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BBC Radio Solent Special: The South's Last Day of Steam (28/08/2017)

The South's Last Day of Steam (28/08/2017)

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How railways changed forever, 50 years on from the last scheduled southern steam train.

The story of how the railways changed forever, 50 years on from the last scheduled steam train ran on British Railway's southern region.

In July 1967, the last scheduled steam train ran on British Railway's southern region. Half a century on, with the help of historians, enthusiasts and those who worked on the main line, we're telling the story of how the railways changed forever. Tom Hepworth narrates "The South's Last Day of Steam".

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