We spent our summer holiday in 1998 at St Ives in Cornwall, travelling down by car on 31st July, staying overnight near Minehead, and completing the journey to St Ives on Saturday 1st August. Before leaving Minehead we visited the railway station which was (and still is) the terminus of the West Somerset Heritage Railway. Here are the photographs I took there that morning.
4160 is a 2-6-2 GWR 5101 Class (better known as Large Prairie) locomotive built in Swindon in September 1948. It is one of many locomotives that were eventually rescued from Dai Woodham's scrapyard in Barry, South Wales where lots of them ended up.
4920 is a 4-6-0 GWR Hall Class (also known as 4900 Class) locomotive named Dumbleton Hall built at Swindon in March 1929.
Dumbleton Hall is also one of the locomotives that was rescued from Dai Woodham's yard.
7820, named Dinmore Manor, is a 4-6-0 British Railways Manor Class locomotive, one of 10 that were built by British Railways at Swindon in 1950 to join the original 20 built by GWR in 1938 and 1939.
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