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Posted: 04 Aug 2015

Taken: 27 Jul 2015

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West Somerset Railway Minehead 27th July 2015

West Somerset Railway Minehead 27th July 2015
Great Western Railway Class 5101 Large Prairie 2-6-2T 4160 which brought in our train from Blue Anchor is turned on the table alongside Minehead station.

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 Polyrus
Polyrus
Nicely taken. For me the turntable is likely to be a bigger attraction than what is on it. Our railways need more turntables!
8 years ago.
 Loose_Grip/Pete
Loose_Grip/Pete club
Thanks. I agree about turntables. We have only got one at the GCR and that is currently out of service.
8 years ago.
 Phil Sutters
Phil Sutters club
I have not been aware of ladders like this one on turntables before. Perhaps if they had them, they weren't in pristine white in the '60s, when an railway orientated me and steam overlapped. That's one of the problems I have with preserved lines - the shiny cleanliness of most of them. I expect that the generations after ours, who never saw steam in revenue service, don't have the same disconnection between what we remember and what is being portrayed now. I don't blame the preserved lines - who would have a veteran car and keep it filthy, because that's how they remembered their dad's one looking.
8 years ago.
Loose_Grip/Pete club has replied to Phil Sutters club
Me neither! Some might not agree but I think at the GCR we let our engines look more weathered than most.
8 years ago.
GrahamH club has replied to Phil Sutters club
A preserved line with a few locos lightly used will never generate the dirt of a depot of 20 or 40 locos used as often as possible.

An enduring memory from age 13 is the sight of rows of blackened white washbasins used by men at shifts end in the steam depot which at the time supplied locos for passenger trains on outer suburban and two main lines away from Sydney.
8 years ago.

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