MarcD Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 Does this mean the trains now don't stop Camborne Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays.......... Marc 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted May 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 9, 2021 1 hour ago, MarcD said: Does this mean the trains now don't stop Camborne Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays.......... Marc If only ..... But the good news, for what it may be worth, is that many trains which stop at Camborne are formed of HST “Castle” sets and are unaffected. What happened Wednesday was ...... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helstonnorthroad Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 37688 on 587L Crewe to laria with LSL mk3s 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium alexross42 Posted June 3, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2021 Nice to be able to enjoy seeing some 'exotic' beasts visiting the Duchy lately: 29th May - 43055 leads the 0600 Eastleigh - Penzance 'Cornish Coastal Pullman' through Saltash station. 02nd June - 47614 & 47593 head East through Saltash with the 1500 Penzance to Wolverhampton 'Cornish Riveria Statesman' All the best, Ross. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted June 3, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2021 6 hours ago, alexross42 said: Nice to be able to enjoy seeing some 'exotic' beasts visiting the Duchy lately: 29th May - 43055 leads the 0600 Eastleigh - Penzance 'Cornish Coastal Pullman' through Saltash station. 02nd June - 47614 & 47593 head East through Saltash with the 1500 Penzance to Wolverhampton 'Cornish Riveria Statesman' All the best, Ross. Do you live on Saltash platform? How the hell do you find out what’s coming through all the time, every time I try and find out I just get a headache! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium alexross42 Posted June 3, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2021 40 minutes ago, boxbrownie said: Do you live on Saltash platform? How the hell do you find out what’s coming through all the time, every time I try and find out I just get a headache! Ha, close enough! This is a really good source for railtours: http://railtourinfo.co.uk/tours.html And of course Real Time trains for all workings: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk All the best, Ross 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Cottage Halt Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 The Network Rail New Measurement Train passes Hallenbeagle Mine near Scorrier with the 157M 0611 Reading Triangle Sidings to Paignton via Penzance on 4 June 2021. 43290 leads with 43299 trailing are ex LNER power cars recently transferred to Network Rail. Copyright Neville King 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Cottage Halt Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 The Network Rail New Measurement Train approaches Hallenbeagle near Scorrier with the 157M 0611 Reading Triangle Sidings to Paignton via Penzance on 4 June 2021 en route to Paignton. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Cottage Halt Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Article in Rail Business Daily re Devon and Cornwall re-signalling programme: Siemens Mobility to deliver low-cost digital solution for Devon and Cornwall re-signalling programme 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted June 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 11, 2021 13 hours ago, Rose Cottage Halt said: Article in Rail Business Daily re Devon and Cornwall re-signalling programme: Siemens Mobility to deliver low-cost digital solution for Devon and Cornwall re-signalling programme Interesting. This will be the end of mechanical signalling then. Bit confused by this statement: Siemens Mobility will be supplying its Controlguide Westcad control system at Exeter power signal box (PSB) for Cornwall, and at Plymouth PSB for Devon So Exeter's covering Cornwall, despite Plymouth being closer? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyH Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Hopefully the mechanical infrastructure and signal boxes can find homes in preservation. Sad nonetheless. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 I found this on the Cornwall Railway Society website, just before finding this post (you can probably trace my morning habits........!) Having moved back to Cornwall early last year with a bunch of semaphores 15 minutes' walk away this is disappointing news but not unexpected. After all they should have gone two years ago. When I first became interested in railways in 1966 I remember being fascinated by the centre pivot contraption overhanging the up platform, and it's astonishing that it's still there 55 years later even if disfigured by a maintenance platform - of all of them that's the one I'll have to visit to take some farewell photos. Then Truro as that's where I watched them for the 'pegging' of Westerns and Warships (while hoping for a 'foreign' Brush Type 4 instead!) The great thing about semaphores is not having to be in front of them to see what they're displaying. Being lineside down here again and hearing the old signals clattering and wires twanging has been a trip down Memory Lane even if the trains now look completely different (with some of them having pantographs on their roofs...........now THAT is something I would NEVER have expected to see in Cornwall!) Unfortunately the semaphores' demise sooner rather than later was inevitable. Where's the camera..........? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 On 03/06/2021 at 10:46, alexross42 said: 02nd June - 47614 & 47593 head East through Saltash with the 1500 Penzance to Wolverhampton 'Cornish Riveria Statesman' Was that a practice run for the G7 Summit in Newquay? