Held at:	ELSG Video Archive
Reference:	GVR
Source:	Original video footage
Title:	Digital Archive: Golden Valley Railway - A Day Excursion from Peterchurch
Place name:	Golden Valley
Date:	1950

Description:

A video clip dated 17th August 1950 shows the departure and return of an excursion train on the Golden Valley Branch of the Great Western Railway. The still photographs below are frames extracted from the video taken at Peterchurch station.

 

Access to the platform across the tracks at Peterchurch in the days before ‘Health & Safety’

 

A crowd on the platform at Peterchurch, waiting for departure

 

Locomotive 1422 arrives at Peterchurch hauling the excursion ‘Special’.

 

Union flags flying on locomotive 1422 as the crowd jockeys for position on the platform

 

All aboard at Peterchurch – and don’t forget the cases of pop!

 

Peterchurch Station – deserted, waiting for the return of the Excursion Special

 

The ‘Special’ returns to Peterchurch on a rainy evening

 

Mind the umbrella!

 

Station staff on hand to organise the customers as folk head for home

 

 

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