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Walking the S&D Part 2: Wellow to Midford

I had previously uploaded this video but, for some reason, it was not in high definition so I have had to upload it again and, I believe, it is okay this time! Anyway, this is the second in a series of walks that a friend and I have made recently along sections of the old Somerset and Dorset Railway, where the trackbed has been converted into a footpath. This next walk takes us from Wellow to Midford, and back again, a total distance of around 6 miles, along part of, what is now, the Two Tunnels Greenway. To try and illustrate how things have changed since the line closed in March 1966, I have included a few photographs by Hugh Ballantyne, from his most excellent book: 'The Somerset & Dorset Remembered Part 1 - Bath to Evercreech Junction'. There are also photos by Jeffrey Grayer, R C Riley, Roy Hobbs and Ivo Peters. The Jeffrey Grayer photo is featured in his wonderful book 'Sabotaged & Defeated - Last Rites of the Somerset & Dorset' while the RC Riley and Roy Hobbs photos are in 'Somerset & Dorset Sunset' I have also 'borrowed' another photo by Norman Lockett from his and Mike Arlett's book 'The Somerset & Dorset in Colour'. All of these books are great publications that I heartily recommend anyone buying, as they are all packed with many terrific photographs of this much-missed railway! I have also used some very short film sequences which also show how times have changed - and definitely NOT for the better. One is from 'Puffed Out' by Philip Fowler and Ken Barter. This superb DVD should, of course, be in every S&D fan's collection, as it is in mine. Sadly I do not know who filmed the other brief sequences but they are all available, as far as I am aware, on various DVDs so, again, should be required viewing by anyone and everyone who loves this iconic lost railway.