The Bristol Railway Archive

Many thanks for all your insights, I had wondered, considering I pound up and down Fishponds bank on the bike, whether a clase 37 would have growled over the top considering there would have been many based in South Wales at the time although assigned to the Cardiff Valleys ? Again its down to route ...

Morning all,

I have been in various discussions with people who have been very interested to find out what in the way of interesting or more unusual diesel traction had passed through Mangotsfield enroute to Bath or Bristol in the 50's/60's ? Think there was reports of a clsas 40 in recent ...

Hi Tony,

I bought Railsimulator 2012 to kick off a couple of projects including Mangotsfield to Yate/Bitton but you beat me to it, I will stick to recreating my model railway ! I look forward to you hopefully releasing the lines through Mangotsfield in due course ! Thoroughly recommended and enjoy ...

Hi there, I have dozens of said window stickers and sure I have an Penzance to Aberdeen so will have to check, used to be quite popular back in the 80's nabbing a window sticker from your journey, scottish ones were popular and named trains such as The Royal Scot and The Clansman which I have the ...

Hello all,

Hoping any of you out there can recall the working timetable for passenger trains between Bristol TM and Mangotsfield ie. departure
and arrival times and whether there was any comparison between steam and diesel? On a push bike it can be done in 15 minutes between the 2 at a push and ...

Good day all, just thought i'd clear up this debate as I think things have been over exaggerated!
Firstly I must agree though regarding those who park in a car park which is clearly marked private and considering there is one for visitors just across the road out of harms way. And you must surely be ...

If the line was still open from Mangotsfield to Bristol or Bath, having lived in the Mangotsfield area for the last 39 years I believe alot more people
would use the service than people think. I commute to town by push bike which takes 20 mins and compared with the car...the wife takes 30 mins on ...

Hello all,

First post from me but been an avid reader for years!

Having heard 71000 was running late I didn't have long to hang around so went to Filton AW to film it which is a suprisingly good location to film coming off the junction (for noise). It was held for almost 15 minutes waiting for a ...