Station Name: ABBOTSBURY[Source:
Nick Catford]
old17.jpg) Mr WCP Daubney Clerk with driver Sidney Willcox, fireman John Ross and guard Bill Stevens as the final train departs from Abbotsbury on 28 November 1952. Working this train is 1453, a Collett 14xx
0-4-2 tank, built at GWR's works at Swindon in July, 1935. It lasted until withdrawal from 85B, Gloucester Horton Road shed in November 1964, and was scrapped at Cashmores of Great Bridge in March 1965
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