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treggyman Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Hi Following a heads up from my grandson I took my trusty camera to capture for posterity GBRF 66708 bringing rails down for a drop at St Austell. Train was 6G97 The light was poor but as the train was about25 mins early at least I got a couple of pics.....Not brilliant but better than nothing..... This is the best..... 10 mins later it was followed by a 5 car IEP & as can be seen the light had really deteriorated.....So much so that the pics of the up 10 car IEP were useless..... AS I was walking home after the 5 car went past a 150 unit sprd by on it's merry way to Penzance. Cheers Bill 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2021 (edited) Where were those pictures taken, please? I’m surprised that a freight train would be running only ten minutes in front of a passenger in Cornwall unless it was fairly close to a loop somewhere. Edited June 17, 2021 by Western Aviator Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treggyman Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 58 minutes ago, Western Aviator said: Where were those pictures taken, please? I’m surprised that a freight train would be running only ten minutes in front of a passenger in Cornwall unless it was fairly close to a loop somewhere. Hi Western Aviator The pictures were taken from the footbridge just outsde the Tesco Extra between Redruth & Camborne. I didn't time the delay between the trains as they went past but took the info from the data recorded in the properties section of the picture archive....... The freight was in front of the ,I assume , late running IC88 Paddington to Penzance & Real Time Trains shows the freight at Camborne ( next station ) at 21.19 & the passenger at 21.29.... Cheers Bill 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2021 Thanks for that Bill. I assumed the pictures were taken somewhere east of St. Austell as you’d written that 6G97 was bringing rails down for a drop at St. Austell. It didn’t occur to me that the train would be that far west. In that case, it must have gone all the way to Penzance to run round/reverse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treggyman Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Western Aviator said: Thanks for that Bill. I assumed the pictures were taken somewhere east of St. Austell as you’d written that 6G97 was bringing rails down for a drop at St. Austell. It didn’t occur to me that the train would be that far west. In that case, it must have gone all the way to Penzance to run round/reverse. Hi Yes it did & returned to St Austell a couple of hours or so later...... It arrived in Plymouth about 20mins or so late but didn't stop for long leaving 20mins or so early.....Luckily....or it wouldn't have been light enough to get a pic..... It wasn't heavily loaded either....4 brand new completely non rusty rails.... Cheers Bill 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2021 9 minutes ago, treggyman said: 4 brand new completely non rusty rails Tut, tut, how unprototypical... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 (edited) On 11/06/2021 at 22:38, Ramblin Rich said: Interesting. This will be the end of mechanical signalling then. Bit confused by this statement: Siemens Mobility will be supplying its Controlguide Westcad control system at Exeter power signal box (PSB) for Cornwall, and at Plymouth PSB for Devon So Exeter's covering Cornwall, despite Plymouth being closer? Hi, As one of the designers on the scheme, I can answer the questions: 1) Semaphore Signalling at Liskeard, St. Blazey, Goonbarrow and St. Erth is safe, and the mechanical frame at Penzance is also safe. I think the signal boxes that are being closed will remain standing, just in a different use. 2) The new workstation at Exeter will cover Cornwall, and eventually also control Plymouth when that’s done (although I don’t when that will be). There’s simply more space for a workstation at Exeter and it’s where the Cornish signallers are based at anyway (at least I think that was the case when we did the original scheme). Simon Edited June 21, 2021 by St. Simon Forgot to add St. Erth to safe list 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pb_devon Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Thanks Simon. So, just to clarify, the mechanical signals will remain and be motor driven operated from the panel in Exeter? Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Two photos of the LSL Blue Pullman visit on 29/5/21 (I'd been waiting for this one!) on the down working, taken from the Merthen Farm overbridge just west of Par Docks, 15 minutes brisk walk from where I now live. I knew Nanking Blue was bright but the sun really lit it up! At the moment I took the going-away shot the front end must have come into view of the Carlyon Bay golfers where 'train stopped play' and "What the heck is THAT?!" Here's an intriguing question - when was the last time a diesel train was seen in Cornwall without a yellow warning panel? I would say January/February 1965, assuming that D856 'Trojan' visited during that time (a few Class 22s lasted longer in plain green but AFAIK they were in the Exeter area). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 On 27/06/2021 at 12:30, pb_devon said: Thanks Simon. So, just to clarify, the mechanical signals will remain and be motor driven operated from the panel in Exeter? Paul Hi Paul, Yes and no, the Mechanical Semaphores at Lostwithiel, Par and Truro are all being replaced with LED Colour Lights, they will be controlled by a VDU Workstation at Exeter rather than the panel. However, the Mechanical Semaphore Signals at Liskeard, St. Blazey, Goonbarrow and St. Erth will remain and worked by their respective boxes. Simon. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pb_devon Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Thank you Simon for that. Begs the question….why only half of it? Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2021 There has been a landslide this afternoon between Par and Newquay. https://planetradio.co.uk/pirate-fm/local/news/trains-cancelled-landslip-cornwall/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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