Images of the Culm Valley Light Railway

The CVLR was an endearing and delightful Devon railway that ran from Tiverton Junction to Hemyock, via Coldharbour Halt, Uffculme, Culmstock and Whitehall Halt. It opened to all traffic on 29th May 1876 and closed on 31st October 1975, with passenger services ceasing in September 1963).

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Description
Specifications

Description

DVD – Colour – 60 minutes

The film chronicles a history of the CVLR and explains briefly the philosophy of Arthur Cadlick Pain, an exponent of light railways. With the aid of aerial footage over the Culm Valley, we then follow the old railway track bed to each station site and recreate sights of how things used to be.

With the use of unique archive 8mm film we then make the journey at ground level. Consultant, Max Stuart, narrates part of the journey for us. After looking at some technical information about the locomotives used on the line, we view a ‘now and then’ section showing how things have changed over the years.

Finally, we take a brief look at the Tiverton Branch, from Tiverton Junction to Tiverton.

Specifications

All the DVDs are produced, packed and sent directly from Aarchvie Films.

The original documentaries were made on S-VHS, in a 4:3 ratio, so on a standard TV/computer screen, will show black bars on both sides.

There is some very brief areas of ‘dropout’ when they were converted from S-VHS video to digital. We have done the best we can to reduce this, but it is still there.

All of the documentaries were produced by Roger Lilley of Aarchive Films, who passed away 20 years ago. Some of the ‘modern’ footage is from between 1995 – 2000, so some of the newer footage may look different now. Also, when Roger would would use the term ‘today’, this was written back in before 2001.