The Bristol Railway Archive

yeah, 2x 20s.

Accelerated hard out of Cheltenham station about 7.45 which sounded awesome, then were stopped in the Glos triangle about 8am.

Didnt see where they went after that.

I'd also love to see pics of it in operation, especially diesels, if anyone has any

BristleGWR wrote:Here's another one looking more head on. The quality isn't great I'm afraid.

Fantastic pic, just wanted to say thanks, I honestly had no idea any of it used to look like that, brilliant

http://bristol-rail.co.uk/wiki/images/1/1d/Narroways_Hill1.jpg

Right, im getting confused now.

Is this pic taken on the current main line with the 47 heading parkway/wales direction?

So thats the severn beach line to the right?

Am I seeing more sidings next to it, where the play area etc is ...

Fantastic pic, so much has changed I had to put it side by side with a modern aerial pic to work out what i was looking at, lol

The extra lines around the gas works are very interesting, had no idea about them. When did they all dissapear?

Why are they removing it? I know its not doing anything but its also not exactly in the way!

Id love to be able to take a look inside and go for a wonder actually...

Looks and sounds surprisingly cool.

Regarding the smoke, im not sure how they run in train engines at the start of their life, but if its like many other engines it will burn a bit more oil (the video shown mostly blue smoke, ie oil) for a while while the piston rings bed in.

i dont see this being bathampton in the location mentioned above, trees or not.

the loop ends far far too close in the distance from the mill lane bridge to be there. in reality it goes for a good few hundred meters from the bridge.

it also ends seemingly past the bridge in the pic, it doesnt now ...

I saw a test train being pushed, ie 31 at the rear, from lydney direction in to Gloucester station, about, erm, midnight or maybe a little after, tonight.

It wasnt the pictured one though, it was dark but IIRC it was 3 yellow carriages and the 31 was in an intercity black style livery.

and that ...

I saw a test train being pushed, ie 31 at the rear, from lydney direction in to Gloucester station, about, erm, midnight or maybe a little after, tonight.

It wasnt the pictured one though, it was dark but IIRC it was 3 yellow carriages and the 31 was in an intercity black style livery.

Indeed, although I have never got on one from there that I can remember, I have got off at platform 1 about half a dozen times from Voyagers terminating in BTM

Bringing this back to the top, as I was just having dinner and noticed a Bristol+Bath A-Z map book on the side, from 1999 it seems, and had a browse through it.

Bizzarely, the paper mill sidings are still on the map, even though surely they was lifted way sooner?

A few things that im sure were ...

Fantastic info on the Paper Mill site, cheers :D

So where did the Tate & Lyle and the Square Grip Reinforcement Company sidings branch off?

Just after the Paper Mill site (on the Bath side) you can see a flat expanse of land where I guess some sidings were, but aside from that, ive no idea.

Im ...

Interesting :) And yeah, the remaining bit of track curves 90deg in a short space so would have to be short wheelbase locos to use most of it I reckon.

There a book available about railways in Keynsham, not seen it yet but mentions 4 different branches/sidings.
That would be the Frys branch, this ...

No Lowjack, thanks to this site I know about that one :), but just after that on the Bath side, the paper mill.

You can clearly see railways tracks still in the tarmac at the mill, and it doesnt take much of a keen eye to see how the embankment has been made to slope down there for a single track ...