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Title: Where have I been? Post by: grahame on May 22, 2021, 22:52:03 All new pictures from today, some blindingly obvious and others not so. Will write up / tell you more in the morning. Walked more today than or months!
1 - Melksham - johnneyw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip001.jpg) 2 - Old plateway on Portland (overlooking Forturneswell) - johnneyw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip002.jpg) 3 - Bridport branch near Maiden Newton - rogerw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip003.jpg) 4 - Causeway to Portland - old railway from Weymouth - ellendune (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip004.jpg) 5 - Maiden Newton Signal Box - TonyN (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip005.jpg) 6 - Weymouth, King's Road - line to start of old tramway - paul7755 (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip006.jpg) 7 - Weymouth - looking from old Weymouth Quay station - stuving (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip007.jpg) 8 - Weymouth Station - Western Pathfinder (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip008.jpg) 9 - Weymouth - eightonedee (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip009.jpg) 10 - Melksham - rogerw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip010.jpg) 11 - Sandsfoot Castle from the Rodwell trail - eightonedee (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip011.jpg) 12 - Trowbridge - Western Pathfinder (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip012.jpg) 13 - Fortuneswell - Hal (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip013.jpg) 14 - Westbury looking North and East - AMLAG (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip014.jpg) 15 - Portland, incline railway - bradshaw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip015.jpg) 16 - Castle Cary - PhilWakely (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip016.jpg) 17. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip017.jpg) 18 - Yeovil Town - brooklea (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip018.jpg) 19 - Castle Cary - rogerpatenall (confirmed by eXpassenger) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip019.jpg) 20 - Yeovil near Pen Mill towards Town - bradshaw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ftrip020.jpg) Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: paul7575 on May 22, 2021, 23:19:45 6. Weymouth. Looking in the up direction from the former Kings Rd level crossing, where the tramway commenced.
Paul Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: TonyN on May 22, 2021, 23:30:47 5. Maiden Newton Signal Box
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: stuving on May 22, 2021, 23:47:01 7. is also Weymouth, looking from near the Pavilion into Custom House Quay.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: johnneyw on May 23, 2021, 00:00:20 A bit surprised that no one has said "No.1 is Melksham Station".... so I will.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: grahame on May 23, 2021, 06:48:32 All correct so far ... and the locations guessed already will help towards identifying a lot of the others. Day report will be elsewhere.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: ellendune on May 23, 2021, 08:06:43 4 looks like the causeway from Portland to Weymouth presumably the path is the former railway line.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: bradshaw on May 23, 2021, 08:18:38 15 incline from one of the quarries in Portland which joined the Merchant’s Railway you can see on the slope beyond. That then ran down another incline to the quays below for shipping the stone to London and elsewhere.
Further east was the Admiralty incline which took stone to build the breakwaters using broad gauge track built out from the shore on trestles. Steam engines were used to move the trains of bottom-door wagons. Incidentally, I wrote the submission for the listing of the station and box at Maiden Newton some years ago. Spent many evenings in the box until it closed in 1988 Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: AMLAG on May 23, 2021, 09:00:05 14 Westbury North; left to Hawkeridge Jn/Trowbridge, right to Heywood Road Jn/Pewsey. Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: Western Pathfinder on May 23, 2021, 09:25:05 Weymouth Station stepped entrance No8.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: rogerw on May 23, 2021, 09:48:10 3 is the old Bridport branch from Maiden Newton, now a footpath. Surprised that nobody has mentioned 10 yet
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: grahame on May 23, 2021, 10:15:03 All correct so far -
1 - Melksham - johnneyw 3 - Bridport branch near Maiden Newton - rogerw 4 - Causeway to Portland - old railway from Weymouth - ellendune 5 - Maiden Newton Signal Box - TonyN 6 - Weymouth, King's Road - line to start of old tramway - paul7755 7 - Weymouth - looking from old Weymouth Quay station - stuving 8 - Weymouth Station - Western Pathfinder 14 - Westbury looking North and East - AMLAG 15 - Portland, incline railway - bradshaw Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: PhilWakely on May 23, 2021, 10:20:48 16 is Castle Cary looking west
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: brooklea on May 23, 2021, 11:34:48 18. is a car park in Yeovil, where Yeovil Town station once stood.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: eightonedee on May 23, 2021, 11:50:54 9 looks like one of the road signs left over from the days when trains ran through the streets of Weymouth - Commercial Road?
