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Items added on 10th January 2018                                                                                          Those added most recently come first

10/1/2018

 
253001 rides again
Bernard Bates

Find attached file of 43002 leading the 11:03 London Paddington to Plymouth at Exminster with 43003 on the back, the original 253001; today, Wednesday 10th January 2018.
              Bernard Bates            Many thanks Bernard
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253001 rides again. Exminster 10th January 2018 Copyright Bernard Bates
Misty January morning at Looe
Nick Dyke

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153369 awaiting departure from Looe with 2L76 0929 service to Liskeard via Coombe Halt on a misty winter's morning January 10th 2018. Copyright Nick Dyke GWR Driver
Penzance
Mike Hitchens

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47573 'The London Standard' in Network SE Livery named from June 1986 to January 1992 seen at Penzance. Copyright the Mike Hitchens Collection
Liskeard
Ron Kosys

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A picture to really enjoy - so full of interest. 1057 Western Chieftain arrives at Liskeard with the 1105 Penzance to Paddington, The date is 11th July 1971. Beautifully framed by the bridge the Western rolls in whilst on the down platform another service waits the 'right away'. Now take a look at the up goods yard we see the goods shed and all three sidings in use. Clay wagons occupy the left hand road and a DMU stands in the middle road (What was that doing there, maybe the Looe branch unit stabled there while the branch was out of action for some reason - or else waiting to take up a local service to Plymouth). There appear to be two or three coal wagons to the far right. All fascinating, if only one could go back in time and enjoy this once more. Copyright Ron Kosys Additional comment by Roger Geach :- The dmu was waiting to follow 1057 to Plymouth and would work a stopping all stations service . In my 1971 wtt it was a 1310 Liskeard to Plymouth service. hope this helps. It does, thank you. Roger
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The same up train with Western Chieftain at the head awaits departure for Paddington. Look at the state of the Western, the outside cleaned almost back to bare metal, note in the foreground the pointwork leading to the down sidings which were off to the right. Copyright Ron Kosys.. ADDITIONAL comment from Neil Phillips :- I have just seen Ron Kosys’ superb photos of D1057 at Liskeard on 11th July 1971 looking somewhat past its best! This was a last opportunity to photograph a Western with small yellow warning panels as by then the other 73 class members were all in blue with full yellow ends. D1057 would make its way to Swindon Works for a well-earned overhaul the following month and when outshopped in early January 1972 the entire Western fleet was in the same livery for the first time. I have checked my own records for summer 1971 and I last saw it in this ‘livery’ on 29th May when it headed the up 1A48 through Truro - I don’t recall it looking this run down but it must have been. Turning the clock back over 4 years, D1057 was the first loco I ever saw in BR Blue, exiting the tunnel into Redruth station as a down light engine in April 1967. It was of course gleaming in the spring sunshine……..what a difference 4 years and umpteen trips through the Laira washing plant made! Regards, Neil Phillips
Radstock
John Cornelius

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Copyright John Cornelius

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