6th July 2019

Cornwall Hot Day
Andrew Triggs

An excellent days work - thank you very much Andrew.

1. XC 1S49 09.25 Penzance-Dundee with 43304 leading (43378 at the rear) arriving at Bodmin Parkway. Copyright Andrew Triggs.

2. Celebrity 43172 'Harry Patch' arriving with GTi 2A86 11.41 Penzance-Newton Abbot at Lostwithiel. 5th July 2019. Copyright Andrew Triggs.

3. Colas 67023 leading 1Q18 06.09 Reading Triangle Sidings-Paignton (via Penzance) clearing Lostwithiel. 5th July 2019. Copyright Andrew Triggs.

4. 67027 trailing 1Q18 passing Lostwithiel Goods Loops, heading for Paignton. 5th July 2019. Copyright Andrew Triggs.

5. DBC 66025 awaiting the road from Lostwithiel, working the 13.50 Fowey Docks-Goonbarrow Junction clay empties. 5th July 2019. Copyright Andrew Triggs

6. Earlier in the day. 'Oh Deer' - an intruder on the line at Bodmin Parkway. One hopes that the intruder who was not wearing a 'Hi Viz' clothing didn't trespass onto Network Rail metals. 5th July 2019. Copyright Andrew Triggs.

The Devon Quarryman
Clive Smith

 A trip down memory lane with this superb railtour from 1984. 40118 still survives in preservation.
                Regards, Clive Smith  Many Thanks Clive

(1) 40086 & 40118 arrive at Exeter St Davids with the 07.25 Euston - Meldon Quarry 'Devon Quarryman' railtour run by Hertfordshire Railtours on the 24th November 1984. This was not 40118's first visit to Exeter as it worked the 'Cathedrals Express' tour in May 1978. Copyright Clive Smith

(2) 40086 & 40118 run round the 'Devon Quarryman' railtour at Exeter St Davids still worked by semaphore signalling. Copyright Clive Smith.

(3) Taken when the Barnstaple branch was still double track to Crediton and Coleford Junction. The 40s race through Newton St Cyres on now lifted track Copyright Clive Smith.

(4) 40118 & 40086 clag their way through Sampford Courtenay on the Okehampton branch . I seem to recall our very fast car arriving seconds before. Copyright Clive Smith.

(5) It's just after 4.00 and in fading light and 100 minutes late, 40118 & 40086 round the corner from Okehampton station as they head towards the final destination of Meldon Quarry. Copyright Clive Smith.

(6) 40118 & 40086 back on to the Devon Quarryman nominally the 15.06 Meldon Quarry - Euston. Not one of my better time exposures. This was the Red Cow Crossing and I was plagued by the inevitable pedestrians crossing and the to-ings and fro-ings of the crossing keeper whose ghostly figure has been cropped out of my photo Copyright Clive Smith.