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57605 Totnes Castle 
Driver Training duties
Andrew Triggs

On Wednesday 12th July, 2017 57605 Totnes Castle was booked for driver training duties to depart Long Rock at 11.00 for a return run to Par and due back at 13.30 hrs. Andrew Triggs captures the scene.

170712a Departing Long Rock Depot TMD at 11.05 (5 mins), clagging nicely in the sun. Copyright Andrew Triggs

170712b Passing Marazion Station on a glorious day. Copyright Andrew Triggs

170712c The return working from Par passing the former Mexico Crossing, Long Rock at 13.28. Copyright Andrew Triggs

Carn Brea Yard 1
Roy Hart

Carn Brea Yard. Copyright Roy Hart.

An 84XX class pannier tank at Carn Brea Yard. These engines came brand new to Truro and Penzance sheds in 1950-51, replacing antique panniers which went for scrap.
At PZ  they were station pilots, but at Truro they had more general duties. They were limited because of their weight (they were 'red' engines -same as a Castle or Hall) so were confined to yard duties, the Falmouth branch, or the main line. Here, the train is the daily 'mineral'. Notice the hoist for an oil lamp in the yard. Cattle wagons stand in number 1 siding: these were whitewashed inside and used for seasonal broccoli (cauliflower) traffic. Out of season they were to be found stabled on quiet backwaters like the Portreath branch stub at Carn Brea.

For a 25" to the mile map of the area please click below:-   It's well worth exploring around the area as well - a lot of interest.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=50.2257&lon=-5.2587&layers=168&b=1

Calstock Incline
Alan Harris

​Attached is a photo of Calstock Incline which I obtained recently. I don't think the photo is particularly rare, but I've been trying to work out what the object is in the lower centre. It looks to me to be similar to an Hornby Dublo point lever! But it would probably take the world's strongest man to operate it!     Any ideas?   Regards Alan Harris.  Many thanks Alan 

Calstock Incline. From the Alan Harris Collection N.B. As in many old photographs the camera is a novelty and seven men and horse pose for the photograph. In the background a wagon is approaching down the incline. One wonders what would have happen had the haulage rope snapped! Also note the 'Hornby Dublo point lever' What was this for?

You will find it well worth your while if you visit the 25" to the mile map  available below.The map which is pre 1908 shows the E.C.M.R. to its full extent, follow it up the incline and on to Kelly Bary and see the various quarries and sidings. You will also notice various earthworks having been commenced for the standard gauge branch line.  The piers of the Calstock viaduct are incomplete as is the formation leading to it. Click below for the map.

 http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=50.4985&lon=-4.2170&layers=168&b=1​

Teignmouth
Ron Kosys

Just having left Teignmouth behind 47097 skirts the banks of the river Teign. Opposite lies Shaldon. The train is the 0840 SO Liverpool-Paignton 25th June 1986 Copyright Ron Kosys

Weston Super Mare
Mike Morant

The prototype HST unit no. 252 001 at Weston-super-Mare General station in August 1975. [Mike Morant collection]

Exeter SD
John Cornelius

Copyright John Cornelius

Great picture of 47461 on the site taken by John on which I remember was a Saturday in June 1986.  As a 17 year old, I and my friend Andrew Hill (now working at Laira) would get a Day Rover.  I think on this day we had gone from Paignton to Exeter behind a peak, and waited for this service coming in to take us back to Plymouth.  We never believed it would be a Scotrail 47, let alone an Inverness one in Scotrail blue. Scotrail livery was rare down this way, and this was the Newcastle to Plymouth service which the loco worked as far as Plymouth I recall, before being changed.  The loco afterwards became a bit of a favourite of mine, and it was therefore a shame that the loco, still in this livery, was damaged in a shunting accident at Liverpool Lime Street in 1990, and was subsequently scrapped.



Chris Finan.

860628a A coincidence to John Cornelious photograph of 47461 Charles Rennie Mackintosh at Exeter St David's. Here it is seen departing Bristol Temple Meads at 15.45 hrs on the same day. The Cornwall Railway Society visited the East Somerset Railway at Cranmore by Mini Bus, then Whatly Quarry, Pensford and Keynsham before spending and hour at Bristol Temple Meads before going onto Bedminster, Yatton, Tiverton Parkway and finally the closed station of Tiverton Junction before returning home to Cornwall. Copyright Roger Winnen