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Items added on June 14th 2017                                                                                                        Those added most recently come first

14/6/2017

 
A Rare Event as D6757 hauls a test train to St Ives in daylight hours
Photographs by Andrew Triggs and Roger Winnen

This train was the 3Q52 22.29 Exeter Riverside to Penzance via Gunnislake to Penzance then St Ives before returning to Penzance. (The section between Bere Alston to Gunnislake was omitted)
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170614d At 05.45 the train is seen going away through Lelant Station. Copyright Roger Winnen
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170614zi D6757 Heads through the quiet station of Lelant. Copyright Andrew Triggs
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170614i D6757 Arrives at St Ives, its 06.08. Copyright Roger Winnen
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170614zh Departure from St Ives as the train crosses Porthminster Viaduct. Copyright Andrew Triggs
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170614q The train is seen stabled at Penzance during the long hours of daylight. Copyright Roger Winnen
More photographs will be found in the features pages of this train
The Railway at Bude
What little remains today!
Roger Winnen

Having not been to Bude for many years I decided to plan a trip using public transport via Liskeard, Launceston to Bude and returning via Plymouth. Travel via Liskeard is only available Mondays to Fridays. Group Travel Route 236 Opposite Liskeard Station adjacent to the Stag Inn 11.27 Launceston Westgate Street 12.15 then Stagecoach Route 6a from Westgate Street at 12.30 arriving Bude Strand 13.12. Return from Bude Strand at 15.20 on Plymouth City Bus 12b route arriving at Plymouth Railway Station at 17.52 On Saturdays the only route available is via Plymouth.
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170612a Narrow gauge rails at Bude where sand was conveyed in trucks and transported into barges. Copyright Roger Winnen
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170612b The lockgates to the Bude Canal, at the lower level to the left was the narrow gauge tramway to move the sand. Copyright Roger Winnen
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170612c This bridge once carried the railway to the wharves at Bude leaving the main line on entry to the railway Station, it is now the cycleway.. Copyright Roger Winnen
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170612d About the Bude nature reserve and the Railways of Bude, showing the Railway Station top right which closed in 1966 Copyright Roger Winnen
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170612e Bullied Way built on the site of the old Bude Station. Copyright Roger Winnen
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170612f A plaque in Bullied Way to Celebrate 100 years since the line was opened in 1898. Copyright Roger Winnen
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170612g Another Plaque which reads Station Clock commemorating 25 years since the building of Bullied Way Estate on the site of the Railway Station in 2010
New Signalling on Cornish Main Line
Roy Hart and Nigel Tregoning


​Dear Keith, I note from Network Rail's site and elsewhere, that the contract for phase 1 of the Cornwall resignalling has been let to Atkins Engineering. The contract is worth 9 million and is for the St Erth - Truro section. It is designed to facilitate 2 trains per hour west of Plymouth from December 2018 and includes the provision of '12 new signals and the upgrading of 7 level crossings'. I believe that this will take the form of extra signals controlled from Roskear Junction by a miniature panel there. http://www.railstaff.uk/2017/06/12atki...cornwall/  Once on this website click into UK Rail News and scroll down All the best, Roy
Many thanks to you Roy and also to Nigel Tregoning who also advised us of this interesting development.

Semaphores
Andrew Jones

Andrew sends us a couple of reminders of Exeter St Davids in the 1980 and very recent  pictures of semaphores which are fortunately still in use on a preserved railway. This railway is really out of our area of coverage. Nevertheless Andrew, many thanks.
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Exeter West end - remember the box, now at Crewe. 1980 Copyright Andrew Jones
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Exeter in 1980 - the middle box still in use. Red Cow Level Crossing remains in use to this day - still protected by a railway official. 1980. Copyright Andre Jones
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2857 passes the starter at Bewdley. 7th June 2017. Copyright Andrew Jones
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A profusion of lovely semaphores at Bewdley - 7th June 2017. Copyright Andrew Jones
West Somerset
Gala June 2017
John Ball & John Cornelius

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The Western rolls to a stand - an action shot. 9th June 2017 Copyright John Ball
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Put aside for a day or two during the diesel gala. Copyright John Cornelius.
For more pictures of this busy weekend see Features - click here
Taunton
John Cornelius
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Copyright John Cornelius

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