Long Rock from far away
By Mick House.
You know when you have got time on your hand and you are down at Marazion on high photographing St Michael's Mount, you look back towards Penzance and think I just as well take a shot of the new Long Rock Depot and it is coming on very well.
By Mick House.
By Mick House.
The new Long Rock Depot from Marazion. Copyright Mick House.
Nocturnal Exeter
Martin Scane
Martin Scane
Hi Keith A few shots taken this evening at Exeter St Davids during an enforced wait after a train cancellation (due to a staff member being unavailable). Anyway, please use some of the snaps (taken with my mobile) if you wish. Martin Many thanks Martin
A general scene at Exeter St Davids at about 18.50 on the 21st October 2017 150131 looks ready to depart on a service to Barnstaple whilst opposite freshly repainted 143618 waits to head west. Copyright Martin Scane
159014 has just arrived with a service from Waterloo and waits to depart for the sidings. It will be shame when we see the last of the smart livery of South West Trains brightening up the stations. Is the GW tiled description of the services available in the rooms below still true, anyway the night time lighting brings out this interesting feature very well. 21st October 2017. Copyright Martin Scane
An up GW service pauses at platform 5 on the 21st October 2017 Copyright Martin Scane. Talking of liveries - we were perhaps shocked when the 'blue' first came out but now accept it, but are we pleased at the 'green'.
A Cross Country service waits to depart north on the 21st October 2017 Copyright Martin Scane. This livery is very smart and contrasts with earlier rather garish red carried by Virgin Trains. One aspect of these trains which is not pleasing is the noise emitted from the power units under each coach. To those seated on the platforms the departure of these trains is like the removal of a headache!
Many thanks to Martin for these images - how mobiles have improved.
Chacewater
Roger Winnen
Roger Winnen
A super study of the scene at Chacewater in April 1973. A lot of interest here, the presflo wagons, the furthest one having the Blue Circle logo. The cement silo dominates the signalbox, note the oil tail lamp sitting alongside the dustbin and the recently installed light over the signalbox door. Copyright Roger Winnen
Within minutes of Rogers picture appearing on the site, Roy Hart, from far off Burma comes back with this very welcome information. Many thanks Roy.
Dear Keith,
I note your comment about newly-installed electric light at Chacewater box in the early 1970s. I was a regular visitor to Chacewater box in the 1960s and I vividly remember the signalman's daily teatime ritual of lighting the Tilley lamp. We would then sit in semi-gloom accompanied by the gentle hissing of the lamp. In the days when the station was open, seven or eight of these had to be hoisted around the station. Scorrier, Carn Brea etc were the same.
The lamps were known as 'Challows' after the station near Swindon where they were devised and first used.
Chacewater box got electric light just before it closed!
How many of us could light and run a Tilley today?
Roy
Dear Keith,
I note your comment about newly-installed electric light at Chacewater box in the early 1970s. I was a regular visitor to Chacewater box in the 1960s and I vividly remember the signalman's daily teatime ritual of lighting the Tilley lamp. We would then sit in semi-gloom accompanied by the gentle hissing of the lamp. In the days when the station was open, seven or eight of these had to be hoisted around the station. Scorrier, Carn Brea etc were the same.
The lamps were known as 'Challows' after the station near Swindon where they were devised and first used.
Chacewater box got electric light just before it closed!
How many of us could light and run a Tilley today?
Roy
The Calne Branch
Keith Jenkin
Keith Jenkin
There is a little coverage of the Calne Branch on our section entitled Bathampton Junction to Chippenham incl. Calne branch
Allthough not new but I have just found a Youtube collection featuring the branch as a public footpath/cycle way can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUXmKyY4XI N.B. The footage also contains aerial views and several very short videos taken during the operational life of the branch. There are also other Calne events - non railway.
Calne station, the station platform can be seen ahead as the driver eases the brakes to make a gentle approach to the buffers. A photograph taken with a half frame camera during the last few days of the branch - all the sidings had been disconnected, the branch operating as a long siding from Chippenham. August 1965. Copyright Keith Jenkin
Swanage
John Cornelius
John Cornelius
Copyright John Cornelius