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].
Filming on the SVRSevern Valley Railway
NRM's LNWRLondon & North Western Railway Ramsbottom 0-4-0ST No 1439 was loaned to the SVRSevern Valley Railway for filming which took place in May 1983 at Arley, renamed Pencader for the production.[3]
A brief extract is featured in an ABC TV trailer on YouTube, though with no obvious SVRSevern Valley Railway connection.
See also
List of film and TV productions
References
- ↑ TVRDB TV listing
- ↑ BFI.org
- ↑ SVRSevern Valley Railway News 68
Links
Railalbum images of 1439 at Arley 16 October 1983
Steam locomotive, number 1439, Railway Museum website
ABC trailer on YouTube
Carradice, P., 'Sarah Jacobs: the fasting girl', BBC Wales Blogs, 14 March 2011
1439 on Ribble Steam Railway and Museum website