D-Day Commemoration Event

Schoolchildren get Glimpse of Life for Evacuees in D-Day Commemoration Event at South Devon Railway

The South Devon Railway 11.20am steam train from Totnes was today (Thursday, 6th June) used by local schoolchildren ‘Evacuees’ to travel out to the countryside at Buckfastleigh, to experience what life may have been like for them during the 1940s.

As the train departed Totnes the local Women’s Institute were on hand to wave farewell to the children. At Buckfastleigh the children were...