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Below are just a small selection of 'frame grabs' taken
directly from the programme
A new arrival on the line in 2003 was ex-North York Moors Railway's standard class 4 No 75014 seen here on it's very first day in traffic.
The locomotive last worked trains in October 2004 and is currently out of traffic for overhaul.
Although a handful of Class 46s made it to Kingswear in the late 1960s & early 1970s, no Class 45 ever reached Kingswear.
This meant that Pathfinders' 1Z55 0648 Derby-Kingswear railtour of 22 April 2006 was a first!
The loco pictured is privately owned 45112 Royal Army Ordnance Corps, originally introduced to traffic in March 1962 as No D61.
Spectacular as it is - not all shots in the programme feature the visitors on the 7 mile branch from Paignton to Kingswear.
Some scenes feature the trains en-route and this is the case with the visit on 28 February 2005 of Nos 6024 King Edward I & 7802 Bradley Manor, double-heading a VSOE special from London Victoria, captured soon after leaving Torquay bound for Paignton.
7802 Bradley Manor had visited the line 2 years earlier on what is now marketed as The Torbay Express, a series of high summer trains operating from Bristol to Kingswear by Past Times Tours.
This view shows the train climbing Goodrington bank on 10 August 2003.
Misfortune befell Bradley Manor on the above date as she was found to have an overheating tender axle on arrival at Kingswear.
This led to a few rare days of operation on P&DSR service trains also seen on the programme.
8 May 2004 saw the visit of 3440 CITY OF TRURO to the line, arriving behind a special excursion.
The return service was diesel hauled behind 37197 carrying the now obsolete 'Riley Railways' two-tone green livery.
Based on the line from the 1970s, ex-GWR Prarie No 4555 is seen in her last year on British Railways in a 1965 view at Birmingham Snow Hill.
Interestingly, she is hauling afreight train.
Although the Deltics have no Wetern Region pedigree, two example HAVE visited the line in preservation - D9000 Royal Scots Grey and D9016 Gordon Highlander.
Both appear on the DVD, and there is even a double-headed working, but this scene taken from the programme shows D9016 arriving at Paignton with a goods train on 19 June 1993.
We couldn't complete the programme without the appearance of a Western class diesel-hydraulic - and indeed no less than 4 appear on the DVD.
This 1977 view show D1062 Western Courier having just been released from a railtour headed by two class 37s, 37269 & 37297.