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THIS YEARS ATTRACTIONS INCLUDE
A FULL MILITARY CAMP
WITH VEHICLES AND PERSONNEL
FROM THE 1940'S
Organised in conjunction with the Devon Branch of the Military Vehicle Trust, the event will feature over 50 historic military vehicles, such as jeeps, trucks and motor bikes from the 1939-45 wartime era, plus uniformed personnel and a field kitchen. The event aims to recreate some scenes of what life and railway transport was like in 1940’s war torn Britain.
A BRASS BAND PLAYING
AT BUCKFASTLEIGH
11.00am and 4.00pm
AND TOTNES LITTLEHEMPSTON STATION
1.30pm
All sessions between 45 and 60 minutes
LINDY HOPPERS
THE ORIGINAL BIG BAND SWING DANCING
AT BUCKFASTLEIGH AND TOTNES LITTLEHEMPSTON
(Times to be confirmed)
With features such as unexploded bombs and sandbags by the station buildings, armed sentries on guard, an ENSA concert group, brass band and Lindy Hoppers, plus expected armed military trains, , the event will allow visitors to step back in time to wartime Britain and maybe even beat the rationing system with a special on train cream tea!
ENSA PARTY
AT BUCKFASTLEIGH AND ON BOARD THE TRAINS
INTENSIVE TRAIN SERVICE
The two-day show will be an all steam train event featuring three former Great Western Railway (GWR) built locomotives: 5526, 3205 and 1369. Various different types of passenger and a military train will be in use on both days operating to a special timetable.
In addition to a six-coach passenger service which will operate four round trips over the full line, there will also be three other two-coach passenger trains giving seven full return trains from Buckfastleigh on both days.
make sure that you have your I.D card (issued with tickets)
ready to produce - there may be spies about
Men, women and children turning up in 1940’s period clothing will be made especially welcome, and all travellers on the railway will be given a wartime identity card. Military Police will be looking for a German spy who is known to be in the area, and patrolling the stations and trains to check identity cards as well as looking for downed German airmen
or paratroops in disguise.
Plain clothes Police will also be looking to detect ‘Spivs’ illegally offering restricted, stolen or rationed wartime goods
such as watches, nylons and items of women’s lingerie!
FOUR MILITARY TRAINS RUNNING
ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
AND IF YOU WISH, DO COME DRESSED FOR THE OCCASION
(OPTIONAL)
LARGE CAR PARK AT BUCKFASTLEIGH
THE REFRESHMENT ROOMS WILL BE SERVING
HOT MEALS, HOT AND COLD SNACKS,
BEVERAGES AND ICE CREAMS
VISIT THE REFURBISHED BRIDGE KIOSK
ADJACENT TO THE CAR PARK
EXPRESSWAY MODELS AND GIFT SHOP
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY MUSEUM
JUST 30 MINUTES FROM PLYMOUTH, EXETER AND TORBAY.
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