Items added on 12th March 2017 Those added most recently come first

Sunday morning
Spotlight on St Erth
Roger Winnen

170312a St Erth Station buildings from the footbridge. In the background a large number of trees have been felled possibly in connection with the new Transport Hub to be created at St Erth Station, also the A30 Truck road is now visible. Copyright Roger Winnen

170312b The 11.45 Penzance to St Ives awaits departure from St Erth, this being the first train on Sundays to St Ives. Copyright Roger Winnen

170312c Leaving the station we turn immediatly left to go under the line where the signal SE6 controls the down main to Penzance To its left slightly hidden can be seen SE54 controlling the crossover from the up main to the down main to allow through running of the St Ives services to Penzance. Copyright Roger Winnen

170312d We turn left into the recycling centre after passing Kingdom Hall and view the station from this field, here also trees have been felled in readiness for car parking space for the Park & Ride etc. Arriving at St Erth is the advertised 12.30 Cross Country service from Penzance to Manchester. Copyright Roger Winnen

170312e Viewed from the fence we see an unusual view of St Erth Signal Box. Copyright Roger Winnen

Going home after
Cornish Break
David Tozer

Hi Keith,  A picture of the Cornish visitors going back to Crewe on Friday 10th March.. After encountering a flock of sheep on the road to Silverton I just got there in time as they ran 29 minutes early.
              Dave                                             Many thanks David.

66301 & 66424 seen returning to Crewe approaching the site of Silverton Halt. 10th March 2017 David Tozer

New Trains for Plymouth and Cornwall
Derek Buttivant

New trains for Plymouth and Cornwall
The first of the new IEP bi-mode trains being built specifically for the more demanding route west of Newton Abbot has left the production line in Italy  en route to Britain.  Testing of the main batch of IEP (class 800) trains is already taking place mainly in the Reading-Didcot area though test runs have also been as far west as Plymouth.  These trains will begin public service between London and Bristol/Cardiff at the end of this year.  It is likely to be late next year or in 2019 before the new trains are seen regularly in Cornwall.      Many thanks for sending us this Derek

Fresh steam at Freshford
Guy Vincent

34046 Freshford 1Z24 0809 Southend-Bristol TM 'Cathedrals Express' 11th March 2017 Copyright Guy Vincent

 Guy Vincent writes :-  SR 34046 'Braunton' (running as 34052 'Lord Dowding') passing Freshford on the Wilts-Somerset border with Steam Dreams 1Z24 0807 Southend-Bristol TM 'Cathedrals Express' on Saturday 11th.  34046 worked a similar train (from Ely) on 8th and is due to make a further appearance next Saturday (18th) on a Three Bridges-Bristol excursion.  

Some really interesting and useful features have been posted on the CRS website in the last few days, for example the news of the possible imminent return to traffic of 70803 at Laira which to the best of my knowledge has not been picked up elsewhere.* Nice to see it almost ready to run again, maybe with 70812 for company?   

* Many thanks to Nick Dyke for this information.

Best regards

Guy V, Frome

It is with many thanks to Guy for the wonderful picture above and for his compliments on our website.  Full credit is due to Guy, and to you, the many other contributors out there for your efforts and pictures so kindly sent in.  Without these contributions the website would be nothing - power to your elbow, or rather shutter finger!

Two at Rew
Roger Geach

A fine picture by another Stalwart - Roger Geach. There are two trains in this picture. Where's Rewe? Well its about a mile east of Stoke Cannon. 37413 37411 6s55 Burngullow to Irvine at Rewe 7th April 1993 Copyright Roger Geach

Taunton Steam
John Cornelius

Built as Powis Castle in June 36, it was renamed as above in October 1937. Copyriht John Cornelius

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