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Items added on 10th March 2017                                                                                         Those added most recently come first

10/3/2017

 
Don't forget - tomorrow at 18.30 in the Memorial Hall, Redruth.  For location details click here.
'MEMBERS EVENING'
A most interesting evening of members presentations.
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This will be preceded by a short Annual General Meeting.


Roger Aston returns
to Hallenbeagle

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Tow 153's one advertising Devon pass Hallenbeagle. 10th March 2017. Copyright Roger Aston
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To my west it met a 150 with 2P92 heading for Plymouth 10th March 2017 Roger Aston
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Stoneblower was underway from S.Wales to Penzance. Copyright Roger Aston
The Network Rail Measurement Train
at Hallenbeagle this morning
Roger Aston

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170310a The HST Measurement Train heading for Penzance is seen passing the engine house at Hallenbeagle this morning. Copyright Roger Aston
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170310b Going away towards Scorrier the train will soon be lost in the Cornish Mizzle. Copyright Roger Aston
70803 back in Traffic
Nick Dyke
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70803 looking a tad better and almost ready for traffic moving from Laira shed to Lipson Sidings,. This was taken from a place of safety by an authorised person. 70 803 was damaged by a derailment at Ivybridge on the 28th February 2016. 10th March 2017 Copyright Nick Dyke
Many thanks to you Nick.
More Variety at Salisbury on 15th August, 1989.
Michael Forward

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890815a 50049 'Defiance' on the 11.18 to London Waterloo. Copyright Michael Forward
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890815b 47327 arrives at 11.20 with a 39 wagon freight working not identified but possibly M.O.D. Traffic. Copyright Michael Forward
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890815c To add to the variety 33114 arrives with a Permanent Way Train. Copyright Michael Forward.
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890815d Now we see 50028 'Tiger' with a train from Yeovil Jct, which formed the 13.18 to London Waterloo. Copyright Michael Forward
Coypool Memories
​Brian Willis
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​Morning Keith,  couldn’t let Rogers’s pictures of the crossing on the Coypool siding go by without useless comment.  As kids we used to wander through the Lee Moor tramway at least as far as the incline at Plym Bridge.  There were signals, one each side of the crossing which were an attraction to us as we were able to climb the ladder and raise and lower the signal.  Further up the line by the Plym bridge and near the little cottage, there was a trailing siding where there were invariably a few empty wagons and a point which had to be played with.  I don’t recall our railway adventures caused much mayhem and we were smart enough not to play on the ‘real’ railway.
At this time, the signal box guarding the crossing further up the branch was intact and in good shape; an era before the current vandalised ruins one sees today on railway property.
 
Brian.                  Many thanks for your memories Brian.  
Fully booked -
a special from Okehampton to London.
A report from Derek Buttivant
Royal Oke
Those promoting the reopening to regular passenger services of the Okehampton-Exeter line are running a special HST excursion on 18 March, leaving Okehampton at 07.45 calling at Crediton and Exeter St David's (reverse) and Paddington only.  the return train leaves London at 18.05.  The train is already fully booked (505 seats), 390 of the places being snapped up in the first six days following the announcement on 16 February.  It seems likely that an Okehampton service could become daily reality in a couple of years when, subject to cascading of rolling stock, additional dmus become available.  Shortage of units has been holding back growth in west of England rail services for some time.  Details of the Okehampton special and plans for the line may be found at the Okehampton Times web site: http://www.okehampton-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=419792
​Many thanks for your report Derek and best wishes to the future of the line.
Hymek 7004
​John Cornelius
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Until 1967 there was a branch to the docks the metals of this joined into the extreme left. This branch closed in 1967, however the remnants of the branch are used within the yard area as a siding where Nuclear Fuel containers are transhipped road to rail and vice versa. . Copyright John Cornelius

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