RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 3, 2020 Winchester Chesil is my vote - a very lovely station and I remember seeing 3440 "City of Truro" there on a DN&S train circa 1959 / 60 (but my memory is now sometimes slightly unreliable!). Regards Chris H 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 3, 2020 Since Winchester Cheeshill is most likely the winner here - I'll vote for Churn just because it was in the middle of nowhere! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 3, 2020 3 hours ago, great northern said: Right, the poll. 4 votes for Tavistock to 2 for Bere Alston, but weren't there two stations at Tavistock? Only one reply specifies which one, so I'm not sure where that leaves us. The Didcot Newbury and Southampton today, another area about which I know nothing much, but it must have had some nice wayside stations. Neither do I so I am not going to be silly and find somewhere with a daft name. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 3, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 3, 2020 (edited) I'm still literally plugging away with Hunt couplings, and I got as far as tackling the parcels formation. The results are once again very good. we already know what we get with gangwayed vehicles, but the difference with these BGs is considerable. What about non gangwayed stock? Pretty close. They do ultra close couplings, which I haven't yet tried. These though again give very smooth and reliable running. Edited October 3, 2020 by great northern spelling 18 5 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 3, 2020 1 hour ago, great northern said: I'm still literally plugging away with Hunt couplings, and I got as far as tackling the parcels formation. The results are once again very good. They've been a transformation for me as well Gilbert. I've spent a fair proportion of this months railway budget on them but it's been well worth it. Thank you once again for telling us about them. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 3, 2020 DN&S. Hampstead Norris. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 3, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 3, 2020 One can try pointing the camera hopefully into the strong light again. But it is much simpler, and more sensible., to operate from the other side. Except when it comes to photoshopping. At least the leading BG is in focus. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 Winchester Chesil for me too. we spend a lot of time in Winchester as our eldest daughter lives there and we love the place, her graduation was in the cathedral, what a stunning place. I have managed to sort of trace the route of the rail line as there are still signs on the edge of the city. Looks like it was a fascinating station. As we can't go abroad at the moment Winchester has almost become a place for holidays despite being only 90 minutes from home on a good day. Martyn 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 3, 2020 For this poll I’m also going with Winchester Chesil. I just like it from all the photo’s I’ve seen. Rob. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 3, 2020 Winchester Chesil too. David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 4, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2020 Morning all. Dark and dismal again here, but at least it has stopped raining....for the time being. Still up in the air with the photographs, the morning subject being the L1 hauled 2.45pm from Hitchin. The trouble with these angles is that they reveal areas where I should be getting on with things, but haven't. Plenty to do over the fence in the background. This one was a bit easier. I just cropped out the bits I didn't want to be seen. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted October 4, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 Another one sided poll. Winchester Chesil 7, hardly anywhere else mentioned. Today, the Somerset and Dorset. Anywhere except Bath Green Park and Bournemouth West. Oh yes, and Templecombe, which has already featured in at least two other polls. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 If I were feeling mischievous, I'd suggest Berrow. However, as I'm not, it will be Blandford Forum, to keep the Flanders and Swann references going. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2020 I always liked Midford, the station and the viaduct, lovely stuff. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2020 34 minutes ago, great northern said: Another one sided poll. Winchester Chesil 7, hardly anywhere else mentioned. Today, the Somerset and Dorset. Anywhere except Bath Green Park and Bournemouth West. Oh yes, and Templecombe, which has already featured in at least two other polls. To be pedantic, Bournemouth West isn't on the S&D anyway (nor indeed Green Park). For all that it was a most interesting railway, the stations were not that interesting. Evercreech Junction for me for a slightly unusual layout, plenty of shunting and banking engines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 It has to be "Binegar" - terminus of the Oakhill Brewery's 2ft 6in gauge industrial (?) line, wth its Peckett and Bagnall 0-4-0STs. Coal, empty barrels, barley and hops in - full barrels out. The trouble with the S&DJR is that there is such an abundance of fascinating stations and interesting traffic, that identifying one place to vote for is very difficult, but "Binegar" it is. Regards Chris H 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2020 Bailey Gate. No, I've never been there, but 40 years ago I was about to start working for the late Gerry Kitchenham, Operating Officer for the South Eastern Division, who had been SM there in the '50s. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 (edited) Radstock. It appeals due to the low arch bridge which led to the low slung Sentinels being provided to work through it. Paul Edited October 4, 2020 by Flying Fox 34F Additional information 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt, just like the name! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Evercreech Junction. for me please Gilbert. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 Many years ago I fell into the spell of the romance of the S&DJR. I was going to build a model based on it with the Bulleid Pacifics and the oddments of Derby designs running along side each other. Ivo Peters photos helped this perception but when you read about it as a operating railway it was doomed from day one. So today I am not nominating any of the stations because it would be hypocritical of me to do so on this over hyped backwater railway. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon4470 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Wells (Priory Road) for me......I..just like the track layout and the complexity of the various companies that met around there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2020 I know very little of the Somerset & Dorset, but I did see a train at Broadstone station once; the last train from Wimborne - I don't know whether Broadstone counts or not? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted October 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2020 Evercreech Junction is my choice for the S&D. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Evercreech Junction here too, please. Mainly because of the Shipley MRC's layout of it https://www.shipleymrs.co.uk/evercreech-junction Saw it several times at exhibitions and always used to love the way it was operated, with the assisting locos massing in the centre siding ... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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