Somerset & Dorset Railway
Sunday 6th March 2016 marks 50 years since the closure of this much-loved and much-lamented line over the Mendip hills between Bath and Bournemouth. I don't have many shots of the line, but here's a few to be going on with...
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40563 & others, Templecombe MPD, 1st May 1958
From the Geoff Plumb Collection of original slides. Templecombe S&DJR loco shed in happier times! Alongside the shed is LMS 2P 4-4-0 No. 40563, while nearer camera and separated from its tender is 3F 0-6-0 No. 43216. Various coal wagons stand around the yard and on the right is 4F 0-6-0 No. 44417. Just beyond the turntable are two more locos which could both be members of the 7F class 2-8-0s. The line on the embankment on the left is the curve up to the joint station. A sunny evening on Thursday 1st May 1958. Photo by D.E. White. Collect Slide No. 29325.
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