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9th September 2019

9/9/2019

 
The Cornwall Railway Society
The Walter Julian Tribute
On the South Devon Railway
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190907zza Tony Wright fixes the headboard on our Walter Julian Memorial Train as Keith Jenkin looks on. Copyright Roger Salter
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190907b Walter Julian 1921-2004 Copyright Roger Winnen
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190907k 6412 with the auto at Totnes Riverside. Nigel Tambling is deep in thought. Copyright Roger Winnen
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190907zzd The train now departing heads for Buckfastleigh with our members onboard. Copyright Roger Salter
For a full coverage of our visit to the South Devon Railway please click here to go to a very full record of an amazing day.
Not to be missed - next Saturday 14th September.
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Dennis Flood

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Cleaner, Fireman, Driver and then into Management.

      My 49 year railway career - and a bit more besides  by Dennis Flood.
Dennis – our Chairman – spent much of his railway career in the Liverpool and Crewe areas where he encountered a wide range of events and incidents which he will illustrate and describe in his entertaining talk.

The meeting which starts at 6.30 PM is held at the Memorial Hall, Redruth Methodist Church. For details of the location please click here.


This will be a grand start to our 2019/20 season of indoor events.

The last Torbay Express of 2019
Guy Vincent & Paul Barlow
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Trowbridge 60009 1Z28 09.08 0n the 8th September 2019 Copyright Guy Vincent.
1) 60009 'Union of South Africa' departing Trowbridge on the last 1Z27 0800 Bristol TM-Kingswear (for Dartmouth) 'Torbay Express' of 2019. The bridge above the loco carries Stallard Street, one of the main routes to and from the town. Until the late 1980s a large cast iron GWR sign was affixed to the left side wall that read 'Engines must not stand under this bridge'. This image demonstrates a good reason why the notice was needed in steam days! 

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60009 with the 08.00 Bristol -Kingswear emerges from Parsons tunnel. 8th September 2019. Copyright Paul Barlow.
2) Paul gets it just right as 60009 Union of South Africa heads out of Parsons tunnel on its journey to Kingswear.
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Westbury 60009 1Z28 the time is 19.48 on the 8th September 2019 Copyright Guy Vincent
3)  60009 at Westbury on the return 1Z28 1650 ex Kingswear.  If reports are to be believed this may well have been 60009's final visit to the South West as it's boiler ticket will expire next spring and the owner plans to retire the loco to a new purpose-built museum in Balbuthie, Fife. 
Thank you gentlemen.
Newton Abbot
Bickington Steam Railway
Clive Smith
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Bickington Miniature Railway 1st August 2019. Copyright Clive Smith.
Located at Trago Mills Regional Shopping Centre, Newton Abbot, the 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) rideable miniature railway Bickington Steam Railway was opened in 1988, using equipment recovered from the Suffolk Wildlife Park, which itself was taken from Rudyard Lake. It was built by Brian Nicholson, the headmaster of Waterhouses School in Staffordshire. Waterhouses was the junction for the Leek and Manifold Light Railway. After being thwarted in an attempt to rebuild a portion of the Leek and Manifold Valley railway, Nicholson moved his railway, via Rudyard Lake and Suffolk, to Trago Mills.
Originally the railway was a 1 mile (1.6 km) double loop around two lakes with one station, 'Trago Central', but in 2006 the railway grew over 1⁄2 mile (805 m), with an extension taking it to Trago's front car park. A three-track terminus and turntable was built and named the 'Riverside Station'. A third station was added in 2008, located at the far end of the Trago site on one of the original sections of line; this was named 'Goose Glen Halt'. This was constructed in the hope that shoppers would use the ride to return to their vehicles, a near half-mile uphill walk from the main shopping complex.
The above courtesy Wikipedia 

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