West Somerset Railway General Discussion

Steven, if your good lady finds, in the meantime, that a Manor Class locomotive is what she likes to see and hear, may this could be a good substitute.
https://www.national-preservation.c...am-railway-general-discusssion.415834/page-31

 

Good picture of one of the regulars on this forum and others of course. I was at Williton yesterday as a days wagon restoration was called for. The new half floor was test fitted and looked good.

What really worried me were the rumours of a Coup De Tete, It appears that some junior directors intend to oust the Chairman. I find this of great concern as the Railway is just settling down following other upheavals. This would not be the right time to try to take over the plc by some back door method. Our Ian Coleby has done great pulling one railway together and to throw that out whilst some directors, with unproven track records, attempt to take control would be sad. My impression was that a lot of very loyal volunteers would seriously consider walking away. If this is real it could herald the demise of the WSR as we know it.

 

I'm sure this has been discussed at great length not that long ago; from experience my opinion is that firstly if the timetable is carefully written and everything lines up then the only delay to a non stop service is the need to slow to 10mph; and secondly if a signalman walks briskly then for a stopping train the signalling tasks take less time than normal station duties.

I would probably use a slightly different stance myself, but some of these things are personal taste, and most signalmen I've discussed it with do find that exchanges from platforms have a more awkward stance than exchanges from track level. Moreover still photos of exchanges can be rather misleading.

 

On 21 August, the locos on duty conspired to create a "Big Four" event Photographer Malcolm Garner was on hand (big thanks Malcolm)


LNER 4-6-2 no 60009 Union of South Africa with the London-Minehead Cathedrals Express approaching Longlands Bridge on 21 August 2018.


GWR 4-6-0 no 6960 Raveningham Hall drifting down the gradient towards Leighwood Crossing on 21 August 2018.


(MR-designed) SDJR 2-8-0 no 53808 with the WSR leg of the London-bound Cathedrals Express near Leighwood Crossing on 21 August 2018.


SR 4-6-2 no 34046 Braunton approaching Leighwood Crossing on 21 August 2018.

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Steve

 

Flippin' heck!

The West Somerset Railway announce Santa Express and Santa Special tickets are now available online.



Steve

 

Christmas seems to get earlier every year.
http://www.xmasclock.com/

 

Some good news:
7820 has been out on test this morning.

 

People have been enquiring about these for quite some time at MDBO

 

Lest we all get too serious about our hobby, I thought the following pages from Railway Magazine of April 1974 might lighten the mood.

They might be subtitled ‘The travails of Captain Miller in DRAG’, although the pre-occupation of Mrs Miller with folk in funny hats had me laughing near uncontrollably between trains here in Dorset.

Enjoy.

Robin

 

Those are great pictures

 

Speaking from a position of total and abject ignorance, is it the case that diesel trains are allowed to run at 40 m/h on the current WSR ?? [As implied by the entertaining 1974 article.]

 

No. All trains, no matter what their method of propulsion, are limited to a maximum of 25 mph on the current WSR.

 

No. We never completed the additional work that would have been required to allow this. And subsequently we have done work (reduction of super elevation, for example) which is inconsistent with this.

Robin

 

I wish to travel on the wsr on Saturday but unlikely be able to receive annual pass in time, if one buys a day rover and then applied for annual pass is the day rover ticket price knocked off the cost of annual pass or will it still cost £62. Thanks

 

Anthony

Suggest you go to the WSR website, look at the conditions for purchase of the Annual Pass and all will be revealed! (the answer there is that you can reclaim the cost of your day ticket if applying for the annual pass within 7 days of travel)

 

Is braunton turned after each day at norton or turned in the morning of service.

 

Cheers, the website wasn’t loading for me, hence the question.