Welcome to the Rudloe and environs website.
Here you will find news, articles and photos of an area that straddles the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north-west Wiltshire.
Contributions in the form of articles or photos are welcome. Even those with completely contrary views to mine!
Thanks to the website builder 1&1 and Rob Brown for the original idea.
Rudloescene now, in January 2014, has a sister, academic rather than anarchic, website about Box history here: http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/
It contains thoroughly professional, well-researched articles about Box and its people.
Contact rudloescene through the 'Contact' page.
10th December 2022 - Bathampton Junction and the early birds, John and Sue Wiltshire, await the passing of Stanier LMS 4-6-2 Pacific no. 46233 Duchess of Sutherland pulling a West Coast Railway Bath and Bristol Christmas markets special. By the time it got here, it was running about 50 minutes late so twas a long wait in the cold and... the available shopping time of the passengers was much reduced.
Another Bath Christmas Market special from Holyhead at a signal on the main line. This HST masquerading as a Blue Pullman left Holyhead at 06:06 (photo taken at 12:56) and was stopped here for so long that the driver stepped down for a fag.
While waiting, we passed the time taking pictures of other things: me - a passing GWR type 166 multiple unit, presumably heading for Portsmouth; Sue - local rabbits suffering from myxomatosis (another debacle caused by mankind)
Thar she blows - the Duchess charging through the Limpley Stoke Valley
Approaching the level crossing twixt Bathampton Meadows (and Bathampton Farm) and Tyning Road
5th December 2022 and Gresley A4 4-6-2 Pacific no. 4498 (or 60007 to me) Sir Nigel Gresley hauling a Steam Dreams Bath Christmas Market special is anticipated with glee (too much bloody glee by some) at Bathampton Junction. The couple directly in front arrived late, (and with my nerd hat on) stood on the track side of the gate in our line of sight (I asked them to move back which is where they may be seen in the title photo) but then when the train approached and was a good hundred or more yards away, the bloody (excuse my French) woman started waving at the engine so I had to try to avoid her arm and hand in the pictures (you can see the fingers in the first shot below).
The following picture was taken by fellow-traveller Carl Wadkin-Snaith
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