Great Western Coffee Shop

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Clue despite the weather suggesting otherwise it is in the UK!  ;D

Moorswater (Cement Sidings) and looking up to Moorswater viaduct near Liskeard.  Crikey where have all the trees and bushes gone :o  Tried to get them removed many years ago so that the road crossing signs could be seen.........

Close enough but more importantly Coombe Junction!

They have gone in the last month. When they ran the loco down in July I commented about the non existent visibility approaching the crossing from the road, and was told they use attendants to stop the traffic. A few days later the hedge had gone!

I also used coombe junction for the 1522 out of luck. I took a 6 mile walk and found myself passing coombe junction at 1515, and after such a walk there is only one option back up the hill at that time of day.
3 off and 2 on, but the conductor confirmed I was the only one requiring a coombe junction ticket so of those 5 people I am the only one who will go on passenger numbers.

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The green really doesn't picture well in these kind of sceneries

With the station use graphs ( http://www.wellho.net/demo/railuse.php?place=PL for PL postcoded stations), I've chosen not to draw a trend graph at all if ticketed passenger journey numbers are below 500.  That number is somewhat arbitrary, but there needed to be a cutoff somewhere to avoid trend lines lashing widely around because a school party used the station one year.

I suspect that actual passenger numbers at Coombe Junction and other similar stations are much higher than tickets numbers indicate, with a significant proportion of rangers, rovers, journeys made with people getting off short and joining late, etc..   Certainly on a visit to Pilining a few weeks back, there were 6 on and 2 off - which would make an annual footfall of 800 rather that the 68 most recently recorded.   There were at least 4 independently arranged travelling individuals / groups too, so it wasn't just a single distortion.

Well you can't get any closer. You are actually standing on Moorswater level crossing in the second photograph....... ::) :P

Not quite a few yards short!

On my walk I took a photo of a railway bridge on Venslooe Hill just after the junction with Culverland road, but i mistakenly deleted it, that was originally going to be the subject of this topic. Now I suspect it to be part of the Caradon freight line, but as the line closed in 1917 I had my doubt that any bridge especially a low one would still be in place.

That ought to be the epitaph of Dr Richard Beeching.  :o ::) ;D

Do you mean this bridge

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In which case Google says it was part of the mineral line




Edit note: In an effort to be helpful, I've produced a link to an image of the particular bridge under discussion. CfN.  ;)

Yes there, certainly surprising the bridge has survived out of use for 100 years almost

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Easy - even I could drive my van through there.  Probably without hitting anything, too.  ;) :D ;D

Probably somewhere in or close to the Mendips ... but there's a number of lines in the area and I would hesitate to guess.

Umm - have a look further up the thread to near you previous post

It *was* the middle of the night I posted - didn't spot up-thread in the dark ...

Should know by now I don't venture 'up north'  ;D (anywhere past Plymouth/ launceston us up north for us Cornish folk)

Brings to mind an exchange from Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones's first collaboration; a radio play entitled Tales From The Crypt which featured some Cornish characters chatting:

I've been up country.

What? Truro?

No, no. London.

London? Where's that then?

 ;D