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Items added on the 29th October 2016                                                                                         Those added most recently come first

29/10/2016

 
Once an everyday scene at
Taunton
John Cornelius
PictureA pity it isn't the daily scene at Taunton nowadays but fortunately Dumbleton Hall is still with us. Note the young lad complete with loco number book looking along the platform. Copyright John Cornelius
Merehead Quarry
Mike Morant

Picture
Not exactly railway but seen at a rail event! Seen at the Merehead 75th Anniversary of Foster Yeoman on the 26th June 1998 a Foden steam tractor of 1923 vintage. It has compound cylinders and has 2 gears. The registration is PC9928. Picture courtesy the Mike Morant Collection
Further on the
Carn Brea branch & quarry

John Root
Hi Keith
You could well be right. However the end of the branch would undoubtedly had a run around loop and sidings. Leave the verdict to the jury? Of a loco on the inside line running round or indeed a steam plum from some kind of hoist machinery which you can see in front-below the parked wagons on ‘this’ edge of the embankment?
 Perhaps-maybe not?  JR

And further thoughts - half an hour later. . Bit of dog plus bone perhaps?
I did some drawing in red & blue on a snip of your scan. There appears something behind the tracks (outlined in red) which on re-reflection actually looks like some kind of kiln with a dark access way on the extreme left of the working face. If you look carefully at the base of the emission you can see it curves out of the top of some kind of flue which is visible under it!
The blue structures appear to be a water tank on a plinth and some kind of hoist in front of the rail lines. JR


Picture
JR;s sketches.
My thanks to John for doing his very best to 'Root it out' (Apologies for that)
The original picture is taken from a point about 640 yards east of the quarry, very near where I live. If you look at the area on Google Earth you will see the quarry on the east face of the Carn. There was obviously more working at the quarry long after the railway had gone. A  'lower level' access cut through what would have been the rail formation.  Looking at the 'lie of the land' the slope of the Carn shows no sign of sidings. Maybe trucks were simply pushed up from the siding and head shunt alongside the main line.  There is a track diagram of the main line end on our section on the Carn Brea Quarry branch in 'Cornwall Galleries'. 

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