Rent Brecon Mountain Railway (2005)
0h 50min
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- Synopsis:
This documentary tells the story of two railway companies. The first, 'The Brecon Mountain Railway' which opened as a heritage railway in June 1980. Its new narrow gauge track having been laid over part of the original track bed of the second company we shall be taking a look at, that is the 'Brecon and Merthyr Tidfil Junction Railway Company'. The BMR new line runs from Pant Station nearly up to the now disused Summit, or Torpantau tunnel which at 1313ft was the highest ever built in the country. In its day the Brecon and Merthyr northern section had been called the most spectacular in the land, its passengers having had the opportunity of seeing magnificent views from their windows as the companies old locomotives struggled at the head of their charges as they pulled them over the steep gradients of up to 1-38 that took the trains across the mountains, through the valleys, and past the two great reservoirs that lay between Brecon and Merthyr. - Aka:
- Steam in the 21st Century: Brecon Mountain Railway: Brecon to Merthyr
- Studio:
- IVL
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest