We’ve nipped in to the West Somerset Railway a number of
times. It is a [fairly] convenient stopping-off point on the long journey back
home from the south west of England, though we have also travelled the full
line once or twice, when staying nearby.
Every time I go anywhere near it, I am reminded of Monty
Python’s North Minehead bye-election sketch, in which Mr Hilter and Mr Bimmler
plan world domination from a guest house in the resort, hold meetings at the
Axis café and a mass rally from a balcony attended by a local yokel and three
children.
The WSR is an excellent set-up, of course. Lengthy by
heritage railway standards, it crosses attractive countryside before hitting
the seaside at Watchet and then again, after a brief landward dog-leg, at the
delightfully named Blue Anchor.
Thanks to the West Somerset, Taunton was joined to, if not a
part of, Minehead already, when I took these pictures at the end of the summer in
2000. However, mein Dickie old chum, wouldn’t it be great if their normal services
were able to make the whole journey again, instead of having to start from
Bishop’s Lydeard?
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