37219 Cole 4th November 1996
37219 passes the old S & D railway embankment at Cole near Bruton with 7C08, the 12:00 Westbury to Meldon Quarry ballast empties on 4th November 1996. Its trainload of vacuum braked Dogfish would return later in the day and be remarshalled into a weekend engineering train. These trains ran for years from different yards mostly located on the old Southern region. When the virtual quarry concept came in which employed 100t box wagons to deliver trainloads of stone from quarry to VQ these smaller trains to Meldon came to an end.
Pentax 6 x 7 Scan
37219 Cole 4th November 1996
37219 passes the old S & D railway embankment at Cole near Bruton with 7C08, the 12:00 Westbury to Meldon Quarry ballast empties on 4th November 1996. Its trainload of vacuum braked Dogfish would return later in the day and be remarshalled into a weekend engineering train. These trains ran for years from different yards mostly located on the old Southern region. When the virtual quarry concept came in which employed 100t box wagons to deliver trainloads of stone from quarry to VQ these smaller trains to Meldon came to an end.
Pentax 6 x 7 Scan