An extra day ‘Heading South’.
Three men and a pick-up went south to collect a quantity of parts for the restoration of Rbr 1675.
The day started with news of a bad crash on the M5 which caused an all day closure, to get to South Devon Railway Engineering this reduces your options considerably. Having local knowledge we side stepped the whole problem.
As you can see, we brought back a substantial quantity of steel section. The truck is parked opposite the Railway café…… guess were we were.
Well it is a railway…. We just had to …..
Our truck is speed limited, so we thought we should get going ……
We were ok going north, but southbound was still at a standstill. I am reliably informed there was no fatality …… We made good time and made it back to Winchcombe by 4.30pm.
The SDR have spoiled the Heritage appearance of Buckfastleigh station by painting that yellow line along the platform. There's absolutely no need for it on a line like that, God forbid the GWSR ever decides to perpetuate that sort of nonsense!
ReplyDeleteYes I quite agree, it's the little details like that, or lack thereof, that make or break the period atmosphere. I'm enjoying my slow-scale war on our station signage for the same reason, it's very satisfying to GWR-ify all the various notices and signs we have dotted around using original designs for inspiration.
DeleteYellow lines on platforms were introduced in 1974 in response to turbulance caused by Intercity 125's - and initially only installed on lines used by them. I agree with the above comments - no place for them on Heritage railways .
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