The Fasting Girl
The Fasting Girl was a BBC 2 Wales TV drama broadcast in 1984.[1] It was a dramatisation of newspaper reports in The Times from 1869 concerning a 13 year old Welsh girl, Sarah Jacobs, who was claimed to have fasted, with no significant loss of health, for more than two years until her death[2].
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Filming on the SVR
NRM's LNWR Ramsbottom 0-4-0ST No 1439 was loaned to the SVR for filming which took place in May 1983 at Arley, renamed Pencader for the production.[3] 1439 had not steamed in preservation and so for the filming it and two saloons were propelled by GWR 7812 Erlestoke Manor towards the station and released without getting 7812 in the camera shot. The train ran into the platform, braking by means of 1439's locomotive handbrake.[4]
A brief extract is featured in an ABC TV trailer on YouTube, though with no obvious SVR connection.