Membership

All members receive a copy of our quarterly magazine, the latest edition of which is the autumn issue. There’s plenty of great reading material and photographic content.

– More on Templecombe pilot working. Following on from Bob Curtis’s 2-part article in PE 315/6, Tim Chapman adds further information using a BR operations publication dating from 1960.

– 135-year-old rails from the Bridgwater branch presented to the Blake Museum. Dave Bown, the Bridgwater branch historian, recalls how several pieces of rail that protected a culvert under the trackbed were unearthed when the drain was being repaired. One length of the rail has now been added to the Bridgwater museum’s collection and Dave suggests where the rails were manufactured and how they reached the site.

– Every S&D book ever published! Mark Woolley had compiled a mammoth listing of what he believed was every S&D book ever produced – but rather expected that there would be more! Well, there certainly were more, and here he adds nine titles to the list, making a staggering total of 120.

– Feedback & Information Requests. More on the Cliffe Bridge area near Spetisbury: three photos taken from a locomotive footplate that appeared in the last issue prompted a lively debate as to where exactly where they were taken.

– S&D Locations. A regular feature – in this issue, Kevin Mitchell records the considerable remains of the crossing at Henstridge station and Peter Russell has more from just down the line from Cliffe Bridge.

– A trip with 41223 on the Highbridge branch. Photos taken by David Cull in 1965.

– Modelling focus. Martin Goodey’s layout – The S&D approaching closure. Plus, having more space when he moved house, Robert Elleray asks Where shall I put the model layout?

– Re-creating the S&D in the Trainz simulator. Thomas Parker presents Branksome, Parkstone and Poole. Not on the S&D itself, but still stops on the journey to and from Bournemouth.

– Recalling the S&D trackbed in the 1980s – part 4. A Trust member who was brought up in Bath looks back to the 1980s with a comprehensive selection of colour photos. This final part features images from locations that the author no longer recognises and needs readers’ help to identify.

– Trust and general S&D news. No less than 15 pages in this issue: 53808 overhaul, the Trust’s new G A Richardson book, the Cannington coach recovery – plus how it looked in 2016 and back in the ’70s, gala at Westonzoyland, Shillingstone track extension opening event, Midsomer Norton news, Spetisbury report, Midford report.

– Centre-spread photo. As the first article in this issue is about Templecombe, the centre spread is from the locality: 9F No. 92245 heads the 7.45 am Bradford-Bournemouth service past the two pairs of co-acting signals near Horsington, north of Templecombe, on Saturday 7 July 1962.

– Four-page pull-out sales supplement.

48 A4 pages including the sales supplement.

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