1977: Another CHARMING RAILWAY story | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

When Bernard Clark drove Nationwide's trusty 'On The Road' van past a railway signal in Surrey eight miles from the nearest British Rail, he simply couldn't resist investigating - even if his first thought was "not another railway story".
What he found was the miniature Ewhurst railway, running from the bottom end of the garden, past the rosebushes and vegetables, around the far side of the greenhouse and on to the garage.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Tuesday 5 July, 1977.
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[@RetroMusicPlayback]

It’s still there, drive past it regularly

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Where ?

[@RetroMusicPlayback]

@@associatedblacksheepandmisfits Gadbridge Lane, Ewhurst

[@Londonechoes]

Amazing

[@PeterMescalchin]

I have to know, did they finally extend the track into the neighbours?!?

[@computertoucher]

"I'm a bit worried about falling off... Have you ever crashed it?"
"Oh yes, yes, many times!"
Absolute legend

[@fidelcatsro6948]

the Sherpa van sounds like a train itself...i miss seeing those relics 😂😂

[@robinvanags912]

Appeared that year, in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (though Richard Kiel's 'Jaws' made it look like a sardine can).

[@ryanohara476]

Thank you BBC Archive! Please more British railways related BBC archive television please! 30th Anniversary of Channel tunnel Eurostar, InterCity APT-P, Inter-City 125 October 4 1976 Inter-City 225 etc!

[@sammemrys8195]

Would have loved to have seen a closeup of the engine. 😊

[@denniseldridge2936]

Here in Bermuda one Vincent Astor, the American business mogul, had an estate. He has a tiny private railway built, a bit bigger than this one, which extended from his property on Ferry Reach to the railway station on the other side of the peninsula (not very far at all actually, it's easy to walk lol.) Unfortunately it's been allowed to rust away to a truly horrible state.

[@mrroobarb]

Love it!

[@user-ub1dz8js7s]

Rod Stewarts Hornby railway hobby is getting out of hand.

[@andyg3]

Drive engines here sometimes, and.have taken my own steam engine there.
Fantastic little line.
Thankfully Norman's still with us, but getting on in years.

[@analogueman123456787]

Garden? More like an estate!

[@andyg3]

Very much a garden.
It follows several other people's land.

[@analogueman123456787]

@@andyg3 - Heaven save us from life's literalists!

[@TinLeadHammer]

Is this a British version of the CBS's "On the road"? I believe it had been originated by Charles Curalt in 1967.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1977: Another CHARMING RAILWAY story | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive 1443pm 4.7.24 there used to be one, a railway signal post, out in the middle of nowhere (off tonnacliffe)...obviously tracks used to run round this incongruous piece of realty but...... strange all the same.

[@user-ve3gh5xg9q]

Old 🇬🇧😊

[@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s]

Hobbyists are a dying breed. But they invented so many things in their back gardens we still use today