Time for a new train line through the south west - train related news

[Alistair20000]

Crikey ! That is almost as ancient as the Beattie Well Tank in the background !

Is the Beattie tank carrying a BR number please Mr Ballz ?

 

[Grecian2K]

Looks like 30585 to me from the photo! One of Wadebridges's finest exports!
#shouldhavegonetoSpecsavers

 

[Greyhound]

Beattie Well Tank

One of these used to be on display at Buckfastleigh years ago.

 

[Grecian in Guzz]

Sorry to be a real pain chaps but will they ever stop the floods before St Davids to stop the SW being cut off ?

 

[Grecian2K]

Sorry to be a real pain chaps but will they ever stop the floods before St Davids to stop the SW being cut off ?

Don't worry. Won't be too long before all those turds, tampons and condoms now being released into the Exe and Culm solidify and divert the watercourse.

 

[Grecian in Guzz]

Don't worry. Won't be too long before all those turds, tampons and condoms now being released into the Exe and Culm solidify and divert the watercourse.

Are they diverting all the green slime 40 miles E to Exeter then ?

 

[Grecian2K]

Are they diverting all the green slime 40 miles E to Exeter then ?

Thankfully we have Haldon Hills to block that dreadful eventuality.

 

[Colesman Ballz]

Is the Beattie tank carrying a BR number please Mr Ballz ?

30585, preserved at the Buckingham Railway Centre, where that photo is almost certainly taken. The other preserved example 30587, is owned by the National Railway Museum. As Greyhound recalls this was on loan at Buckfastleigh for many years. Subsequently it was on loan to the Bodmin and Wenford Railway who restored it to running condition. It is now generally to be found at Bodmin, although it does visit other preserved lines and even the NRM at York.

 

[Grecian in Guzz]

Thankfully we have Haldon Hills to block that dreadful eventuality.

The new Oke line could allow it to come round the back !

 

[Greyhound]

30585, preserved at the Buckingham Railway Centre, where that photo is almost certainly taken.

I used to visit that place now and then in the 80s, needing to cheer myself up a bit as I was working near Milton Keynes in those days! King class 6024 was a long-term restoration project going on there at that time.