The Bristol Railway Archive

Hello - Following my last post on the Bristol Tram routes in the 1920's / 1930's. How many of you have noticed that there is still a very small bit of tram track still visible in Bristol. At least it was still there when Google Earth took their Street View camera car past the location in the last ...

I may be dreaming or mixing up my locations, but I seem to have a memory of tram lines at the top of Colston St, below the retaining wall (on which the signalbox sat) on the slope up to what was, I seem to recall reading, a horse depot for tram horses........?
Andrew - Yes I remember that little ...

I may be dreaming or mixing up my locations, but I seem to have a memory of tram lines at the top of Colston St, below the retaining wall (on which the signalbox sat) on the slope up to what was, I seem to recall reading, a horse depot for tram horses........?
Andrew - Yes I remember that little ...

Hello - Following my last post on the Bristol Tram routes in the 1920's / 1930's. How many of you have noticed that there is still a very small bit of tram track still visible in Bristol. At least it was still there when Google Earth took their Street View camera car past the location in the last ...

Hello - Following my last post on the Bristol Tram routes in the 1920's / 1930's. How many of you have noticed that there is still a very small bit of tram track still visible in Bristol. At least it was still there when Google Earth took their Street View camera car past the location in the last ...

Hello, I post this as a point of interest. Today I was looking through a mass of photos about Bristol on Flicker and came across the list of Bristol Tramways [ I do mean TRAMS! ] routes below. We have often discussed the bus routes around Bristol but here is a list of the TRAM routes as in the 1920 ...

Incidently I lived in Sea Mills and caught a #28 Avonmouth to the Centre bus to catch the #33. The #28 used to start and finish at the bottom of Colston St. .

The 28 actually ran through to Withywood (Sherrin Way) although some journeys terminated at Colston Street (they were suffixed 28c - a ...

Hello - I've only just belatedly read through this thread, Jubilees in and around Bristol? They were a feature of the Bristol scene from my first days as a spotter in the late 1940's until their demise. Many I believe came to Bristol Barrow Road straight from the works as new. Rooke, Kempenfelt ...

Robin wrote :- "My aunts lived at 34 Horfield Road. If I remember correctly, there were Almshouses (or a building that looked like Almshouses) on the opposite side of the road to the house. I presume no.33 was also on the opposite side of the road, so as it was only "their" side that was demolished ...

Quote by Jules today:- "The associated 22 started from "the dip" at Stoke Bishop and took the current route of the No 40 round the houses on Julian Road. It then crossed The Downs but turned right at the top of Blackboy and served Pembroke Road. From The Centre, it ran along Victoria Street to ...

Today I read the comment from Robin in it he said - "I was a regular traveller on the 2 and 2A services from Eastville to Park Row up until 1964 as part of a longer trip from Staple Hill to the house a number of maiden aunts shared in Horfield Road (demolished when they extended the BRI in 1964 ...

Why was I racking my feeble brain for old Bristol bus routes. 'Pompey Lad' [on the second page of this thread ] gave a web site that gives all the details from wo to go !

www.bvbq.org.uk/Routes.htm

I even got the 138 and 238 around the wrong way. But in 1945/6 the 238 did turn at the Headley ...

Hello - Further to my post at 12.03 today, I have been looking on Google Earth again. This time at South Bristol. Concerning the #132 / 232 routes I don't now think that there was a destination of ' Broomhill ' but there is a suburb called Filwood Broadway in the right place. I'm almost certain ...

Hello Jules, I can recall route #17 - It did run from the Centre to Temple Meads as you said. The terminus at BTM was along side of Brunel's old train shed on the left of the ramp as it levelled out. It was always serviced by a single decker bus. The various routes described in other replies all ...

Hi Stan - I 'stan' corrected! Route 1c it was! Though one letter difference is not too bad after nearly sixty years - 38 of them in the Antipodes is it? It is a coincidence that we lived in streets so close to each other. What period did you live there? Your info on the two bodies for the Leylands ...