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Oh dear…..wait for the Wednesday jokes (bless his soul) 😁

As this requires a FB account (which I refuse to have), please can you do whatever is necessary so we can see the item. Thank you.

The Swelltor line still has sleepers insitu, plus the headshunt bufferstop remains (stone with timber beam). Most of the other trackbeds can be easily traced.

Correct…on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway.

Nuclear flask traffic, either from power stations….or if you want really niche…MOD waste from Devonport Dockyard to Sellafield.

This might be a better link for the wider resources available: https://www.library.wales/collections/learn-more/maps

You are forgetting about copyright again!

I think you could just make a ramshackle temporary timber structure with odd lengths, stacks of stone on the platforms etc. Oh, and make sure you have to hand a modern H&S document…..and immediately bin it as none of it will apply

lmsforever…..perhaps you could get your mate to have the organisation make a formal official announcement on the subject, then we will all know the position rather than secondhand. There is no future in complaining to any officials without accurate firsthand info. You can see I’m not in the area…but I do know people who are that I could pass this onto.

It was encouraging to learn that the above on Roborough Down has been listed Grade 2. Info here: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1477178?section=official-listing Image here: https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=dda54321-ea1a-4b00-9dfa-d19e1417874c Easy to get to, just off the Clearbrook road by the leat bridge, where there is a car park. Also a long section of the trackbed with granite sleeper blocks insitu as part of Drakes Trail path.

See this ‘demonstration’ of a trap point in operation:

As someone who was (before retirement) very involved with Devonport Dockyard rail and development issues, I can advise that it is highly unlikely that there will be commercial shipping/rail freight operations at this location. As explained above, the internal rail system is totally unsuitable, and in any event is wholly devoted to other uses associated with submarine refit/decommissioning. The access from sea for a ship of any size is almost impossible, which is why the carriers are not base ported here. RN have maximised land use by moving many operations onto the site from elsewhere. I summary…a non starter!

I might be confused in my old age, but wasn’t it Mk3 stock that was fitted with CDL? One of the locations where the work was done was Devonport Dockyard by the dockyard operator (Devonport Management Ltd). I was in charge of the dockyard railway then. All the WR plus Cross Country fleets were done there on a weekly cycle with changeover on a Friday evening. A complete rake was hauled from Laira by a cl47, with an 08 in tow (sometimes sent in advance) for the propelling move down the dockyard branch. There were two barrier vehicles as well, which made the whole lot too long for the loop so a complicated shunt release was necessary to release the locos. Given that this was done twice each Friday (once for the completed set, then the incoming new one) it made it a long evenings work!

There was a dual gauge (broad and standard) turntable in Devonport Dockyard until rescued by the GWS and is now at Didcot, but restored in bg only. The dual track was in one direction only, by adding sg after 1892, to allow the table to be repurposed once bg had been discontinued. All tracks were central on the axis. Full details here: http://www.gwsbristol.org/gwsturntable.html

Timetable World link: https://timetableworld.com/index.php

This might be useful: “Plan of Broad Street Station and property adjoining (Lower Level) 1905” RAIL 529/90 at TNA. But you’d need to visit Kew to see it. RAIL 529/91 is the upper level Paul

Thanks Engineer for the Britain from Above image. I can see the office window where I worked!! Paul

I don’t recall street level tracks across Worship Street. The Pindar and Primrose Street crossings were under the viaduct so won’t show on OS maps. Might there be some railway drawings in NRM or TNA? Paul

I worked in Worship Street from 1966 to 1970. The container yard with it’s overhead gantry crane was in use in the early years but I cannot recall a closure date. I remember the Scammel three-wheeler road trucks delivering the containers. Also the yard workers riding on the top of the containers being hoisted from the high level rail wagon down to ground level. The ground level lines parallel to Appold Street were OOU at the time I was there. These went through timber solid gates where they crossed Pindar and Primrose Streets, and I never saw them opened. A bit of an industrial waste land at the time with derelict warehouses,etc. A long time ago in a very different world….sigh! Paul

There’s a report explaining what’s going on with photo’s on todays news on the CRS website: http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/latest-input--news--old-pictures-etc Scroll down to the 6 September section.

However it still maintains some control by various caveats. I have worked for one in this position.

Gosh, that’s a lot of hypotheticals! I will not deal with Scottish Independence here. However as far as our nuclear submarines are concerned, there is a world of difference between base porting of vessels and refit/upkeep/decommissioning. The latter will be at Devonport (full stop) and hence the transfer of contaminated waste to storage (currently Sellafield), will continue by rail.

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Here is a video of the move…

Photographs, video and working details of flask trains passing Totnes are here: http://totnestrains.weebly.com/nuclear-flasks.html