The Bristol Railway Archive

Thanks for your additions, Roy.

What yards and depots could we legitimately add if we stretched the boundary to include all the locations listed on the BRA Homepage?

An invitation to start a list? How could I decline!

Please feel free to correct my attempt below- some locations ( e.g. Netham siding and Union Cold Storage Co siding might too small / not busy enough to count as a goods yard or goods depot.

Westerleigh
Stoke Gifford
Avonmouth Docks
Ashley Hill ...

Thank you for sharing the above memories, Roy - they make me wish I'd paid more attention to local freight movements and destinations back in the day! The only freight -related photo I can recall taking in Bristol was of an 03 on the Avonside branch in the1970s.

Somewhat late in the day, I've become curious about how much pickup / wagonload freight remained in Bristol after the nationwide freight facility cuts of 1965, e.g. examples of

-regular freight services coming into Bristol area, delivering what sorts of goods, and from where

-regular freight ...

Hi Andy,

(Belated) thanks for this.

I wasn't aware of the Lysaght's system, neither have I seen the photos of the Canon's Marsh Gas Works' locos before, so you've given me three useful additions to my somewhat sketchy knowledge!

Hi Robin,
Sorry to hear your news.

I very much agree with The Green Mile's comments. IÔÇÖve learned a lot from your posts over the years- thank you.

Very best wishes

Around the 50th anniversary of the S&D closure, a choir performed a song or ballad about the 1929 accident at Bath, in which no 89 ran away down from Devonshire Tunnel into Bath yard, the crew having been overcome by smoke such that they were unable to apply the brakes.

I have found a song at https ...

On the railphotoprints website there's a shot of D2179 sporting a brass bell while working on the Weymouth Quay branch. Is it possible that 03121 spent some time at Weymouth? That said, even if it did, it would be a bit odd for a loco to keep the bell after being transferred away from Weymouth.

Unfortunately I donÔÇÖt know the answer to this question either (see my non-answer to railwestÔÇÖs question earlier today), but I do have an associated question: was the Puxton fly-ash loop (I assume it was a loop rather than a siding) on or near the former station site? I did visit the site at the ...

The short answer is that I donÔÇÖt know.

The Bristol Aero branch joined the Weston avoiding line very close to the site of the long removed Weston Junction, so that seems about the right place for a box controlling access to Bristol Aero. It's not that far from where Hutton Moor Lane crosses the ...