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Title: Champion to Westbury Post by: PhilWakely on May 04, 2024, 22:50:28 A Wizzo is returning to the Berks and Hants in July.....
The Westbury Wizzo (https://www.ukrailtours.com/product/the-westbury-wizzo/) Title: Re: Champion to Westbury Post by: grahame on May 05, 2024, 07:40:28 A Wizzo is returning to the Berks and Hants in July..... The Westbury Wizzo (https://www.ukrailtours.com/product/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. Title: Re: Champion to Westbury Post by: Mark A on May 05, 2024, 09:50:01 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 Title: Re: Champion to Westbury Post by: brooklea on May 05, 2024, 18:42:23 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? Yes, but I can’t fathom out how to post it here from my phone. Mark 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. Title: Re: Champion to Westbury Post by: PhilWakely on July 06, 2024, 12:27:18 Champion accelerates up the grade passed Bridge 99 on the Kennet and Avon canal with the Westbury Wizzo
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ww255/PhilWakely/Champion99.jpg) *** edited to embed the picture rather than attach it *** Title: Re: Champion to Westbury Post by: Clan Line on July 06, 2024, 14:34:49 Champion taking a breather ....................Westbury P1, just after midday. (Photographs from the front just had a plain grey sky !)
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