Going loco on Watercress
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IS plastics watercress to added to rubber lettuce in r way snacks? Why else shoul plastics unit manufacturer for the costly transport of a lo motive from a scrapyard South Wales to the preser Mid-Hants Watercress Line?
The locomotive was I former Southern Railway Ba of Britain-class Pacific, Ta mere, and was one of 44 nar to commemorate the defenci Britain in 1940.. Brackmills, Northampton, undertook five-day haul from Barry to resford.
Brian Pickett, a director eight-year-old Lamina Profiles Ltd, of Alton, whose pidly developing plastics company was formed at same time as the railway pre vation society started, shares dominant spirit of the en siasts who are working to pen the line.
He hopes one day to enter staff and business associate a train from Alton to Winche pulled by Tangmere. That r tics watercress will then ci into its own.