The Bristol Railway Archive

>>>I wonder whether the new stations would strain Taunton - Exeter capacity on Summer Saturdays?....

Well, they could always do what the 'real' GWR did at both places and put the platforms on loop lines...

Before I go into too much detail unnecessarily, is anyone familiar with the internal workings of Lawrence Hill signal-box please?

>>>As regards the S&D, most passenger trains, and virtually all of them post-September 1962, were well under the minimum load for bankers And if not, they would have had an assisting engine on the front not the rear anyway. >>>>Freights were banked to Combe Down, and also from Radstock to Masbury. ...

Maybe I have missed it, not paying attention to every word written about HS2, but..... Once HS2 is up and running and all the long-distance travellers swop to it, thereby releasing all this extra capacity on existing lines to provide more by way of local services etc (or so the fairy-tale goes), whe...

>>>I was being a bit frivolous as I'm sure such a proposal would bankrupt the country even before we got to the end of the planning stage......

And not even with mentioning CrossRail, HS2 and the mythical HS3

Remind me - weren't we supposed to have electric trains running thru' Bath by now ?

Would that happen to have been anywhere near the SS Richard Montgomery ?

Someone suggested recently in the media that, if HS2 were to be cancelled, the OOC-Euston section could be 're-purposed' to provide a direct link from Heathrow and the West of England to Euston for those wanting onward connections to the North. I don't know about the feasibility of that, but it soun...

With regard to Pill (where it was the western end), having now done some research the answer to the query is as follows:- Originally it was the case that lever 1 (the Up Home) locked 7 (the slot on the point), thereby forcing the point to act as a trailing spring catch point for passing Up trains. C...

IIRC it was just east of the river bridge. You can see in the mid-foreground the light-coloured farm-track which I believe was also the footpath from Kelston. Access from Saltford was by means of a segregated path alongside the railway over the river-bridge. Remnants of the platform (at least on the...