29th June 2020

​Please note - Roger Winnen can now receive EMails after engineering work were completed at 19.00 tonight.
Many Thanks Roger

Sleepers resting at
Long Rock
Roger Salter

Roger Salter reports :- The Night Riviera is running on Thursdays & Fridays but no sleeping cabins only seats, a sleeper coach & buffet is attached for staff training only, hence the large amount of coaching stock & three class 57 locos at Long Rock Depot this morning.

57602 Restormel Castle at Long Rock. 29th June 2020 Copyright Roger Salter.

57603 Tintagle Castle at Long Rock. Copyright Roger Salter

57603 squeezed in at Long Rock. 29th June 2020. Copyright Roger Salter.

57 603 Left and 57602 right at Long Rock Copyright Roger Salter

08645 St Piran on duty at Long Rock. 29th June 2020 Copyright Roger Salter

Many thanks Roger.

Exeter
Clive Smith

Thornaby based 31139 has arrived with the 17.15 Barnstaple - Exeter St Davids. New as D5557 in 1959 and withdrawn in 1995, this loco spent its last twenty five years allocated to the Teeside depot. Bit of a rarity for down in the south west. Regards  Clive Smith

31139 at Exeter St Davids on the 24th July 1983. Copyright Clive Smith

Many thanks Clive.

Boscarne Nostalgia
Andrew  Jones

Clay Hoods at Boscarne 1980. Copyright Andrew Jones.

Dear Keith, Please find attached photograph at Boscarne Junction in 1980. This was always a timeless location. Very little had changed since the closure to passenger traffic and freight was still busy, the usual class 37 had dropped off the empties ready for collection by the early morning O8. I travelled on the Wenfordbridge line in the breakvan and experienced a bygone age. Breakfast of bacon and egg was had at Boscarne courtesy of the woodstove. We stopped on the way back somewhere near Helland, switched off and had a leisurely lunch. The sound of the wheels against the tight curves in Dunmere Wood were unbelievable, better than ‘The Last Night Of The Proms’!  Wonderful…. Best wishes Andrew and Diane

Thank you very much Andrew - wish I was there!

More Nostalgia 18 years ago
Milltown Viaduct
Chris Harvey 

Please find attached a June image from the Cornwall of eighteen summers ago. On a sunny 15th June 2002, 47 843 is captured rolling downhill over Milltown Viaduct towards Lostwithiel, in charge of the 0848 Penzance - Manchester.   Best Regards, Chris Harvey, Bodmin.

Milltown viaduct 47843 with the 08.48 Penzance to Manchester on the 15th June 2002. Copyright Phil Harvey.

Many thanks Chris.

Taunton
Paul Barlow

45112 trailing on rear of 0810 Derby-Minehead. Seen on the 28 May 2007. 45112 worked the train back from Minehead. Copyright Paul Barlow

Many thanks Paul.