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Derek Jones spends a day out exploring a stretch of Britain's longest river. After visiting Bewdley, he travels north by steam train along the Severn Valley railway line to Bridgnorth.

00:00 Introduction
00:42 Bewdley
02:40 The Mug House Inn
03:37 Bewdley Museum
04:38 A working 200-year-old brass foundry
11:47 Bewdley Railway Station
14:12 A steam engine trip on the Severn Valley Railway
17:12 Stopping at Arley Railway Station
17:59 Steam trip to Bridgnorth
19:03 Bridgnorth
20:34 Bridgnorth Castle gardens
22:04 Bridgnorth town centre
24:31 Bridgnorth cliff railway


Clip taken from Day Out, originally broadcast on BBC One, 23 October, 1981.





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