SR S15 4-6-0 No E827 on a Down train entering Exeter Central in around 1930. The van is very interesting, No V9 one of five petrol-driven Vacuum Cleaner Trucks converted from 16’ Covered Carriage Trucks. Originally built in 1883 they were converted c.1904/05 to vacuum cleaner trucks. This one SR V9 was originally numbered 100 when first built and renumbered by the LSWR to 27s on conversion. It is believed to have been located to Exeter in April 1930 remaining there until withdrawn in April 1934.

Photo: C.R. Gordon Stuart / Rail Archive Stephenson