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« Reply #46 on: December 21, 2017, 14:43:50 » |
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« Reply #48 on: December 24, 2017, 10:15:54 » |
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No.6 - Correct (I'll let you have the extra T...) Photograph taken in 1971. Looking East towards Exeter. Newton Abbot station had four platforms at that time. The train is on the Up Relief and the Down Main is to the right of it. The signal in the distance is the starting signal for Newton Abbot West signalbox with Newton Abbot East signalbox distant signal below it. You can just make out that there was a trailing crossover in the platform controlled by Newton Abbot West signalbox. |
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« Reply #49 on: December 24, 2017, 10:17:14 » |
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« Reply #50 on: December 24, 2017, 10:40:27 » |
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« Reply #51 on: December 24, 2017, 10:43:27 » |
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No. 7 = St Erth looking towards Plymouth
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« Reply #52 on: December 26, 2017, 13:49:18 » |
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No. 7 = St Erth looking towards Plymouth
No.7 - Correct. Photograph taken in 1970. Looking East towards Hayle. St.Erth signalbox in the middle background; box still open and working (although its the only box in Cornwall to switch out at night). Signalbox not likely to be replaced for some years now! You can just make out the cab of a Western loco standing in the Up Platform with a Paddington express. In the distance to the right of the loco is the Western Growers Depot platform (site now a tyre dump). The signal is another of those 'Backing' ones like the one published earlier at Castle Cary. This ones older though as its still on a wooden post and has a wooden signal arm. I have a drawing for this signal dated 12th March 1937 so it was there a long time. |
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« Reply #53 on: December 26, 2017, 13:50:22 » |
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« Reply #54 on: December 26, 2017, 13:59:27 » |
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« Reply #55 on: December 26, 2017, 16:03:29 » |
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Having commented elsewhere today what a great resource this forum is, this thread is a shining example. I post a series of contemporary photos but the ones in this quiz are from a past age and cannot be recreated and I’d love them to be part of my collection.
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« Reply #56 on: December 26, 2017, 16:32:44 » |
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Bodmin Road (now parkway)
No.8 - Correct (must make them at bit harder as it only took 9mins to guess this one!) Photograph taken in September 1970. Bodmin Road station looking East from the Down platform towards Plymouth. The old 'prefabricated' station buildings were replaced by more substantial brick ones in later years. Behind the building to the right is Bodmin Road signalbox that controlled the main lines and the branch to Bodmin which ran behind the platform to the left (as it does with the preserved railway today). At the time of the photograph the china clay traffic to Wenford Bridge (via Bodmin) was quite extensive and it was a busy branch. The station footbridge is still there. The signalbox is now a Cafe and is run by the Bodmin and Wenford Railway. It sells excellent food and a very good cup of tea. |
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« Reply #57 on: December 26, 2017, 16:37:39 » |
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Having commented elsewhere today what a great resource this forum is, this thread is a shining example. I post a series of contemporary photos but the ones in this quiz are from a past age and cannot be recreated and I’d love them to be part of my collection.
Thanks for that kind comment, BobM. If I had taken any notice of locomotives at the time then you probably wouldn't of had the chance to see these things now. I was much more interested in the surrounding infrastructure but couldn't afford to take too many photographs so had to be very selective and only take one or two at each site I visited. There are more interesting ones to come. I think this quiz will have about 30 in total (unless people get bored with it in the meantime). At the end of the quiz my intention is to publish the link to the photographs and I would be happy for people to take copies for their own use, subject to usual copyright rules. |
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« Reply #58 on: December 26, 2017, 17:04:07 » |
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No.8 Image (c)2017 SandTEngineerAs featured in a British Rail 'Age of the Train' TV commercial from 1981.  Let's not mention the presenter.  |
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« Reply #59 on: December 26, 2017, 17:14:43 » |
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On the basis that many people love a "then" and "now", here are modern pictures of the last two - St. Erth not being all that close to the same angle.  .  |
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