New location

[Joseph_Pestell]

Mike (Enterprising Western) has alerted me to the fact that I had not altered my profile as I thought that I had. Most of my belongings are still in Hereford but I have been in France for several months now and I am about to move in (Covid transport restrictions permitting) to my new layout room with house, about 30 km north of Limoges and on the Toulouse - Paris main line.

A couple of photos. Weather was fine yesterday but very cold mornings for April.

The two diesel units (single car X73500 and two-car X72500) are reversing on services between Limoges and Gueret/Montlucon. Not so many years ago, it would have been RTGs on Bordeaux-Lyon services. And, at one time there was a through coach to Turin. They seem to take as long to reverse a single-car DMU as was scheduled in steam days!

There was a big depot just down the road with a roundhouse. Sadly demolished.

Strangely, on a line electrified a very long time ago, we get diesel units on local services from Limoges to Chateauroux.

I am looking forward to some trips up to Paris - about three hours with a change at La Souterraine, Chateauroux or Vierzon.

Sorry that some photos are upside down. They are right on the computer file.