West Somerset Railway General Discussion

Thse oddities should not be dismissed. The Parry people mover seems to be holding its own on the Stourbridge branch

 

The PPM does well there because it's a self-contained shuttle with no conflicting moves, one train working, no intermediate stops and no risk of a signal check. Every time a PPM has been tried in any situation more complex than the Stourbridge Town branch it's been less than successful.

However the Stadler RS1 is a very successful and mature design (20 years old, nearly 500 built according to Wikipedia) so in some ways the question is: why has it taken so long for any one in Britain to think about copying it?

 

Sounds like the D-train.

 

I buy The Times and when I read the article, I thought it was utter nonsense. It was suggesting that "cheap trains" like this would permit the re-opening of lines such as Aberystwyth-Carmarthen as if the cost of the units was the only thing preventing that.

Like you, my thoughts immediately went to Pacers.

It is really just a press release from a company in Warwick trying to sell something.

 

Read post #3477. It really is fantasy as far as lines like the WSR are concerned.

 

Quite so! In fact it is a very amateurish job altogether. Their's not yours

 

Looks like I finally get to see a HST at Minehead
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gwr-somerset-explorer-tickets-31443529443?aff=ehomecard

 

Here are a couple of links to the University of Warwick's Very Light Rail project, one back to 2013

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/mediacentre/wmgnews/?newsItem=094d43d5423754840142704741bf030a
https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/hvmcatapult/research/rail/vlr/

But unrelated to the WSR thread

Patrick

 

A well deserved award for the WSR Special Events Planning Team. <BJ>

''Members of the WSR Special Events Planning Team (SEPT) received an award at the annual Heritage Railway Association Awards evening for their planning leading to the successful S&D Gala in March 2016. WSR's Andy Forster, Don Bishop, James Mills and John Cronin (SEPT Chair) were there to receive the award''.

News thanks to wsr.org
12 February 2017

 

ENGINE FOUND BURIED BESIDE THE WSR’s MINEHEAD BRANCH


Over the weekend members of the WSR’s Cutting Back Team and Minehead Loco Crew continued to clear the undergrowth from the lineside at Kentsford between Watchet & Washford. During some digging to unblock a hidden culvert the shout went out that an engine had been found buried !!!!

As the team gathered round we all began to think, was it a Pannier, Prairie or even a Grange or Star !

Unfortunately it turned out to be an engine out of an old car, sorry !

 

Is this the start of a new build GWR Railcar project??

 

As 'strategic reserves' go, I have seen better.

Oops, there's my security clearance gone for a Burton....

Robin

 

Another pair in the occasional series of WSR then and now.

Minehead Station viewed from the Esplanade.

Ca. 1910



2017



Robin

 

Interesting that the lamp standard on the corner is still in situ, though it has changed colour and may be serving a different function now.

 

Im sure I can remember the trees there, not the one in the middle of the road but the two smaller ones? I'm not that old, but i may be imagining it of course! When were they taken down?

 

That Minehead shot is interesting; a rare example of a road narrowing project rather than a road widening one

 

Silly place to put a tree in middle road

 

An organic roundabout

 

Given Minehead's development, the tree was probably there before the road.....

Robin