cornishmick

Hi many many thanks Kevin for allowing me to share these wonderful pictures of the Cornish clay trains. The site is on FB called Cornish Railways I have posted 10 of your pictures with the captions and also said the latest they are courtesy of yourself . I really think you should produce a book with all your great pictures thank you again for allowing me to use your pictures Many thanks Kind regards Mike

Hi fantastic photos I live in par and my wife's grandad worked the clay trains for over 40 years would you mind if I could share some of your photos on a Cornish railways site? These days should not be lost I have so many fond memories of these work horses Many thanks Mike quote name="Rivercider" post="1386929" timestamp="1395166921"] So, where to start? My photos scanned onto Flickr are arranged by geographically by county starting in Cornwall. I know that the local staff in Cornwall sometimes referred to locations by different names, but my knowledge of the ECC locations was based on the TOPS locations and my invaluable Baker Rail Atlas. When I made my first photographic visit to Cornwall in 1980 there were a number of locations dispatching clayhoods to Fowey with export clay. The locations I remember were Drinninck Mill and Burngullow, and possibly Parkandillack in the west, Goonbarrow on the Newquay Branch. Also Wenford Bridge and Moorswater, and from Devon at Marsh Mills east of Plymouth. Ball clay also came from Heathfield and North Devon but I do not think I photographed that traffic. Class 25s had been working many of the clay trips in the area from 1971 - 1980, I only managed a couple of photos of the 25s as by 1980 the first replacement 37s were already allocated to Laira scan0036a.jpg 25155 rests in St Blazey with clayhoods that it had worked up frm the Burngullow direction, on the left is 37142, one of the first 37s in Cornwall, 16/7/80 scan0034a.jpg 37207 briefly disturbs the peace at Bodmin Road as it hurries west with loaded clayhoods for Fowey, these would have come from either Moorswater, or Marsh Mills, 15/4/83 scan0042a.jpg 37274 this time, passing westwards through St Austell with empties for either Burngullow or Drinnick Mill, 8/3/83 scan0127a.jpg Lostwithiel in the rain, 37206 comes up from the west with loads for Fowey, it will run round in one of the loops at Lostwithiel, then head off down the branch to Fowey, 23/6/82 cheers

Hi I'm about to do a full respray into GWR The colour used by GWR is called Teal Green a lot of people think that it's a sort of dark green like a British racing green when infact is not that dark at all it's the light that makes it look darker every now and then . I look forward to seeing the final master piece

Fantastic