JOHN FARROW SALUTE:

UK Railtours ran a charter celebrating the life of its founder and railtour empresario John Farrow on August 18, with ‘Merchant Navy’ No. 35028 Clan Line hauling the 08.46 Victoria-Sherborne (Dorset) and 16.55 return on August 18. John was well known and highly regarded in the railway world, and had been involved in running tours since the 1970s until his death in April. The Bulleid ‘Pacific’, said to be one of his favourite locos, is seen bursting out of the eastern portal of Buckhorn Weston Tunnel (between Templecombe and Gillingham) at the head of the return trip.