| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Mark A at 12:32, 11th February 2025 |     |
My home station the year my final YP railcard expired.*
Most memorable use of Kemble station ....
Most memorable use of Kemble station ....
Kemble is a really interesting case of a station quite outsized for the limited population in walking distance.
*snip**
**Electric-assist bikes enter the chat**
Given the 5 mile separation, even though Cirencester's tiny (~20,000), a Cirencester to Kemble station good quality 4 metre width off road route is a no-brainer - reusing the branch would involve getting creative at the Cirencester end of things, given the encroachment of industrial estates and a couple of not-so-minor road flat crossings.
On the plus side, the missing A429 bridge site is ideal for a replacement at height, and a couple of other of the line's structures are strikingly well built, are early examples of GWR masonry work and also deserving of listing.
A Cirencester-Kemble route is the sort of thing that should be funded by a levy of what would be small change from the extensive gravel extraction that's within a stone's throw there and which has utterly changed the landscape beyond recognition.
Also... *glares at Tetbury*... population ~6500 and growing, and c.8 miles from Kemble.
Mark
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Rob on the hill at 11:11, 10th February 2025 | |
9. Hilsea
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by grahame at 00:24, 10th February 2025 | |
Only 2 (numbers 9 and 24) left to identify ...and a lovely reminder of places to visit again this year. Once those two are identified, I'll repost the whole list
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by TonyN at 22:03, 9th February 2025 | |
7 Marlow
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:02, 9th February 2025 | |
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by AMLAG at 21:54, 9th February 2025 | |
17 Morchard Road
Those concrete sleepers are about 70 yrs old !
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Rob on the hill at 19:39, 9th February 2025 | |
10. Trowbridge
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by brooklea at 19:04, 9th February 2025 | |
11. Filton Abbey Wood
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by MVR S&T at 15:45, 9th February 2025 | |
22. Romsey
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by stuving at 15:18, 9th February 2025 | |
5. Bedwyn
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Rob on the hill at 13:33, 9th February 2025 | |
21. Gloucester
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by grahame at 11:35, 9th February 2025 | |
All of these my pictures taken on days out by train from Melksham within the last 5 years. All local trains. How many places can you recognise?
Forum members - please follow up by helping others identify places - one each please for the first 24 hours.
Forum members - please follow up by helping others identify places - one each please for the first 24 hours.
And the 24 hours is up ... still to identify:
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| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by grahame at 23:36, 8th February 2025 | |
Edit note: Minor editing to correct typos for clarity. CfN.
Thanks - as I'm keeping an separate log of answers, I'm afraid I may have re-introduce some here:
1 Worcester Shrub Hill - TonyN
2 Culham - IndustryInsider
3 Weymouth - WSW Frome
4 Kemble - Chris from Nailsea
6 Penryn - ellendune
8 Southampton Central - WSW Frome
12 Freshford - Rob on the hill
13 Oxford - MVR S&T
14 Torre - DR7835
15 Marsh Barton - Andy E
16 Coombe Junction - stuving
18 Exmouth - timmer
19 Axminster - PhilWakely
20 Shirehampton - johnneyw
23 Melksham - BobM
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by grahame at 23:28, 8th February 2025 | |
My home station the year my final YP railcard expired.*
Most memorable use of Kemble station ....
Most memorable use of Kemble station ....
Kemble is a really interesting case of a station quite outsized for the limited population in walking distance.
Do I dare say "shows what could be done with Pilning". ...
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by PhilWakely at 23:02, 8th February 2025 | |
19. Axminster
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Andy E at 20:53, 8th February 2025 | |
15. Marsh Barton?
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 20:33, 8th February 2025 | |
Hold on - one only, for the first 24 hours!
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by MVR S&T at 20:12, 8th February 2025 | |
13. Oxford
19. Sherborne?
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Mark A at 19:30, 8th February 2025 | |
My home station the year my final YP railcard expired.*
Most memorable use of Kemble station: during a cold spell, temperatures down to minus 18 a few nights, the army turning out of the barracks at South Cerney kitted out in thorougly appropriate snowshoes, and at a different workplace, a colleague appearing at the laundry door, and as they stepped across the threshold, frosty haired, into the warmth, in just a few seconds, 30 years fell from their apparent age: a goosebumps moment.
I wish I'd had a pair of snowshoes for the hour or so evening walk to Kemble, a mile or so of which being on a slightly exposed road that had filled with snow between the banks and was impassible, so, out into the fields and parallel to the road making the best crossing of the occasional hedge as I could, they were less of an obstacle than the snow-filled road.
Arriving at the station, the trains running sort-of-ok, even though that terrible 9 mile single track section to Swindon wasn't helping. The one I was headed for was an HST, which helped, but even it had snow in odd places, not all of it outside the carriages.
