A couple have recreated a 65-year-old wedding photo waving at a passing train - which the bride did every day as a girl.

George and Margaret Stone, who many people will know for running Beck’s Fish and Chips in Carbis Bay, celebrated their anniversary this week - and marked it with a tradition going back decades.

Margaret and her sister Janet spent their childhood waving at trains passing their garden - with the drivers often tooting back.

She spent hours waving at the London to Penzance steam trains that used to thunder past her home in Wiltshire.

So much so that on September 5, 1959, bride-to-be Margaret made a cake with Janet that was shared by 300 colleagues of the Western Region of British Railways.

Now GWR has returned the favour 65 years on, with a cake for Margaret and George, who moved to Cornwall after their wedding and had a B&B, developed the Cottage Hotel and then ran Beck's Fish and Chips. 

Margaret and George Stone were presented with a cake by GWR (Image: Daniel Dayment SWNS)

The cake presented by GWR, featuring their wedding photo (Image: Daniel Dayment SWNS)

The couple, who met at Trowbridge Young Farmers Club, even broke off from their wedding to wave at the train from the family farm in Easterton, near Devizes.

On Thursday they recreated a photo taken on their wedding day 65 years ago. They were also presented with a special wedding cake from Great Western Railway - to return the kind-hearted gesture Margaret made back on the eve of her wedding day.

Their eldest daughter Annette said: “'It was just one of those lovely things my mum did.

''Her and her sister would run to the bottom of the garden, wave and the moving trains and they always tooted back.

Margaret and George Stone wave at a passenger train, as they did 65 years ago (Image: Daniel Dayment SWNS)

"Mum's grandfather was station master at Saltash train station and his brother was station master at Perranwell!

"She spent her childhood waving at the trains and it’s charming to see how she developed such a bond with the drivers and firemen.

“Sixty-five years of marriage is something truly special to celebrate and today’s presentation really has been the icing on the cake for mum and dad.”

The photograph taken on their wedding day (Image: GWR/SWNS)

The happy couple moved to Cornwall following their wedding and, after stints farming and running a B&B, took over Payne’s Picnic Garden in Carbis Bay, which they developed into the Cottage Hotel.

After 25 years they moved on and ran Beck’s Fish and Chips, which has been beloved by locals and tourists alike since 1989.

GWR head of external communications Dan Panes said: “This story really has captured our hearts the more we have researched it.

"Margaret was obviously a real train fanatic as a young girl and built up quite a rapport with the drivers, who would sound the train whistles as they rolled by.

“It’s like something out of The Railway Children. 

"The fact she baked a wedding cake for railway colleagues was a wonderful gesture, so we were determined to mark their 65th wedding anniversary by returning the favour.”

The couple, who now live in Carbis Bay, Cornwall have six children - Annette, Nicola, Richard, Robert, Sarah and Rachel - and 18 grandchildren, with a great-grandchild due to arrive next year.