Autumn at the Terminus
Roger Winnen
Roger Winnen
231008a In the past couple of weeks 5 car sets of IETs have started using Platform 4 at Penzance. Copyright Roger Winnen
231023a 57605 Totnes Castle awaits departure to Long Rock after arriving with the Night Riviera, Copyright Roger Winnen
231023b Passing the bricked up entrance of an oil store. Copyright Roger Winnen
231023c The RHTT arriving at Penzance running nearly 100 minutes early. Copyright Roger Winnen
231023d 66097 Covered in grime. Copyright Roger Winnen
Autumn has arrived
Craig Munday
Craig Munday
We were promised a good Autumn this season. Lots of rusty red leaves, thanks to the patterns of the late wet Summer holds good omens I hear.
The last week out and about has been breathtaking. As I drove down the A390 one morning, mist clung to the dips and valley bottoms. I popped into Grampound and the most fantastic photo canvas awaited me! The mist was laying heavy over Coombe in the distance, and feathered out as the morning sun got higher and stronger. GWR services scooted by, but sadly by the time the RHTT appeared the mist was rising majestically skyward.
The RHTT is also seen at St Blazey and a Castle set at Coombe beside recently ploughed fields.
Back to the boxes next week for me.
Best wishes, Craig Munday.
The last week out and about has been breathtaking. As I drove down the A390 one morning, mist clung to the dips and valley bottoms. I popped into Grampound and the most fantastic photo canvas awaited me! The mist was laying heavy over Coombe in the distance, and feathered out as the morning sun got higher and stronger. GWR services scooted by, but sadly by the time the RHTT appeared the mist was rising majestically skyward.
The RHTT is also seen at St Blazey and a Castle set at Coombe beside recently ploughed fields.
Back to the boxes next week for me.
Best wishes, Craig Munday.
66113 working with 66097 on the 3J13 RHTT seen passing the short platform at St Blazey on the 19th October 2023. Copyright Craig Munday.
Trenowth, note the glint on the train. 20th October 2023. Copyright Craig Munday.
The RHTT is nicely lit as it passes Trenowth. The train is the 3J13 powered by 66097 and 66113 20th October 2023. Copyright Craig Munday.
2C22 43198 with 43187 powering the 2C22, seen at Combe. 21st October 2023. Copyright Craig Mumford.
Many thanks Craig - you've caught the season very well.
The Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway
Ed Hooper
Ed Hooper
Ed and his brother Tim continue their exploration of the P & D by bicycle below is a rather large 'paper weight' sitting on Ed's desk.
A brief interlude now to talk about the rails. The above parabolic edge “fishbelly” rail is on display at the Plym Valley railway, an intact survivor from the Cann Quarry branch of the P&D Railway. The original rails on the P&D railway were 2’ 10” length and butt-ended in construction. These rails were later replaced; the above rail from the Cann Quarry Branch is a later lap-jointed rail, the length of these rails being longer at 3’10”. Copyright Ed Hooper
Not all of the rails on the P&DR were of iron; some of them were of granite which were used on sidings, such as that on Yelverton common (no traces found) as well as some of the quarry sidings on the moors. These resemble the granite “rails” to be found on the Haytor Granite Tramway, which opened just shortly before the P&DR in 1820.
Not all of the rails on the P&DR were of iron; some of them were of granite which were used on sidings, such as that on Yelverton common (no traces found) as well as some of the quarry sidings on the moors. These resemble the granite “rails” to be found on the Haytor Granite Tramway, which opened just shortly before the P&DR in 1820.