The Land Girls series - which was partly filmed at Toddington station with GWR small 'prairie' 5542 performing a starring and steamy role, is being broadcast from Monday evening at 5.15 on BBC 1.  It then appears daily at the same time for the rest of the week.

Set against the backdrop of war-weary Forties Britain, Land Girls is set on the Hoxley Estate, as the girls balance their working lives at the run-down Pasture Farm, and the opulent Hoxley Manor.  They arrive by train at Helmstead station (otherwise known as Toddington).

Nancy, Joyce, Bea and Annie have all joined the Women's Land Army for very different reasons, but they all have one common goal - to serve their country and help win the war.

The drama follows the women as they try to live out their lives in very challenging circumstances, with lots of laughter, love and tears along the way.

You too can enjoy a 'Land Girls' day!

Locomotive 5542 is running on 12^th and 13^th September and on 20^th September, the railway is running a special Land Girls day.  So don your tin hat. Service uniform or 1940s garb; dig out your old Morris 8 car and chug over to the GWR for a ride behind an engine that most certainly will have delivered the real Land Girls (Women's' Land Army) to their country destinations during the Second World War!

Click the link below to see some pictures and read an account of the filming at Toddington and for more information from the BBC.