Holt Junction
Martin Scane
Martin Scane
4472 passing through Holt Jct - between Thingley Junction and Bradford Junction. Thought to be the railtour advertised below. Courtesy Six Bells Junction website. N.B. Holt Junction remained open for trains for Devizes and Patney & Chirton until 18th April 1966. Copyright Martin Scane
16th August 1964 Warwickshire Railway Society
Swindon & Eastleigh Tour
Loco Used4472 'Flying Scotsman'Route :
LocoRoute
4472Sheffield - ??? - Saltley - Bordesley Jn - Camp Hill - Kings Norton - Bromsgrove - Cheltenham Spa - Standish Jn - Stroud - Kemble - Swindon
4472Swindon - Thingley Jn - Melksham - Bradford Jn - Westbury - Warminster - Salisbury - Romsey - Southampton - Eastleigh
4472Eastleigh Yard - Winchester - Worting Jn - Basingstoke - Southcote Jn - Reading West Jn - Didcot - Oxford - Wolvercot Jn - Aynho Jn - Banbury - Leamington Spa - Hatton - Tyseley - Small Heath - Bordesley Jn - (?reverse of outward route?) - Sheffield
Swindon & Eastleigh Tour
Loco Used4472 'Flying Scotsman'Route :
LocoRoute
4472Sheffield - ??? - Saltley - Bordesley Jn - Camp Hill - Kings Norton - Bromsgrove - Cheltenham Spa - Standish Jn - Stroud - Kemble - Swindon
4472Swindon - Thingley Jn - Melksham - Bradford Jn - Westbury - Warminster - Salisbury - Romsey - Southampton - Eastleigh
4472Eastleigh Yard - Winchester - Worting Jn - Basingstoke - Southcote Jn - Reading West Jn - Didcot - Oxford - Wolvercot Jn - Aynho Jn - Banbury - Leamington Spa - Hatton - Tyseley - Small Heath - Bordesley Jn - (?reverse of outward route?) - Sheffield
Treamble branch
Colin Burges
Colin Burges
This three mile 20 chain branch line was an extension of the Treffry Tramway route from Tolcarne to East Wheal Rose the extension having been carried out by the Cornwall Minerals Railway in 1874. The branch was further extended to by a mile to Gravel Hill however this section closed in 1888. In 1905 part of the route between a new Junction at Shepherds to Tolcarne was upgraded to form the Perranporth to Newquay section of the Chacewater to Perranporth branch which had opened in 1903. The line from Treamble to Shepherds closed 1st January 1952. N.B. It is understood that during WW2 a passenger train travelled the branch - this was a troop train. KJ remembers seeing a steam hauled demolition train on the branch during 1956.
Quite recently Colin Bruges exploring the route using his faithfull bicycle found that little remains of the branch other tha this structure over the branch formation which is still maintained by Network Rail. Structure No. 1 on the Branch, the bridge carrying the former A3075. It is more than a mile from the junction at Shepherds 13th August 2016 Copyright Colin Burges
Treamble Terminus Colin Burges The sort of oddity that I snap. In the dark of the old loading bay, a solitary, enterprising ash has made a bid for the speck of light in the roof. Copyright Colin Burges
Taunton
John Cornelius
John Cornelius
Copyright John Cornelius