Roaming around Devon
with a Ranger Ticket
Part 1
Roger Winnen
with a Ranger Ticket
Part 1
Roger Winnen
230903a Join the queue for the 08.15 Penzance to Paddington service. Copyright Roger Winnen
230903b 150243 Departs Dawlish with a service to Paignton. Copyright Roger Winnen
230903bb The new and the old at Dawlish. Copyright Roger Winnen
230903c Cross Country Voyager the 09.30 Penzance to Edinburgh passes Dawlish. Copyright Roger Winnen
230903d The new Dawlish. Copyright Roger Winnen
230903dd The new bridge at Dawlish awaits its customers. Copyright Roger Winnen
230903e Passing the Railway Club at Exeter St Thomas. Copyright Roger Winnen
10 minutes at
Treesmill
Jon Hird
Treesmill
Jon Hird
Please find attached two photos taken just 6 minutes apart earlier today (4th Sept. 2023) at Treesmill.
The first of 43155 (with 43153 on the other end) working the 11:50 Penzance to Plymouth service (With a mystery photographer on the bridge if you look closely!).
Then 66190 hot on its heels en route for Fowey via Lostwithiel with 13 JIA’s full of white gold! (I guess the photographer wasn’t into 66’s as he seems to have vanished in this photo!).
Nice to have a bit of sunny weather up here in mid-Cornwall after what feels like an eternity of gloom and Cornish ‘mizzle’!
All the best, Jon
The first of 43155 (with 43153 on the other end) working the 11:50 Penzance to Plymouth service (With a mystery photographer on the bridge if you look closely!).
Then 66190 hot on its heels en route for Fowey via Lostwithiel with 13 JIA’s full of white gold! (I guess the photographer wasn’t into 66’s as he seems to have vanished in this photo!).
Nice to have a bit of sunny weather up here in mid-Cornwall after what feels like an eternity of gloom and Cornish ‘mizzle’!
All the best, Jon
Treesmill with a mystery photgrapher. 4th September 2023. Copyright Jon Hird
66190 at Treesmill. 4th September 2023. Copyright Jon Hird.
Thanks Jon. Sorry no idea who the mystery photographer is.
Chacewater - Newquay remnents
St Agnes & Goonbell
Howard Sprenger
St Agnes & Goonbell
Howard Sprenger
Herewith three photos taken in August 1977 on the Chacewater to Newquay line. The station building at St Agnes still exists, surrounded by a small industrial estate, but when I returned to the site of Goonbell Halt a couple of years ago, the cutting had been filled in up to the level of the road bridge. I wonder whether the halt still lies beneath - I bet the platform does! By the bridge, some spear fencing and a gate still marked the entrance.
Best regards, Howard.
Best regards, Howard.
St Agnes 14th August 1977 (1) Copyright Howard Sprenger.
St Agnes 14th August 1977 (2) Copyright Howard Sprenger.
Goonbell Halt 14th August 1977. Copyright Howard Sprenger.
Many thanks Howard. Going past the Goonbell site recently on a U1C bus confirms the bridge wall and railings still exist - these can be seen on Google Earth street view. Agreed that the platform remains and I believe that the building was simply crushed by buiding waste being tipped in over it. The cutting towards St Agnes station and Goonbell is completly lost.
HST's
a long way from home
Bill Elston
a long way from home
Bill Elston
Hi Keith,
For HST followers, the vessel, BBC Arkhangelsk carrying HST vehicles to Mexico, is now at anchor off Corpus Christi,USA, having arrived
on September 4 at 0237 UTC. Will any more make that trip??
Best wishes, Bill Elston
For HST followers, the vessel, BBC Arkhangelsk carrying HST vehicles to Mexico, is now at anchor off Corpus Christi,USA, having arrived
on September 4 at 0237 UTC. Will any more make that trip??
Best wishes, Bill Elston
Many thanks for that Bill - thats about 4,238 miles from Laira as the 'crow flies' - some crow!