Although John Betjeman claimed that he was not being "nostalgic and impractical", the film rapidly turns into a threnody for the glories of times and branch lines past. Its also illuminating about commonplaces of his own time, the hated lorry bumping over the level crossing, the Warship and its train hurtling through Highbridge for all points West, and the vandalised GWR autocoach, apparently trashed by 'Teds.
I stopped viewing after that, I'll wait to see the rest large-screen on the telly!