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18/3/2018

70808 & 70809 Arrive at Penzance with ballast for the engineering work in West Cornwall
Roger Winnen

180318e 70808 Arrives at Penzance with the 16.49 from Westbury running 149 mins early as the Ponsandane stop was curtailed. Copyright Roger Winnen

180318f The snow covered ballast wagons behind the engine. Copyright Roger Winnen

180318g 70809 covered in snow brings up the rear of the train stabled alongside the 326.5 milepost at Penzance. Copyright Roger Winnen

St Erth Nostalgia
Clive Smith

I hope you can find space in the coming days to show my bubble car pics. I appreciate the engineering will take up a lot of your time in the coming weeks ! Having looked through your archives on the St Ives branch and St Erth station, I was surprised to see no pics of these stalwarts at St Erth. I hope the inclusion of my pics addresses the omission and adds to your excellent pages.
W55025 was converted to departmental use in 1993 and is currently under restoration at Long Marston. It is hoped to be moved to the North Somerset Railway where services are planned to run between Radstock and Frome.Who knows ? We could yet see the return of W55025 to your pages !
Thank you for your kind comments on the pics I have so far sent. Hopefully further pics I get around to send will be of sufficient interest and variety for your readers.
Regards, Clive Many thanks Clive. Has anybody any news on the North Somerset Railway Project please?

ST ERTH W55025 awaiting departure with the 15.40 to St Ives 11th January 1986 Copyright Clive Smith

Focus on Patchway.
Dave Field

Good Morning Keith, We had a couple of inches of snow fall overnight up in Bristol, so thought I'd capture a few shots at my local station Patchway, which is on the South Wales main line from Bristol. I know this is a bit off your website's normal beaten track, but only by a few miles.
Patchway is in the midst of electrification at present, and the footbridge in the photos is planned to be replaced with a new accessible structure later this year. (A pity a new home for this bridge raised on stilts cannot be found at Pilning!)
I hope the photos are of interest to your members.
Regards Dave Field.
Many thanks David, smashing action pictures, actually Patchway is in our 'area' which is defined as that within the Freedom of the South West Rail Rover.

First train Eastbound - GWR's 43053 University of Worcester blasts the snow off the platform at Patchway on 1L32 Cardiff Central to Paddington. 18th March 2018 Copyright David Field

Freightliner's 66956 heading west with the slightly delayed 002E Stoke Gifford to Margam at Patchway 18th March 2018 Copyright David Field

GWR Green 43194 at Patchway with 1L38 Swansea to Paddington 18th March 2018 Copyright David Field

GWR's 158959 with 1Z06 Bristol TM to Cardiff Central at Patchway 18th March 2018 Copyright David Field

GWR's 158960 heads through Patchway with the delayed 1F07 Cardiff Central to Southampton Central. 18th March 2018 Copyright David Field

Nice to feature Patchway - not often seen. Note the fresh snow lying on the rails in most of these pictures.

Preparation for the blockade of West Cornwall
Monday 18th-Thurs 22nd March 2018
Roger Winnen

180318a Viewed from the Station Wall as the 09.47 to Paddington departs. (Not recommended on weekdays with the traffic flow) Copyright Roger Winnen

180318b The HST snakes across the pointwork passing to road rail cranes for tomorrows blockade. Copyright Roger Winnen

180318c The two road railer cranes with a section of track including pointwork most probably for the slopers siding lay in wait in the long siding for Mondays blockade. Copyright Roger Winnen

180318d A Matsa Tamping machine DR 75407 arrives from Plymouth at 10.40hrs. Copyright Roger Winnen

West Somerset Railway
Mixed Gala 11th June 2011 Andrew Triggs

Photographs of the Class 59s visiting the Gala event to celebrating
25 years since the introduction of this class on Britain's Railways in January 1986.

110611a 59001 'Yeoman Endeavor' in Hanson Aggregate livery departing Washford for Bishops Lydeard. Copyright Andrew Triggs

110611b 59002 'Alan J Day' on display on the Minehead Turntable. Copyright Andrew Triggs

110611c Hanson livery 59103 'Village of Mells' stabled in the yard at Minehead. Copyright Andrew Triggs

110611d DBS livery 59206 'John F Yeoman' in the yard at Williton. Copyright Andrew Triggs

Engineering Trains - this week
Karl Hewlett

The early years
Blue Anchor
Ron Kosys

Stock move - lucky chance.
Yeovil Junc. to
Yeovil Rly Centre.
John Cornelius

'By the year 2000 we had a accrued some freight vehicles that would not pass under the low bridge at Yeovil junction. Again the problem of how to get them from up to down side. The company could not afford the price that NR wanted to move the vehicles to our site,so we were stuck.
Luckily for us, D6515 was coming to Yeovil to collect class '20' D8188
from our site and take it to the Mid-Hants Rly. So it was arranged that
when D6515 arrived it would bring the goods vehicles across to our site
before taking D8188 away. So that solved the problem.
Once the vehicles were on site and the two diesels had departed, our Peckett 0-4-0 'PECTIN' was put to work for a couple of hours shunting the vehicles into the order we wanted them. So ended a very enjoyable morning.' Many thanks John, a relief to you at Yeovil Railway Centre and of great interest to us.

This is on the Railway Centre site. Copyright John Cornelius

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