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Items added on the 21st August 2016                                                                                         Those added most recently come first

21/8/2016

 
Day stock to Exeter
Jamie Dyke
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Par welcomes 57603 'Tintagel Castle' bringing 5P70 into Par after coming ECS from Penzance 20th August 2016 Copyright Jamie Dyke
The Plymouth Invader Railtour
Norwich - Plymouth and return
Roger Winnen & Andrew Triggs

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160820i 47854 & 47851 approaching Plymouth with the 04.50 Norwich to Plymouth, Copyright Andrew Triggs
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160820d The Plymouth Invader arrives Plymouth Station only 1 minute late. Copyright Roger Winnen
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160820dd The tour stands at Platform 5 of Plymouth Station. Copyright Roger Winnen
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160820k 47851 at the western end of the tour at Plymouth. Copyright Andrew Triggs
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160820e The leading engine of the tour runs around its train 47854 Diamond Jubilee. Copyright Roger Winnen
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160820j 47854 Diamond Jubilee running back onto the Tour Stock at Plymouth North Road. Copyright Andrew Triggs
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160820f 47854 overshadowed by the Office Block at Plymouth Station. Copyright Roger Winnen
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160820l The return leg of the 'Plymouth Invader' thundering through Newton Abbot. Copyright Andrew Triggs
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160820g Diamond Jubilee thunders through Newton Abbot. Copyright Roger Winnen
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160820m 47851 at the rear of the 1Z70 17.07 Plymouth-Norwich return leg of the WCR 'Plymouth Invador Tour which arrived at Norwich 01.03 Sunday Morning, running 1 min early. Copyright Andrew Triggs
The Restoration of Par Signal Box and the lonesome Class 70 at Laira
Roger Winnen  Andrew Triggs


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160820c 57603 Arriving Par with the 5P70 10.15 ECS Long Rock to Par passing the restored Par Signal Box. Copyright Andrew Triggs
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160820a The restoration of Par Signal Box looking spick and span in its chocolate and cream livery. Copyright Roger Winnen
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160821b Lonesome Class 70803 at Laira, a resident since the spring of 2016 following an accident between Tavistock Junction and Totnes near Ivybridge with Auto Ballaster wagons. Copyright Roger Winnen
Lyme Regis in 61
​Steve Richards
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Passengers move up the platform to greet the incoming train. 1961. Copyright Steve Richards

Now You See Me Now You Don’t.
By Mick House
 

The day the road closed over Saveock Bridge on the 27-06-2016 she was sitting without a care in the world, but this morning at 06.29 on the 21-06-2016 after the last lump of steel had been removed she was no more.
Photos and words by Mick House
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Before 27-06-2016 Happy Days. Photo by Mick House.
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After 21-08-2016 RIP. Photo by Mick House.
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The last bit of steel is removed. Photo by Mick House.
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Let us look on the bright side; the first bits of the new bridge have arrived on the back of a lorry and they are the parapet walls. Photo by Mick House.
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If you are wondering about the crane that was used it was from Baldwin’s with a capacity of 400 tonnes. Photo by Mick House.
Many thanks to Mick House - 'Up before the larks'.
John Cornelius returns to
Thornfalcon
​Further to Rob Lindley's query about the kissing gate at Thornfalcon,I went and had a look around this afternoon. (20th August 2016) I never knew it was there even though it is visible by the road side.
I've taken a few pics and put some dotted lines in as to where the line more or less ran.
 Pic 2] I've put the bridge in, in dots, to show roughly where it would have been.
 Pic 3] looking across the dual carriageway and roughly the course of the line L to R.
 Pic 4] From the field looking across the dual carriageway. The original road ran beside the building in the background, which was once Thornfalcon school, before swinging left up the embankment to cross the bridge,which would have been to the left in the pic.
 Pic 5] looking up the dual carriageway with the gate prominent and roughly the route of the line in dots.
 Perhaps you could pass this info and pics onto him to help him clarify the situation.
  enjoy  cheers JOHN C  
​Many thanks to John for his time trouble and travels.
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Picture 1 Copyright John Cornelius
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Picture 2 Copyright John Cornelius
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Picture 3 Copyright John Cornelius
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Picture 4 Old Thornfalcon School in the background. Copyright John Cornelius
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Picture 5. Copyright John Cornelius
Here today, gone tomorrow?
Penzance   Julian Stephens
Hello Keith
Assuming the building featured in the attached images will succumb to the Ponsandane redevelopment, can anyone inform me of its history?
Best wishes,  
Julian Stephens  Many thanks Julian - who can help?
This building was the Ponsandane Shunters Cabin, in steam and early diesel days a shunter was employed at Ponsandane, a second shunter was also employed at Penzance Station where the cabins still exist, but not used adjacent to the Signal Box. This photograph of the Ponsandane Cabin below suggest that it was built at about the same time as the former Goods Shed in 1937-1938.  However the Goods Shed was demolished in the late 1980s after traffic was moved onto the roads. The Goods Shed site is now Morrisons Supermarket.
Roger Winnen

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Mysterious building at Penzance. 1 25th March 2016 Copyright Julian Stephens
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Mysterious building at Penzance. 2 25th March 2016 Copyright Julian Stephens
Mortehoe & Woolacombe 2
Mike Morant
Another one from Mikes collection - there is clear evidence of a siding here, which according to Tony Cooke's Track Layouts  (15  North Devon), had been removed in early February 1965 - a nice neat job.
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BR_Mortehoe_GWRA130729_slide7C12 Mortehoe & Woolacombe looking towards Ilfracombe on 12/9/65.
[Mike Morant collection]

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