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That is a good read...I did not realise that St David’s had its own gas production plant(town gas) that was situated near to Red Cow Crossing.It supplied the station,handy with its ample supply of coal for production (from which town gas is made)No such luck Al. My love of locomotives began while watching the "spam cans" set light to the embankment grass before disappearing into the tunnel below Howell's Dairy on their way to St Davids. As a boy I vividly remember seeing City of Truro standing at platform 1 at St. David's only to make her acquantance again many years later when on loan at Swindon's Outlet Centre. The Engine currently on loan there is a Hall Class who's name I forget
I recently came across this book in a Swindon charity shop..
Exeter (No. 5) (Rail Centres) - Maggs, Colin G.: 9781901945157 - AbeBooks
Exeter (No. 5) (Rail Centres) by Maggs, Colin G. - ISBN 10: 1901945154 - ISBN 13: 9781901945157 - Book Law Publications - 2005 - Hardcoverwww.abebooks.co.uk
It would have also supplied gas for containers in carriages on slow branch lines that were still lit by gas until the late 1950s(a certain speed is reqd to light carriages with electricity : dynamo-battery storage)
I think the gas plant shut in 1962.