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12th May 2020

12/5/2020

 
HST 5 Car Formation on the
Laira-Penzance-Laira Test Train
Roger Winnen

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​200512a 43042 Tregenna Castle tailed by unamed 43016 heads the 07.11 Laira- Penzance- Laira test train with GW11 the latest set converted with five carriages today. Copyright Roger Winnen
The 2014 Air Show at
Dawlish
Bill Elston
We look back at delightful Dawlish pre-Coronavirus days when crowds were no problem and they flocked to Dawlish to enjoy the sun and the air spectacular. Bill watches the increased and interesting rail traffic with one eye on the air display. It looks like there will be no air show this year.
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Dawlish Air Show 1 150101 on a local service. 23rd Aug 2014 Copyright Bill Elston
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Dawlish Air Show 2 43005 ex Pad., 23rd Aug 2014 Copyright Bill Elston
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Dawlish Air Show 3 57604 on the Saturdays Exeter St Davids to Penzance, 23rd Aug 2014 Copyright Bill Elston
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Dawlish Air Show 4 43155,named on that day and working shuttles. 23rd Aug 2014. Copyright Bill Elston
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Dawlish Air Show 5 57315 on a charter. 23rd Aug 2014 Copyright Bill Elston
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Dawlish Air Show 6 The stars of the show. Two Lancasters, one from Canada. 23rd Aug 2014 Copyright Bill Elston
Many thanks Bill, a very good day out.
Ashburton
David Tozer

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One from the archives. 6412 at Ashburton June 1970 Copyright David Tozer
Thanks David.

A bit of history about
Mornington James Rich
Steve Grainger - Allen

A note from Steve Grainger-Allen.
In the Cornwall Gallery - Parkandillick Branch, there is a sepia Photo of 6 Railwaymen alongside an 060 Engine at Drinnick, (See below) The Gent in the frock Coat - Stationmaster of a Station with no passengers - is Mornington James Rich, my Maternal Grandfather ! A Welshman taking up the post at Drinnick when returning to the Rhymney Railway after demob from the Great War. His original job was already reallocated, his employer obliged to reinstate him at equal status, so offered him Drinnick in the hope he would not want to leave Cardiff, but Grandfather was not easy to shrug off, he took it and moved to Nanpean. After defeating Lung Cancer in the early 50's - date I'm not sure of, - he was relocated to St. Ives, and featured on a Poster of the Station and Staff near the end of the picture strip. His Lung Cancer triumph was unheard of in those days and is put down to the Cancer unwisely eating into a sealed pocket of Mustard Gas remnant in his lungs from his days on the Somme. The Gas was deadly to Cancer too. The attached Picture shows him (Centre) with two close Colleagues, I'm not sure who they are, possibly one is in the photo strip, but note the folded arms of Mr Rich, as in the Drinnick Photo, this standard stance due to a shrapnel wound in his left Elbow, prevented him from straightening his Arm. As I was born in 1952, just before his Illness, I was a bit too young to fully take in the occasional Mainline Cab Ride to St. Earth, and again in the Prairie to St. Ives when my Grandmother took me with her by train to collect her Husband on a Saturday afternoon. Thanks again, Steve
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Drinnick Mill. Mr. Rich is in the centre. From the collection of the late Paddy Bradley.
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Picture From Steve Grainger-Allen.
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BR Mag WR May 54
A fascinating bit of history, many thanks for enlightening us Steve.

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