to travel - by steam train.
The Somerset and Dorset
Railway linked Bournemouth with Bath and the north of England. Despite its nickname 'Slow and Dirty', the S and D was a much-loved holiday route to the seaside. Now it's all gone, buried under bypasses and housing estates. But it's not forgotten; 20 years after it closed, rail enthusiast Mike Arlett brought together driver
Donald Beale and his fireman
Peter Smith , to relive their own golden age of steam. Narrator Gwyn Richards Producer ANDREW JOHNSTON BBC Bristol (R)