20th June 2018

Class 50's to Cornwall
Karl Hewlett

This Saturday's Mazey Day (23rd June), also marks the return of a pair of class 50's on the mainline in Cornwall for a number of years hauling 'The Mazey Day Cornishman'.  Times are:

Tame Bridge Parkway to Penzance
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54677/2018/06/23/advanced

Penzance to Penzance via Slopers Sidings
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54679/2018/06/23/advanced

Penzance to Tame Bridge Parkway
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54678/2018/06/23/advanced

Kind Regards,  Karl (Friends of Penmere Station).
                                  Many Thanks Karl

Liskeard Black Bridge
Peter Murnaghan

Keith, Roger,
You might recall that my good friend, Brian Oldham, who volunteers at Liskeard Museum, gave me a picture to identify, entitled The Flying Dutchman at Blackbridge.  This was a crack Great Western express in the closing decades of the broad gauge.  Blackbridge was a name that we were not familiar with, but we have since narrowed it down to the footbridge to the west of Moorswater viaduct. 

Here is the picture again, together with the equivalent position (more or less) with Clan Line speeding past this evening.

Much has changed in the intervening 130 years !
Best wishes, Peter 
​                  Many thanks to Peter and Brian Oldham

Black Bridge Liskeard Flying Dutchman pre 1892 Liskeard Museum Collection Brian Oldham

Black Bridge Liskeard The Cornishman at Blackbridge 17th June 2018 Copyright Peter Murnaghan N.B. The 'Black Bridge' now a single span girder bridge is painted grey.

Yeovil Railway Centre
John Cornelius

Copyright John Cornelius