[The sound of a steam train]
[Background music by ccMixter Tonight I love
you oldDog
Jeremy narrates:
>>As the famous Dylan Thomas said, let me
start at the beginning.
>> A very warm welcome to Gwili railway. My
name is Jeremy Morgan and i'm awfully glad
you decided to come along today to visit us.
>> The railways first arrived in Carmarthen
in 1860 and can you imagine how people must
have felt in those days. I suppose today it
would be the equivalent of someone landing
from the moon really you know.
>> Everything with a steam train is old, heavy,
but it's built to last and i'm glad to say
it runs on Welsh steam coal which we get from
Merthyr Tdyfil.
>> You are very privileged to be entering
the signal box because there's a Great Western
Railway notice 'No unauthorised person is
allowed in the box' because the signal man
needs to concentrate, but today, as it's you,
follow me.
>> What I love about this signal box is the
attention to detail. The Great Western Railway
liked to put its initials on everything, from
cups and saucers to shelf brackets, you know,
everything.
>> So please come down and have a look inside
a typical compartment.
>> This now would have 4 people either side,
unlike first class compartments where you
would have 3 people on either side and in
nice sort of arm chairs.
>> This upholstery here was created for the
1940 experience really when we had Kiera Knightley
and Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew
Rhys making the Edge of Love, a film about
the late Dylan Thomas.
>> That's the thing about Wales really, we
talk until the cows come home, you know, I
mean we're very sociable people.
>> Ive often found on train journeys you meet
very interesting people when you talk to them
and the sad part it once they get off the
platform you never see them again and you
wonder, gosh where are they going
music ends]
Scenes in order:
Steam
Tracks
Old steam train
Jeremy from Gwili begins narrating the story
of the film
Pans of a stream train station, a treat for
those staying in our Holiday Cottages in Carmathenshire.
Old vintage signs
Old photo of people when the station and line
opened
Heavy steel in the tracks
Welsh steam coal
Steam engine
Signal box
GWR sign
Inside the signal box
The signal box pulleys
Old GWR phones
A red steam train, the kind one can have a
ride on when on holiday in our Carmarthenshire
Holiday Cottages.
Inside a carriage used by Keira Knightley,
Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew
Rhys a film about the late Dylan Thomas.in
Edge of Love, a must visit for those staying
in our Dylan Thomas Holiday Cottages and Laugharne
holiday cottages.
Sign saying 'South Wales'
'Getting up steam since 1961'
www.qualitycottages.co.uk
A special thanks to Jeremy and the volunteers
at Gwili Railway, Carmarthenshire
For more information visit www.qualitycottages.co.uk/aroundwales
