Plym valley extension

...........When it will open?next summer?
thanks
regards:mod:
noel

 

I bet the answer will be...."When they ready"

 

ainkiller:

 

I was told when I asked the question on another forum that it is getting there; the platform is having its final top surface laid, track down in the platform with another panel or two before the buffer stops are added, then its onto fencing, inspections etc.

Sometime later on this year was the estimate.

 

thank you for your kind reply:rapture:
regards
noel

 

I see that the extension has been opened today, exactly 50 years since the line closed - some photos at Railway Photography: Plym Valley Railway extension and station reopening 30th December 2012 (not mine).

I'm sure that this will make a big difference to the railway as it now actually goes somewhere.

 

It was heartening to see the crowds at the PVR on Sunday. A lot of local interest was apparent, not just hardened gricers!

 

Is Plym Bridge the absolute limit of the line? Their website doesn't talk of any further ambition, although I thought when the project started in the 1980s the long-term intent was for a longer line. Is the trackbed cycleway preventing any further expansion?

 

Hmm, last post was 2013. . . so obviously not the most talked about heritage railway. Time to revive the thread (although I do have an ulterior motive )

While updating my Events Diary, I was reminded that the photos I use on the http://www.heritage-railways.com/plym.php webpage are very out of date (I'm pretty sure they've finished that new platform by now. ) So . . . does anyone have a couple of suitable photos that they would allow me to use on that webpage?

(and yes I did try their website contact page and email but no response received )

 

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Huh?
Ray.

 

I called in at the Plym Valley Railway today after a stop overnight in Plymouth yesterday. It’s very charming, clearly unlikely to ever be a Premier League line but it was a lot tidier than when I last saw it eight years ago. A new platform has been built (on the left in the picture) and the original platform is being extended South with a substantial new ramp up the embankment.
The Barclay hauling my train had a steam-driven water pump and an injector instead of the usual two injectors, what is the advantage of a pump over an injector?

 

Occasionally industrial types had one pump and one injector. This would have been at the request of the customer. A steam pump is far more complicated as a mechanical device than an injector. Some use axle driven pumps which are simpler. Small industrial locos were single-manned and starting an injector when moving diverts the drivers concentration and also blows hot water and steam around which may not have been too popular on some sites. Steam cranes usually have one pump and one injector for the same reason. Starting a pump usually requires the opening of only one valve. I've driven a loco with an axle pump and with a bit of boiler management there's no need to use the injector. A steam pump can also be set to deliver water at the rate of steam use. So there are pro's and con's. However, this arrangement is quite rare and two injectors is the norm. Going back to the dawn of railways, all locos had pumps as injectors were still being designed /developed.

Another possibility is that the steam pump in this photo may have been fitted to allow water to be pumped for some other application on the industrial site where the loco worked.

 

Thanks for that, good to know.