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Another interesting place to house a Pullman carriage is Pecorama at Beer in Devon.The class 47 that was stored there, on the site of Sinderby station, 47540, was moved to the Wensleydale Railway in 2009 but was subsequently stripped of parts and scrapped by T.J. Thomson's at Stockton in 2016. The carriages were relocated to Dalton airfield, near Thirsk, but I think have mostly been scrapped since then.
Personally, I was most surprised to encounter a Pullman carriage in use as holiday accommodation at the Little Mill Inn (pictured below), tucked away in the tiny Peak District village of Rowarth. The vehicle is in fact a Driving Motor Brake Parlour Third from the Brighton Belle, Car no.89 formerly of set 2051, and has been there for over forty years.
With regard to Pullman cars in unusual places, there were also for many years three Pullman cars, "Rosalind", "Padua" and "Sapphire" formerly used as part of the London - Dover Orient Express, on the seafront at Seaburn in Sunderland as part of the Pullman Lodge Hotel. They were removed in 2017 shortly before the complex was demolished, having been bought by the Folkstone Harbour Company and currently undergoing restoration at Barrow Hill prior to moving to Kent.
There was also a mark 1 carriage on the site, and just up the road you can still find two mark 1s and a BR suburban vehicle (Which houses the kitchen) on the seafront at South Shields, incorporated into the fabric of "The Rattler" bar. They've carried a range of liveries over the years, including a striking giraffe inspired scheme during the late nineties!
We travelled on this - there's two types, the longer distance ones that go across the island and the local ones that run through the streets. I knew about the long distance onces but didn't realise the tracks through the streets were still used on regular services until I nearly got myself squished!
Having experienced the roads around Beer I think you've got a point there! Must have involved some interesting manoeuvres.Another interesting place to house a Pullman carriage is Pecorama at Beer in Devon.
Not surprising in the sense that it’s a railway centre, more that that they were able to get it there through the local lanes.
Out in the scrubland behind some overgrown trees, i found a couple of rusting old steam trains, I guess from the colonial days. One had a plaque "Beckett & Sons Ltd, 1926, No. 1705, Bristol". I'd love to know the history behind it.
I once saw a pair of electric locos on load 10 going up the street in Chur. Fantastic sight - think I have a photo somewhere of it at Chur Stadt. That’s a proper “bus stop move”!Similarly the first time I went to Chur I was walking through the City Centre and was passed by the Arosa train. I’d never seen a street running railway before and it came as a bit of a surprise.
Steam or diesel? What happened to it
That sounds like a great opening line for a book...On the island of Cyprus in a mine on top of a mountain lived an old Hunslet diesel.
Well it was there back in 1981.
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I was once working in this dusty town called Kadoma in the middle of Zimbabwe, and one day I decided to go for a walk.
Out in the scrubland behind some overgrown trees, i found a couple of rusting old steam trains, I guess from the colonial days. One had a plaque "Beckett & Sons Ltd, 1926, No. 1705, Bristol". I'd love to know the history behind it.
that'll be this one right? https://www.google.com/maps/@52.765...4!1sOYnd1VtNhaLG5Pb1obMl-g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656There's a MK1 in the garden of a house at Sutton Bridge, near the green hydraulic accumulator tower. You can only get a glimpse of it in winter when there are no leaves on the trees, but even then it's difficult to spot. Looks to be in good nick.
In a similar ‘low hanging fruit’ vein, there’s some kind of industrial diesel shunter (maybe an ex Devonport one?) next to the road on the way into St Agnes, Cornwall on the old station site.Probably considered 'low hanging fruit' in the spotter world, but there is a small number of steam locos (shunter type) next to the railway line in Kirkcaldy. Probably once a common sight in scrapyards across Scotland.