RMweb Gold unravelled Posted April 1, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2014 Another set. Shepton Mallet, ??, Highbridge and Evercreech Junction. End of July 1965 Still some more to come... Thanks Dave 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted April 1, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2014 These just keep getting better and better - wonderful. Pictures 10,11 and 12 are at Glastonbury. They are all gems but I do particularly like the portrait of Shepton box looking through the gate. The Std tank taking water at Evercreech is another corker. Do keep them coming. Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted April 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2014 These are absolutely wonderful, thanks for posting Dave. You should try and get them published somewhere. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted April 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2014 What a beautiful set of pictures, thanks for sharing them. All the best Adrian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailWest Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I think 22 and 23 are Binegar again. 27 puzzles me, as the train is heading off across the GRW line towards the goods shed, I wonder why? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 They are great photographs. Thanks very much. It is rather strange seeing steam hauled local trains as late as 1965. Were dmus never used on these services in an attempt to cut costs, and maybe increase passenger numbers? Or was it all just a cynical ploy to starve the line of investment? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 They are great photographs. Thanks very much. It is rather strange seeing steam hauled local trains as late as 1965. Were dmus never used on these services in an attempt to cut costs, and maybe increase passenger numbers? Or was it all just a cynical ploy to starve the line of investment? No diesels let alone DMUs, except the occasional DMU excursion. The WR, having inherited the S&DJR, didn't want it and transferred as much traffic as possible to its own lines. Regards, John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium tingleytim Posted April 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2014 More magnificent pictures and more memories stirred. I may even have photographed some of the same trains whilst on a bike ride from Poole to Shepton Mallet! The freight hauled by 48444 (scans 36-8) would have been going to Wincanton. I saw what I think was the same train arrive there on 3rd August 1965, a Tuesday, and shunt the vans into the Cow and Gate factory sidings. I’ve posted my pictures of it on flickr along with the others I took that day at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tingleytim/sets/72157643308141063/ The freight had one light and one dark mineral wagon before some vans, just like the train in your pictures, and the sequence of light and dark roofs on the vans could be the same. Do you know which of these pics were taken on the same day, perhaps from negative numbers? If they were the same day, then I believe I can tell you that the 2-6-4 tank would have been 80094 arriving to take over the 16.13 Evercreech to Bournemouth service, the carriages for which can be seen in the distance in the centre road on scan 35. Scan 33/34. Could be the 14.18 Highbridge to Templecombe which I saw at Horsington on 3/8/65. Same loco, coach and van. Scan 20/21. Probably the up mail, due Shepton at 18.14. 73051 hauled it on 28/7, 30/7, 2/8 and 3/8. Scans 28-34. Looks like you could have travelled to Highbridge on the 13.15 from Evercreech (41290) and returned on the 14.18 to Templecombe (41223). But that only gives you 5 minutes at Highbridge - not long enough to slot in 41249 as well? Both 41223 and 41290 were working branch passenger trains on 3/8/65. Cheers. Tim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted April 2, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2014 48444 was certainly around that date, so that could well have been the same train. Apart from the first round trip, all the others were by car from Oxford. Because there were few services and short connections, we didn't travel much on the trains while we were there, I'm afraid. I've gone back over some of the earlier sets and added location and locos, where known, thanks to the extra information given. I'll add to the rest later. Thanks Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted April 2, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2014 End of August/start September 1965 Shepton Mallet Midford? 76057 Evercreech Junction Evercreech Junction 41296 Evercreech Junction 41296 80041 Evercreech Junction 41290 Evercreech Junction 41206 Thanks Dave 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted April 2, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2014 September(?) 1965 Evercreech Junction 80043 Evercreech Junction 76025 Midford Viaduct Midford Viaduct 80043 Midford Viaduct 80043 Bath Green Park Bath Green Park 80043 Bath Green Park 80043 Thanks Dave 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Dark Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Wonderful pictures, thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 I'd be particularly interested in any pictures of West Penard or the stretch from there to Glastonbury if you have them? Fantastic pictures ... shame i was born in the 70s and therefore missed the real thing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted April 3, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2014 A couple of Glastonbury pics coming up, but not much else in that area, I'm afraid. Thanks Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted April 4, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4, 2014 More from September 1965. Evercreech Junction Evercreech Junction 41223 Evercreech Junction 41291 Evercreech Junction 41291 Evercreech Junction 73001 Evercreech Junction 73001 Evercreech Junction 41223 ? 