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I saw this a year or so ago and have been watching it again. It is a wonderful portrait of the Indian Hill Railways and the people who work on them and work around them. Some of the people who live near the tracks are studied also and it paints a romantic and true picture of their life their. The railway employees really love their jobs and lives and do not seem to take the idyllic surroundings for granted. it has made me want to go there and experience it for myself - perhaps I never will but this is the next best thing. The filmmakers have captured the very essence of the life the people have up in the Indian Hills - the loneliness of the bachelors, the sadness caused for the female engineer who lives 300 miles from her baby and family, the grinding hard work of the female porter with 5 sons to educate and very little money.Films like this shown on TV by the BBC make the licence fee worth every penny. Commercial television would see no profit in films like this - for which they should be ashamed.