Our Digitally Remastered Series are bigger, better and in stunning HD for the very first time! These are the original programmes which have been put through the upscale and remastering treatment with improvements to audio, colour balance, contrast and most of all - picture quality. Some of the trains featured here were never filmed in HD or in broadcast quality. Now, for the first time - you can enjoy just that!
Our film looks at the History, the locomotives and the route of the P'tit Train de la Haute Somme.
The railway was first built to supply allied troops during the First World War, running along the Somme Canal. After the war it was used for the reconstruction of the devastated area. During the 1920s the Sugar Refinery at nearby Dompierre extended the line to ship sugar via barges on the Somme Canal. Today it is a tourist railway with a fine museum and an active Society organising and running trains for six months of the year. Additionally on our disc there is a museum tour hosted by David Blondin, Secretary of APPEVA, the organising Society.
We also cover events at the 40th anniversary celebrations held over four days in June. Visiting locomotives were Darjeeling Himalaya Railway locomotive No. 19. Baldwin 4-6-0 tank No. 778 Chemin de Fer du Chanteraine, locomotives Tabamar and Decauville No. 1770, plus Leary, an 0-4-0 vertical boiler locomotive.
Produced by - Belhurst Productions
Running time - 78 minutes
Blu-ray and DVD
Re-released - August 2025
