The section of line between Crediton and Barnstaple has been closed this weekend for relaying. So when a day day light opportunity arose to video/photograph a ballast train at Crediton it was not to be missed.
I find it somewhat ironic that ballast has been brought this distance when not so long ago Meldon Quarry a few miles down the line to Okehampton, was producing what some former railwaymen call the finest ballast in the country.
Dave With many thanks to our Exeter area reporter David Tozer.