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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2009 6:57:36 GMT
  Sorry to return to this obscure subject like some old loony, but did you know Torbay also had it's own named express "The Torbay Express"; which like it's Cornish Cousin ran from Paddington from well before the First World War to provide a through service as far as Brixham......................and how many of you even knew Brixham once had a railway station? Unlike every other train bound for South Devon, this one departed at half past the hour and after running non stop to Exeter St Davids, called at Torquay, Paignton and as mentioned; Brixham so that Torquay was a "mere" three and a half hours from the metropolis. By the mid nineteen thirties, there was a simultaneous 12 noon departure from either end of the run and like the "Cornish Riviera Express" it ran with a name board depicting the exclusivity of the service on the front of the powerful King Class locomotive which provided a strange if not unique sight as it did trundling along the last piece of single track down into Brixham. A service branded as the Torbay Express still leaves Paddington at 1000 Monday to Friday on the current timetable. It takes the "Long Way Round" via Bristol and arrives at Paignton at 1348. A more direct service leaves Paddington at 1035 on Saturdays. The "up" trains are off Paignton at 1415 Monday-Friday and 0920 on Saturdays. These days the Cornish Riviera leaves Paddington at 1006 to arrive at Penzance at 1511. In the other direction it departs Penzance at 0844. Other named trains to Devon and Cornwall include the Royal Duchy, Golden Hind, Night Riveira and Mayflower. Brixham is one of a number of places highlighted in a report this week where there could be a social and economic case to reinstate a railway service (as far as Churston anyway). See www.atoc.org/general/ConnectingCommunitiesReport_S10.pdf. At present this is very much an outline suggestion - rather than a definite intention - and there doesn't seem much keeness from the steam railway company which operates through to Kingswear. Passenger services on the actual Brixham line finished in 1963. Here's a much earlier picture from Devon Railway Stations:  |
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Post by Dave on Jul 6, 2009 21:05:01 GMT
I plan to add to this thread Barton when I have time, I have found some pictures of stations on the old Holsworthy line, I do need also to do a bit more research.
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Post by stuartB on Jul 6, 2009 21:23:14 GMT
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Post by Dave on Jul 6, 2009 21:35:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 21:36:19 GMT
I took a couple of shots on Sunday of the latest Torbay Express. This is Tornado the first steam train to be built since 1960. my son tells me it is an A1 which is what 60103 / 4472 Flying Scotsman was originally before conversion. I knew I wasn't the only one! Waited to see it cross the flood relief channel bridge just south of St Davids. The publicity says it'll be running every Sunday until the end of September. Down: Exeter St Davids 1115 Paignton 1205 Kingswear 1255 Up: Kingswear 1720 Paignton 1755 Exeter St Davids 1845 www.torbayexpress.co.uk |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 21:39:24 GMT
I plan to add to this thread Barton when I have time, I have found some pictures of stations on the old Holsworthy line, I do need also to do a bit more research. Look forward to it, Dave. Here's a map to start:  There may be an old football grounds picture quiz in the pipeline if anybody is interested... |
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Post by stuartB on Jul 6, 2009 21:41:37 GMT
Just had a bollocking off James. Flying Scotsman was a different A1 class to tornado.
9351 that Dave R pictured is a unique engine - a tank engine that was converted into a tender engine recently using old designs that were never implemented
above by James, because i haven't got a clue ;D
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Post by papalazarou on Jul 7, 2009 8:37:27 GMT
Im up for the old footy grounds quiz barton. Im not sure I will know many of the answers but will throughly enjoy looking at the pics! It will probably end up being a one on one with you and jon trying to find out if the picture is one of the old main stand at Uxbridge! and thats why I love this forum  |
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Post by merse on Jul 7, 2009 14:35:11 GMT
Bring that old grounds quiz on Barty...................the contributions are bordering on BORING for the last 24 hours! 
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2009 15:22:08 GMT
Bring that old grounds quiz on Barty...................the contributions are bordering on BORING for the last 24 hours! With a trip to the Barn Cinema on the way home to see Looking for Eric you might even get a film review as well! |
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Post by stuartB on Jul 7, 2009 20:15:24 GMT
Bring that old grounds quiz on Barty...................the contributions are bordering on BORING for the last 24 hours! didn't like my trains Merse? have to find some buses  |
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Post by Dave on Jul 7, 2009 22:59:03 GMT
Bring that old grounds quiz on Barty...................the contributions are bordering on BORING for the last 24 hours! I have put in a good stint tonight merse, so you shouldn't be to BORED at 4am |
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Post by David Graham's Eighth Pint on Jul 8, 2009 9:37:31 GMT
What a great little picture Barton.
I'll always remember growing up in Hatherleigh and my parents taking me to what was the train station. I still can't believe that these little rural villages in the back-end of nowhere actually had stations!
I didn't know Bude had a station. I'll have to ask my dad about that one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 9:51:58 GMT
Bring that old grounds quiz on Barty...................the contributions are bordering on BORING for the last 24 hours! With a trip to the Barn Cinema on the way home to see Looking for Eric you might even get a film review as well! : make sure you see it. Think the FC United sub-plot might have been lost on the Totnesnistas at the Barn... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 10:46:42 GMT
What a great little picture Barton. I'll always remember growing up in Hatherleigh and my parents taking me to what was the train station. I still can't believe that these little rural villages in the back-end of nowhere actually had stations! I didn't know Bude had a station. I'll have to ask my dad about that one. Hatherleigh was on one of the most unsuccessful, underused railway lines ever. It opened late - in the 1920s - and was gone by the 1960s. By all accounts it took ages to go to North Devon and any journey towards Okehampton (the big town around there) involved a change at Halwill Junction. Bude, by comparison, was mainline stuff! |
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