Contributions of the group Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway - The SDJR - The S&D - The Serene & Delightful - The Slow & Dirty

Somerset $ Dorset 2-8-0 # 53808 coasts from Ropley to Alresford

nobody@ipernity.com (Peter_Private_Box) — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 20:00:28 +0000

Dreamer

nobody@ipernity.com (Ecobird) — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:23:32 +0000

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Burnham on sea and the 'Dreamer' is caught in the golden light of the gently setting sun.

I have added 'Dreamer' by Supertramp as a link

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD1MJRXnZfE

Please view large. Thank you.

Evening Train HFF

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Thu, 10 May 2018 19:30:04 +0000

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Waiting to reverse onto the the last train of the day at Williton Station on the West Somerset Railway.
The loco is a Fowler design and built in 1925 by Robert Stevenson & co for heavy goods traffic over the steeply graded Somerset and Dorset main line, during it's last overhaul it was repainted back to it's original black colour,

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Link for the Sight and Sound Group www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIyuzEydT0

Nostalga

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:33:09 +0000

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At Minehead on the West Somerset Railway, Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR) Locomotives 7F 2-8-0 53808 and 53809 under repair outside the shed, The fireman waits at the points as GWR Large Prairie 2-6-2T 5199 prepares to run around the train that it has hauled from Bishops Lydeard.

Enlarge for detail.

Bath Green Park Station (1) - 21 August 2014

nobody@ipernity.com (John Oram) — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:27:36 +0000

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Bath Green Park Station was opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway and shared by the S&DJR from 1874. Having fallen into substantial disrepair after closure in 1966 (passenger)/1971 (goods), the building was eventually restored as part of an agreement with Sainsbury's who built a store on part of the site. The architecture is a joy to behold even with the varied present day uses including car parking beneath the trainshed.

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SDJR motive power department stores & equipment wagon from model photo

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:49:38 +0000

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This was modelled from a photograph of a model - I can't remember the scale - in a model railway magazine back in the 1960s - possibly Model Railway News. I obviously didn't get round to putting any brake gear underneath, although the strapping looks a lot neater than many of my other hand-made jobs!

SDJR 4-wheeled Goods brake model

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:10:36 +0000

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Two more of my forty-year-old SDJR models. These were both made fairly early in the S&D period of our modelling when the use of stable Hornby Dublo chassis were preferred, to ones made by sticking white-metal axle guards onto plasticard under-frames.
The official photo of this type of brake van is at www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26349945

SDJR 6 wheeled Goods brake / Mail van 4mm/1ft model

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:10:36 +0000

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Two more of my forty-year-old SDJR models. These were both made fairly early in the S&D period of our modelling when the use of stable Hornby Dublo chassis were preferred, to ones made by sticking white-metal axle guards onto plasticard under-frames. It is short of a number of details - roof fittings and the black metal plates at the joints of the bodywork.
The official photo of this mail van is at www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26349973

Yieldingtree Museum Dr Coombes photos 1

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:58:27 +0000

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GWR 1338 on the S&D

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:29:29 +0000

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Taken in the 1950s with a Kodak box camera and captured on the Somerset and Dorset Railways Bridgwater North to Edington Junction Line which had by then been connected to the GWR Docks branch at Bridgwater North station, The employees in the photograph are setting the points to allow access to John Boards brick and tile works siding which sat at the start of the 1 in 72 bank that raised the line over the GWR Main Line and the A38 trunk road which was at that time the main route to the West Country.

Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © all rights reserved.

Cl2 262T 41206 Highbridge 4 9 1965

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:18:06 +0000

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BR Class 3 2-6-2T 82001 at Glastonbury 24.4.1961

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:34:13 +0000

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BR 2-10-0 92243 - Highbridge - 1.1.1966

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:21:56 +0000

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This is the scanned negative version of this photo. The scanned print version is at www.ipernity.com/doc/364457/26460305
Photograph by John Sutters
This photo has now appeared in a new book - "Somerset and Dorset Swansong" by Bob Bunyar.