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Items added on 13th November 2017                                                                                               Those added most recently come first

13/11/2017

 
Food for thought!!
​Peter Murnaghan
Peter writes :- ​

I saw the query from Alec Kendall and Dave Ambler about the date when Liskeard station Up platform was extended, following the closure of the up side goods yard.

Whilst I don't have an answer to their query, it did set me wondering how the platforms at Liskeard (and indeed other Cornish stations) will cope when the HSTs are replaced by Hitachi Class 802s.

By my reckoning a 2+8 HST comes in at 220 metres.  A 9 car 802 would be 234 metres in length and 2x5 car 802s would be 260m long. I don't know the length of Liskeard's platforms, but understand that the Quail maps might have this answer.  Does anybody have access to one?

Incidentally, when looking up on the web to see if platform lengths were quoted, I stumbled across a report by the Rail Safety & Standards Board, researching platforms that are identified as being on a curve of less than 200m radius and the feasibility of increasing their track radius, or straightening the platform. 
See: * https://www.rssb.co.uk/PTIContent/PTI056-059-075-076-078-T726_rpt_final1.pdf

Interestingly, this report quotes a number of curved platforms up and down the country, including the Looe branch platform at Liskeard (Platform 3).  The report shows that it is authorised to be served only by the following classes of unit - 142, 150, 153 and 155.  So no chance of the Looe branch being operated in the future by Class 158s, Turbos (which are notably wider in any case), or such units as the 170 family.

With 153s destined to be withdrawn, it looks as though the Looe branch will be stuck with Class 150s for ever!

Kind regards, Peter.                                  Many thanks Peter.
*  This quite a weighty document but well worth wading through.
       The report doesn't mention Redruth with its short curved platform!!
Calstock at High water
​Mark Lynam
Picture
150128 crossing the Calstock Viaduct working the 2P84 11.45 Gunnislake to Plymouth.13th November 2017 Copyright Mark Lynam Perfect conditions a nice crispy day.
Many thanks Mark.
​

South Western Railway
David Tozer
Possibly the first visit in service by one of the two Class 158's in the new South Western Railway livery. 158887 is in the process of being split from the Class 159 it worked into Exeter.
Picture
Exeter 13th November 2017. Copyright David Tozer.
It's 15th June 1985
43130 Westminster Abbey departs St Erth
Michael Forward
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850615a 43130 Westminster Abbey on the rear of the 10.35 Penzance to Paddington departs St Erth. In the background was the Unigate Milk Depot and the scrapyard now confined to history. Copyright Michael Forward
Signalbox diagram
​Westbury South 
​Guy Vincent
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Westbury South Signalbox Diagram 1952 Guy Vincent Collection N.B. The station platforms on the right, The lines upper left towards Taunton and lower left towards Salisbury
Penzance Peak
Roger Winnen

Picture
D71 The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) backs its train into Ponsandane Sidings. November 1973 Copyright Roger Winnen
Blue Anchor
John Cornelius

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King by the sea. Copyright John Cornelius

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