Items added on 20th March 2017 Those added most recently come first

It's rapid progress at Long Rock Depot
Roger Salter

Compare these photographs with the ones taken on March 17th shown on this site. Rapid progress has been made on the erection of the new steelwork for the depot enlargement. All photographs by Roger Salter

 Exeter Spring Running Day
A Memorium to Philip Platt
Roger Winnen

Sunday 19th March,2017 was a running day organised to commemorate the  proposed closure of Exeter Bus and Coach Station, and to remember the tremendous contribution of Philip Platt 1948-2016 to the preservation movement. For the many thousands of passengers who pass through the city's bus station each week, a change of scene is coming. This two level bus station has been with us since July 1964 over 50 years and it is shortly to close, the site being redeveloped, with a more compact bus station to be built as a modern replacement
This event was Organised by the Devon General Omnibus Trust (DGOT) in association with Stagecoach South West

170319a A former Exeter Corporation 1948 Leyland Titan in immaculate condition was one of the stars of the show. Copyright Roger Winnen

170319b Through the windscreen of AFJ 727T a Western National coach we see the line into Exeter St Davids crossing over at Alphington. Copyright Roger Winnen

170319c Viewed from the top deck of the 1948 Exeter Corporation Bus we pass Topsham Station. Copyright Roger Winnen

170319d Buses to Exeter St David's Station. 83C Was the code for Exeter Shed. Copyright Roger Winnen

170319e A line up of old and new Double Deckers displaying destinations served by buses and trains. Copyright Roger Winnen

Well worth another look try the link below
Okehampton to London

-  GWR did a fantastic job to recover the situation and get the passengers to London only 38 late, and thereafter everything went like clockwork. I've put a short report on our website at http://www.dartmoor-railway-sa.org/news and I wonder if you might like to publish the link.
kind regards
Jon Kelsey
Dartmoor Railway Supporters' Association

Skating past
​Keith Barrow

153333 leaves the Dawlish Warren area and heads for the seafront. Note the skates parked alongside the track. Picture by Keith Barrow copyright - by kind permission.

​Dear Keith Barrow. Nice photo, but I would just like to put you on the right track (no pun intended) unfortunately the two skates in your photo are actually trailers and are used for transporting tools and materials to and from work sites by excavators when in a possession, as you will see in the first photo below.
Looking at the second photo below you will see a skate fitted to the wheel on a carriage, out of shot on the opposite wheel is another and they are used to move a train that has defective wheels, axles or traction motors.  By Mick House.  

Excavator and trailer on the Dart Valley Railway. Copyright Mick House.

Wheel skate under a VEP motor coach. Copyright Mick House.

Culmstock
John Cornelius

There are connections - the power unit from this locomotive was transferred to D7612 currently on the South Devon Railway. Copyright John Cornelius