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Cambrian Coast

“Dear Old Wales” awaits the holiday-makers boarding a train at Paddington Station, offering all that London lacks: “smooth sands, sparkling seas, sunshine and good clean air”.

Promotional 1940 10 mins

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Overview

A film made for the Great Western Railway Company to encourage people to discover - via the train - that "England isn't the only country in the British Isles". "Dear old Wales" is cast as the hospitable purveyor of wholesome holidays, with a never-ending supply of "smooth sands, sparkling seas, sunshine and good clean air" for those who are first seen crowding onto a train at Paddington Station in London.

Genres
Promotional
Released
1940
Country
England
Location
Paddington StaFairbourneBarmouth/AbermawHarlechPwllheli
Language
English

Subjects

Steam trains Cambrian Coast Line (railway) Railway carriages Railway stations Railway workers Punch and Judy Snowdon Fishermen Vale of Rheidol Railway