7th Sept 2005

Long distance china clay. EWS Class 66 no. 66119 trundles along the sea wall at Dawlish at 12.06 with the 6S55 WO 09.33 Burngullow to Irvine Imerys china clay slurry train. Originally known as the "silver bullet" train, by account of the clean and shiny slurry tanks, since those days this train had become just a regular freight with no special distinction, other than remaining the longest-distance freight service in the UK. But this changed when china clay slurry was source from overseas and the train stopped running from Cornwall.