The Bristol Railway Archive

Paul G wrote:I Booked on Tuesday 28th August about 9PM

I booked Monday about 2pmish & declined. Ah dont you just love it!

mmm... thinking the same, I applied for the 12.09 as soon as the thread started on here, like everyone else I've had the email saying its full, I asked if any othere times were available & again, everything has been taken.

So who has got tickets & how did they get so lucky? All sounds a bit strange ...

My only input to this is that I used to use the carpark as a sneeky U turn if you came down Wells rd & wanted to go back up Bath road, it saved you going all the way down past Fowlers.

I bet the staff hated it when people did that

They were early, lucky I was down in the caravan this weekend so watched as they steamed through Dawlish Warren, we got there thinking we had time to spare when suddenly we saw & heard them a couple of miles down at Dawlish, quite a sight watching them come along the coast.

trafalgar45682 wrote:It is nearly six years since the last reply on this thread,

Im glad you said that.... i was going to pop along, 6 years late.

Anyways..... so are they still at Portbury or have they shifted now? Its been an interesting story & ive enjoyed the wait for them to arrive & the pics are great. Hope to see more soon.

Whitchurch Halt, were the platforms concrete/brick? Are they still there under the field?

Also has any one seen any photos of Chelwood Bridge before it became a roundabout, like the bridge at west town lane Ive looked for ages & never found a pic of what it was like. How did both roads go over the ...

Excellent!! well done, its a different pic to the one I saw in a book in the Industrial museum, there wasn't a bus going through, im surprised how high it actually was.

Well done for tracking down a photo, i've looked for ages & found nothing on line.... dont suppose you can find one with a train ...

43126 wrote:I Knew i had seen a photo of West Town lane railway bridge somewhere, http://john-m-hobbs.fotopic.net

Wheres the photo? I've looked everywhere on that site!

I lived in Stockwood from 1964 to 1970. The bridge over West Town Lane was not a small stone archway

Thats interesting, If you saw it then of course you know what it was like but the pic I found in a book in the old Industrial museum, I cant remember what it was called but it wasnt a specific ...

Brislington station building was only demolished in the early 1990's. (maybe even 1990). When I had recently passed my driving test, 1989, I remember looking at the station when driving (or jumping) over Talbot hill bridge. Once I actually stopped & had a walk around the station building, there was ...

Good find, just watched the Kemble to Tetbury film, I had a walk around Tetbury the other week so fascinating to see it back in the day.

just watched it roll through St Annes pulling 12 coaches, beautiful.

On the BBC Bristol website theres a short film from the 50's about the proposed M32, theres some footage of Cannons marsh goods yard & also the viaduct by Muller rd.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_7767000/7767453.stm

News presenters were very posh back ...

Hi all as i'm a big fan of the wsr i was looking through the web & came across this web-site - http://thatbusthattrain.fotopic.net/c1479564.html - just thought all of you might like to take a look, my appologies if this has already been posted

Mat

I had a wander around Minehead this weekend ...