Cornwall Railway Society visit the Gartell Light Railway
29th May 2023
Roger Winnen
29th May 2023
Roger Winnen
This being the first of three planned excursions over the Summer Period of 2023. With rail strikes loaming we kept our fingers crossed. Allowing more time needed for our trip to Exeter we opted for the 07.40 Cardiff service to Exeter St David's before crossing to Platform 1 for the 11.25 service to Templecombe. Arriving at Penzance Station at 07.20 we were informed that the service had been cancelled, our next option being the 08.15 service to Paddington being a five car IET, an annoucement being made on board the train advised passengers that at Plymouth a 9 Car IET would be used for the rest of the journey. Would we make the connection at Exeter! We arrived with 5 minutes to spare. Panic over for the time being! Returning home at Exeter our two trains arrived at the same time. a dash was made with passengers running down the platform from one train to the other a scene like the rush hour in London.
230529b No 9 Jean an 0-4-0 Tender tank was designed and built by Dr Alan White and named after his late wife, it entered service in 2009 Copyright Roger Winnen
230529h Number 9 is seen coupled to its train at Park Lane. Copyright Roger Winnen
230529m Number 6 Faith arrives at Pinesway Junction. Copyright Roger Winnen
Moving the stock at the end of the day at Common Lane. Copyright Roger Winnen
We had a superb day at the Gartell Light Railway, the staff being very helpfull to us all. The refreshments were very much welcomed on a very hot day.
Many Thanks to you all
Many Thanks to you all
Network Rail Training Centre
Bristol Parkway
Driver Alan Peters.
Bristol Parkway
Driver Alan Peters.
An interesting view of Health and Safety training when climbing signal ladders at the Network Rail Training Centre at Bristol Parkway on 25/05/23, this former Royal Mail sorting hub for mail trains. I wonder what the group of trainees would make climbing signal ladders of lofty signals to change the oil lamps which was the case in Cornwall right up to the nineties where a 'lamp man' was still employed.
Driver Alan Peters
Driver Alan Peters
Bristol Parkway Network Rail Training Centre. 30th May 3023. Copyright Driver Alan Peters.
An extremely interesting picture Alan. All very correctly dresed and equiped in safety gear- it's interesting to know too what use is being made of the former Mail Hub.
Westbury VQ
Driver Alan Peters
Driver Alan Peters
Picture of Colas Rail Freight 70808 at Westbury VQ (Virtual Quarry) awaiting to depart with 6M40 to Stud Farm with 19 empty IOA wagons on 25th May 2023, the train will return fully loaded in the early hours of the morning.
Driver Alan Peters
Driver Alan Peters
Westbury to Studd Farm. 30th May 2023. Copyright Driver Alan Peters
Many thanks Alan - looks a superb evening.
Brian on the move from
Bodmin General
Phillip Hawke
Bodmin General
Phillip Hawke
Keith,
This little Ruston diesel shunter has been in store at Bodmin for many years having arrived from the former North Devon Shunter Group that was based at Bideford station. It was one of the loco fleet at the Meeth clay works. It's now heading for St Blazey as a part of the turntable project. One of the same class, or very similar, was used by the contractor's E Thomas when laying a sewer pipe along the St Ives branch in the early 1970's and also for the building of Long Rock diesel depot. It was last seen in "store" at a scrapyard near Carharrack. I wonder if it is still there?
Phil
This little Ruston diesel shunter has been in store at Bodmin for many years having arrived from the former North Devon Shunter Group that was based at Bideford station. It was one of the loco fleet at the Meeth clay works. It's now heading for St Blazey as a part of the turntable project. One of the same class, or very similar, was used by the contractor's E Thomas when laying a sewer pipe along the St Ives branch in the early 1970's and also for the building of Long Rock diesel depot. It was last seen in "store" at a scrapyard near Carharrack. I wonder if it is still there?
Phil
Brian at Bodmin General. 30th May 2023. Copyright Phil Hawke.
Many thanks for the news and photograph Phil, just the sort of thing we want - the details are very much appreciated.
You may be interested?
At the Martyn Rowe (Truro Auction Centre) auction there is the following
- 189 V arious photographs of the Redruth and Chacewater Railway, quarry photographs, postcards of Cheesewring Quarry and Carbean Quarry St. Austell, three albums containing a selection of railway locomotive photographs and others etc. £20 - 30
TWO DAY ONLINE COLLECTORS SALE
DAY ONE THURSDAY 1ST JUNE 2023 AT 10.00 AM