Photos, videos and docs of Roger (Grisly), with the keywords: "Railway"

Head of Steam

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:58:22 +0000

Full head of steam and ready to depart Bishops Lydeard Station and start the climb to Crowcombe station, The station stands at the highest point on the line, just under 400 feet (120 m) above sea level, approached by a 1:86 gradient either side, West Somerset Railway!

HBM and a good week to you all!

The train now standing,

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Wed, 07 May 2025 17:29:18 +0000

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Great Western Railway large Prairie 2-6-2 T 5199 at Bishops Lydeard Station, having just arrived on a service train from Minehead,

Built in 1934 and withdrawn from service 1963, restored to this pristine condition after 20 years standing in a scrap yard!

This 22.75 mile (36.61 km) journey on the West Somerset Railway includes 11 stations, Mineheads Platform 1 is a quarter of a mile long which is a relic of Butlins holiday traffic of the past!

HFF and a nice weekend!

Platform One!

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 10:09:33 +0000

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A view along Platform One at Minehead station on the West Somerset Railway
Opened in 1874 the sea front station now has platform 1280 feet (ca. 390 m) and a canopy of 200 feet (ca. 61 metres)

HBM and a good week ! Large view may help with detail.

Exchange

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:25:59 +0000

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Quick chat and token exchange at Bishops Lydeard Station. West Somerset Railway,
Ex GWR 2-8-0 2287 waits to depart with a service train to Minehead and ex GWR mogul 9351 arrives with a mixed freight.

Large gives a good view into the cab.

Image from the archive, struggling with internet connection again

Right of way & Pip

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:22:07 +0000

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Ex GWR 2-8-0 2857 pulls away from Bishops Lydeard Station and starts on the climb up to Crowcombe station, which is the first stop on the 22-mile journey to Minehead.
Bishops Lydeard loco shed far distance right

HFF and a peaceful weekend.

Large may be worth a go

Smoke and Steam HFF

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Thu, 12 May 2022 19:41:28 +0000

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On the West Somerset Railway, Ex GWR 2-8-0 number 2857 blasting up the bank to Crocombe Station with a passenger service to Minehead.

HFF and a good weekend

End of the line

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:23:57 +0000

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Watchet Harbour and the end the mineral railway line, The Mineral Railway was built between in the mid 19th century to take iron ore from the mines on the Brendon Hills to the waiting boats for transportation to South Wales.
Captured in evening light.

A link for anyone interested (with 3 great old images) westsomersetmineralrailway.org.uk

Large perhaps .

On Track

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:19:37 +0000

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Class 33 Crompton D6566 skirts the foreshore as it approaches Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Heritage Railway,
The misty north east corner of Exmoor forms the backdrop while the man and his dog walk towards Minehead on the England Coastal Path,

Large may be better

Great Western

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:21:03 +0000

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In the sidings at Minehead Station on the West Somerset Railway.
Built by the North British Locomotive Company Ltd, Glasgow in November 1930 for the Great Western Railway it was renumbered to L34 when sold to the London Transport Executive on 4th November 1959, after 12 years working engineering trains on London Transport it was purchased by 7029 Clun Castle Ltd and is on loan to the WSR for the 2019 Season (where is was repainted back to green)

Rural Station

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:12:18 +0000

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One from the archives, Bishops Lydeard Station on the West Somerset Railway as D1010 'Western Campaigner' arrives with a train from Minehead

Mountain Railway

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:55:25 +0000

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The Cairngorm Mountain Railway is the highest funicular railway in the UK , the Cairngorms are a mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland and and are home to the UK's only herd of free running Reindeer.

Link for Sight and Sound Group, Life is like a mountain railroad www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJhEG1U0HY

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,

Large for detail

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

Autumn Railway HFF

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 09:58:09 +0000

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Leaves change colour as summer gives way to autumn and the days grow shorter.
The bridge carries the railway line that runs from Kyle of Lochalsh to Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands..

Large if you please.

My link for Sight and Sound goes way back to the days of Skiffle, Washboards ,Coffee Bars and early Juke boxes, so far back that it's when my love of music started, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N4srNjyRK0

Kinlet Hall

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 20:39:56 +0000

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Found this old image from a few years back, Near the start of the cutting on the West Country main line just north of Bridgwater
Ex GWR 4036 Kinlet Hall heading for the West Somerset Railway in March 2009.

Push and Pull.

nobody@ipernity.com (Roger (Grisly)) — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:38:22 +0000

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A slide from 1984, A Type 3 Hymek on an 11 coach fast train failed at Bridgwater, the solution was to couple on the following train with class 50, "50043 Eagle" to push and pull both trains,

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.

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.