{"id":12885,"date":"2018-05-11T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:35:23","slug":"bournemouth-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/bournemouth-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After ten years in service, E. & T.V.R. utilicon, BEE <\/em>2309, has had its black plastic upholstery fabric replaced by a traditional carriage moquette, “Bournemouth Blue,” a pattern which will be familiar to many railway passengers of a certain age.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fabric had been used in the older Piaggio, BEE <\/em>2247. Stitching it had bent the needle in the railway’s sewing machine so the recent job was given to a local vehicle trimmer, who usefully put a piece of carpet on top of the “serpentine” springs so that drivers now do not have impressions left on their hind quarters after every long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n