The Bristol Railway Archive

Ahh, yes. Westerns and Warships, the pride of the Premier Region :D

When I was a telegraph boy at Taunton, I used to love the Warships because they were always breaking down - they were a disaster for the operating authorities.

But thank God we still had a stud of fine steam locomotives to bail ...

... here is a potted history of my younger years....

...1967 Stonehouse Bristol Road signalman at age of 18...
Nick
Hi Nick, I was interested to read that you were at Stonehouse albeit for only two years. When you were there, was Stonehouse box switched out at any time during the week? I seem to ...

Hi Patrick

Great to hear that we may have been jotting down the same numbers back in the 80's and brilliant photos by the way. I will have to work my way through them.

In 1961, summer Saturdays at Taunton were brilliant with almost 75% steam and so no need to go to Bristol. But 1962 was different ...

I now live in Reading but came across this forum having a shopping trip to Bath last weekend and a detour to Mangotsfield on the way back, in the hope of finding the site of the old station.

Thanks to some very helpful locals, I found it and spent an hour walking around and remembering when my ...