West Somerset Railway General Discussion

Young blood at the WSR!! Great to see. <BJ>

''Today (Sat 11th Oct) saw young crews rostered for the steam services with an average age of around 30 years between them all. Not bad going at all!
S1 AM crew - Driver Liam Pope, Fireman Jake Genge and trainee Fireman Laurence Everett
S2 crew - Driver Aaron Manley and Fireman Liam Hebditch
S1 PM crew - Driver Chris Northey, Fireman Bailey Maxwell and Trainee Fireman Jack Edmondson.
Anyone who wants to come join us on the Steam department (young and old!) do come and join us''







News c/o 'WSR friends'

 

I went to the WSR Autumn Gala over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed the event. It was a shame about the timetable slippages on all three days, but they didn't spoil my enjoyment of the gala. I was a bit disappointed by the cancellation of the MD - BA shuttles on Sunday but given the late running of services it was certainly a good call. A BIG thank you to all the railway's staff and volunteers for putting on such a good event. I'm looking forward to both the spring and autumn galas next year.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c803y974ypzo

Good publicity for WSR on BBC website.

 

Not sure it's been mentioned here, but GWR are running a shuttle service from Taunton to Bishops Lydeard on Tuesday 25th and Friday 28th November in connection with the Rail 200 'Inspiration' exhibition train. Travel is free, but you need a pre-booked ticket for the exhibition train at Bishops Lydeard (which is also free!). Get yours here -->> https://www.west-somerset-railway.c...hibition-train-visit-to-west-somerset-railway

 

Great to see the 150 shuttling back and forth all day long today and back on Tuesday. Seems Tuesday all ran to time and today so far is also the same.

Great work from the WSR and GWR

 

The same unit (150248) worked the BL-TN shuttle at Mixed Traffic Weekend back in 2012:
https://www.wsr.org.uk/php/snap.php?i=2012/mtw/170612_2_man&f=newspix201206