Robin Pinnock - Running Late - Devon Belle

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Steam Train Blank Birthday Fathers Day Card showing the Devon Belle

 

It’s the summer of 1947 and the Southern Railway has just introduced a new prestigious service the “Devon Belle”, complete with Pullman rolling stock and observation car. The locomotive 21C6 Peninsular & Oriental S.N.Co. is running twenty minutes late and passes the up “Belle at Yeovil Junction. The service from Waterloo to Plymouth & Ilfracombe only lasted 8 short years with 1954 being its last year.

 

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