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Conductor with Money Bag & Ticket Punch PREVREF 1811 duplicate see TRANS 6.140

Conductor with Ticket Punch PREVREF 1809 duplicate TRANS 8.172

Conductor with Ticket Punch. PREVREF 1807 duplicate see TRANS 6.139

Penzance

Solid Tyred Vehicle Conductors Ticket Punch
Chassis no: 1788, Reg: LC 6706
PREVREF 1804 duplicate

GWR Road Motor Cars Land Cruises were a GWR innovation of the 1920s.This Thorneycroft (Fleet No 1299) awaits passengers at The Queens Hotel for a trip to Lands End & St Ives summer 1928

Ex GWR Panniers 4554 & 4568 take the St Ives section up the bank from Lelant to St Ives.

Built by Sharp Stewart & Co acquired by South Devon Railway in 1872 transferred to GWR 1876 withdrawn 1889

Water Tower Signal Box & Engine Shed

Bathing tents on Porthminster beach
Engine No. 4370

Loco 7031 built in 1950 for £11,640 & scrapped after 150000 miles, 1963

This dish is 90-feet across and is 'locked' onto a satellite 23,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. The surface of the dish is polished aluminium. The faint signals are reflected onto the centre of the tripod can be seen built onto the dish.

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Cable & Wireless buildings in Porthcurno, with corn in the field in the background.

Engineers from the Plymouth Area THQ Marine Branch landing a shore-end at Porthcurno (Cornwall) from the cable ship Monarch.

General view of one of the many engineering training departments showing telegraph relay equipment for student training at the Cable & Wireless Engineering College in Porthcurno.

Engineers from the Plymouth area T.H.Q. Marine Branch landing a new shore end of a telephone cable at Porthcurno.