'Sunshine' lettering proclaimed the name of the Southern Railway in the late 1930's and 1940's. Its bright green locomotives carried holiday makers from its great London termini at Victoria, Waterloo and so on, to seaside resorts such as Ramsgate and Ilfracombe, filling the golden sands of the south coast at Brighton, Bournemouth and Budleigh Salterton with families intent on having fun.Equally famous for its vast commuter network as the 'Southern Electric', the railway boasted two main lines, to Bournemouth and Exeter, through the Hampshire, Dorset and Devonshire... countryside, and it is these that this DVD shows, using archive and contemporary footage of steam at work on 'the Holiday Line'. [show more]
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