MARCH 21 was a day of strong emotion for many as two long-held ambitions finally came to fruition when two LMS-designed locomotives owned by members of the Beet family met for the first time at the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway – a route on which one of them had run during its BR career.
In 1967, Dr Peter Beet saved Ivatt 2-6-0 No. 46441 from being scrapped with the intention of operating it on what later became the L&HR. Built in 1950 at
