The Fasting Girl

LNWR 1439 was used in filming (Wikimedia Commons)

The Fasting Girl was a BBC 2 Wales TV drama broadcast in 1984. It was a dramatisation of newspaper reports from 1869 concerning a little Welsh girl who was claimed to have fasted, with no significant loss of health, for more than a year.

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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.

A brief extract is featured in an ABC TV trailer on YouTube, though with no obvious SVR connection.

See also

List of film and TV productions

Links

Railalbum images of 1439 at Arley 16 October 1983
Steam locomotive, number 1439, National Railway Museum website
ABC trailer on YouTube