Mick

Have you considered working timetables

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Sadly I can't help with steam locomotive haulage except rmweb

Formations maybe the odd Gresley or Stanier in the formation but a brake coach or two, corridor, open and a restaurant/ catering vehicle would be included and maybe a portion for Newquay/ St Ives and the lovely coastal destinations would be included

Quote from: Foxhound on December 18, 2025, 02:28:25 PM

Thank you, @Trainfish for sending me down the HMHB rabbit hole with your post in the Ashes thread. Happy days bashing type 2s and Tractors in Scotland in the mid-late 80s with these lads playing on the ghettoblaster....

God, this band are (still) brilliant.

Thanks for that @Foxhound . That's the first time I've heard HMHB for a while - great fun.
I'm not a great fan of the punk/post punk stuff but HMHB were/are one of the better offerings.
If I recall, John Peel was a big exponent of them.

Hi Mick

Thinking about the SW part of the journey :

Bristol to Exeter is only 1 hour (almost exactly ) to include a 2 min stop at Taunton.

Exeter to Plymouth is around 47 mins including the usual Cross Country stops at Newton Abbot  and Totnes.

Plymouth to Penzance is more leisurely even at today's speeds and is usually 117 mins or so. It's further than you think and even Cross Country trains will make several stops eg Liskeard, Bodmin Road Parkway, Par, St Austell, Truro, Redruth, Camborne and PZ.
It's a long old haul. I should know as I used to do it often enough.
Hope that helps

Martin

Thank you, @Trainfish for sending me down the HMHB rabbit hole with your post in the Ashes thread. Happy days bashing type 2s and Tractors in Scotland in the mid-late 80s with these lads playing on the ghettoblaster....

God, this band are (still) brilliant.

Quote from: Trainfish on December 17, 2025, 09:14:57 PMHalf Man Half Biscuit taught me about Fred.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQMTGJer-dU

Don't click this link if you don't like sweary words

Johnny looked out of his bedroom window and shouted to his Mum.....

Quote from: The Q on December 17, 2025, 05:10:51 PMWorked Christmas for about half of my working life..
Not any more....
I'm retired..

Our concession to Christmas day is no house work.
The turkey and everything else for the meal is cooked sliced and waiting in the freezer..


That will be walked off by a stroll on the beach with the dog..

Merry Christmas to you all..

That sounds like an ideal day, I hope you enjoy it. Sadly, my old dog can't walk on the beach these days, but we are also after a minimal effort meal with a short walk with her afterwards.

I'm looking into creating an imaginary train running from York to Penzance in the mid 60s travelling down the ECML to Sandy, then across to Oxford for a loco change before heading off to the west country. Initial loco maybe a Deltic or Brush Type 4, changing at Oxford to a Western for the remainder of the journey. I've estimated times based on distances between locations.
What does the collective think, and would someone like to suggest a formation of MK1s please?

Quote from: Newportnobby on December 17, 2025, 05:36:37 PM

Quote from: The Q on December 17, 2025, 05:10:51 PMThe turkey and everything else for the meal is cooked sliced and waiting in the freezer..

Sliced gravy. Mmmmmmmmm

That's like that line from Hancock's Half Hour from many moons ago:

"I thought my mother was a bad cook, but at least her gravy used to move about!"

  

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: Bazza on December 18, 2025, 10:07:34 AM

Quote from: Bealman on December 17, 2025, 09:25:51 PMWot is it?

Looks like a box of anaemic cheesy wotsits with a hidden free toy.

I was just going to say "a box, but that's not important right now"*
Yours is much better

* courtesy of 'Naked Gun'

Quote from: Bealman on December 17, 2025, 09:25:51 PMWot is it?

Looks like a box of anemic cheesy wotsits with a hidden free toy.