Salisbury Bird strike
Martin Baker
Martin Baker
Hi Keith,
A photo I have just digitised from my collection at Salisbury that your readers may be interested in.
50002 arrived at Salisbury on the 15:15 Waterloo Exeter on the 18th July 1991 having hit a bird on route, within a couple of minutes the engine was released and is seen leaving its coaches. It did a quick turn on Laverstoke triangle and then departed only a few minutes down.
I'm the chap in blue on the right filming and the incident can be seen at 59 mins and 10 seconds on a Waterloo Exeter video below I made a few years back. (photo Terry Baker)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRNQGnX2Jc&t=3371s
Please feel free to share the video Keith as you kindly did with my Cornish one a few years ago.
Kind Regards, Martin Baker
A photo I have just digitised from my collection at Salisbury that your readers may be interested in.
50002 arrived at Salisbury on the 15:15 Waterloo Exeter on the 18th July 1991 having hit a bird on route, within a couple of minutes the engine was released and is seen leaving its coaches. It did a quick turn on Laverstoke triangle and then departed only a few minutes down.
I'm the chap in blue on the right filming and the incident can be seen at 59 mins and 10 seconds on a Waterloo Exeter video below I made a few years back. (photo Terry Baker)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRNQGnX2Jc&t=3371s
Please feel free to share the video Keith as you kindly did with my Cornish one a few years ago.
Kind Regards, Martin Baker
50002 Superb Salisbury - bird strike. 15.15 Waterloo to Exeter 18th July 1991. Copyright Terry Baker.
50002 Superb at Salisbury. Close up of the window damaged by the bird strike. 15.15 Waterloo Exeter 18th July 1991. Copyright Terry Baker.
Many thanks Martin for your Dads 'Superb' pictures of the incident involving 50002. Thanks also for the video link - well worth watching.
Penzance
The late John Cornelius
The late John Cornelius
We remember our very good friend, the late John Cornelius, with this reminder of the days when steam handled the oil traffic at the terminus. Presumably the oil would have been for the 'New diesels'?
A very quick up date, within minutes from another good friend - Roy Hart, out in Rangoon - Dear Keith, This is not connected with diesels: Shell/BP had a private siding at Long Rock, directly opposite the box, since the mid-1930s and this is it.
The engines are simply parked in a convenient space (it is probably a weekend).
Behind the engines the coal stack, which served the shed, is visible.
All the best, Roy Thank you for the correction Roy.
A very quick up date, within minutes from another good friend - Roy Hart, out in Rangoon - Dear Keith, This is not connected with diesels: Shell/BP had a private siding at Long Rock, directly opposite the box, since the mid-1930s and this is it.
The engines are simply parked in a convenient space (it is probably a weekend).
Behind the engines the coal stack, which served the shed, is visible.
All the best, Roy Thank you for the correction Roy.
Copyright the late John Cornelius Collection.
Many thanks John for your exploits with a camera nearly sixty years ago. Memories are made of this.