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Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: Porkway Partway
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on: August 05, 2020, 21:41:08
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I thought the PP station was already fully funded even before the recent announcement of funding or is it a blinder to mask the inflation since the last funding package was announced. How much of the present funding package will WECA» /Mayor Bowles actually sign cheques for since the project has already been through the GRIP▸ process. Mayor Bowles has to me an irritating habit of being foted at the completion of projects many of which were conceived before WECA existed.
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Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Route Availability of GWR Steam Engines and Associated Matters
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on: August 04, 2020, 17:25:01
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A friend living in Falmouth told me the story of its return to Plymouth. The loco was turned at Penance, the fire dropped and towed back to St Blazey. At St. Blazer the engine was split from the tender but the CE Dept would not let the engine to be towed back over the RAB without lightening so the boiler was emptied of water and the coupling rods removed which placated the CE Dept to an extent and a small prairie tank was used to tow the engine from Saltash having been brought from SB▸ by an 28xx.
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Where was Bmblbzz buzzing around on Sunday?
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on: August 04, 2020, 16:55:19
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I was bumbling around on my lean green machine when I found this not so lean, equally green, mean machine (note that neither could be described as clean ). Site identification should be easy but I'd be interested to know precisely what its function was and how long for? It is a fireless steam engine used to shunt the coal wagons around the generating site, recharged by the copious amounts available of steam at site but where foto taken I haven't the foggiest.
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions / Re: HSTs - main line operational into the future
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on: August 04, 2020, 11:52:11
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Was'nt the Midland Pullman an all 1st class service at launch becoming 1st and 2nd class later. On electrification the two 6 car sets transferred to the WR with the two sets coupled running as the up morning and down evening Bristol Pullman's with the sets being split at Padd to form the midday service to Bristol and return with the second set operating a return Padd to Oxford service. WR had 8 car sets which operated the South Wales Pullman, the Birmingham Pullman and the Bristol Pullman. I travelled on it a few times to get home for a weekend but never partook in food or refreshments as the cost was more than the single fare and 5/- (five shillings) Pullman supplementary fare. In the back of my mind I do recall the Blue Pullman set displaced by the transfer of the 2 X 6 cars Midland Pullman sets to the WR and used on the Bristol Pullman was utilised on a Plymouth Pullman but that service didn't last long. Any forum poster able to add further to my comments here as my memory is a bit rusty on this matter although I do clearly remember watching the Farewell Pullman Railtour traversing Westerleigh Junction on its way to Birmingham. I also remember the Bristol Pullman set being on a Bristol to Leeds service on a Saturday carrying the Bristol City Football Club players and Directors and Officials and supporters who could afford the extortionate fare which did include breakfast outbound and dinner returning for an FA Cup match. I had to be content with a seat on one of the other 6 football specials run for the match that day which City lost.
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions / Re: The end of coal
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on: August 02, 2020, 14:45:31
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From my transporting days it was a common practice to cut out a coal wagon full of coal that had developed a hot box to be cut out of a coal train at Stoke Gifford yard and shunted to the cripples siding and over a matter of days that wagon would empty of its contents. One of my schoolchums residing in Harry Stoke would tell me of how he spent the weekend emptying a coal wagon in the yard behind his home so that the wagon could be repaired. By the way his father was a rail worker and many residents of Harry Stokes never shivered in their homes in winter.
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Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Devon / Re: Marsh Barton Station
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on: August 01, 2020, 11:06:31
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Hopefully this will now proceed without further delay. The only quibble I have is allowing private motor vehicle access to the station site - given it's principal raison d'être it should be accessible only on foot, by bicycle or a frequent Marsh Barton Trading Estate shuttle bus service preferably using electric or hybrid vehicles.
What's the betting this will up and running before either Portway Parkway or Portishead ?
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Where was Red Squirrel 21/07/2020
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on: July 23, 2020, 12:55:00
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I beg your pardon; i have allowed myself to become confused. Mina Road is not on the right track. Sorry to mislead. Bannerman Road, however, is.
Got my road mixed up should have posted Glenfrome Road but then it was wrong. Should have realised it was Gypsy Patch Lane having passed under that bridge having been employed at Rolls Royce for 37 years. I recommend going and having a look while you still can. It is weird without the traffic; somehow it seems much narrower and smaller than I remember it. And so quiet! I too was at Rolls, though I only did 20 years. I seem to remember that I may have occasionally passed under this bridge heading for a lunchtime session at No.6 Shop, or 'Stokers' as they call it these days... In my days at RR no 6 shop was called The Magpies
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Where was Red Squirrel 21/07/2020
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on: July 23, 2020, 11:56:28
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I beg your pardon; i have allowed myself to become confused. Mina Road is not on the right track. Sorry to mislead. Bannerman Road, however, is.
Got my road mixed up should have posted Glenfrome Road but then it was wrong. Should have realised it was Gypsy Patch Lane having passed under that bridge having been employed at Rolls Royce for 37 years.
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Fares Fair Quiz Question
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on: July 23, 2020, 11:46:23
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With the lockdown i've been setting the odd (some say very odd) quiz quearition for SWRS» .
Between what two stations 8m 12c apart by dierect rail line does it cost a minimum of £20.80 and take a minimum of 1hr 28mon?
I can't answer you question ... but I offer you four that I looked up while I was waiting for a meeting this morning (assuming National Rail trains) Chathill to Berwick-upon-Tweed South Ruislip to South Greenford Patchway to Bristol Parkway Tamworth to Polesworth Pewsey to Bedwyn
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