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586  Journey by Journey / Heart of Wessex / Re: Late change - extra service from 18th May 2020 on: May 19, 2020, 22:24:21
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587  Journey by Journey / Heart of Wessex / Re: Late change - extra service from 18th May 2020 on: May 19, 2020, 19:13:12
Out of curiosity, I noticed that the ecs from Westbury to Weymouth was running as 3V72 rather than its normal 5V71. It was under a very short train plan and ran earlier. It is the difference between class 3 and 5 that I am trying to understand.
588  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: What was your "last normal" picture? [DotD 17.5.20] on: May 17, 2020, 08:30:39
11th of March, Bell Lime kiln, unusual in that it still has the lime burners hut in front of it.
The house the other side was the Bell Inn, built on the site of a squatters house, built when you had to get the hearth lit within on day! It became a pub, The Heart’s Content.
The power lines are the main south western 400Kv grid.
589  Journey by Journey / Heart of Wessex / Re: Late change - extra service from 18th May 2020 on: May 16, 2020, 12:23:31
The service, since reconfigured, has seen ecs from Westbury first thing and to Westbury last thing in the day. I am not sure if Weymouth have a GWR (Great Western Railway) crew based there any more.

The late additions are services that were in the pre-virus WTT (Working Time-Table) hence the use of the 2Oxx and the 2Vxx codes rather than the 2Zxx codes
590  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: First West of England - Saturday service from Mon 23rd March during working week on: May 16, 2020, 08:31:50
First Bus of Somerset reintroducing Yeovil Bridport service from 10 May. One bus from Yeovil depot will operate the service.
0855 Yeovil to Bridport
1030 Bridport to Beaminster and return at 1058
1230 Bridport to Yeovil and return at 1625, thence empty to Yeovil depot
Yeovil to Bridport via Mosterton and Broadwindsor

First Wessex were going to stop their service on May 1 but the virus led to it ceasing on March 23. I believe Buses of Somerset continued their element of the service but have now come up with a modified version which allows travel between the villages to Bridport or Yeovil
591  Journey by Journey / Transport for London / Re: £1.6bn bailout for Transport for London. 14th May 2020 on: May 14, 2020, 20:20:36
This article gives a good background.

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/tfl-the-impossible-finances-of-fighting-a-pandemic/

592  Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions / Re: Preserved -> Heritage on: May 14, 2020, 08:10:27
This website explains conserve/preserve etc

https://www.kilnerjar.co.uk/a-guide-to-jams
593  Journey by Journey / London to Swindon and Bristol / Re: General Information - London to Swindon and Bristol (2.2020 refresh) on: May 10, 2020, 16:34:42
I can recommend
'Hydraulic vs Electric' - the battle for the BR (British Rail(ways)) Diesel Fleet by David N Clough, Ian Allen 2011

He writes that the origin of the hydraulics lay with the British Transport Commission's central staff in 1953, not with the WR in 1955. The WR was chosen for the hydraulic demonstration because it had no experience of electrical transmission and seemed a good place to locate the experiment.

One of the problems of the hydraulics was the 'torsional stress' in the power train from engine to wheels. Unbalanced rotational forces caused significant wear and tear.
594  Journey by Journey / London to Swindon and Bristol / Re: Thingley Junctions (deliberate plural) on: May 10, 2020, 15:23:53
I have just read through the notes I made on the Board of Trade inspections of the WSWR. The inspection for the opening in 1848 makes no mention of a west chord. It simply refers to there being no facing points on the main line. So the train had to reverse into a siding before taking the WSWR.

The other report is from 1875 after the narrowing of the gauge. Again no mention is made of a west chord, which one would expect, especially with respect to the arrangements at the junction

Thingley Junction and Bathampton Junctions (both mixed gauge) were provided with this weird single moveable blade point. Here the switch was on the common, outer rail. As the train took the points it moved onto the branch and the nearside wheels were dragged over the fixed nearside B-G rail onto the branch! The moveable rail acted as a check rail to guide the train to the branch.
(The National Archives Rail 1053-57 BoT report on Narrowing of the Gauge 12/6/1875)

Accidents did happen and it was eventually scrapped.
595  Journey by Journey / London to Swindon and Bristol / Re: Thingley Junctions (deliberate plural) on: May 10, 2020, 13:19:47
Colin Maggs in his book “The Bath to Weymouth line” suggests that the chord was laid out in the 1840s as an alternative to the Bathampton to Bradford route, which the GWR (Great Western Railway)/WSWR did not really want. However, like the south chord at Yeovil rails were not laid.
Then in WWII (World War 2 - 1939 to 1945) it became an alternative route in case of bomb damage.
Relevant page attached
596  Sideshoots - associated subjects / Heritage railway lines, Railtours, other rail based attractions / Re: Hebridean Light Railway, and highland proposals and short-lives on: May 10, 2020, 10:19:54

Now a public path
https://www.theskyeguide.com/walking-mainmenu-32/14-strolls/93-marble-line-path
597  Journey by Journey / Portsmouth to Cardiff / Re: Brighton [Dotd 7.5.20] on: May 09, 2020, 14:46:32
Have just found a photo of the upper level of the funicular railway at Devils Dyke, taken on a visit some years ago. It shows the base 'station'
The second shows the Devil's Dyke itself, across which the aerial flight was constructed
598  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Went for a walk this afternoon.................... on: May 07, 2020, 18:31:36
It was running down the SW mail line this morning
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/19004/2020-05-07/detailed
599  All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: Just this once ... on: May 07, 2020, 15:42:54
We loosely planned for our retirement when Marion and I got married almost 25 years ago. Then her retirement age was going to be 60. We took life decisions based on that and then, some years ago, were informed that her retirement age would now be 66. That shot serious holes in to the plan and meant that I was still supply teaching at 69, some four years ago.

It was this 6 year rise that has caught out so many of the mid-1950s women.
600  Journey by Journey / Portsmouth to Cardiff / Re: Brighton [Dotd 7.5.20] on: May 07, 2020, 09:14:57
The NLS map of 1914 shows the aerial flight and incline, the route of the latter can still be traced and also seen on Google Earth.
That of 1895 also shows a switchback railway and “bicycle railway” by the hotel
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