The Bristol Railway Archive

Regarding PDR's posting, I recall that at South Junction there was no signalbox and that the points were electric motor driven. I guess the signals were, too, though they were certainly upper-quadrant semaphores.

Can't remember the layout of North Junction but there was a signalbox and I think at ...

A difficulty with modelling Mangotsfield, if using ready-made pointwork, is that on the curved approach from the Bristol end there is a diamond crossing on the 'up' line on which both intersecting lines are on curves. Also, at the actual junction of the North and Bath lines there is a single slip ...

The obvious question is: what was a railway enthusiast doing travelling on a coach on the M4, when Bristol is connected to London and points in between by one of the world's best train services. After nearly 30 years since the introduction of the HST on the route it is still the world's fastest ...

The regulation referred to here is probably a home-grown one, but it is stupid enough to be a European Union one. Once you all vote for the European Constitution and the Euro, which your fearless leader will talk you into, thereby abandoning your sovereignty and independence to Brussels, THEN wait ...

I doubt if any 08s were allocated specifically to Malago Vale. They would be from the Bath Road or possibly St Philips Marsh allocation and would simply be rostered to Malago Vale on a daily or weekly basis. Would there be more than one shunter there?

Martin

The pictures of Mangotsfield station on this website bring back some memories. I and have visited from time to time was there a few weeks ago. In my youth in the early '60s I used to travel from Staple Hill station to Rodway School at Mangotsfield, in breach of a strict parental injunction that I ...