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Devon/Cornwall 15/09-18/09

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Basic gen from a trip west.
Bit off route for me, everything west of Plymouth was required, and very impressed with Cornwall i was too. Cracking few days...

Hope everyone can follow this, basically loco, service, had to/from

14/9 Th
321405 1833 Northampton-Euston L.Buzz-Euston
fill in move or two....won't bore you with details
37607} NMT-OC
37608}
mega farce at Padd due fatality, stock eventually arrived 2330.
57605 2350 Padd-Penzance, Padd-Penzance

15/9 Fr
JHW107P Penzance-Lands End
GBF78N Sennen-Penzance
JHW107P Penzance-Lands End
Not a bus basher but great fun on open top "VR"s
150261 1356 St Ives-St Erth, St Ives-St Erth
43022} 1406 Penzance-Padd, St Erth-Liskeard
43169}
153305 - Looe branch (top branch)
43190} 1600 Penzance-Padd, Liskeard-Plymouth
43185}
43145} 1505 Padd-Penzance, Plymouth-Bodmin Pwy
43143}

16/9 Sa
43020} 0639 Penzance-Padd, Bodmin Pwy-Totnes
43071}
5526(k) 1002 Totnes-Buckfastleigh, Totnes-Staverton
25262 - all day! Hellfire runs up and down an excellent line (more new track), especially liked shunting around vans/wagons at Buck. Rat was pristine and sounded excellent, even started up clean and quickly, most un-ratlike!
Buck-33002,37321,50002(electric blue-comedy),55000,20110,09002
37321/20110 trying to look as Scottish as possible- in Devon? Where are the hydraulics!?!
more 25262 to Totnes on 1635 x Buckfastleigh
43048} 1505 Padd-Penzance, Totnes-Bodmin Pwy
43176}

17/9 Su
Bodmin Diesel Gala - 37142,20166,33110 and last and least 50042
This line is outrageous! Don't know what the gradient is but uphill all the way out of Boscarne and Parkway.... Sustained thrash at low speed, syphon especially was awesome. 20 struggled a bit even on load four!
43037} 1624 St Erth-Padd, Bodmin Pwy-Liskeard
43032}
Bowled at Liskeard as Padd-Penzance caped, finished! So had to suffer...
158745 1430 Brisol-St Erth, Liskeard-St Erth
Note Penzance shut due to enginners blockade. I rate 158s bottom of the 15x pile, but it wasn't too bad...Not a HST though, down point of trip
57605 2125 St Erth-Padd, St Erth-Padd

18/9 Mo
various moves, of note scoring 313055 (last one) and photting 37606/610 on Serco at Harrow and Euston.
43075} 1225 St Pancras-Sheffield, St Pancras-Leicester
43043}
170/150/350 move to Rug via Nuneaton
87006 1651 Euston-Brum, Rugby-Brum
87006 1900 Brum-Euston, Brum-Cov
45L off Int'l due to on board riot and cord pulled, awaiting BTP etc
321434 1948 Brum-Euston, Cov-Northampton
321418} 1948 Brum-Euston, Northampton-L.Buzz
321434}

and home, tired but happy!
Absolutely gutted that all phots lost due to camera packing it in :(
 
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I've done something similar including open top VR's

Friday

'Cenred'
Yarmouth 0830
Lymington Pier 0900

421498
Lymington Pier 0914
Brockenhurst 0924

221139
Brockenhurst 0943
Bournemouth 1015

442411
Bournemouth 1025
Weymouth 1119

150244
Weymouth 1210
Bristol T Meads 1430

158763
Bristol T Meads 1520
Cardiff Central 1614

37425
Cardiff Central 1701
Rhymney 1804

Saturday


150285
Cardiff Central 0731
Ystrad Mynach 0802

37425
Ystrad Mynch 0813
Cardiff Central 0845

142069
Cardiff Central 0901
Cardiff Queen Street 0906

142006
Cardiff Queen Street 0910
Cardiff Bay 0917
Cardiff Queen Street 0920

142xxx
Cardiff Queen Street 0930
Cardiff Central 0935

50049
Cardiff Central 1055
Fishguard Harbour 1314
Fishguard Harbour 1335
Cardiff Central 1608

37425
Cardiff Central 1701
Rhymney 1804

143610
Rhymney 1945
Heath High Level 2031

Sunday

158968
Cardiff Central 0830
Bristol T Meads 0925

43147
Bristol T Meads 0954
Penzance 1411

JHW108P
Penzance 1440
St Ives 1511
Sennen Cove 1658

JHW107P
Sennen Cove 1735
St Just 1755

VDV143S
St Just 1843
Lands End 1915
Penzance 2000

57604
Penzance 2100
Plymouth 2258

Monday

158855
Plymouth 0725
Truro 0843

158746
Truro 0933
Falmouth Docks 0955
Falmouth Docks 0958
Truro 1021

43130 ‘The Cornish Riveria’
Truro 1046
Liskeard 1135

153329
Liskeard 1215
Looe 1242
Looe 1245
Liskeard 1309

153374
Liskeard 1327
Exeter 1504

180103
Exeter St Davids 1532
Westbury 1635

158962
Westbury 1658
Southampton Central 1801

377156
Southampton Central 1820
Cosham 1852

444134
Cosham 1900
Portsmouth Harbour 1923

'Our Lady Pamela'
Portsmouth Harbour 1945
Ryde Pier Head 2000
 

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Yeah, the standard coach was at the front and 57605 was dead on the rear so it was hellfire!
 
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