When I first travelled on this line, more years ago than I can remember, I travelled behind the steam locomotive 'Edmund Hannay', which we later had in the 'Rails to the Sands' exhibition in Cleethorpes sat opposite my own 'Shifting Sands'.
Nowadays three internal combustion locomotives hold fort, all built by Alan Keef, and I had wondered why they needed so many. On seeing it operate, it becomes very clear, as the service intensity of every 15 mins would be quite intense for one locomotive every day of the week, so having back-up and maintenance cover are essential.
Here is 'Howard' on one of the minuscule turntables (sized for the old steam locomotive) at Pinewoods.
The unusual coupling system employed between locomotive and train:
Here seen ready to depart from the town end, taken from the sea defences:
More pictures can be found on Flickr.
Colin
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