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: Western Pathfinder on May 23, 2021, 12:59:18 I think I've got No12 but it will need to wait for the 24 hrs rule anybody ?.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: johnneyw on May 23, 2021, 13:18:31 2 looks to be the remains of an old plateway but as for it's location? A quick look online for Dorset Plateway came up with one in Middlebere, Purbeck but that seems too distant from where you were exploring so instead, I'll take a punt at it being on Portland.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: grahame on May 23, 2021, 13:25:30 I think I've got No12 but it will need to wait for the 24 hrs rule anybody ?. There are so MANY pictures in this set ... I think a second guess within the 24 hours is reasonable, especially if the first one was the station steps in Weymouth :D Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: bradshaw on May 23, 2021, 14:21:12 If the second guess is permitted then
20 is track remaining between Yeovil Pen Mill and the old Yeovil Town stations, approximately near the GWR engine shed that was once here. Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: rogerpatenall on May 23, 2021, 15:24:00 19 Castle Cary, again - looking East
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: Hal on May 23, 2021, 15:59:53 Is 13 Fortuneswell in the Isle of Portland?
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: Western Pathfinder on May 23, 2021, 17:26:26 I think I've got No12 but it will need to wait for the 24 hrs rule anybody ?. There are so MANY pictures in this set ... I think a second guess within the 24 hours is reasonable, especially if the first one was the station steps in Weymouth :D Ok here goes No12 is the car parking area at Trowbridge...... Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: eXPassenger on May 23, 2021, 18:02:22 19 Castle Cary looking East.
I see I was second with this. Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: rogerw on May 23, 2021, 18:31:00 10 Melksham again
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: eightonedee on May 23, 2021, 18:44:24 Thanks for the derogation on the usual rules Grahame - I think 11 is Sandsfoot Castle seen from the footpath that runs along the old track bed of the Portland branch in the Wyke part of Weymouth.
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: grahame on May 23, 2021, 19:01:31 You are a hugely knowledgable bunch!
1 - Melksham - johnneyw 2 - Old plateway on Portland (overlooking Forturneswell) - johnneyw 3 - Bridport branch near Maiden Newton - rogerw 4 - Causeway to Portland - old railway from Weymouth - ellendune 5 - Maiden Newton Signal Box - TonyN 6 - Weymouth, King's Road - line to start of old tramway - paul7755 7 - Weymouth - looking from old Weymouth Quay station - stuving 8 - Weymouth Station - Western Pathfinder 9 - Weymouth - eightonedee 10 - Melksham - rogerw 11 - Sandsfoot Castle from the Rodwell trail - eightonedee 12 - Trowbridge - Western Pathfinder 13 - Fortuneswell - Hal 14 - Westbury looking North and East - AMLAG 15 - Portland, incline railway - bradshaw 16 - Castle Cary - PhilWakely 18 - Yeovil Town - brooklea 19 - Castle Cary - rogerpatenall (confirmed by eXpassenger) 20 - Yeovil near Pen Mill towards Town - bradshaw Just No. 17 left. Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: bradshaw on May 23, 2021, 19:22:20 Yeovil Pen Mill station, South Somerset District Council are trialling them in Yeovil
Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: johnneyw on May 23, 2021, 20:01:10 Yeovil Pen Mill station, South Somerset District Council are trialling them in Yeovil Ah, beaten to it but I have to agree. The Zwings website lists Yeovil as one of their locations and their next nearest locations are a little too far away. Title: Re: Where have I been? Post by: bradshaw on May 24, 2021, 08:56:39 The quarry tramways of Portland are well worth a day exploring. The late Brian Jackson produced an OPC book on them. There are the inclines, tunnels under modern roads and one place where a line to the weares, where stone was dumped over the cliff goes under another line passing over it.
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