On Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th May The Hawker Hurricane Society attended the 1940's Weekend event at the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway at the request of the event organiser.
When we arrived there it was raining hard and not wanting to put up a tent in the pouring rain we asked if there was any where else where we could set up our display.
We were offered their workshop which we found to be suitable for our display, so we set up in there for the whole weekend out of the rain and the wind but not the cold!
We had a good few people in over the weekend and whilst we were there we found out to our amazement that the very building that we were in was used during the war to weld together the sections of pipe for Pipeline Under The Ocean (P. L.U.T.O.).
The PLUTO project was designed to supply petrol from storage tanks in southern England to the advancing Allied armies in France in the months following D-Day. Detailed information about the project is available from combinedops.com.
The pipes were bought up to New Romney Station by a standard gauge railway to a siding, where the pipes were unloaded and then the sections were welded together before they were loaded onto trucks onthe RH & DR and transported down the coast to Dungeness.
