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An information board about the town of Castle Cary, photographed at the station named for the town.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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The waiting room and ticket office building on platform 1 at Castle Cary station.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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The waiting room and ticket office building on platform 1 at Castle Cary station, photographed from the window of a First Great Western HST at platform 2.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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Looking east along Platform 1 at Castle Cary station, photographed from the window of a First Great Western HST at platform 2.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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Looking east along Platform 2 at Castle Cary station.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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Looking west along platform 2 of Castle Cary station from the window of a London Paddington to Plymouth First Great Western HST.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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Looking east along Platform 2 at Castle Cary station from the window of a First Great Western HST.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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Looking west along platforms 2 and 1 (with the building) at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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Looking west from the western end of Castle Cary station in Somerset. The station is located where it is, about a mile north of the town, because of the junction between the West of England Main Line, which takes the right hand route to Taunton, and the Heart of Wessex Line to Weymouth which takes the left hand route.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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The western end of Castle Cary station in Somerset. This three platform station is located where the West of England Main Line and Heart of Wessex Line diverge.
Photo by Chris McKenna 07/08/2006. |
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This photograph shows the maker and date on the bottom of the pipe that crosses the railway as part of the footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset - presumably also dating the footbridge to 1953.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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A fairly old looking sign on the fence bounding platform 1 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, possibly marking the distance from London Paddington as 129 miles 11 chains.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Just north of the footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, these catchpoints protect the exit from the down-side sidings north of the station to the running line to and from Weymouth. The curious thing about the alignment is that any vehicles being caught by these points will immediately collide with the footbridge - almost certainly causing damage to both. Photographed from the northern end of platform 3.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Just north of the footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, these catchpoints protect the exit from the down-side sidings north of the station to the running line to and from Weymouth. The curious thing about the alignment is that any vehicles being caught by these points will immediately collide with the footbridge - almost certainly causing damage to both. Photographed from the footbridge.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Just north of the footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, these catchpoints protect the exit from the down-side sidings north of the station to the running line to and from Weymouth. The curious thing about the alignment is that any vehicles being caught by these points will immediately collide with the footbridge - almost certainly causing damage to both. Photographed from the footbridge, with the rear of platform 2 visible in the background.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The departures screen on platform 1 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset. Services to Weymouth can leave from either platfom 2 or 3, and which obviously hadn't been decided when this photograph was taken at approximately 16:37.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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A disused south-facing bay platform at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from the entrance to the station from the car park on the right.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from near the southern end of platform 1. On the left is a disued south-facing bay platform, while the three in-use platforms are on the right.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Sections of flat bottom rail in the yard at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, parts of which are used as an overflow car park.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The rail junction south of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed looking over the fence from the overflow car park. The line under the bridge to the right of centre leads to Weymouth via Yeovil Pen Mill and Dorchester West; on the extrme right of the photograph is the main line to Penzance via Taunton, Exeter and Plymouth.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The northern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed beneath the canopy of the main station building on platform 1. A First Great Western Class 180 DMU can just be seen arriving into platform 2 with a semi-fast service from London Paddington to Taunton and Exeter.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The northern end of platforms 1 (left) and 2 at Castle Cary railway staiton in Somerset. The station has a third platform, but this is significantly shorter than the other two, as it only needs to accomodate short Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth trains. Platforms 1 and 2 play host to express services to and from London Paddington often operated by HSTs.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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A merged view of the northern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from under the canopy of the main building on platform 1.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The northern end of platforms 1 (left) and 2 at Castle Cary railway staiton in Somerset. The station has a third platform, but this is significantly shorter than the other two, as it only needs to accomodate short Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth trains. Platforms 1 and 2 play host to express services to and from London Paddington often operated by HSTs. Just visible in the distance is a Frist Great Western HST approaching the station with a non-stop express service from London Paddington to South West England.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The northern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from beneath the footbridge on platform 2.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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A merged view of the northern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from just north of the main building on platfom 1.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking north from footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, platforms 1 and 2 on the left are long enough to take HSTs while the much shorter platfom 3 (not visible here) does not extend north of the footbridge.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking north from footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, the right hand two lines are sidings, the leftmost two are the mainline between Taunton and London Paddington. The track in the middle leads to platform 3 and then the branch line to Weymouth.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking north from footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, signal W49 is showing a green aspect for the non-stopping London-bound express HST that will shortly pass through the station.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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An old sign warning passengers not to cross the line, wedged between a shed and the fence of a stone merchants yard adjacent to Castle Cary railway station in Somerset.