'Out in the wilds'
Tremodrett
Craig Munday
Tremodrett
Craig Munday
Hi Keith, A quick picture off the I phone of 153369 on the Newquay line near Roche. Wonderful clouds above too.
Kind regards, Craig Many thanks to you Craig.
Kind regards, Craig Many thanks to you Craig.
153369 at Tremodrett on the Newquay branch near Roche. Copyright Craig Munday 15th February 2017. N.B. Received at 16.18, on the website at 16.31.
Moretonhampstead
Demolition
Tony Hill
Demolition
Tony Hill
Moretonhampstead April 1965 The last train to reach Moretonhampstead in April 1965; empty open (Hyfit) wagons and an ex LMS Brakevan, almost certainly worked from Hackney Yard by a Newton Abbot based D63xx (cl 22) diesel loco, await loading with scrap materials at the start of the recovery of the line, opened in 1866, back to Bovey Tracey. Moretonhampstead closed to Passengers on 28 Feb 1959 and to Goods on 6 April 1964. Tony Hill
I was then 13 and using an old Box brownie camera, but they are historical !
I was brought up on a farm on edge of Dartmoor Nr Chagford and can remember going to Moreton stn with my father a couple of times ( before Passr trains ended in 1959) to collect a Kerry Hill ram which had come down from Welshpool by passenger trains.
I was then 13 and using an old Box brownie camera, but they are historical !
I was brought up on a farm on edge of Dartmoor Nr Chagford and can remember going to Moreton stn with my father a couple of times ( before Passr trains ended in 1959) to collect a Kerry Hill ram which had come down from Welshpool by passenger trains.
Moretonhampstead April 1965 Copyright Tony Hill
Moretonhampstead. April 1965 Copyright Tony Hill
Moretonhampstead. The loco shed with unusual attached signal box. The loco shed still survives in part of the long established and local Thompsons Road Haulage business based in the old station yard. Their principal traffic is still the tins of Ambrosia Rice pudding from Lifton ; a traffic they 'gained' from BR in the mid 1960's. This picture dated April 1965. Copyright Tony Hill
Bridport branch 3
Bradpole Crossing
A remarkable find.
Bradpole Crossing
A remarkable find.
The village of Bradpole, once a small village now an extension of Bridport lies about a mile from Bridport towards Maiden Newton. You can find it by using this link http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore and typing in Bridport. try the 6" or 25" maps.
Recently, while researching the branch and looking at Radpole using Google Earth Roger Winnen made a surprising find. Try this - having found the village of Bradpole, look at the South East of this area and in particular look for Caley Way and its intersection with Trinity Way. now 'zoom in' and you'll find a level crossing gate painted white, its clearly there with its shadow on the ground. Now, go to 'Street view' and look. You'll find not only the crossing gate and wicket gates but also a short section of track embedded in the road. So the Bridport branch still exists albeit only about ten feet of it. For another link try this https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7430815,-2.7376346,3a,75y,151.27h,74.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfBH_aVGNoweN6c8BmMLpJA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Bradpole Crossing 1970. Chris adds 'I should point out perhaps that the signal once carried on the post next to Bradpole Crossing was nothing to do with the level-crossing at all, but was in fact the ‘fixed’ Down Distant for Bridport – you can see that the finial ‘cap’ is yellow rather than red'. Chris Copyright Chris Osment
Copyright John Cornelius
On the 21st January 1975 the guard gives the 'thumbs up; for the driver to proceed over Bradpole Crossing Copyright Doug Nicholls
Bradpole Crossing 3rd May 1975. The bungalows on Caley Way look pretty new! Copyright Roger Winnen.