Picture of the Day
A rare chance to see freight on the Gunnislake branch happened in the early hours of 28 January 2020, with a ballast drop between St Budeaux and Bere Alston, the train is captured at Bere Alston. It operated as 6C40, the 18.24 Westbury to Gunnislake, and returned as the 04.00 Gunnislake to Wesbury. Power was provided by Colas Rail Freight Class 66 Nos. 66849 Wylam Dilly working 'top and tail' of five auto ballasters with No. 66847 Terry Baker on the other end. This loco is named after a Colas Rail Freight driver who passed away in 2018. It is hoped one day the former LSWR mainline line will be extended back to Tavistock or maybe Okehampton.
Alan Peters
Alan Peters
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Feedback from visitors is important to us, so if you have any comments or suggestions please drop us an e-mail. Much further expansion to this site is in the pipeline, much of which follows reader comment. We have no intention whatsoever to introduce any form of charges, log in or password system, allowing users easy site access at all times. All our main services are free. In the future, we will be producing a limited number of e-books - these will of course be chargeable on a one-off basis and be viewable on all modern computer and iPad equipment. Watch here for details.
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The Railway Centre.Com are always looking for quality digital images for use as Picture of the Day. If you have any suitable item, preferably with a news content, please submit as an e-mail attachment in a jpg format to railwaycentre@gmail.com Please do not reduce your image to less than 1600 pixals in width and please do not add text or graphics to the image. Remember to include as much information about the picture as possible, including the loco/unit number, train, date and location, plus your name. We are also willing to include personal website details at the end of the picture credit.
