‘Atlantic Coast Express’ returns to the ‘Withered Arm’ at Padstow in style
FORTY-SEVENyears afterBulleid WestCountryLightPacificNo.34023 BlackmoreValehauled the Padstow portion of the last‘AtlanticCoast Express’onSeptember5, 1964, the famous-namedtrain has returned to thewesternmostextremityof the SouthernRailway.
The 21st-century Atlantic Coast Express is to be found at Penquean Quarry, midway betweenWadebridge and Padstow on the hugely-popular Camel Trail, which was laidon the former
