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Christmas Day
The national network may be closed but we carry on
Have a very good day.

The connection between Camborne and Trevithick is celebrated outside Camborne Parish Church with this depiction of his locomotive.. Careful timing was necessary here to freeze the action of the coupling rod! Copyright here our ever roaming photographer Roger Winnen.

Snow at St Ives!
Laurence Hansford

Good Evening Keith,
 
Since people have been sending in some seasonal snowy pictures I thought you might like these ones of St Ives in the Snow.  I apologise for their poor quality but I took them with my father’s pre-war Box Brownie.  Note the “icicle” hanging down the side of the water tank!  It must have been sufficiently cold to freeze the overflow so the water just found the lowest point to run down.  I can’t be sure which winter it was but I fancy it was 61/62 but at a pinch could have been 62/63.  There are 9 photos so I will send them in a couple of instalments.
 
Anyway, have a LOVELY CHRISTMAS.
 
Laurence

PS In case anybody is wondering how I was able to wander about all over the tracks, I was wearing my Govt. Surplus RN Submariner’s heavy sweater made of natural wool which made me invisible in the snow.  Also, of course, on a Sunday in the wintertime the station and its environs were always completely deserted!

Deep and crisp and even. A rare picture indeed of St Ives station under snow. Note the spare coaches stabled beyond the end of the run round loop. Copyright Laurence Hansford

The depth of the snow can be gauged by this view out across the frozen water tank. Copyright Laurence Hansford.

Another view of the water tank at St Ives. Copyright Laurence Hansford.

Even the water tank overflow has frozen! Copyright Laurence Hansford

The chilly view from the shed looking towards St Erth. Copyright Laurence Hansford

Snowbound St Ives. Copyright Laurence Hansford

Turning about and looking back towards the station, a real Christmas scene. Copyright Laurence Hansford.

Rare scenes indeed at St Ives. Copyright Laurence Hansford

-- and finally a very rare view which captures a coal wagon staled in the bay waiting to be unloaded. Copyright Laurence Hansford.

Very many thanks indeed Laurence for these pecious pictures captured with your Dads camera.  Can anbody date these, were they taken in 1962 as was thought,  or 1963?

St Agnes on Christmas Day 
Keith Jenkin 

This picture was actually taken on Christmas Day 1963 - precisely 53 years ago. Copyright Keith Jenkin. N.B. This sign, or maybe the one on the other side of the box can be inspected at the St Agnes Museum - open from Easter 2017 onwards.

One of the St Agnes signalbox plates is displayed above a model of the station in St Agnes Museum. Picture taken in May 2015 Copyright St Agnes Museum - Liz Thompson

Christmas Card from Waterloo
Victor Menhennet

However it's not the Waterloo you think!!  Victor an exile from Camborne and a true Cornishman lives at Waterloo, near Toronto.

A very attractive scene - but where's the railway connection - look on the mantlepiece. Victor is a keen supporter on the Waterloo Central Railway. Copyright Victor Menhennet.