7th January 2020

   Don't forget our meeting this coming Saturday
   Saturday 11th at 6.30PM          
Brian Aston's New Year Railway Sound and Light Show. This will be another of Brian's whirlwind explorations of (mainly) railway happenings, spiced with his usual selection of quirky, amusing or hair-raising video clips.

​      For details of the venue please click here.

66957 'Stephenson'  on CWR Rail Train Penzance
Roger Winnen & Andrew Triggs

A Freightliner 66957 Stephenson Locomotive Society 1909-2009 worked the 6Y97 from Westbury to St Austell via Penzance this evening with a rail train

Arrival at Penzance of 66957 Named The Stephenson Locomotive Society 1909-2009 Copyright Andrew Triggs

A close up of the nameplate. Copyright Andrew Triggs

200107d Looking towards the buffer stops at Penzance. Copyright Roger Winnen

Arriving from Paddington is 802009 on the 17.04 from Paddington. Copyright Andrew Triggs

200107a Viewed from the steps leading up to the former balcony. Copyright Roger Winnen

200107c Close up of the rail train prior to backing out to sloppers for the engine to run around. Copyright Roger Winnen

Exeter Panel Box
​Paul Barlow

Very early days in the construction of Exeter Panel box - December 1982 Copyright Paul Barlow

Many thanks to you Paul for sending in the above picture of the early stages of the construction of the Power Box at Exeter and a reminder taken by our Chairman Dennis Flood of our most interesting visit to the box on the 4th May 2019.

Various members of the CRS party on the society visit to Exeter Panel Box. Group on the 4th May 2019 Copyright Dennis Flood

Westbury Freight
Ron Kosys

A bright sky makes for a nice shot of 47284 and 59001 on a stone and oil trains at Westbury 11th August 1988. Copyright Ron Kosys

Focussing now on 59001 with its loaded stone train we see that it has moved slightly forward. Westbury 11th August 1988. Copyright Ron Kosys