Dean Forest Railway - a few pictures.

Evening All,

I recently paid a visit to the Dean Forest Railway and a selection of pictures is now on Flickr. If anyone would like to have a look, this is the first one in the Photostream :

RD12507. Hunslet 0-6-0ST WILBERT at Lydney Junction on the Dean Forest Railway. by Ron Fisher, on Flickr

Alternatively, they can be found in this album :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/sets/72157659344896190/

Riding on the Dean Forest Railway from Lydney Junction to Parkend reminded me of a railtour round the Forest of Dean that I went on in 1964. So I dug out my old pictures, scanned them and these too are also now on Flickr. Some are black & white and some are colour. Here are the links for anyone interested to see them :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/albums/72157651514985156 (colour pix)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/albums/72157631007552550 (b & w pix)

Hope that they are of interest.

 

Interesting set of pics Ron.

 

Some utterly ace pictures there. Thank you for sharing.

 

Glad you liked the pictures.

I've been doing some research on the internet and, with the help of a couple of other Flickr members, I have established that the Ross & Monmouth Railway bridge across the Wye at Lydbrook Junction is still in situ and in use as a public footpath. It's not in very good condition apparently, so what the future holds remains to be seen.

 

The ones from the Severn Bridge are fascinating and that you were 'allowed' to walk to the open chasm is amazing. Those really are a great set of pictures and thanks for the time spent in putting those up.

 

Let's hope that they don't allow it to fall in the river!

 

Glad that they are of interest. Life was a lot freer in those days. They trusted people not to fall off the end - and nobody did !

 

Does anybody know the times of the mince pie specials after Christmas cannot see anything on the Website.

 

This has been asked on the railway society's facebook group, the answer was it is the November steam timetable - http://deanforestrailway.co.uk/events/detail/steam-days

I do feel the DFR need to up their game with their website, info seems to appear a day or so before an event.

 

Absolutely cracking set of 50 year old photos you have uploaded there.

 

OK, I've read all I can find about this incident. I know the police have limited resources but it seems wrong to me that in these sort of situations (see also similar Cromer incident) their reaction seems to be 'we can't do much about it, just close your businesses until these people go away'. This seems to be tantamount to completely giving up and saying you are unable to 'keep the peace'. I feel as if this is a recent development and in the past the police would have been more 'pro-active'. Does anyone else feel this is the case or has it always been like this?

 

Rennes on a mince pie special at Whitecroft

 

A few more photos here, taken last September (2017):

https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/BritishheritagerailwaysA/Dean-Forest-Railway-2017/i-dvz8QPS

Cheers

Andrew N