The Bristol Railway Archive

Just published in the May/June edition of Traction magazine is part 1 of my 6 part series covering my experience working at Bristol Bath Road Diesel Depot. It is available on-line as an e-mag from Pocketmags. It should be on the shelves around the end of the month but I haven't found a single ...

Good start!

Clifton Down
There was a coal concentration yard at Filton roughly where Abbey Wood is today.
Fry's at Keynsham.
St Philips Marsh steel yard where Victoria Sidings are today not to be confused with the Midland yard at St Philips off Barrow Road.
Possibly Fishponds although that was ...

I expect that would have been 03121 0r 03382.

Back in the 1960s, Bristol had an allocation of the D95xx type 1 0-6-0 diesel hydraulics built at Swindon. Although not a very successful design, the concept was sound being able to be used for shunting as well as local trip workings. The central cab ...

Deviating a bit from the title of this thread, a late freight flow from the Bristol area was the 'Bin Liner' service which transported domestic waste in containers to landfill at Calvert in Buckinghamshire. I believe the loading gantry still exists in Barton Hill alongside the recycling centre in ...

Ah yes, I remember that sign!

Fly shunting was a very skilled art with driver and shunter working in unison. The elf and safety brigade would have kittens if they saw it these days with the risk of tripping and falling as the shunter ran alongside. Our favourite place for spotting was the piece of ...

If my memory serves me correctly, there was a more modern version of the 3-wheeler and it would have been during the era that road motor vehicles were painted yellow.

Regarding freight, the focus in the mid 60s was purely on loco numbers so rolling stock and traffic flows weren't really recorded ...

Thank you for sharing your unfortunate news with us all Robin.

As a former railwayman from the Bristol area, your input has always been measured and relevant to the various topics we have tackled. I'm sure everyone will hope that you can still engage with our question and answer sessions and ...

A clip which came up in a YouTube video I just watched showed one of these workings from Saturday 28/4/2012. A convoy of 10 class 66s passing through Basingstoke en-route from Margam to Eastleigh running as 0X12. Nine in EWS livery and one in DB Shenker bright red. No explanation given as to the ...

Trawling through the Rail Photoprints catalogue took a bit of time but it threw up another five sightings apart from the one of 40126 I found earlier. This site is the best one for material in the Bristol area as the proprietor John Chalcraft was and is based in the area. Nothing of any relevance ...

Would that have been RMWeb by any chance? I raised the question there with a guy who operates an 0 gauge shunting layout called Peasevern Yard based on the Avonside Wharf sidings. I first saw it at the Larkrail model railway gathering in Bath last summer. He runs both of the Bath Road allocated 03s ...