Items added on 30th July 2017 Those added most recently come first

Saturdays Outing
Ride Cornwall in a Day

Saturday 29th July 2017
Using Ride Cornwall ticket @ £10.75 with Railcard
You can either go to Penzance or St Ives not both owing to train connections)
 Train Night Sleeper Par 06.37 St Austell 06.45 Truro 07.04 Redruth 07.18 Camborne 07.25 St Erth 07.40 Penzance 07.53 or alight at St Erth for the 08.00 for St Ives 08.13/08.14 St Erth 08.26 arrive
Train departs Penzance 08.28 St Erth 08.36 Camborne 08.46 Redruth 08.52 Truro 09.02, Truro depart 09.20 Falmouth Docks 09.44 / 10.20 Truro 10.40 
Truro dep 11.05 Plymouth 12.32 Loco Hauled. Plymouth dep 12.54 Gunnislake 13.40 / 13.45 Plymouth 14.30 / 14.58 Newquay 16.47   Fish & Chips Cafe outside of station. Newquay dep 17.26 stay on the train to Liskeard 18.46 arrive  Liskeard 19.28 Looe 19.59 / 20.00 Liskeard 20.28
Liskeard 21.13 Bodmin Parkway 21.25 Par 21.38 St Austell 21.45 Truro 22.03 Redruth 22.17 Camborne 22.23 St Erth 22.34 and Penzance 22.44 Passengers may return home earlier by alighting from the 17.26 Newquay at Par 18.21 and catching the 18.28 all stations to Penzance
This event last Saturday ran to time with every train running to time and all connections being made.
The only problem was the weather which went from bad to worse from the early afternoon. However the Six who went on this outing enjoyed the travel and over 300 miles were covered

170729b 57602 Restormal Castle arrives St Erth on the Night Riviera conveying participants for our Tour of Cornwall. Copyright Roger Winnen

170729j The sleeping car passengers Tony Goulding and John Gallagher are relaxing in Truro Station aboard the 11.04 to Plymouth. Copyright Roger Winnen

170729v HST 90 Glorious Years arrives with our train into Newquay. Copyright Roger Winnen

170729s On arrival back into Plymouth we catch the Atlantic Coast Express for a non stop run to Loswithiel, Par and Newquay. We are passing Bodmin Parkway at speed with 4247 about to depart. Copyright Roger Winnen

A full selection of photographs appear in the Features Pages Mid May to December 2017 of this event

Push and Pull at
Southampton
Michael Forward

47297 0n a mixed eastbound Speedlink working. A lucky shot as a class 73 goes the other way pushing some 4TC sets. 10th September 1988 Copyright Michael Forward

More of Southampton in our August issue

Silverton
Ron Kosys

​For a few years in the late 1980’s, Redland used the Speedlink network to distribute some of their products around the country.
Two of the loading points were Eling Wharf, Totton, Southampton and Tiverton Junction, where roof tiles produced at Burlescombe were loaded.

47213 passes Silverton 8th September 1989, heading from Exeter Riverside with four empties for loading at Tiverton Junction. Copyright Ron Kosys

Well, well, it's a small world!
Alan Harris

Devon Quarryman at Meldon Quarry 25th June 1978 Copyright Jeremy Doe

Alan Harris writes :- You may recall that I requested Mr Jeremy Doe's email address following the photo he sent of the Devon Quarryman Rail tour driven by his grandfather, Rudley Lethbridge. (Standing by the buffer)  I made contact with Mr Doe by email and it turns out that his great grandfather, Mr Thomas Lethbridge is also my great grandfather. A small world. eh?
​               Nice that this CRS site joins long lost relations.

Thornford Halt
John Cornelius

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 23 March 1936 as Thornford Bridge Halt. It was renamed in the 1960s to its present shorter name. Copyright John Cornelius