The Bristol Railway Archive

I understand that Bristol Railwayana Auctions are now accepting items for their next Auction in October. Contact details can be obtained by typing Bristol Railwayana Auctions in your search.

82E Shedplate sold for ú170.00 yesterday,with Parson Street totem
fetching ú400.00. Very entertaining day

Bristol Barrow Road fan's may be interested in an original 82E shedplate
in the Bristol Railwayana Auctions next sale on 21st October, there are
other local & S&DJR items as well.
You can view the catalogue on line by typing Bristol Railwayana Auctions
in your search.

Bristol Railwayana are holding their annual Auction & Collectors Fair this Sunday 16th at Abbeywood Community School,Filton,Bristol . Doors open/viewing from 10.00pm .Admission Free.
Lots of local items are on offer in the Auction.

Anyone interested in Mangotsfield may be interested that the Railwayana
Auction at Filton on Oct 11th, has a LMS original coloured drawing on linen
showing the Proposed abolition of Mangotsfield South Jcn Signal Box & Stone Siding Signal Box dated 1934/36. Auction info can be found on WWW ...

You could look at GWR Goods Services Part2B by Tony Atkins (Wild Swan)
several Pics etc. And the excellent ltttle booklet Pannier Tanks & Shunting
Poles Part 1 by D.J.Fleming Printed locally by R P Printing Services which
as well as the Panniers has Pic's of the 03s used at the end.
Happy Day's I ...

It could be the Port of Bristol Authority Grab hopper Dredger named Clifton which was used for Mud Dredging, this was built by Charles Hill in 1968 1150 tons and worked all over the PBA system.

Walt Pickering was a real Character I visited his home in Wick Road several times to measure & fit Carpet and he had a collection of all his Radio Bristol
recordings on Casette tapes.
My favourite will always be his recollection of his visit to America and how the
aircraft had been re-fuelled in mid ...

I notice in the Auction Catalogue for the Lynton & Barnstaple Rly Auction
at Twerton Park on July 11th there is a GWR blue print of a section of the
Severn Rail Bridge (1939) and a locking sketch of the swing bridge showing
semaphores(1896), Could be of Interest to Modellers

Also there were the "Monkey Specials" to Clifton Zoo.
Mike Vincent in Lines to Avonmouth, mentions that on at least one occasion a Bulleid Pacific worked through on a Portsmouth-Clifton Down zoo excursion.
I can remember seeing several of these at Montpelier in the 1950s.

The Picture of Long Ashton can be found in Somerset Railway Stations by Mike Oakley (Dovecote Press) and shows the Nameboard and a LMS Crab on an Excursion train in 1937.
Nightingale Valley Halt is also shown in this fine book and this is the only Pic
I have ever seen of this. Incidently I have been ...

I notice that a Railwayana Fair and Auction is being advertised in the Railway Antiques Gazette.
This is being held at Twerton Park (Bath City Football Clubs ground) on Sunday 11th July .. Admission Chg ú1.00 10am to 4pm
Sales Stand Info: 07811 774469 Auction Info 07977688805
All profits are to the ...

The sale mentioned on the 28th February was being organised by Mike Bass
of the Strawberry line and I understand this has now been cancelled.
Mike Bass can be contacted on 0117 9860124 Mob 07960151286

The Twerton Park event mentioned took place last year and there is no event there in March this ...