Especially for fanciers of British imports but there's happy talk for a transatlantic audience too. A fete, the trains, cricket, and the comedy of a proper, stuffy - and unhappy-conformist experiencing uninhibited and off- bounds enjoyments, is a larky and moonbeam relaxation. Arcady- and its greenswards, its moats and castles, its family feuds and alliances, and the uncluttered, open, freedom of sex, drink, talk and action - is just that for Jasper who learns to take embarrassing moments with a leap and whose decision - when the project is closed down - is to depart from this small stay in paradise with a less flamboyant female than those he has sampled. Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. There the private railway, the crippled peer and his gardening wife, and his out-down-and-forth-right daughters quite devastate Jasper while the life of the Ministry's staff entrances him. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. A fanciful bit centers around Jasper Pye, deep in Civil Servitude, ready to bolt when a chance for a new assignment -investigating ''Output Statistics'' which has been forgotten since 1940, takes him to the Earl of Flamborough's estate. Love on a Branch Line (novel), a 1959 novel by John Hadfield Love on a Branch Line (TV series), a 1994 television adaptation of the book This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Love on a Branch Line.