Great Western Coffee Shop

Out and about, but where?

Made on new town?

Spell check or debilerate?  :P

I'll give it ya. Maiden Newton.

Total fluke bagging the Turbo. No idea it was on test on the Heart of Wessex today. Hadn't seen the other forum topic about the test run before I arrived. I was driving back from Bournemouth and decided to pull in as it's a station I've only ever passed through on the way to and from the seaside.

I'll post more pictures, and a bit of the gossip I had with the test crew, on the 'First Turbo to Weymouth?' thread later (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=19061.0).

It is a station well worth looking at. The gravity siding can still be recognised on the up side before the road bridge.
The up station building is interesting. The original building mirrors Castle Cary but in stone and flint. There were two extensions to this, on either side of the original, which was where the main doorway was. The posts for the roof of the Bridport branch can also be recognised.
The track running under the platform allow you to see that the Bridport branch was added later, there are two arches. Originally the Bridport train ran into the down line platform and left from there.
The station and signal box are listed

This station was frequented by Audrey fforbes-Hamilton and Richard DeVere in the 1980s. It was named Marlbury when they used it though.  :P ;) ;D

Soon to be an everyday scene.

Remember it well. I must say I did enjoy To The Manor Born.

I guess that's a Turbo on new territory?

During filming of 'To the Manor Born' they used a DMU which was stabled in the engineer's siding whenever the service Trains came through.

Still trying to work out the difference between the theme tune to that and Yes, Minister.

Both composed by Ronnie Hazlehurst. And, I agree, very similar.

He was very prolific for the BBC in the 1970s and 80s. Perhaps he was struggling for ideas and thought, let's just rehash one.  ;)

One thing I just learned from his Wikipedia entry is that the piccolo in the Some Mothers Do 'Ave' Em theme plays the programme title in Morse code.

As something of an amateur musician, I never cease to be astonished at the little snippets of musical information, that come my way via this forum !!

As did Barrington Pheloung in the theme for Inspector Ttorse...

Really?  :o

Fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u20sVtCxf_8

Ah, Inspector Morse - I did wonder whether that was a bit of static, interfering with the Morse signal.  :P

Actually that was sort of my point, for fear of hammering it home too hard - Pheloung lets artistic licence get the upper hand, and left a gap between the two dashes of M - thus making it TTORSE.

The things one learns, simply by reading this forum.  :P ::) :-[

That's how a stuttering Yorkshireman would say, "The horse"  ;D

Ah, the old QRN & possibly QRM (Maritime radio communication codes, now disused).  Showing my age.
Also apologies as way off topic...

I'm sure _... _. __ was happy to join us on this meander.

The last two dashes have merged into one unfortunately (making it a long T!)