Morning Keith, Not a good day yesterday. The LCD on my camera died on me last evening when I was transferring my shots to my PC. It was playing up on the SDR in the morning as the viewing screen was very dark.
Dave Thanks all the same David
Just to show we all have our problems!
Morning Keith, Not a good day yesterday. The LCD on my camera died on me last evening when I was transferring my shots to my PC. It was playing up on the SDR in the morning as the viewing screen was very dark. Dave Thanks all the same David After spending the day at the Cornwall Railway Society bookstall at the Model Railway Exhibition at Hayle (Exhibition on again today until 16.00) Roger Winnen was at Penzance to greet the first loco hauled service train for many a year as it arrived at Penzance from Exeter. 24th May 2014.
Photographs attached - after arriving on 6V54 from Chirk yesterday, 56113/56078 are spending the weekend at Newton Abbot. I believe that only once before has the log train to Devon been double headed by Class 56. They are due to depart 09.50 Tuesday and apparently another timber train is due in on Wednesday coming. Also seen today was 43378/304 at Paignton South LC, running ECS to Goodrington after arriving with 1V46, 06.05 Leeds - Paignton. Regards, Martin D Many thanks Martin
It as quite exciting for us to find that on trawling though his massive collection of slides Roger Winnen came up with this one from the old Swindon Musuem taken An interesting token in the old Swindon Railway Museum 29th October 1977. Copyright Roger Winnen
Many thanks to Roger for these pictures of the first run to Exeter with the sleeping car set day coaches Hi Keith And that made 4! 70806 brought the Duchy total to 4 class 70s on Engineering services recently. Here is 70806 with the LWR train which was in action at Gwinear Road last evening. The train stopped at Par to drop off staff just after dawn, so apologies for the poor light.
On another note it has been suggested that recently repainted 50007 Hercules may be down to St Blazey next Friday to collect the last class 60 for Colas rail. Watch this space. Exciting times! Craig Many thanks Craig Westcountry communities must 'seize initiative' to secure rail network upgrade cash
Read more: http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Westcountry-communities-seize-initiative-secure/story-21127557-detail/story.html#ixzz32Vmtbi8v Next Thursday, our old friend Eric Rabjohns, will be presenting a lecture in the Methodist School Room at Carharrack on a 'Day in the life of the Redruth & Chasewater Railway'. Eric has had access to the diary of Tom Lavin, one time a guard on the line from Redruth to Devoran. Come along at 7.30PM and hear some fascinating tales of the line. This is on behalf of the Carharrack Old Cornwall Society, admission to non members is £1.
Hi Keith
Last night saw another Colas class 70 visit Cornwall. 70805 worked 6C98 Westbury to Par CWR train. It ran around the train there (where the pictures were taken), and headed back to Lostwithiel dropping rails in the Treesmill area. Another of the class - 70806 is scheduled down tonight on 6C99 - the same train dropping rails on the down near Gwinear Road. The train will then head to Penzance to run around and head back to Westbury early at 04.55. That will mean 4 class 70s have visited the Duchy during 7 days. Best wishes Craig Many thanks Craig It is with many thanks to the 'eagle eyes' of Martin Duff and Victor Menhennet. That we suggest that you click on the article http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-27409448 for a very interesting report. Victor Menhennet is a native of Cornwall now living in Waterloo Ontario where he is a keen member of the Waterloo Central Railway - a preservation project. Go to Google for more information on this line.
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