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Redevelopment of Gorse Blossom
Topic Started: 15 Apr 2007, 12:32 PM (1,814 Views)
penrose
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Looks like there are plans for the Gorse Blossom site to be redeveloped into a green holiday camp. No opportunity for the railway to return though I suppose, even though it was all left in situ... :(

See this article

(Strikes me as a fairly similar story to Dobwalls - miniature railway replaced by green tourist attraction.....)

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Is the railway still there? I was under the impression that it had all been sold off a couple of years ago, with the track and equipment being sold off piecemeal to a variety of commercial operators and private lines...
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Didn't most of track go to the operator of the [now closed] line at Powderham Castle? I believe he ran Gorse Blossom for the last couple of years or so.

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There was certainly a lot of ex-Gorse equipment at Powderham. But has that not all disappeared into the ether, after the disagreements and allegations between Powderham, That Railway in Scotland and That Other Railway in Sussex?
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I know the swiss battery loco Kloisters is at Bolebroke Castle. £5000 and its yours!!! The L & B went to Joe nemeth, then station road steam, then to Eastleigh i think. <_<
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Thanks for the news.

As far as I know ALL the stock went to Powderham and I believe the operator of Powderham sold on some of the weaker powered stock in the early days of the line.

Yeo, Kolsters remained till the line closed I think. I don't think Yeo is at Eastleigh though.
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Didn't most of track go to the operator of the [now closed] line at Powderham Castle? I believe he ran Gorse Blossom for the last couple of years or so.

Nope! The track was left in situ at Gorse in case any buyer wanted the railway, and it was getting worn out, so new track was purchased for Powderham (presumably as they believed it would survive a little longer than the 2 years it did!).

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There was certainly a lot of ex-Gorse equipment at Powderham. But has that not all disappeared into the ether, after the disagreements and allegations between Powderham, That Railway in Scotland and That Other Railway in Sussex?

There was a lot of equipment at Powderham from Gorse when it first started, but it was all gradually sold off and replaced as traffic "increased". Klosters & the roanoke were swopped with Bolebroke for the Roger Greatrex sit-in diesel that Station Road sold recently. At the "end" of Powderham I think the only ex-Gorse equipment was the L&B "Yeo", though not sure if the overhaul was complete and it ever actually ran there?

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I know the swiss battery loco Kloisters is at Bolebroke Castle. £5000 and its yours!!! The L & B went to Joe nemeth, then station road steam, then to Eastleigh i think. dry.gif

Craig, wrong L&B loco! That one is fairly new and started life at Brookside IIRC. Is Klosters still at Bolebroke - thought it had been sold on??

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  Thanks for the news.

As far as I know ALL the stock went to Powderham and I believe the operator of Powderham sold on some of the weaker powered stock in the early days of the line.

Yeo, Kolsters remained till the line closed I think. I don't think Yeo is at Eastleigh though.

Not all the stock from Gorse went to Powderham, one or two locos & a set of carriages were left at Gorse Blossom. Klosters left Powderham in June 04.

I'm rather peeved that Gorse closed just before we moved down to the South West; would have liked a visit, Geoff Kichenside apparantly put in a lot of work when he built the line and it was a lovely spot. Such is life though!

Powderham was a good site too...it deserves a good railway, so perhaps one day it might get one (third time lucky? :rolleyes: )

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Well the trackbed should still be there!!!!
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Thanks for the updates Charles, my fault, don't think I was thinking at the time.

I think Yeo ran their breifly in the state it came from Gorse Blossom but was put out of service when the Tinkerbell came.
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Apr 16 2007, 04:23 PM
I think Yeo ran their briefly in the state it came from Gorse Blossom but was put out of service when the Tinkerbell came.

Nope :)

Yeo went into overhaul straight after Gorse closed and the Tinkerbell went to Powderham to provide steam power as Yeo's overhaul was taking longer than expected.
(Check the Powderham website using archive.org)


Anyone any ideas where Yeo has disappeared to..? I quite like the L&B tank locos; maybe one day I'll have a half size version for 10 1/4"...once I've won the lottery!

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:lol: I might aswell not speak. Sorry again, I should really start looking more carefully at things, can't keep getting this wrong.

You can still view it without archive:

http://www.get-on-track.co.uk/

Anyway back on topic, if this park is being redevloped I can't see the railway returning.
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Apr 16 2007, 04:35 PM
I quite like the L&B tank locos; maybe one day I'll have a half size version for 10 1/4"...once I've won the lottery!

Now that would be a sight to behold! (where's a drooling emoticon when you need one? :D ).
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If that's a sight you want to see, try Fairbourne; that's as near as dammit to a half scale version!
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Yes come to Fairbourne and see Yeo. I have the pleasure of firing and driving it sometimes. Its not the pride of the fleet that role belongs to Sherpa the B Class Replica :D

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The Hunslet Pamela is now in Italy. Strangely she was built with slip eccentric valve gear. I modified her to full Stephensons gear for the new owner about a year ago.

Interestingly her poor performance in the UK can be easily explained. When I stripped her down I found that only one wheel was fixed to the axle, the other three just rotated freely and transmitted no power.

She has lost a bit of puff recently so will be coming back for an overhaul. The smokebox floor was already thin so I have a feeling that will have to be replaced and the injectors need looking at.

Not sure if this link works but this is her home line
http://sfss.myblog.it/
She keeps company with Les Nelson's Waldenburg, a John Adams Stirling Single and a beast of a loco imported from Australia.

It's the Milan gethering this weekend so the Stirling is as I write on the road from Umbria.

We did also try for the L&B loco but it had just been sold. There are other locos in the pipeline inlcuding 3 Hunslets, a King and 3 Italian R302's. It's quite a set up.
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