14xx 0-4-2T 1420 is just a couple of minutes into its journey, as it rounds the curve near Caddaford on 11 August 1999 with a Buckfastleigh to Totnes service. There was an intensive timetable in operation, as this was the day of the total solar eclipse. 1420 was built in 1933, and spent the first years of its life in Wales. In the 1950s it was used on my local branch line, the 22 mile Oxford to Fairford line. It was withdrawn in 1964, and entered preservation at what was then the Dart Valley Railway (now the South Devon Railway), where it has now spent most of its working life.