Compiled by Gareth Evans
Milk train reborn
Half-a-dozen tankers gathered to re-create the past at the East Somerset Railway.
AN easily forgotten aspect of railway goods operations of the past has helped the East Somerset Railway (ESR) to celebrate its half-century as a heritage line.
While milk trains are today a memory on the national network, they were once a familiar sight on parts of Britain’s railways. Fortunately, several milk tanker wagons have survived in preservation, but they are located at various heritage sites rather than concentrated in one location, making it hard until now to re-create a milk train. On March 25 however, that changed at the ESR.