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12th March 2020

12/3/2020

 
​Advance notice - don't forget.
Next Saturday 14th March at 18.30
at the Memorial Hall at Redruth Methodist Church

Come and hear our say and have your say at the.
Annual General Meeting

This is usually a short item followed by the
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Members Evening
A varied and very interesting programme provided by members.
For details of our location please click here.

Please stay away if you have a cough, high temperature or sore throat - thank you.​
Evercreech Junction & Charlton Road Viaduct
Andrew Triggs
The last part of last weekends shots for CRS, the S&DJR has always fascinated me, and while driving around took the following enclsed shots
All the Best
Andrew

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Evercreech Junction station, looking towards the Bath direction 7.3.2020 (Taken from outside the property) Copyright Andrew Triggs
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The Buildings are private dwellings and the site now redeveloped for Light Industry. Copyright Andrew Triggs
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The 27 arch Charlton Road Viaduct at Shepton Mallet, a fitting monument to the Somerset and Dorset Railway indeed Copyright Andrew Triggs
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The 27 arch Charlton Road Viaduct at Shepton Mallet, a fitting monument to the Somerset and Dorset Railway indeed Copyright Andrew Triggs
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The 27 arch Charlton Road Viaduct at Shepton Mallet, a fitting monument to the Somerset and Dorset Railway indeed Copyright Andrew Triggs
Thanks Andrew
Mutley West & East
Clive Smith
(1) 43094 St Mawes Castle heads through the site of Mutley station as it leaves Plymouth station with the 08.50 Penzance - Exeter St Davids. The rear power car is 43040. Best to photo from the top of the multi storey car park now while the trees are leafless. Many trees that had grown by the trackside here were cut back in early 2019 opening up the cutting for the first time in years. This area could still do with losing a few more of the trees and one or two branches are starting to arch over into the view of the up line . 

(2) Fifteen minutes later and now on the other side of the tunnel, 70809 approaches from Laira with the 05.46 Aberthaw - Moorswater cements.

Regards,  Clive Smith.

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Picture 1 - See detail above. 11th March 2020. Copyright Clive Smith.
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Picture 2 - Mutley tunnel, the 05.46 Aberthaw to Moorswater app the tunnel behind 70809. 11th March 2020. Copyright Clive Smith.
Many thanks Clive.
Cowley Bridge
David Tozer
David Tozer photographs the work taking place at Cowley Bridge Junction for the alleviation of flooding for the River Exe.
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Castle Class HSTs 43041 & 43158 at Cowley Bridge 20.3.2020. Copyright David Tozer
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66623 in the new livery at Cowley Bridge with an aggregate working to Exeter Riverside Yard.. 10.3.2020 Copyright David Tozer
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IET 802019 10.3.2020. Copyright David Tozer
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Engineering works at Cowley Bridge 10.3.2020 Copyright David Tozer
Thanks David
A real bargain
'Final Furlong' Railtour
Guy Vincent
On 31st March GWR will be bidding farewell to the two class 150-0 3 car DMUs they have been operating since early 2012. First introduced in 1984 the units will be transferring to Northern so leaving GWR with just the 150-2 sets now mainly to be found in the west of England.  To mark the occasion a farewell charity railtour has been arranged for Saturday March 28th.  One of the two sets has been rostered to work 'The Final Furlong' and this will start at Westbury picking up at Trowbridge and Bath Spa before reversing and running to Swindon (final pick up) then onto Oxford for a 1hr 20 mins break.    From Oxford the train will run via Reading West Curve to Basingstoke then back to Reading Kennet Bridge Loop (reverse) and down the Berks & Hants line to Heywood Road Jctn and via Westbury East Loop to Hawkeridge Jctn onto Trowbridge (set down), Bath Spa (set down) North Somerset Jctn,  Dr Days Jctn,  Lawrence Hill (reverse) and Bristol Temple Meads (terminate).   Tickets are £61.50 adult and £30.75 child (5-15 inc) with all proceeds going to charity.  An added benefit is that the ticket price includes travel on GWR services to and from the train from any GWR station.  See gwrsouvenirs.co.uk for full details and to book

Railtour cancelled due to Caronavirus.

Pictures attached: 150001 at Bradford-on-Avon on 10.03.2020 and 150002 at Bristol Temple Meads on 11.04.2017.

Guy Vincent
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Bradford-on-Avon 150001 2V68 10th March 2020 Copyright Guy Vincent
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Bristol Temple Meads 150002 11th April 2017. Copyright Guy Vincent.
Unusual for us to carry an advert - sounds a very good trip and excellent value.  Many thanks for telling us Guy.
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Something to get your teeth into!!
Brent Goods Shed
Clive Smith

Time for my annual dental check up and what better place to have your molars looked at than the old goods shed at the closed Brent station. Built in 1893 the shed was closed when goods traffic ceased on the 6th April 1964 with the station following six months later. The branch to Kingsbridge was closed the previous year. Now a smart looking dental and medical centre and an ideal place to watch trains through the window as your cavities are drilled into. For the record my teeth were in excellent condition.

Regards, Clive Smith.
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Brent Goods Shed 1 5th March 2020 Copyright Clive Smith
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Brent Goods Shed 2 5th March 2020 Copyright Clive Smith
'Jaw dropping News', Many thanks Clive.
Long Rock Level Crossing
Roy Hart.

I have been meaning to write something about Ian's Long Rock pictures. No dates are given, but I assume that they were taken over the three years 1960/61/62.
Long Rock level crossing had its gates replaced by barriers in January 1961 (the first barrier installation in Cornwall) so the presence of gates or barriers (or at least glimpses of the apparatus) gives us the clue.
The lonesome pannier is 9434, which was withdrawn in June 1960 and dumped in the coal stack sidings. She was there for a long time: in the summer of 1962 she was joined there by her sisters 9433 and 9475. All three were fixtures at Long Rock for many months after that.
The picture of D864 has to be 1962 or after, as she only entered service in early 62.
The Castles were all familiar to those of us of a certain age: 4095 had been a Penzance engine from 1958 to 1960 and after that at Laira. All of the others were Laira regulars, 7022 being the last Castle at Laira (and one of the very last to survive).

All the best,  Roy

Many thanks Roy.

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