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Points 965B, adjacent to the northern end of platform 3 at Castle Cary railway station in somerset, give access from the platform and Weymouth branch line to the down-side sidings north of the station. Just north of the bridge the catchpoints protecting the running line can also be seen.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The service information poster by the entrance to Castle Cary railway station in Somerset. Although the station has been operated by First Great Western since April this year, the maroon colour shows that it is the same poster used by predecessor TOC Wessex Trains with FGW branding.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Old sleepers used as the fence between the overflow car park and railway at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The southern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from by the entrance to the car park. Platforms 1 on the right and 2 in the centre of the station are significantly longer than platform 3 on the far left, the reason for this is the mainline services between Taunton and London Paddington which call at the former platforms can be operated by HSTs. Platform 3 is used only by services between Bristol Temple Meads and Weymouth - rarely operated by trains with more than four cars.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The Southern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed beneath the canopy of the main station building on platform 1.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The southern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from the southern end of platform 3 - which is shorter than platforms 2 and 1 to the right.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset. Platforms 1 (right) is served by mainline trains between south-west England and London Paddington. Platform 3 on the left is served by the shorter train on the branch to Weymouth, which diverges immediately south of the station. Platform 2 takes trains on either line.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset at the junction between the West of England Main Line between Taunton and Reading on the right, and the single track branch line to Weymouth on the left. On the far right of the picture is a siding and the outlet from a disused bay platform.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from footbridge at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset at the junction between the West of England Main Line between Taunton and Reading on the right, and the single track branch line to Weymouth on the left.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from footbridge at platform 3 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, served by trains on the branch line to Weymouth.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The main station building at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from the short term area of the car park. Note the large blocked doorway on the car park (western) side - all access is now from the platform side.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The station building at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from platfom 2.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The southern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed looking over the fence from the overflow car park.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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The southern end of Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed looking over the fence from the overflow car park.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from the northern end of platform 1 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, although from this angle it appears that there are only two platforms, there are actually three. Platform 3 is just significantly shorter than platforms 1 and 2 as it doesn't need to accomodate mainline HSTs.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from the bottom of the steps to the bridge on platform 1 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from the bottom of the steps to the footbridge on platfom 2 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from the southern end of platform 1. Platform 1 is used by services from Taunton to London Paddington; platforms 2 and 3 are served by Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth or vice versa trains, although platform 2 also hosts London Paddington to Taunton and South West England services.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking north from the southern end of platform 3 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, served by Bristol Temple Meads - Weymouth trains.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, viewed from the southern end of platform 2.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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A merged view of the station yard at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, now only the building on the extreme right, the main building for the station, is in railway use.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Trolleys like this one at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset are an extremely rare sight these days at British railway stations - a far cry from the abundance in former days.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Three passenger luggage trolleys at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset. These trolleys used to be a much more familiar sight at British railway stations than they are now, although as these are padlocked in an out-of-the way area of the station there use is not being encouraged here.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking north from the northern end of platform 1 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, note the very worn HST stopping mark on the left of the photograph.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking north from the northern end of platform 1 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, the right-hand signal controls the egress from the biderectional line forming platform 3 at the station which then becomes the branch line to Weymouth.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south frmo the southern end of platform 1 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset. The station is located about a mile north of the town of Castle Cary due to the rail junction seen here - the leftmost track heads to Weymouth while the main Berks and Hants line between Reading and Taunton via Westbury continues beneath the bridge visible right of centre. On the extreme right are a siding and a disused south-facing bay platform. The building visible is no longer connected to the railway.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south frmo the southern end of platform 1 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset. The station is located about a mile north of the town of Castle Cary due to the rail junction seen here - the lefthand track heads to Weymouth while the main Berks and Hants line between Reading and Taunton via Westbury continues beneath the bridge on the right.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from the southern end of platform 3 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, trains departing this platform are services on the branch line to Weymouth, typically from Bristol Temple Meads.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from the southern end of platform 3 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, trains departing this platform are services on the branch line to Weymouth, which curves round to the left. The double-tracked line on the right (on which the 100mph speed limit presumably applies) is the mainline to Taunton.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from the southern end of platform 2 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset, trains departing this platform can form services on the branch line to Weymouth, which curves round to the left or the mainline to Taunton which bears right.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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Looking south from the southern end of platform 2 at Castle Cary railway station in Somerset. The junction seen here is that between the London Paddington-South West England mainline on the right and the branch line to Weymouth on the left.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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A building in the car park at Castle Cary station in Somerset, the design and location suggests that it is a former enigne shed or works depot.
Photo by Chris McKenna 06/09/2006. |
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