MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Engine Portraits - Part Eight
Newton Abbot – 29 August 1960
Exeter – 30 and 31 August 1960
At the end of August 1960, I went on holiday with my parents by train to Teignmouth in Devon. I had planned meticulously for this trip and, using rover tickets, I would visit many sheds in the south-west. I even went to the trouble of getting permits for a mythical party of spotters – in the event, as a shy lad with no companions, I carried the permits but showed them to no-one, and bunked the sheds as usual. The one shed I couldn’t get a permit for was Newton Abbot, but here are a few photos of locos in the shed yard taken from the station platform.
For the next two days the only shed I saw was Exeter – on the first day a couple of photos from the platform of St David’s station and on the following day a few photos around the shed itself.
You will have seen some of these before if you followed My Story.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
GWR Large Prairie 2-6-2T No 4165 ready to leave Newton Abbot shed yard on 29 August 1960.
GWR Manor 4-6-0 No 7808 'Cookham Manor' waits for its next turn over the South Devon banks in the shed yard at Newton Abbot on 29 August 1960.
GWR Manor 4-6-0 No 7808 'Cookham Manor' in a line of engines ready to pilot holiday expresses from Newton Abbot
over the South Devon banks to Plymouth on 29 August 1960.
GWR Hall 4-6-0 No 4955 'Plaspower Hall' is ready for duty in the shed yard at Newton Abbot on 29 August 1960.
GWR 0-6-0PT No 9440 comes on to Newton Abbot shed on 29 August 1960.
Coming off shed at Newton Abbot on 29 August 1960 was this line up of three GWR 4-6-0s - Hall No 4955 'Plaspower Hall',
Manor No 7808 'Cookham Manor' and Castle No 7029 'Clun Castle'.
GWR 2-6-0 No 6348 at Exeter shed on 30 August 1960.
Standing in front of the coaling stage at Exeter shed on 30 August 1960 are GWR 2-6-2T No 4145 and 0-4-2T No 1462.
An impressive view of GWR 2-8-0 No 3830 at Exeter shed on 31 August 1960.
GWR Grange 4-6-0 No 6813 'Eastbury Grange' in Exeter shed yard on 31 August 1960 with St Davids station in the background.
GWR 0-4-2T No 1462 at Exeter shed on 31 August 1960 with GWR 2-6-2T No 4145.
GWR Large Prairie 2-6-2T No 4145 at Exeter shed on 31 August 1960.
