Tangmere
Today's Saturday Flashback marks the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Atlantic Coast Express.
From 1926 to 1964 the service ran from London Waterloo to Ilfracombe, Bude, Padstow and Plymouth. It bit the dust as a result of the infamous "Beeching Axe" when the government culled numerous rail lines in the UK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts
This week's service could not retrace the 20th century route due to those line closures. Instead it ran from London to Penzance. The first leg from London Victoria to Exeter was hauled by Tangmere 34067, a Battle of Britain class locomotive en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_West_Country_and_Battle_of_Brita...
This photograph is from ten days ago. She was on one of her runs down from London to Weymouth, Dorset.
Tangmere
Today's Saturday Flashback marks the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Atlantic Coast Express.
From 1926 to 1964 the service ran from London Waterloo to Ilfracombe, Bude, Padstow and Plymouth. It bit the dust as a result of the infamous "Beeching Axe" when the government culled numerous rail lines in the UK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts
This week's service could not retrace the 20th century route due to those line closures. Instead it ran from London to Penzance. The first leg from London Victoria to Exeter was hauled by Tangmere 34067, a Battle of Britain class locomotive en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_West_Country_and_Battle_of_Brita...
This photograph is from ten days ago. She was on one of her runs down from London to Weymouth, Dorset.