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14th April 2020

14/4/2020

 
Castle Cary
Roger Geach

Our photographer of the month, Roger Geach moves up to Castle Cary to bring us a shot taken before the additional platform face was provided.
Picture
35028 passes behind Castle Cary station on Saturday 13th May 1995. Copyright Roger Geach.
        13th May 1995
       The Royal Wessex
Locos Used  35028 'Clan Line' , 37778.Route :
Loco(s)Route
47778 - Didcot Parkway
35028  Didcot Parkway - Swindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Westbury - Castle Cary - Yeovil Pen Mill
47778?  Yeovil Pen Mill - Dorchester South - Weymouth?
47778  Weymouth - Yeovil Pen Mill?
35028   Yeovil Pen Mill - Didcot Parkway?
?47778   Didcot Parkway
​                         The above courtesy of Six Bells Junction.
Many thanks Roger.
Note - we are hoping that Roger will have his Broadband services restored today - his service from BT over the last few weeks has been appalling. Roger reports that at 09.30 today a BT van went past - but didn't stop - hopes fell!!
BT Regrets delay 'Normal Service Resumed' today at 16.00hrs

St Erth
Andrew Thompson
Picture
Remember the days of the class 142's - the Skippers. A picture full of interest and nostalgia as a Skipper leaves St Erth to squeal its way to St Ives. A class 47 powered freight takes refuge off the main line - it's driver makes his way across to the signal box perhaps to ask how long he'll be kept there. Copyright Andrew Thompson.
Many thanks Andrew - more to come.
A question arose as to when the sidings on the right hand side of the above picture was lifted - the answer comes, of course, from Roger Winnen.
Picture
Track rationalisation at St Erth Station. 10th November 2014 Copyright Roger Winnen
Picture
The scene at St Erth, the crossover removed and the two sidings alongside the main line lifted. Copyright Roger Winnen.
Picture
153 372 provides the branch service while work continues. Copyright Roger Winnen.
Picture
The junction at St Erth for the St Ives Branch. 10th November 2014. Copyright Roger Winnen
Many thanks for the additional info. Roger. 
A view from on high
Bittaford
Clive Smith

A glorious evening and I set forth from my home in Bittaford for my daily permitted exercise on the 13th April which consisted of a superb two hour hike over the hills of Dartmoor overlooking Bittaford and Ivybridge. Are the instructions for social distancing two metres or two miles ?. In the space of two hours I saw four people. I have been wanting to do this for ages in good light and was not disappointed. With GWR's drab green livery not standing out in the landscape my subject matter had to be a Cross Country voyager with its flashes of red. The train is the 18.27 Plymouth - Birmingham New Street crossing Bittaford Viaduct in the distance with the beautiful South Hams landscape beyond all the way to Salcombe.This is the view from Western Beacon which is the hill that overlooks Ivybridge as you arrive from the west. 

Regards,  Clive Smith.
Picture
Bittaford from on high. Easter Monday 6th April 2020 Copyright Clive Smith
                           Many thanks Clive.
N.B. Bittaford Platform closed 2nd March 1959 was in a shallow cutting beyond the end of the viaduct which the Voyager is crossing to the extreme left of this picture.
First HST to Plymouth
Andrew Rigler

Hi Keith,
I was sorting our some bits and pieces and came across an image taken by my father and paper cutting, from the Western Evening Herald, going back almost exactly 43 years ago. The occasion was the first official run of a, then new, HST set into Plymouth and my dad took my brother and I in, to see it arrive. I would have been twelve at the time, as can be evidenced by my handwriting! The first time I heard a HST rev up it was like hearing a jet versus a old prop plane, i.e. it was the sound of the future. I do not think any of us realised, that the units would still be around all this time later, albeit modified with new engines etc. Look at how much interest it generated!
 
I recall it was a wet and cold day, somewhat different to the Easter we are currently experiencing. Hope you are all keeping safe.
 
Please use if you see fit.
 
Best wishes Andy, Andrew Rigler
Manager UK & IRL


Picture
1st HST to Plymouth 1 10th April 1977 Copyright Andrew Rigler
Picture
Press Cutting from the Western Evening Herald - from the archives of Andrew Rigler.
Many thanks indeed Andrew - a good job you saved it.

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