Mark
*Railcards about which I wrote a letter to BR, pointing out that they had a missing demographic on their trains, and trains on the line from Gloucester were carrying around enough fresh air in the gathering recession to make it worth pulling in additional regular customers off the frankly unpleasant A419/M4. Their reply was to the effect "Yes, yes, child, come back when you're sixty" For me, the year or seven of the lovely 'Annual season ticket holder's nominated person's second railcard' that might or might not have had something to do with Chris Green was then a thing of the future.
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by grahame at 18:42, 8th February 2025 | |
1 Worcester Shrub Hill - TonyN
2 Culham - IndustryInsider
3 Weymouth - WSW Frome
4 Kemble - Chris from Nailsea
6 Penryn - ellendune
8 Southampton Central - WSW Frome
12 Freshford - Rob on the hill
14 Torre - DR7835
15 - sorry - NOT Topsham nor Teignmouth either
16 Coombe Junction - stuving
18 Exmouth - Timmer
20 Shirehampton - johnneyw
23 Melksham - BobM
Edit note: Minor editing to correct typos for clarity. CfN.
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Timmer at 18:41, 8th February 2025 | |
18 Exmouth
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 18:36, 8th February 2025 | |
4. Kemble (my favourite station). 
I couldn't for the life of me work out where 4 was!
Really, Kemble is my idea of a proper railway station. I didn't even need to cheat by reading the sign.
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by bradshaw at 16:40, 8th February 2025 | |
Let’s try Teignmouth for 15 instead!
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 15:31, 8th February 2025 | |
Hold on - one only, for the first 24 hours!
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by WSW Frome at 15:22, 8th February 2025 | |
3 = Weymouth; 8 = Southampton Central
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by stuving at 14:49, 8th February 2025 | |
16. Coombe Junction Halt
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by grahame at 14:35, 8th February 2025 | |
Is there an extra point for noting 150 246 features in two photos (and I know both locations)?
I noticed that as I was preparing the quiz ... but didn't have enough to do a "life and travels of 150 246" quiz.
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 14:25, 8th February 2025 | |
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by bobm at 14:21, 8th February 2025 | |
Is there an extra point for noting 150 246 features in two photos (and I know both locations)?
Also doubles from 165 126 and 166 210.
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Rob on the hill at 13:58, 8th February 2025 | |
12. Freshford.
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by DR7835 at 13:58, 8th February 2025 | |
14 Torquay Torre
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by grahame at 13:39, 8th February 2025 | |
Answers so far:
1 Worcester Shrub Hill - TonyN
2 Culham - IndustryInsider
4 Kemble - Chris from Nailsea
6 Penryn - ellendune
15 - sorry - NOT Topsham
20 Shirehampton - johnneyw
23 Melksham - BobM
Edit note: Minor editing to correct typos for clarity. CfN.
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by bradshaw at 13:23, 8th February 2025 | |
15 Topsham
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by ellendune at 13:00, 8th February 2025 | |
6 is Penryn
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by bobm at 12:26, 8th February 2025 | |
23 is Melksham
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by johnneyw at 12:21, 8th February 2025 | |
20 is Shirehampton.
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by IndustryInsider at 12:07, 8th February 2025 | |
4. Kemble (my favourite station).
I couldn't for the life of me work out where 4 was!
2 is Culham?
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by TonyN at 11:37, 8th February 2025 | |
1 Worcester Shrub Hill
| Re: Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 11:27, 8th February 2025 | |
4. Kemble (my favourite station).
| Out and about in the South West - regional and local trains Posted by grahame at 10:56, 8th February 2025 | |
All of these my pictures taken on days out by train from Melksham within the last 5 years. All local trains. How many places can you recognise?
Forum members - please follow up by helping others identify places - one each please for the first 24 hours.
1 Worcester Shrub Hill - TonyN
2 Culham - IndustryInsider
3 Weymouth - WSW Frome
4 Kemble - Chris from Nailsea
5 Bedwyn - stuving
6 Penryn - ellendune
7 Marlow - TonyN
8 Southampton Central - WSW Frome
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10 Trowbridge - Rob on the hill
11 Filton Abbey Wood - brooklea
12 Freshford - Rob on the hill
13 Oxford - MVR S&T
14 Torre - DR7835
15 Marsh Barton - Andy E
16 Coombe Junction - stuving
17 Morchard Road - AMLAG
18 Exmouth - timmer
19 Axminster - PhilWakely
20 Shirehampton - johnneyw
21 Gloucseter - Rob on the hill
22 Romsey - MVR S&T
23 Melksham - BobM
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