10, Westbury, Wilts

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https://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/06/11/gloucester-docks-and-railways-part-3-over-junction-the-llanthony-branch-and-railways-to-the-west-side-of-the-docks/

You can still see the line of the rails at low tide, marked bu the ‘sleepers’. They can be seen from the road from Rottingdean as you approach Brighton.

It is the Science Museum that has the power of designating important

 
When the RHC was abolished it was

So from 2013, with the abolition of the Railway Heritage Committee, the Science Museum decides which railway artefacts are of sufficient importance to be designated for preservation.


Source https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldselect/ldsecleg/66/6603.htm and https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/about-us/railway-heritage-designation-advisory-board/

SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) press release gives more details
https://www.southwesternrailway.com/other/news-and-media/news/2020/july/after-more-than-80-years-of-service-island-lines-trains-ready-to-retire
Interested parties need to note this:

53808 moves to Mid Hants for rest of time before boiler certificate expires but may return

https://preservation.watercressline.co.uk/news/entry/watercress-line-welcomes-7f-53808-to-the-railway

https://www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk/news/detail/joint-press-release-from-the-somerset-dorset-railway-trust-ltd-and-the-west-somerset-railway-plc-about-locomotive-7f-53808

Two solutions have been used in the past. Those coming from Westbury/Salisbury tend to change the engine at Yeovil for servicing with the train being hauled by diesel from Yeovil and the steam loco travelling down later. It then takes the train back from Weymouth.

Those from Southampton have been hauled by attached diesel to Southampton and then by the steam engine via Laverstock.

Neither 'Traksy' nor 'OpenTrainTimes' show an engine release road on their maps.

Weymouth and Portland proving popular for cruise ships, from MarineTraffic, see attached screen shot

Yes, at Crewkerne the track was slewed toward the middle of the formation to allow for the raising of the platform prior to the introduction of the Class 159s. It also made more room for passengers to walk to that part of the platform beyond the bridge, as it was very narrow there. The goods yard has been developed for housing recently which would mean the road bridge would have to be rebuilt even if there was room for re-doubling.

August Modern Railways has an article on MetroWest (p71), as part of a feature on GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)(p59-81) Philip Sherratt provides an update on the plans.

Electrified in the 1960s, Bullock Pier Station was closed from the Central station in 1986. The last Loch Lomond steamer called there five years earlier.

Like Uckfield, Balloch Central station was moved to allow the removal of a level crossing.

Update on Cambridge guided busway saga with the Council suing BAM Nuttall

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/bam-nuttall-faces-legal-action-as-cambridgeshire-busway-row-resurfaces-20-07-2020/

https://www.bodmin-heritage-diesels.co.uk/home1/Freight.html

This link gives the details, the company was Fitzgerald lighting

His pub and coach house still stands.

https://www.g4fas.net/fmmmf.html

Wootton Bassett Road Station opened as temporary terminus of GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) in 1840. The GWR was opened from here to Chippenham on 31 May 1841. The temporary station remained in use here until 30 June 1841 . It was superseded by the permanent Wootton Bassett station on 30 July 1841. (source Wikipedia)

The temporary station was located about 4 miles (6.4 km) by road east of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.

One problem - this was not standard gauge.