Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains

[whole diary]

[WSW Frome]

3 = Weymouth; 8 = Southampton Central

[Chris from Nailsea]

Hold on - one only, for the first 24 hours! 

[bradshaw]

Let’s try Teignmouth for 15 instead!

[Chris from Nailsea]

4. Kemble (my favourite station). 

I couldn't for the life of me work out where 4 was! 

Really, Kemble is my idea of a proper railway station. I didn't even need to cheat by reading the sign. 

[Timmer]

18 Exmouth

[grahame]

1 Worcester Shrub Hill - TonyN
2 Culham - IndustryInsider
3 Weymouth - WSW Frome
4 Kemble - Chris from Nailsea
6 Penryn - ellendune
8 Southampton Central - WSW Frome
12 Freshford - Rob on the hill
14 Torre - DR7835
15 - sorry - NOT Topsham nor Teignmouth either
16 Coombe Junction - stuving
18 Exmouth - Timmer
20 Shirehampton - johnneyw
23 Melksham - BobM


Edit note: Minor editing to correct typos for clarity. CfN.

[Mark A]

My home station the year my final YP railcard expired.*

Most memorable use of Kemble station: during a cold spell, temperatures down to minus 18 a few nights, the army turning out of the barracks at South Cerney kitted out in thorougly appropriate snowshoes, and at a different workplace, a colleague appearing at the laundry door, and as they stepped across the threshold, frosty haired, into the warmth, in just a few seconds, 30 years fell from their apparent age: a goosebumps moment.

I wish I'd had a pair of snowshoes for the hour or so evening walk to Kemble, a mile or so of which being on a slightly exposed road that had filled with snow between the banks and was impassible, so, out into the fields and parallel to the road making the best crossing of the occasional hedge as I could, they were less of an obstacle than the snow-filled road.

Arriving at the station, the trains running sort-of-ok, even though that terrible 9 mile single track section to Swindon wasn't helping. The one I was headed for was an HST^▸ (High Speed Train), which helped, but even it had snow in odd places, not all of it outside the carriages.

Mark

*Railcards about which I wrote a letter to BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)), pointing out that they had a missing demographic on their trains, and trains on the line from Gloucester were carrying around enough fresh air in the gathering recession to make it worth pulling in additional regular customers off the frankly unpleasant A419/M4. Their reply was to the effect "Yes, yes, child, come back when you're sixty" For me, the year or seven of the lovely 'Annual season ticket holder's nominated person's second railcard' that might or might not have had something to do with Chris Green was then a thing of the future.

[MVR S&T]

13. Oxford
19. Sherborne?

[Chris from Nailsea]

Hold on - one only, for the first 24 hours! 

[Andy E]

15. Marsh Barton?

[PhilWakely]

19. Axminster

[grahame]

My home station the year my final YP railcard expired.*

Most memorable use of Kemble station ....

Kemble is a really interesting case of a station quite outsized for the limited population in walking distance. 



Do I dare say "shows what could be done with Pilning".  ...

[grahame]

Edit note: Minor editing to correct typos for clarity. CfN.

Thanks - as I'm keeping an separate log of answers, I'm afraid I may have re-introduce some here:

1 Worcester Shrub Hill - TonyN
2 Culham - IndustryInsider
3 Weymouth - WSW Frome
4 Kemble - Chris from Nailsea
6 Penryn - ellendune
8 Southampton Central - WSW Frome
12 Freshford - Rob on the hill
13 Oxford - MVR S&T^▸ (Signalling and Telegraph)
14 Torre - DR7835
15 Marsh Barton - Andy E
16 Coombe Junction - stuving
18 Exmouth - timmer
19 Axminster - PhilWakely
20 Shirehampton - johnneyw
23 Melksham - BobM

[grahame]

All of these my pictures taken on days out by train from Melksham within the last 5 years.   All local trains. How many places can you recognise?

Forum members - please follow up by helping others identify places - one each please for the first 24 hours.

And the 24 hours is up ... still to identify:

5.


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11.


17.


21.


22.


24.


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[Rob on the hill]

21. Gloucester