Hydraulic Heaven

P.S Coach A is the second from last coach going down (the last cream and brown coach, the blood and custard is the support coach) and the second from first on the way back, strangely!

Very nice - do like to see the Dawlish sea wall as evokes summer holiday memories from over 30 years ago.

 

PS - I see the 66 banking it has been edited out

 

Grabs coat, notepad and exits...

Very nice - do like to see the Dawlish sea wall as evokes summer holiday memories from over 30 years ago.

Loved the sea wall but the nostalgia for me was the destination - we used to spend 2 weeks every summer staying with my gran in Dartmouth, starting when Kingswear was still a BR station. My uncle still lives there so we popped in on him yesterday.

 

PS - I see the 66 banking it has been edited out

Yes, the same edit seems to have happened to every video of the day on YouTube.

 

We were expecting to see an emergency diesel lurking around but never saw any sign of one. A couple of years back we watched the Torbay Express at Starcross and it was immediately followed by a class 67. Not sure what the deal is now. If there was one there then we would have expected to see it hanging around Goodrington at the very least. In the morning at Temple Meads we also saw Tangmere before its departure to Weymouth and that had 47 245 hovering behind it. Not sure if it followed all the way but it certainly left straight afterwards.

A lovely location. As a lad when we stayed at Exmouth I caught the Ferry to Starcross then a local to Kingswear. It has been a favourite location for the 50 odd years since then. I am slightly envious of my father -in-law who as a lad was put on the Torbay Express to be dropped at Reading via a slip coach.

Don

We were expecting to see an emergency diesel lurking around but never saw any sign of one. A couple of years back we watched the Torbay Express at Starcross and it was immediately followed by a class 67. Not sure what the deal is now. If there was one there then we would have expected to see it hanging around Goodrington at the very least. In the morning at Temple Meads we also saw Tangmere before its departure to Weymouth and that had 47 245 hovering behind it. Not sure if it followed all the way but it certainly left straight afterwards.

 

No booked "emergency locomotives" on either the DBS run Torbay Express or WCR Weymouth trips. The 47 on the Weymouth stock is just to assist in shunting and on the date you travelled I think it went on the Loco Spur (between Platforms 5 / 7).

 

Alex

(Signalman Bristol Panel)