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GBRf/Colas CWR rail drop to Cornwall July 21/22nd 2021

Photos of this week 26th June – 2nd July 2021

National Rail Infrastructure trains

The Royal Train June 11th 2021

Saphos Rail Tours “Devonian Express” Steam Train

Saphos Rail Tours “Devonian Express” ran today from Solihull to Plymouth. It began its journey under diesel power with LSL 47614 and made its way down through Warwick, Leamington Spa, Banbury, and Oxford picking up passengers before heading to Bristol Temple Meads. Here the diesel was put on the rear of the train and steam power provided by 46100 Royal Scot and 45231 Sherwood Forester worked in…

The Cornish Coastal Pullman

A full day out from Wolverhampton and Tame Bridge to Penzance. The train was double-headed by two LSL Class 47 locomotives 47593 which is named Galloway Princess and 47614 plus eleven Pullman luxury coaches. The train set off at 5.09am and arrived at Penzance at 1pm  After 2 hours in Penzance to stretch their legs the train started the return journey at 3pm and is due to reach Wolverhampton at…

The Midland Pullman is owned and run by Locomotive Services Ltd. ( LSL) The tour was from Eastleigh to Penzance and was the first occasion that the train has been to Devon & Cornwall. The power cars were numbers 43055 and 43046 which is named Geoff Drury 1930-1999. He was honoured with a nameplate reading his name and “Steam Preservation and Track Recording Pioneer” below. This train will make…

Rail News 27th May 2021

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We apologise for the outage of the website today (23rd May 2021). A vulnerability was detected on the website at 00:47 so the site was taken offline as a precaution. We have been working with the hosts to repair the issue and to get the site back online as quickly as possible and can now confirm that the site is functioning fully again. Users data was not affected by this issue but as security is…

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The Funeral – Royal Visitor

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Sea Wall Rail News 22nd April 2021

At the fall of the hammer

Railway interest at Dawlish April 14/15th 2021

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GBRf on HST Power Cars Stock Movement 13th April 2021

Welcome to my latest musings about the past in Dawlish, which have formed the basis of my second book about the town: Eavesdropper – Dawlish Tales from Long Ago. For those of you who have been following these blogs, I have now recounted snippets of half a dozen tales – some of them based on fact and some on fiction, but all of them set in the town and, hopefully, helping you to learn a bit more…