The Bristol Railway Archive

For those that know the saga, this is the old version of the forum that ran 2003-2013. I have managed to resurrect it from a backup I made just before everything bit the dust.

I have decided to keep this one as archival only. It is locked to new posts, but fully searchable and readable.

All new ...

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I've been informed by my web hosting company that I have to upgrade all my mysql4 databases to mysql5.

This forum currently runs on version 4, and I'm not entirely sure that it will work on version 5. The forum software itself is so old that I can't update it to a newer version without ...

All the news on the link.

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Rail-pho ... story.html

Closing date 30th March

I thought the manager was the bloke off The Office after a while. Patronising berk. But on the whole it reminded me of working for Royal Mail. Lots of people on the frontline working hard, managers worrying about flowerpots.

Hey Jules, sorry for the late reply! Bandwidth bill's not too bad now. About a fiver a month I think. Been selling quite a few photos of late so the website is safe at the mo :)

And I still sell the odd copy of my Dramway book, and that helps quite a lot.

It's just time I don't have now. Not to ...

You can find the Viaducts via the Viaduct Category page.

http://bristol-rail.co.uk/wiki/Category:Viaducts :D

According to the wiki generated statistics there are 2,817 content pages, and 7,286 photos. I can't link to all of 'em on the left hand menu!

Interesting to note that the number of ...

Anyone know what all the tents on the site of Bath Road Depot are for? (photo c/o Andy Mitchell)

It's the photo of the Pannier on this page:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kevin.dare/main.html

I don't mind you arguing with me, I've not been around much the last couple of years anyhoo (apart from constantly deleting the spammers...), so it's your forum more than it's mine! :D

I'm not sure where the people of Thornbury want their public transport to go. Apparently, it's a point of concern ...

But yes, this one is unlikely to happen!

I think you're right in that it's a pipe dream, but I'm not sure you're right about traffic figures. The line would be operated with a subsidy, as a service rather than for profit.

I also don't buy the argument about the station at Yate being too far away from the shopping centre for people to use ...

madhattie wrote:The current journey time between Yate and Temple Meads is 27 min. I reckon you'd be very hard pressed to do the same journey down the A38 in that time, especially during peak hours.

Just checked the bus time tables. The same journey by bus is an hour! Big win for the train

A train from Thornbury to Yate would be far, far quicker than the same journey by car. As you say, a journey by car between the two takes you down many a country lane!

The current journey time between Yate and Temple Meads is 27 min. I reckon you'd be very hard pressed to do the same journey down ...

I guess not everybody who lives in Thornbury would actually be travelling to Bristol though. There must be a fair few who may just want to go to Yate. There is quite likely a lot of toing and froing between the two places.