Southern Steam Branches & Byways

The age of steam on a number of Southern branches and secondary lines in Surrey, Sussex and Kent recreated using colour archive film from the late 1950s and 1960s

Tunbridge Wells West and the lines to East Grinstead, Oxted & Polegate; through Groombridge to Ashurst; North to Oxted featuring M7 tanks; West to Three Bridges with M7 tanks on push-pull services; the ‘Sussex Downsman Railtour’; through Eridge to the South Coast at Polegate with the intermediate stations on the line; local services at Hove; the Guildford to Horsham Branch including a special ‘last’ train; Cross Country steam on the Guildford to Redhill line; branch services to Allhallows and Westerham featuring a ‘Q’ Class and an ‘H’ Class; the Bluebell in its early years.

The programme includes ‘before and after’ scenes at a number of locations.

60 mins approx