Christmas Greetings
from Craig
Many thanks to you Craig, we all wish you the compliments of the Festive Season.
Jethro
Sadly missed
Sadly missed
Just a quick note to say that I was sorry to hear tonight of the passing of Jethro, my favourite comedian.
Trust the media to mess things up. The Evening Standard stated that he was born in "St. Bunyan"! I can only imagine what Jethro would have had to say about that.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/comedian-jethro-dies-covid-family-tribute-b972065.html?itm_source=Internal&itm_channel=section_banner&itm_campaign=breaking-news-ticker&itm_content=6
A nice tribute from Great Western too about trains now stopping at Camborne on Wednesdays.
Hoping you and the CRS folks are well.
Trevor Tremethick
Trust the media to mess things up. The Evening Standard stated that he was born in "St. Bunyan"! I can only imagine what Jethro would have had to say about that.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/comedian-jethro-dies-covid-family-tribute-b972065.html?itm_source=Internal&itm_channel=section_banner&itm_campaign=breaking-news-ticker&itm_content=6
A nice tribute from Great Western too about trains now stopping at Camborne on Wednesdays.
Hoping you and the CRS folks are well.
Trevor Tremethick
Many thanks to you Trevor for sending us this link and also a reminder that the deadly virus is around.
Take great care all of you.
Take great care all of you.
Jethro in action
You must all have heard Jethro's ; 'Trains don't stop Camborne Wednesdays' joke but here it is - sorry about the strong language, but forgive him - it's Hilarious.
Heres a link - smashing shots of Camborne too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_axHV2wx8RA
Heres a link - smashing shots of Camborne too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_axHV2wx8RA
This train does stop
Camborne
Clive Smith
Camborne
Clive Smith
45131 does stop at Camborne with the 13.45 Penzance - Bristol TM and it's a Saturday 5th March 1983. Copyright Clive Smith
Many thanks to you Clive for your very swift action. Clive posted this picture to us within minutes . The up platform - the subject of Jethro's joke has been lengthened. -
A letter from re the
Newham branch
Neil Phillips
Newham branch
Neil Phillips
Dear Roger and Keith,
I was pleased to see Andrew Vines’ photos of D1054 Western Governor on the Newham branch available to all on the CRS website (Andrew shared these with me a while back but I was sworn to secrecy pending release of his splendid new book!) The other Type 4 Newham visitors Andrew refers to were Warship D814 Dragon and D1052 Western Viceroy, although this was hearsay at the time and no confirmation has ever been forthcoming. However I did once see Class 08 D4009 crossing Arch Hill Bridge over the A390 so Truro Yard’s pilot loco occasionally escaped down the branch.
D1054 sported maroon livery with full yellow ends from 10th March 1970 to 9th December 1970, just 9 months and as such was the shortest-lived Western in this livery. Its still clean condition and state of the trees in the Penwithers Junction view suggest a date in late March 1970. The photographer did well to make it to his vantage point there in time to capture ‘The Guv’nor’ coming off the branch. I well remember sitting on a grassy mound here myself to watch the trains go by on 1st September 1972 and discovering the hard way that I’d perched on a nest of red ants (ouch!)
Running across the scene from left of the locomotive are the earthworks which would appear to suggest a direct link from Highertown Tunnel onto the Newham branch avoiding the reversal, however I cannot discover when this construction occurred and to the best of my knowledge no rails were ever laid on it.
(As an aside there are similarly abandoned earthworks nearby, about two miles along the A390 road towards Falmouth, just below Kea County Primary School (as it was called when I attended 1958-64), where a short embankment was built to ‘straighten’ a sharp bend following a fatal accident there in the 1960s – after infilling and landscaping it was left to ‘settle’........and no further work was ever done. Trees grew on it and I’m sure it still lurks under the vegetation!)
Best regards,
Neil
I was pleased to see Andrew Vines’ photos of D1054 Western Governor on the Newham branch available to all on the CRS website (Andrew shared these with me a while back but I was sworn to secrecy pending release of his splendid new book!) The other Type 4 Newham visitors Andrew refers to were Warship D814 Dragon and D1052 Western Viceroy, although this was hearsay at the time and no confirmation has ever been forthcoming. However I did once see Class 08 D4009 crossing Arch Hill Bridge over the A390 so Truro Yard’s pilot loco occasionally escaped down the branch.
D1054 sported maroon livery with full yellow ends from 10th March 1970 to 9th December 1970, just 9 months and as such was the shortest-lived Western in this livery. Its still clean condition and state of the trees in the Penwithers Junction view suggest a date in late March 1970. The photographer did well to make it to his vantage point there in time to capture ‘The Guv’nor’ coming off the branch. I well remember sitting on a grassy mound here myself to watch the trains go by on 1st September 1972 and discovering the hard way that I’d perched on a nest of red ants (ouch!)
Running across the scene from left of the locomotive are the earthworks which would appear to suggest a direct link from Highertown Tunnel onto the Newham branch avoiding the reversal, however I cannot discover when this construction occurred and to the best of my knowledge no rails were ever laid on it.
(As an aside there are similarly abandoned earthworks nearby, about two miles along the A390 road towards Falmouth, just below Kea County Primary School (as it was called when I attended 1958-64), where a short embankment was built to ‘straighten’ a sharp bend following a fatal accident there in the 1960s – after infilling and landscaping it was left to ‘settle’........and no further work was ever done. Trees grew on it and I’m sure it still lurks under the vegetation!)
Best regards,
Neil
Many thanks Neil.