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A few details about Somercombe

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I just thought I would add a few details about the location of Somercombe to give a clue, or excuse, for the traffic that can be seen going through.

 

Somercombe is between Yeovil Junction and Chard on the LSWR mainline, in Somerset and close to the Dorset border. It's location give me an excuse for a wide range of traffic flows. As well as the named trains, ACE and Devon Belle (in the '60s icon_question.gif . Oh well, it's my railway)and other fast and semi-fast services to and from the Great Wem(Wm Cobbett, Rural Rides) there is a stopping service from Salisbury which terminates here and a local from Yeovil Pen Mill, this usually operated by a 14Xx and auto coach. Other passenger services are Saturday excursion traffic from the Midlands and North coming off the S&DJR to places like Seaton, Sidmouth and Exmouth. There is also the occaisional diversion from the WR mainline via Casle Cary and Yeovil. Freight traffic is from a variety of sources. Coal from the Somerset coalfield to Exeter and Plymouth will be seen passing through. Pick-up goods between Exeter and Salisbury, Westbury and Somercombe and also from Bath GP, also gives an excuse for a wide variety of motive power.

So there you have it, a scanario that gives me an excuse to run pretty much anything that ever ran in the South and West of England. Though I must add that there are a few anomalies. I have a Clayton, an EE type 4, a Peak, Kestrel and a Super D that stretch things a bit, but as I said earlier, it's my railway.

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alcazar

Lots of Peaks found their way down there, I used to travel regularly from Sheffield to Birmingham New Street in the early 70's, and the trains went to the west country, (Plymouth, Exeter or even Penzance), or South Wales, and were often class 46-hauled, later 45/0.

 

Perhaps yours failed at Plymouth, went to Laira for rectification, and was then rostered locally to run it?

 

"A Prototype for Everything" as the Railway Modeller used to say;)

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JZ

I remember the odd Peak coming through Bradford-on-Avon when I was young. And they did find their way to Green Park goods after closure to passengers. So perhaps the Peak isn't so unusual.

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