1967/07/01. The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway was built in 1919 to carry sand extracted from various local quarries to the standard gauge line from Leighton Buzzard to Dunstable. It was 2' 0" gauge (610mm) and apart from the first couple of years was operated by internal combustion locos, mainly a variety of Simplex machines. Here Simplex No. 7 is at the head of a train of Hudson tipper wagons, while No. 4 is giving a shove at the rear to get the train out of Billington Road Quarry (aka Pratt's Pit Quarry?), then across Billington Road on the level to the transhipment area. Today, this area, which is almost adjacent to the existing terminus of the preserved line at Page's Park, is now covered by a new housing estate. Saturday 1st July 1967.