Devon Group

Wednesday 14th December

This year our proposed Christmas trip and lunch was affected by the current round of RMT rail strikes.

So it was decided to promote a local bus trip for a few of the North Devon based volunteers. Nine of us travelled by bus and car to Bideford to enjoy a social at the Rose Salterne Wetherspoons in Bridgeland Street.

Wednesday 15th December

It was a good turnout of local members for today's trip.

Members joined from Barnstaple, Umberleigh, Exeter and Tiverton Parkway, and one member even travelled all the way from Norwich for the day!

Wednesday 19th February

For February half term week this year, we decided to visit Seaton Tramway.

1. The group await their next train at Exeter. Behind is the Class158 which we had sampled earlier from Barnstaple.

Although this was advertised as a Mystery Trip for the participants, some of the 8 members on this trip were 'in the know' that the destination would be the Tiverton museum and model railway.

Our first chance to sample the new GW timetable and 'better' units on the Tarka Line, the group set off to Exeter.

Wednesday 11th December

Nineteen L&B Trust members and volunteers went to Exmouth for the pre-planned, booked and reserved Christmas Meal at Wetherspoons Powder Monkey.

This autumn, a few L&B Devon Group Trust members enjoyed a couple of rail trips around Devon.

In October, a group went to Teignmouth for lunch, followed by a beer at Exeter Imperial Wetherspoons Beer Festival.

Having achieved all the other Devon and Cornish branch lines in recent rail trips, it was time now to do the Newquay branch. Often marketed as the Atlantic Coast line by the present day GWR, 10 L&B Trust members came along today.

1. From Barnstaple we changed at Crediton. The group await their next train....

After a change of plan due to summer timetable connection complications, the destination for this trip was not Newquay but the scenic Tamar Valley Line from Plymouth to Calstock. Lunch and then onto Gunnislake.

A good turnout today with 11 of us on the trains from Barnstaple, to Exeter. From there to Tiverton Parkway for coffee, and on to Plymouth for a pre-lunch beer before the 12:54 train to Calstock.