The Great Western Railway promoted its holiday lines with enterprise & imagination none more so than the routes to the south-west which somehow seemed to be everybodys favourite destination for a break at the seaside. The famous Cornish Riviera Express restaurant car train between London & Penzance was easily the best-known on the route. After the Second World War holidays with pay became the norm for the masses & this sparked a massive upsurge in holiday traffic. Using finest top quality images this album looks back at the last years of steam on the former Great Western routes in Devon & Cornwall which retained much of their distinctive atmosphere well into the 1960s.