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In Railtrack days there was a campaign that designated certain points as 'golden assets' as mentioned above, this would have been around 1997/98. The infrastructure itself was not painted gold, just referred to as Golden so it flagged up to staff that it was critical to running the service and...

This situation existed more recently as well. From April 1992 the area was under Regional Railways Central (excluding the Birmingham/Gloucs line) then became Railtrack Midlands Zone from April 1994. Railtrack Great Western assumed responsibility from the boundary changes of June 1995, it...

I travelled on the branch in July 1998 and this was working it then, not sure how long they worked for but the destination blind is local and the Silverlink branding has Great Eastern stickers over it.

The Colwall end of Colwal tunnel seen here in 2008. The closed bore is on the left bricked up, the access door is for periodic examination and and bat study. Blast walls are still fitted through the old tunnel from its war time use as a munitions store.

Yes Colwall old tunnel was closed when the new bore opened in the 1920s (1926?). The old bore was taken over by the admiralty during the war for munitions storage. Ledbury remains as built, a tight single bore.

The wagons at Manisty wharf are in storage, they came here after the traffic they were employed on (Bridgend Fords traffic) ceased. A couple of them have been removed fairly recently for use elsewhere.

The original box was burnt out following an arson attack in November 1998. The picture shows the fire being dealt with, the aforementioned Bedlam lane box and crossing used to be were the bridge in the distance is.

We were not tasked with looking beyond Okehampton towards Meldon and no mention was made regarding it, however that's not to say it wouldn't transfer, especially if it was required for future use, but at this stage the focus was on what was needed to start up a passenger service.

I see, thanks for that. As we know temporary on the railway can mean many many years During the walk we came across a 2 aspect colour light signal (ON12), apparently this was used in connection with adhesion training and was powered by batteries, it is hooded over now and out of use.

Thanks for that. We were only at that end of the line on the 3rd so, as you say, it must have been very soon afterwards.

It was well made, while it is a bit battered it is still solid. I noted that it had been plated over, can you recall what was on the original key?

I was part of a Network Rail track walkout from Coleford junction to Okehampton over three days March 3rd - 5th. The purpose of this exercise was to look at infrastructure condition and see what will be needed to reopen the line for regular passenger use and with a view to the line being...

Yes, buffer stops if you prefer.

66057 has collided with the stop blocks on the Up spur/banker siding. The block have been totally demolished and loco derailed, it was subsequently hit by X/C 170107 on 2105 Cardiff - Birmingham which had its cab door ripped off and damage to all three coaches - no injuries reported.

Not sure I have seen it reported elsewhere but unit 150245 was considerably damaged when it hit a fallen tree at 275m 39c between Clarbeston road and Fishguard on the evening of the 17th October. During a daylight inspection the following day a considerable amount of trees in the area were...

The May & June editions of railway magazine had a two part, very detailed description of them. It included many diagrams and pictures to explain. https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/9308/the-coaling-plant-story-towers-of-strength-part-1/

The lamp will burn for at least 7 days so are attended to each week. Spotted a lampman attending to the signals at Garsdale on the Settle - Carlisle line a year or so ago.

We have to remember that the track circuit indication covers a distance of 3.7 miles on the down line at Frampton, of which the crossing is roughly half way along within it, the crossing itself is just a standard user worked crossing (although it also has a footpath/bridleway element) without...

The aforementioned book says that after Guard Miller had placed detonator protection he walked forward towards the front portion of the train, when he reached it he found the driver and secondman handcuffed together sat on mail bags in the (then) rear coach. As all the signal post telephones had...

The Nene Valley museum group published a very detailed account in a book in 1998. It is very detailed in how the signalling worked, how it was tampered with to stop the train and the location of track circuits that gave the initial impression to the signalman that the divided train was a track...