Alec Bray

I wonder if anyone from OBs knows any thing– about a LIVE OB from the Talyllyn Railway in the Summer of 1957.

Presenters were Wynford Vaughan-Thomas and Huw Wheldon (big guns indeed), and who were interrupted at one point by a flock of sheep.

There is a sequence from this OB about half way through “The Golden Age of Steam Railways – 1. Small is Beautiful” 

The relevant clip is available here:

         

Here is one still from the OB, from a (presumably) Marconi Mk III IO OB camera:

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Luckily, someone at the Talyllyn Railway took some footage of their own:

another view of the train …

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and, of course, the scanner … Is that a Bedford artic?

 

John Cavaciuti

Although it was 5 years before I joined the BBC in London this programme was talked about on odd occasions during time I spent at BBC Wales(1977 – 1998).

I believe the unit was MCR 9 known then as the Wales & West OB Unit with Marconi Mark III  4 1/2 inch Image Orthicon tubes.  

One of the cameramen ( the one on the left of your still) was Les Ager now (in 2015) 90 years old and living in Llandudno.

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