Behind the shed

Readers of the 'Thomas the Tank Engine' books will remember that there were two sorts of disaster that could befall a tank engine. First, falling foul of the Fat Controller and second, being sent behind the shed.

As it happened, one of the people we visited during our week in Ashburton was very keen on Land Rovers, never missing an opportunity to point one out, either in a car park or on the road. We did not get around to taking him to see what was on show at the dealer in Marsh Barton (see reference 1), but we decided that he would probably not want to see all the Land Rovers behind this shed at Ashburton, in what used to be the goods yard there. A town where some at least of the customers used them for real, rather than for showing off in suburban housing estates.

Reference 1: http://www.matford.exeter.landrover.co.uk/.