West Somerset Railway General Discussion

I don't recall one but some have longer memories.

 

I think you mean perygl.

 

Duly corrected, thanks .... damn my sausage fingers!

 

The old signs have worked since goodness knows when , some I remembered from when I was a chid ." If it ain't broke don't fix it ."

 

Don't get me started on the Watchet Marina .

 

Agreed! The then & now of Washford taken from the hill shows again how much better & well kept the countyside looked in days gone by. Farms had more men on them going about on the ground day to day & most people stayed local to their village by & large.

 

The 2018 timetables are now on the PLC website, so you can compare them yourself!

 

They stayed local until the railway arrived ?

I do agree it did look better in the before picture . Nostalgia is not what it used to be .

 

Well, that was the Gentleman’s lavatory....

Robin

 

Thanks Robin .... that is so plausible that I've just made an addition to the modelling detail notes for my planned IWCR layout!

 

What did the oiks use?

 

Stogumber Station Lighting alterations.

A good group turned up today to extract and despatch the two non-Railway lamps from Stogumber and plant a newly-cast GWR pattern lamp on the downside of the foot crossing.

All was completed by lunchtime, including having the new post in undercoat. It is hoped to have it illuminated for the Carol trains and painted to match the ex-St Ives genuine GWR post on the other side.

Thanks to Steve, Paul, Shirl, Amyas, John and Bob who turned out to help and the Station staff who kept the crew sustained with tea, coffee and bacon rolls.

Robin White

 

I don't think its quite the same as Iwo Jima...............

 

It’s a satirical reference.

Perhaps you had to be there. Stogumber, not Iwo Jima...

Robin

 

Years ago, Somerset County Council had a policy of retaining and repairing the old fingerposts. Attached is a pic of one in the village where I went to school, which had lost two of its three fingers and which it then got back, albeit in a C20th stylefather then the C19th style of the originals. The C19th signposts are very rare now: does anyone know if any survive local to the WSR?

 

A drive around the lanes, courtesy of Google Earth, found several in the Crowcombe & Stogumber areas.
They look very similar to yours - a 'pyramid' top marked S C C so I take them to be C20th. Some are very short.
What do the earlier ones look like?

I'm off for another drive!

 

Just imagine how less dramatic Iwo Jima would have looked if they'd been wearing hi-vis.

 

Well, they probably would never have made it....................

 

The check rail is a new addition to the track .