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If you fancy a trip down memory lane, then click on the links below.

TransWilts/Heart Of Wessex/London-West 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/kvtwhowltw1963ttp1.pdf

http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/kvtwhowltw1963ttp2.pdf

Bristol-Bath via Mangotsfield/Severn Beach/Portishead 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/mangotsbeachportishead1963tt.pdf

Plymouth-Saltash 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/saltash1963tt.pdf

I am in the process of putting the entire Western Region 1963 Timetable online at the Rail Documents website, so if you have any requests for a particular service, post here and I will put it up for you.

I'm speechless...

Good points:

No 24 hour clock!
Lots of connections shown.

Bad points:

Very complicated.
Random digits missing!

Ah, yes ... Bristol and Portishead - even on 'Weekdays only' ...  ::) ???

Evening

I have a "Cornish Rivera" timetable somewhere, not
sure if its 1963 or 61?  But I can go to my local
library, I might be able to scan it there and send
by e-mail if they'll let me and if your interested?

Also do you plan to do other regions, as I have a
complete North Eastern timetable for 1963?  Lots
of long lost branches!

Agree it is amazing to look at, it just shows you
what we have lost and what a comparison to todays
in some cases excuse for a timetable.

Regards

Karl.

Rail Documents will be featuring items from all over the UK, so if you were able to scan and send them via e-mail, then that would be great.

"I could just imagine it now. Where does the 7.05 train go from young man?  "
" There's no 7.05 Madam!"
"But it says so right here in this publication!"
" Yes madam but that was this mornings"

Sorry the 24 hour clock is the only way to stop the confusion. Hang on a second, prehaps not ;D

Ashchurch-Evesham-Redditch-Birmingham 1963 Timetable (note the reference "Rail Service between Evesham and Redditch temporarily withdrawn - Alternative road services are operated at the times shown".)
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/ashchurchredditch1963tt.pdf

Chippenham-Calne/Maiden Newton-Bridport/Portsmouth-Cardiff 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/calnebridportcardiffports1963tt.pdf

London-Reading 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/londonreading1963tt.pdf

Liskeard-Looe/Bodmin-Padstow/Lostwithiel-Fowey/Par-Newquay 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/looepadstowfoweynewquay1963tt.pdf

Porth-Maerdy/Abercynon-Aberdare/Vale Of Glamorgan/Tondu-Porthcawl 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/maerdyaberdarebarryporthcawl1963tt.pdf


The extract below may also be of interest.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/24hourclock1963tt.pdf

Hi Lee,

I think you find the Ashchurch - Evesham - Redditch line belonged to the LMS. Although they were next to each other, Evesham actually had two stations, an LMS one and the existing GW one. In earlier times the line ran through Ashchurch to Tewkesbury, Upton on Severn and on to Malvern.

It was a useful diversion to the Lickey Incline. It is a real shame it was axed, but then again so many useful lines were axed at that time.

I think it was right to axe it as far as Evesham (although possibly not to rip up the line - as you said, a useful diversion route), but why it was severed between Evesham and Redditch I don't know (exactly as mad as axing between Honeyboune and Stratford - removing links and thus creating stubs).

They obviously had plans afoot already for the new motorway to use the track-bed (in the end it was the new A46 that was built).

As for the 24 hr clock. Even though I fully understand it, several hours such as 1700, 1900, 2100 cause me to have to stop and think and convert. Or I incorrectly think for a second that 1700 is 7pm, then I correct myself. I basically hate it! I would rather Digital Doris was a bit more human sometimes and said "platform X for the 5 past 4 train to Y" instead of "....for the sixteen o five service...."

Does anyone say "the time is seventeen o four?"

Yes, the Army :D

Quite right: for example, Battle of Blenheim, 13 August 1704     (http://www.takeforum.com/forum/images/smiles/77horsey.gif)

 ;) :D ;D

Thanks for that, Andy. Its in the 1963 WR timetable, though, which is what I'm currently working on and posting from.

Its also noticeable how many of the services in the WR timetable also appear in SR timetables of the same era, so you'll probably notice some crossovers in that respect as well.

:P

Yatton-Clevedon/Yatton-Cheddar-Wells-Shepton Mallet-Witham/Taunton-Martock-Yeovil/Yeovil Town-Yeovil Pen Mill/Junction 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/clevedoncheddarmartockyeovil1963tt.pdf

Truro-Falmouth/St Erth-St Ives 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/falmouthstives1963tt.pdf

West Drayton-Staines West/Slough-Windsor/Maidenhead-High Wycombe and Marlow/Twyford-Henley 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/staineswindsormarlowhenley1963tt.pdf

Taunton-Kingswear/Penzance 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/tauntonpenzancekingswear1963ttp1.pdf

http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/tauntonpenzancekingswear1963ttp2.pdf

Notes for the above plus Taunton-Minehead rail and Penzance-Scilly/Starcross-Exmouth ferry 1963 Timetable.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/tauntonpenzancenotesminehead1963tt.pdf