Railways in Cornwall 1974 and 1975.

[@msgribbin]

What an amazing time capsule - wonderful pictures, thank you so much

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment Mark, and the coffee of course!

[@misstrever1952]

...love the slideshow! takes me back to my youth growing up in the grimy 70's, scruffy trains, scruffy hairstyles but a decade I look back on with affection... Thank you 👌

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks. It was a good time to travel around by train. The70's was such an easy-going decade compared with all the restrictions and obsessions we endure now.

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

@@Clivestravelandtrains 100%. If only I had a Tardis, I'd be off.

[@stephenchappell7512]

@@Clivestravelandtrains Too right It was the first decade I remember having been born in the late 60s but it did seem that people were left alone to think and do as they pleased

[@StBlazeyModelWorld]

A wonderful selection of photographs. Tank you so much for posting

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment - it's always good to be appreciated! Did you see my film about the footbridge at St Erth? kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKCxl5yVaqaJj5Y

[@StBlazeyModelWorld]

@@Clivestravelandtrains I didn't but I'll check it out later

[@TheDaf95xf]

Excellent pictures of my favourite years of train spotting 😀 Living in Manchester it was quite easy getting down to Devon and Cornwall on cross country trains and I fell in love with the class 52 Western Hydraulics. I saw them all bar 1058 Western Nobleman. I do have a Heljan model of it though 😀

[@francismewton3276]

What lovely memories,I went to boarding school in Devon between 1966-1975 ,I was living Truro back then .thank you .

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment.

[@christanner8104]

Love the pics of the Class 52 Westerns. Saw them every day when they passed my school in Newbury.

[@stephenchappell7512]

We don't miss the everyday until it's gone

[@likklej8]

Luckily when i went train spotting on a N Devon and Cornish holiday in the early 60s there were no diesels. I even saw a Southern Rly Bullied Q1 on passenger duty.

[@stephenchappell7512]

The famous 'withered arm'

[@russellwoollard6181]

Carbis Bay is just heaven

[@stephenchappell7512]

Indeed it is however it became hell when all of the globalist scum gathered there last year

[@nectafarious8842]

Memories eh? I was a spotty student at Plymouth Poly 1972/76 and remember much of this. So many other railway landmarks in Plymouth have since disappeared.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Why were students always spotty in those days? LOL.

[@AndreiTupolev]

2:04is interesting; Peaks very rarely worked to Paddington, so if the headcode was correct and it was a London train, it would probably have changed engines at Plymouth. Some excellent pictures once again, again it shows you how much BR picked itself up from about the mid-70d

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Indeed, my recollection from these trips is that most Penzance-London trains had a loco change at Plymouth, along with extra coaches being attached/detached. This practice ceased of course with HST's, but I believe that it has been reinstated with the GWR Azuma-type trains which now run as a single unit between Penzance and Plymouth. Some of my photos of locos at Plymouth were doing a loco-change. I would also hazard a guess that Penzance train crews would seldom work east of Plymouth. I have no reason to doubt the headcode - 1A in the Western Region would be a main line train with a destination in the London Division. 1B was Bristol Division, 1C the Cardiff Division.

[@ChangesOneTim]

@@Clivestravelandtrains 45s did work Londons occasionally, as you say they would be re-engined at PLY with a 47, 50 or (until late 1976) 52. It was only after HSTs took over that PZ crews regularly worked to Exeter St Davids. SFAIK that's still their limit today owing to rostered hours; journey times with the 800s are no better than HSTs were 35 years ago.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

@@ChangesOneTim Thanks for that comment.

[@farmer2954]

Very nice to see and pitty that some is gone

[@fhwolthuis]

Lovely 👍

[@nigelkippax9317]

That could have been me at Newquay station or St Austell on the way to Uni!

[@SpoonyMcSpoonface]

Interesting to see that the Liskeard totems and enamel signs that had been overpainted in black and white were still up in the mid 70s.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment. The programme to replace totems spread over several years!

[@barryhargreaves3311]

Nice

[@Sam_Green____4114]

Remember the smells ? Diesel and oil from between the tracks ? BR didn't give a sh*t how much diesel dripped from train fuel tanks onto the rails . Sewage and sh*t flushed directly onto to the tracks at stations ! Diesel smoke from the exhausts ! What else ?