Friary & Cattewater
Paul Burkhalter
To add to Roy’s excellent summary (See News of the 27th July 2022) , this is the latest on the Friary and Cattewater lines: wef 26 June 2021, the line beyond MP245m 18ch has been permanently closed. This location is beyond the Laira Depot servicing platform, and means the whole Friary and Cattewater lines are OOU. As EMR no longer ship by rail there's no use for the line.Plymouth City Council want to remove the low bridge over Embankment Road, and this will facilitate this. I didn't realise but this bridge is too low for any tall HGV hence the big Royal Mail vehicles for the Sorting Office (for example) all have to go round through Manadon/Mutley/City Centre.
Cheers, Paul Burkhalter
Room for yet more houses one assumes.
Michael Forward
Bill Elston
This is an Iron Age fort near Sennen Please see photos taken today at Taunton.
I also saw pc 43010 pass Dawlish on Monday last with a nameplate attached, name unknown, yet.
Best wishes, Bill Elston.
Roy Hart
I think that this is one of the greatest transformations in Cornwall (though Carn Brea station, nearby might also qualify.)
I'm afraid the Crofty headgear which sfands today is at Cook's shaft and dates from the1960s. The one just visible in the 1952 picture is at Robinson's shaft (where the engine is preserved today).
All the best to everyone,
Roy
P.S. I fancy a pasty. Nway is busy terrifying our supermarket manager to import swedes! (Swede? What's a swede?)