IEP VISIT
Karl Hewlett
Karl Hewlett
Times are in the system for the visit of GWR IEP 802002 To Penzance, running on both Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th November. Make of it what you like but the timings are showing it stopping en route as per a normal service train would, whether this is for platform gauging or a promotional run by GWR I don't know but Truro, Redruth, Camborne and Hayle are all booked in as a stop.
5X90 Stoke Gifford to Penzance:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97191/2017/11/15/advanced
5X92 Penzance to Stoke Gifford:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97192/2017/11/15/advanced
Kind Regards, Karl (Friends of Penmere Station). Many Thanks Karl
5X90 Stoke Gifford to Penzance:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97191/2017/11/15/advanced
5X92 Penzance to Stoke Gifford:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97192/2017/11/15/advanced
Kind Regards, Karl (Friends of Penmere Station). Many Thanks Karl
Hawkeridge Jct
Guy Vincent
Guy Vincent
Signalbox track layout for Hawkeridge Junction. Kindly supplied by Guy Vincent - from his collection.
Hawkeridge Jct Signalbox after decommisioning. Copyright Roger Winnen
Hawkeridge Junction A footnote kindly supplied by Roy Hart.
Hawkeridge was a World War Two creation. The box was opened to serve a new spur from Heywood Road Junction, enabling fast, heavy wartime trains to move from the Berks and Hants to the Trowbridge line avoiding the awkwardness of the old single line through Devizes. The box had two functions: control of the junction and acess to the large war department depot which lay to the top right of the diagram. This depot was sufficiently important to have facing-point access at either end (the Trowbridge end being motor points). The Trowbridge end connections were lifted soon after ww2, but the one across from the box was retained, spiked, on a 'just in case' basis until 1962, when it was lifted.
Hawkeridge box became a very quiet place after the war: from the 1950s onwards, the box was usually 'switched out' and only opened as required. The signalling record society classifies Hawkeridge as type 12 -one of the GWRs last designs. In Cornwall we had four of these: Penzance (1938) Baldhu (1938) Trerule (1938) and Newquay (1946).
In Roger's picture, the lever frame and other equipment can be seen dumped outside the box.
Roy Hart. Many thanks Roy
Hawkeridge was a World War Two creation. The box was opened to serve a new spur from Heywood Road Junction, enabling fast, heavy wartime trains to move from the Berks and Hants to the Trowbridge line avoiding the awkwardness of the old single line through Devizes. The box had two functions: control of the junction and acess to the large war department depot which lay to the top right of the diagram. This depot was sufficiently important to have facing-point access at either end (the Trowbridge end being motor points). The Trowbridge end connections were lifted soon after ww2, but the one across from the box was retained, spiked, on a 'just in case' basis until 1962, when it was lifted.
Hawkeridge box became a very quiet place after the war: from the 1950s onwards, the box was usually 'switched out' and only opened as required. The signalling record society classifies Hawkeridge as type 12 -one of the GWRs last designs. In Cornwall we had four of these: Penzance (1938) Baldhu (1938) Trerule (1938) and Newquay (1946).
In Roger's picture, the lever frame and other equipment can be seen dumped outside the box.
Roy Hart. Many thanks Roy
Gunnislake
John Cornelius
John Cornelius
Copyright John Cornelius