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« on: January 03, 2024, 19:46:27 »
Thanks to bobm who pointed me to this.

A journey from Truro to Falmouth filmed by Westward TV* in 1976.
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-truro-to-falmouth-on-the-maritime-line-1976-online


*Anyone else still miss Westward's Gus Honeybun?  Grin
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2024, 10:56:21 »
Gosh - that was fabulous - thank you for sharing the link!

I see that a similar film for the St Ives branch is here https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-cornwalls-st-erth-to-st-ives-railway-branch-line-1975-online

The reporter implies that these two films were part of a series covering other (all?) west country branch lines. I do hope the others will appear on the BFI website some time....
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2024, 11:38:30 »
Quote from: lympstone_commuter on January 04, 2024, 10:56:21
Gosh - that was fabulous - thank you for sharing the link!

I see that a similar film for the St Ives branch is here https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-cornwalls-st-erth-to-st-ives-railway-branch-line-1975-online

The reporter implies that these two films were part of a series covering other (all?) west country branch lines. I do hope the others will appear on the BFI website some time....

I have a VHS of these videos (and still have a player too).  Certainly he went to both Looe and Barnstaple and then went back to a number of the lines around 1990 (he went to Gunnislake then too which I don't think he did in 1976).   Hope the BFI post the rest.

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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2024, 11:49:58 »
Here we are - all of these short films are on this DVD

https://www.panamint.co.uk/scenic-branchlines-of-devon-cornwall-dvd#:~:text=DVD%20Region%200%20PAL.,and%20presented%20by%20John%20Doyle.
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2024, 13:22:51 »
Quote from: JayMac on January 03, 2024, 19:46:27

*Anyone else still miss Westward's Gus Honeybun?  Grin

Oh yes.  Gus was the boss!
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2024, 19:10:55 »
Quote from: JayMac on January 03, 2024, 19:46:27
*Anyone else still miss Westward's Gus Honeybun?  Grin
Yup, I remember Gus Honeybun. Whenever we visited my Grandad in Cornwall or stayed in a static caravan in West Wales* we’d see Gus on the TV.

*The aerials on the caravans were always pointed towards Devon and Cornwall. Clearly didn’t rate Welsh TV in those days.
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2024, 19:27:25 »
Gus was a highlight of my childhood visits to Grandma's. She lived in a part of Taunton that got Westward/TSW from Stockland Hill transmitter rather than HTV West from Mendip.
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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2024, 20:25:14 »
Quote from: JayMac on January 04, 2024, 19:27:25
Gus was a highlight of my childhood visits to Grandma's. She lived in a part of Taunton that got Westward/TSW from Stockland Hill transmitter rather than HTV West from Mendip.

But it made you appear a genius when University Challenge was shown at different times on the two channels and you seemed to know all the answers second time round.
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