Railways in Cornwall 1974 and 1975.
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Photos taken on two summer holidays in June 1974 and June 1975 of trains, stations, and signal boxes in Cornwall.
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...love the slideshow! takes me back to my youth growing up in the grimy 70's, scruffy trains, scruffy hairstyles but a decade I look back on with affection... Thank you 👌
Thanks. It was a good time to travel around by train. The70's was such an easy-going decade compared with all the restrictions and obsessions we endure now.
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Too right
It was the first decade I remember having been born in the late 60s but it did seem that people were left alone to think and do as they pleased
Love the pics of the Class 52 Westerns. Saw them every day when they passed my school in Newbury.
We don't miss the everyday until it's gone
Carbis Bay is just heaven
Indeed it is
however it became hell when all of the globalist scum gathered there last year
Excellent pictures of my favourite years of train spotting 😀 Living in Manchester it was quite easy getting down to Devon and Cornwall on cross country trains and I fell in love with the class 52 Western Hydraulics. I saw them all bar 1058 Western Nobleman. I do have a Heljan model of it though 😀
What lovely memories,I went to boarding school in Devon between 1966-1975 ,I was living Truro back then .thank you .
Thanks for your comment.
Luckily when i went train spotting on a N Devon and Cornish holiday in the early 60s there were no diesels. I even saw a Southern Rly Bullied Q1 on passenger duty.
The famous 'withered arm'
Memories eh? I was a spotty student at Plymouth Poly 1972/76 and remember much of this. So many other railway landmarks in Plymouth have since disappeared.
Why were students always spotty in those days? LOL.
Lovely 👍
Very nice to see and pitty that some is gone
Interesting to see that the Liskeard totems and enamel signs that had been overpainted in black and white were still up in the mid 70s.
Thanks for your comment. The programme to replace totems spread over several years!
2:04is interesting; Peaks very rarely worked to Paddington, so if the headcode was correct and it was a London train, it would probably have changed engines at Plymouth. Some excellent pictures once again, again it shows you how much BR picked itself up from about the mid-70d
Indeed, my recollection from these trips is that most Penzance-London trains had a loco change at Plymouth, along with extra coaches being attached/detached. This practice ceased of course with HST's, but I believe that it has been reinstated with the GWR Azuma-type trains which now run as a single unit between Penzance and Plymouth. Some of my photos of locos at Plymouth were doing a loco-change. I would also hazard a guess that Penzance train crews would seldom work east of Plymouth.
I have no reason to doubt the headcode - 1A in the Western Region would be a main line train with a destination in the London Division. 1B was Bristol Division, 1C the Cardiff Division.
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45s did work Londons occasionally, as you say they would be re-engined at PLY with a 47, 50 or (until late 1976) 52. It was only after HSTs took over that PZ crews regularly worked to Exeter St Davids. SFAIK that's still their limit today owing to rostered hours; journey times with the 800s are no better than HSTs were 35 years ago.
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Nice
That could have been me at Newquay station or St Austell on the way to Uni!
Remember the smells ? Diesel and oil from between the tracks ? BR didn't give a sh*t how much diesel dripped from train fuel tanks onto the rails . Sewage and sh*t flushed directly onto to the tracks at stations ! Diesel smoke from the exhausts ! What else ?