The Bristol Railway Archive

Hi all, sorry for the silence so far from AVR HQ... our website has been updated now with all the latest information regarding the Gala, including confirming the availability of guest engine J15 No. 7564 from the North Norfolk Railway.

A copy of the passenger timetable can be downloaded from the ...

I haven't posted for a long time but I used to live in North Somerset before retiring to live in North Norfolk, about 15 minutes from the North Norfolk Railway. I was told by one of the M&GN Society officials at the weekend that the J15 will be at Bitton for a while. It's a great loco, 100 years old ...

Just watched this on BBC4 (8:30pm) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012p58f/On_Film_Bristol_On_Film/
A few glimpses of the railway but some superb film of various parts of the city, including Concorde, the docks, Frys and the dizzy heights of changing the bulbs on the Suspension Bridge ...

I think you mean these, pictured on the excellent Taunton trains website:

http://www.tauntontrains.co.uk/

According to the website of the STEAM museum at Swindon, all the old GWR staff records at kept at the national archive at Kew - see link below (last pargraph on the page).

http://www.swindon.gov.uk/steam/steam20 ... tion-2.htm

Spot on, the photo was apparently taken by H C Casserley in August 1940, just after the line closed and the loco is "Terrier" No. 4. The photo appears in several of the books about the W, C & P.

Thanks mow...

Guess it must have been either very early or very late tonight, stood on Bleadon Hill in a cold wind for 45 minutes from 19.20 to 20.05 but no show.

As a daily commuter into BTM, I was really pleased to read about the award, he's a wondefully helpful person, especially when things go wrong, and is always ready to go that extra mile to help and advise customers. It's nice to see "little" people (if you know what I mean) like Wayne getting ...

As I arrived at BTM this morning I noticed a mixture of 4 or 5 old coaches parked on the siding alongside Platform 15, including 2 Blue Pullman coaches. Bearing in mind the Torbay express stock already parked in the station and the 3 old first class coaches that have been there for a few weeks now ...

5029 Nunney Castle is picking up a tour from London, to run up Filton Bank and on to Shrewsbury next Saturday morning.

UK Steam has details of the Light Engine Move on Friday.

http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t08/t1128q.htm

The tour to Shrewsbury is on this link. Departure from Bristol Temple Meads ...

......has just reversed into BTM with its service coach in the morning sunlight, lovely site from my office on Temple Quay (and just pulled out going towards Bath as I type !)

Shovel wrote:Should it be Thursday the 11th?

Timings now confirmed on Cathedrals Express site....


http://www.steamdreams.com/content/view/106/52/

You did hear a class 56. They are being used on crew training runs for the contract won by Fastline to transport coal out of Portbury to Rugeley and (I believe) Ironbridge. Not sure if this means that Freightliner have lost out, or if this will run in addition. The loco normally runs into Portbury ...