St David's Head

Bristol and Cardiff double lights, those stately inclined beams over Sevenmouth, are dead ahead of us, for we keep the southern winter route.

Coventry Central, the pivot of the English system, stabs upward once in ten seconds its spear of diamond light to the north, and a point or two off our starboard bow the Leek, the great cloud-breaker of St. David's Head, swings in an unmistakable green beam twenty-five degrees each way.

There must be half a mile of fluff over it in this weather, but it does not affect the Leek.

"'Our planet's overlighted, if anything,' says Captain Pernall at the wheel, as Cardiff-Bristol slides under.

Bristol and Cardiff double lights, those stately inclined beams over Sevenmouth, are dead ahead of us, for we keep the southern winter route.

Coventry Central, the pivot of the English system, stabs upward once in ten seconds its spear of diamond light to the north, and a point or two off our starboard bow, the leak, the great cloud-breaker of St. David's Head, swings in an unmistakable green beam twenty-five degrees each way.

There must be half a mile of fluff over it in this weather, but it does not affect the leak.

Our planet's overlighted, if anything, says Captain Purnall at the wheel, as Cardiff Bristol slides under.