4,000,000th passenger to travel with West Somerset Railway
| Published: 1st December 2008 23:02 |
One of the passengers who travels on the West Somerset Railway's Santa Special Trains on December 6th will be making history as the four millionth traveller on the twenty mile long "heritage railway" between Bishops Lydeard and Minehead since it re-opened at Easter 1976.
"We expect the historic traveller to be a passenger on our 1010 Santa Special train between Bishops Lydeard and Crowcombe Heathfield on the 6th", said WSR General Manager Paul Conibeare who will be at Bishops Lydeard Station to welcome them.
"From the time we re-opened it took until 1989 to reach one million passengers, we passed two million in 1997 and the three millionth travelled in 2003. We hope that it will not be too long until we reach the 5 million."
Mr Conibeare continued: "The Santa Trains on December 6th mark the start of our pre - Christmas train operations and we have spent the last few weeks coping with a flow of bookings for our Santa Trains, Carol Trains and Dunster by Candlelight trips many of which have already sold out."
However there are still tickets available for the December 6th "Santas" plus some of the following weekends and December 23rd.
Those wishing to travel on any of these trains should either contact 01643 704996 or see the WSR's website at www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk to see what journeys can still be booked
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