Hi Keith A visit to Falmouth to see some water based vessels, also produced a few pleasant train opportunities too!
I rarely take photos at Truro, I find the light poor most of the time, and the trains are "hemmed in" by the overall roofs. 43079 looks rather nice on the rear of a set with a Penzance - London service.
Prior to this, FGW Driver Lee Macdonald looked from his power car door whilst his Paddington to Penzance train was at Truro. I managed to catch the up service between the signals too.
Finally, with all the careful preparations for the Tall Ships event, the Saturday evening service was disrupted with a set problem at Perranwell. The brakes jammed on, and the set eventually limped to Truro, leaving the one 3 car set to soldier on the branch service with an hourly frequency. Full credit to the FGW team at Falmouth for keeping everyone informed, and getting road transport sorted so promptly. 153370 leads a class 150/2 the one working train into Falmouth around 8.15 on Saturday 30th. The point work in the foreground is planned to be removed at some point, so was also worth a picture. Kind regards Craig Many thanks Craig.
I rarely take photos at Truro, I find the light poor most of the time, and the trains are "hemmed in" by the overall roofs. 43079 looks rather nice on the rear of a set with a Penzance - London service.
Prior to this, FGW Driver Lee Macdonald looked from his power car door whilst his Paddington to Penzance train was at Truro. I managed to catch the up service between the signals too.
Finally, with all the careful preparations for the Tall Ships event, the Saturday evening service was disrupted with a set problem at Perranwell. The brakes jammed on, and the set eventually limped to Truro, leaving the one 3 car set to soldier on the branch service with an hourly frequency. Full credit to the FGW team at Falmouth for keeping everyone informed, and getting road transport sorted so promptly. 153370 leads a class 150/2 the one working train into Falmouth around 8.15 on Saturday 30th. The point work in the foreground is planned to be removed at some point, so was also worth a picture. Kind regards Craig Many thanks Craig.
A nice catch, FGW Driver Lee Macdonald with a service to Penzance looks out from his cab, while an up service approaches platform 3. 30th August 2014 Copyright Craig Munday
43079 brings up the rear on an up service, looking good in platform 3 at Truro. 30th August 2014 Copyright Craig Munday N.B. The barriers visible on the right of this picture are part of the 'crowd control' keeping the Falmouth branch, 'Tall Ships passengers' isolated from the main station.
153 370 leads the dedicated '150' into Falmouth Docks station. The run round loop visible in the grass to the right is scheduled to be recovered at some future date removing any possibility of docks traffic. 30th August 2014. Copyright Craig Munday
'Very little ships', 'tall ships' and even taller cranes at Falmouth Docks. 30th August 2014 Copyright Craig Munday