Champion to Westbury

[whole diary]

[PhilWakely]

A Wizzo is returning to the Berks and Hants in July.....

The Westbury Wizzo

[grahame]

A Wizzo is returning to the Berks and Hants in July.....

The Westbury Wizzo

First through service (as far as I am aware) for many years from Oxford to Bletchley and Bedford - pity it takes over three hours.

Tempting - if rather for me for the return route via Melksham, Oxford, Princes Risborough and West Ealing. But it starts from places like Leicester and Kettering. 

[Mark A]

Images of the East Somerset Railway's link to the outside world seem to be thin on the ground. In 2019 it was *very* overgrown - to picture it, think 'A pair of rails beneath and entwined by mature temperate rainforest'. Does anyone have a photo?

Mark

[brooklea]

Images of the East Somerset Railway's link to the outside world seem to be thin on the ground. In 2019 it was *very* overgrown - to picture it, think 'A pair of rails beneath and entwined by mature temperate rainforest'. Does anyone have a photo?

Mark

Yes, but I can’t fathom out how to post it here from my phone.

So you’ll just have to take my word for it that Network Rail had the forest cut down earlier in the year. At least looking from the road bridge at Cranmore, there is currently no discernible impediment to a train passing.

[PhilWakely]

Champion accelerates up the grade passed Bridge 99 on the Kennet and Avon canal with the Westbury Wizzo




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[Clan Line]

Champion taking a breather ....................Westbury P1, just after midday. (Photographs from the front just had a plain grey sky !)