Lion King, for a day
A rare bit of sun during a short break down in the West Country catches 64xx 0-6-0 Pannier Tank no. 6412 waiting time at Buckfastleigh on the South Devon Railway, with the 2.35pm to Totnes Riverside. An out-of-season weekend timetable, and this was the only engine in steam that day.
The locomotive was built in 1931 by the GWR from a design by engineer C.B.Collett. Fitted for light traffic push-pull working it could be seen operating around the network of lines in the Gloucestershire area in the early 1960s, before the Beeching cuts and rush to diesel traction rendered it redundant. Happily it’s one of the few that avoided the cutter’s torch, and lived to fight another day.
2.25pm, 13th October 2019
Lion King, for a day
A rare bit of sun during a short break down in the West Country catches 64xx 0-6-0 Pannier Tank no. 6412 waiting time at Buckfastleigh on the South Devon Railway, with the 2.35pm to Totnes Riverside. An out-of-season weekend timetable, and this was the only engine in steam that day.
The locomotive was built in 1931 by the GWR from a design by engineer C.B.Collett. Fitted for light traffic push-pull working it could be seen operating around the network of lines in the Gloucestershire area in the early 1960s, before the Beeching cuts and rush to diesel traction rendered it redundant. Happily it’s one of the few that avoided the cutter’s torch, and lived to fight another day.
2.25pm, 13th October 2019