St Blazey
Mike Hitchens
Mike Hitchens
37207 William Cookworthy at St Blazey. Since moved to the Plym Valley Railway and then to Barrow Hill. Courtesy Mike Hitchens Collection
Yeovil Junction to Pen Mill
Out with the old and in with the new
Guy Vincent
Out with the old and in with the new
Guy Vincent
Guy writes:- Looking at my collection of newspaper cuttings I found two from exactly 20 years ago might be of interest. They feature the demise of the old oil signal lamps at Yeovil Junction and Pen Mill. In more recent times the Junction area has been fully re-signalled with modern LED colour lights but Pen Mill still retains semaphores of both upper and lower quadrant design.
Guy Vincent. N.B. Cuttings and pictures were sent but I feel that these may fall foul of copyright laws.
Guy Vincent. N.B. Cuttings and pictures were sent but I feel that these may fall foul of copyright laws.
Mystery pictures
Updates by Brian Grigg & Chris Osment
Updates by Brian Grigg & Chris Osment
Originally thought to be in the Carn Brea area. However correctly positioned as being on the bank east of Par.by Roy Hart, The chine clay dry in the foreground was a clue as was signal wire to Par Harbour up distant. However, a fresh update from Brian Grigg, a retired S & T man who tells us that the train shown is heading east down the bank. Brian was in fact in the house on the right of this picture very recently. (April 2018). Many thanks to Brian. Photo credit Newton Abbot Library
GWR Broad & Mixed Gauge. 1870's. Location unknown Picture sent in by Don Asher, volunteer. Credit Newton Abbot Library. Chris Osment suggests :- Definitely just a guess, but...I wonder if this is a view taken just south of Uphill Junction looking northwards? There are several published photographs of broad-guage trains taken in roughly that area. If you can view a copy of Colin Maggs’s “The GWR Bristol to Taunton Line” (Amberley 2013) and look at the top photo on on p 76 of a BG Up train passing under Devil’s Bridge, note the signal on the ‘wrong’ side of the line. The photo on the CRS site may have been taken from a spot almost under the bridge looking in the opposite direction, showing the back of the same signal. But I may be completely wrong.....:-) Chris
Any further comment on the above picture - seems to fit in to me. KJ
Blue Anchor
John Cornelius
John Cornelius
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