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Blue Anchor sunset. ©Alan Grieve The Sunset Specials give you the opportunity of making an evening journey from Minehead to Blue Anchor, when the train passes through Dunster and alongside the Bristol Channel coast. Sunset Specials run from Minehead on Wednesday evenings in June, July and August 2002.

For more details of these trains, visit the Sunset Specials in 2002 page.

Alan Grieve, for once not rostered for Minehead Signal Box on a Wednesday evening, took the opportunity to ride the Sunset Special on 24 July 2002, and took his camera along...

No 4160 at the buffer stops drumming up business 24 July 2002
Buffer stops
Don and Alan get ready for the onslaught 24 July 2002
Don and Alan
Nos 80136 and 4160 24 July 2002
4160 and 80136
Crew take on more fuel 24 July 2002
Crew Fuel
Passengers take a peek at the hot end 24 July 2002
Footplate peek
Guard Johnson and Blue Anchor Station Master Treharne 24 July 2002
Happy Staff

No 4160 ready to return to Minehead 24 July 2002
Ready to return
Crew on return to Minehead 24 July 2002
Loco Crew
Crew on return to Minehead 24 July 2002
Loco Crew
Passengers watch 4160 at Minehead 24 July 2002
Watchers
No 4160 runs round at Minehead 24 July 2002
Final runround
Somerset Sunset
Somerset sunset

All images are © Alan Grieve

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