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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 2h

Okay what am I missing about the "first new station in 100 years" story, because I can think of a few other ones.... 🍑

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 9h

Such a cool layout

The sugar mill steam switcher in it's shed

A very different vibe to the usual unit tank trains we model 🙃

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 9h

Had the privilege at the weekend of helping run Andy Gautreys little slice of 1950s Cuba at the Taunton model railway exhibition

#12 pulls cane empties out from the mill

Pulling away from the Central Alonzo depot

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 10h

Just here to darkly appreciate "the railway museum is accessible by car" line in that...

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 23h

Mmmm unconvinced they would take a HSL past Exeter, definately not beyond Plymouth.

Running beyond the network is normal, and plenty of French cities aren't directly connected to the HSL.

(Nantes might be a good example that's bigger than Plymouth...)

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah possibly, though going the other way only about 3 a day would go all the way to Penzance, and two of those would run half an hour apart for some bizarre reason, plus an extra once per year on St Pirans day. 🙃

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 1d

For context, i'm down in Exeter and Barnstaple and Okehampton are both hourly, Exmouth half hourly, suspect if I was in France they would have bustituted Barnstaple and never reopened Oke...

Though conversely Exeter would probably have at least a couple of tram lines so there's that! 🙃

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, hard agree that reliability is a long way from perfect at the mo

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 1d

If you're comparing France and England, then (very generally) most of England has at least an hourly train, in some bits of France you're talking there being just a handful of trains a day assuming services haven't just been replaced by a bus yet....

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 3d

(Given the fairly simple wayside station built locally in recent years had to have a second means of escape put in from each platform, I doubt you can build that today even if you wanted!)

Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 3d

Hmmmm, did think Dovey Jcn, but looking that has a footpath access also.

So my guess would be, no.

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 3d

Depends what you mean, there's at least couple in Scotland with no public road access, but you can still enter and exit the station, does that count?

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 3d

Gilded Age ass president

1984 meme but it's 1872 instead of 1984. Middle aged karen-type lady says "Union Pacific is bribing politicians and financing shady construction projects" while her forlorn husband flips the calendar back to 1872

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 3d

I'm choosing to imagine that version of the State Belt was built deliberately to a slightly different gauge, and the pit is for loading standard gauge cars onto flatcars for delivery 🙃

Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 4d

Not very Network Rail looking signals, but what a fabulous photo

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Martyn Read @gloriousnse.bsky.social · 7d

I do - though it's been a while (as you can probably tell from the content!) Vantage point is the footbridge over the WCML that connects the park to Conway Gardens

If you want to get actual over and under you'll need a telephoto but it should work.

Underground under underground on the overground - a Bakerloo train in front of a Met A stock train near South Kenton

Overground under underground, A stock and a 313 at South Kenton

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7d

See stoat, say stoat, stoated

Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 7d

having lived on an upland farmstead and seen one or two things, I have to reluctantly get behind this, but then we keep a cat so any logic is out of the window