34044 ? 34044 ? 34044 ? 34044 Evercreech Junction 41206 Evercreech Junction 76015? Evercreech Junction 82041 Evercreech Junction 82041 Evercreech Junction 82041 Evercreech Junction 82041 Evercreech Junction 82041 Evercreech Junction Evercreech Junction 75073 Evercreech Junction 75073 Templecombe 41216 Templecombe 41216 Templecombe 41307 Templecombe 80041 Thanks Dave 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 (edited) "Bootiful" Looks like 34044 Woolacombe (she was a Bournemouth loco). Must be deputising for a failure (2-6-4T or 2-6-0 Mogul, possibly Standard Class 4 ot 5 4-6-0?) from the Bournemouth roster. Great photos - thanks again. Edited April 5, 2014 by geoffers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted April 5, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2014 Fantastic pictures ... shame i was born in the 70s and therefore missed the real thing! Having been born and brought up in Bath during the last few years of the S&D was, sadly, no guarantee that one could actually see it in action. My memories of it as an operational railway are, alas, all too few. I just didn't realise what it was, until it had gone... These photos are just superb, Dave, the quality is excellent. I know some of us bemoan the fact that we can't go back in time with a digital camera, but most of these are just as if you were doing just that (minus the time machine, perhaps!). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailWest Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 I would suggest that Nos 11 and 12 are at Masbury Summit, looking northwards towards Bridge 69. I suspect that No 10 is the same location (and the same lineside photographer!), but looking southwards. Not sure about 8, but perhaps somewhere in roughly the same area???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted April 5, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2014 Thanks for the comments. I'm glad these are getting a wider audience. I had only seen some of these as negatives until scanning them a couple of years ago. Sometime in October 1965 as far as I can tell... Visit 1 Evercreech Junction 41249 Evercreech Junction Evercreech Junction 41296 Evercreech Junction 73001 Visit 2 Evercreech Junction 41296 Evercreech Junction 41296 Evercreech Junction 80134 Evercreech Junction 80134 Evercreech Junction 41283 Evercreech Junction 41283 Evercreech Junction 41283 80059 Evercreech Junction 75072 Evercreech Junction 80059 Evercreech Junction Evercreech Junction 41283 Evercreech Junction 41283 Evercreech Junction 41283 41291 41245? Evercreech Junction 41291 41245? Evercreech Junction 41291 Evercreech Junction 41291 Evercreech Junction 41291 Evercreech Junction 80138 Evercreech Junction [Evercreech Junction 41291 Evercreech Junction 41291 Evercreech Junction 41291 Thanks Dave 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) Wow - another super set. Love the ones of the kids watching the standard 2-6-4T overflowing when filling up from the water crane. Rarely see that in print. 41245 (?) may well be 41248. Please never let these goodies end????? Takes me "roight back it do"! Edited April 6, 2014 by geoffers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Love the pics of the station staff too :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted April 6, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 Nearly the end. A few, mainly from Evercreech Junction, in late 1965 Evercreech Junction 80096 Evercreech Junction 41206 Evercreech Junction 41206 Evercreech Junction 75072 Glastonbury and Street 41206 Highbridge? 41307 Evercreech Junction 80037 Evercreech Junction 80037 1/1/1966, and the LCGB Mendim Merchantman tour Glastonbury and Street 41307 41283 Glastonbury and Street 41307 41283 Glastonbury and Street 41307 41283 Glastonbury and Street 41307 41283 Glastonbury and Street 41290 Glastonbury and Street 41290 Glastonbury and Street 41296 Glastonbury and Street 41296 Glastonbury and Street 41296 Glastonbury and Street 41296 Thanks Dave 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailWest Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Yes, No 17 *is* Highbridge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted April 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 Running out of superlatives - easily the best new S&D pictures I've seen for a long time. My main interest has always been the pre-1930 period but I have to say I'm really enjoying these, the stock and varied formations in the final years have a certain atmosphere about them. Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Would agree with queensquare. Guess most of us who were around at the time remember the years to closure more clearly than earlier. I have hazy recollections of the 50s, mainly spamcans and 9Fs on The Pines and the odd 2P and 4F. But then I was only six-and-a-half when 1960 started. Have only seen one photo so far of Templecombe Upper on 5th March 1966. Are there any more about??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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