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23rd April 2022

23/4/2022

 
Next Weeks Steam
Timetable
For NEXT week, A steam special runs down Thursday evening to Penzance and returns early Saturday morning. 

On Friday the steam loco, support coach and diesel loco runs from Penzance to laira & return to turn the loco. 

The steam loco is 46233 Duchess of Sutherland, and the diesel expected to be a WCR maroon liveried 33/37/47 or 57. (Watch this space). 


Thursday 
1Z48 15.52 Exeter St Davids to Penzance

Plymouth          17.04 / 17.59 (Water)
Liskeard                           18.26
Par                                   18.51
Truro                                 19.17
Camborne              19.35 / 19.37 
St Erth                              19.49
Penzance                         20.00

Friday (Turning move via Laira - Diesel leading)
5Z51   10.22 Penzance to Laira

St Erth                      10.31
Truro                         11.02
Par                            11.21 
Plymouth              12.17 / 12.31

Return 
5Z52 14.06 Laira to Penzance    


Liskeard                   14.53
Par                            15.21
Truro                         15.48
Penzance                  16.28 

Saturday return working with steam from Penzance 

1Z54 07.20 Penzance to Exeter St Davids

St Erth                           07.30
Camborne                     07.40
Truro                             08.01
Par                                 08.29
Lostw'l up loop              08.39/08.58
Liskeard                         09.20
Plymouth                 09.49/ 11.33 Platform 5
We would be interested in your pictures of these workings to show in our section 'STEAM AND DIESEL RAILTOURS 2022 ONWARDS'. Click this items on our home page menu.  However please understand that we will have to be selective - not too many from the same locations etc. 
Cornish Culverts -
Wivelscombe Area

Mark Howells

Morning Keith,
 
Please find attached something a little different, internal photographs of two culverts at either end of Wivelscombe tunnel and the approach cuttings.
 Culverts are often overlooked but are vital to the safe operation of the railway, they permit watercourses, ditches or other waterbodies to be conveyed beneath railway embankments.
 Apart from the excavation of cuttings, culverts are very often one of the first pieces of permanent infrastructure to be constructed as the embankment is then be constructed over and around the culverts.
 Clearly these culverts have been built to last and constructed with a little flare – the differing brick work patterns and orientation is very interesting and impressive.
 
Kind Regards,
 Mark Dennis Howells BEng (Hons) MPWI MIAM
Senior Asset Engineer (Drainage & Lineside)


Picture
Wivelescombe Tunnel. Drainage culvert. 19th April 2022. Copyrght Mark Howells - Network Rail.
Picture
Wivelescombe Tunnel. Drainage culvert. 19th April 2022. Copyrght Mark Howells - Network Rail. (2)
We're really getting down to it here - amazing constructions.
Many thanks Mark.
​

Coldrennick Viaduct
Chris Harvey

Keith,
Please find attached a shot from 9th April 2005 which you might be able to use. A 153 + 150 pairing soars over Coldrennick viaduct on a lovely Cornish spring day, with the 1025 Penzance - Bristol Temple Meads.
Best Regards, Chris Harvey
Picture
Coldrennick Viaduct 9th April 2005 Copyright ChrisHarvey
Many thanks Mark. An interesting comparison of liveries here - I have a feeling that most people would prefer either of these to the standard green of today.
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Langstone Rock
Clive Nye

Picture
33 024 approaching Dawlish Warren working 5O22 17.10 Newton Abbot to Exeter, this train will form the 18.10 Exeter to Waterloo service on 20th August 1978. Copyright Clive Nye
Many thanks Clive.  Langstone Rock as many will know is a handy vantage point to see along the coast in either direction - getting up there isn't easy for senior citizens - the path is not the best. However if you are fit it's well worth the exercise. In this view, taken on a calm day - there is a very gentle swell running and a few have made it to the top of the rock.

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