The Bristol Railway Archive

Does anyone have any photos of the double track girder bridge crossing the Avon at Brislington before or during demolition for the spine road in the early 90s? It must have been quite a task as it was a 200 feet clear lattice girder span. Someone must have photographed the giant crane lifting the ...

They are all original except the signalbox which is brand new above platform level and the greenhouse - oh and the dire 1970 concrete toilet block.

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The signalbox looks pretty new judging by the gable cladding and bargeboards, which would mean not long after 19th october 1942. It closed on 21st Sept 56 when the up loop was shortened back 26 chains east. Interestingly, the R A Cooke layout diagram shows a down refuge siding starting at the same ...

UPDATE 9TH APRIL 2009

during the last 2 weeks, following the granting of planning permission to extend the S&D south towards Chilcompton, Roger Penny plant hire from Ston Easton have had 2 slews rip out all the tree stumps and grade 1000 feet of double trackbed, cess and lineside back to earth and ...

Does anyone know what the running lines will be once the industrial museum opens again? are they being forced to contract ever further?

where is portbury, henbury and the fox walker pieces?
how many volunteers do they have?

Providing the rediculous busway proposal withers into BDC oblivion in a ...

Ron Toop died last year. he had about 2000 negatives in albums, 400 of which were S&D. I bought copies of most of the S&D pics as 6x4 prints in the mid 90's whilst running the midsomer norton project. I think his collection, including 200 colour uk railway slides and a mountain of books, would have ...

upon enquiry with the nrm york, I found out that the Godfrey Soole archive, including mostly Bristol area photos 1933-1938 contained 1600+ images and am planning to make a trip to york to the reading room to try and obtain copies of interesting photos that werent published in the 2 1982 and 1985 ...

The triple track bridge over Victoria street heading for redcliffe tunnel can be seen bottom left. Temple Meads was the largest covered goods shed in the world when rebuilt in 1924. Middle left, the midland covered barge dock and sidings at avon street. Background, left to right we have Bristol St ...

Planning permission to extend the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, south up the 1 in 53 grade, from Midsomer Norton towards Chilcompton is expected to be granted this month by Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) following an 18 month long planning submission by dedicated trustee Peter ...

if only everyone in britain was made to read this, then they would understand just what the pro road government has done to the railways since marples m1 was built, then they wouldnt complain so much about the overcrowding, the weeds or the late services

http://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2008/12 ...

does anyone know regular timings for photgraphing freight on the portishead branch?

I don't know about Terry, but Maurice Dudman is someone else who took loads of fantastic colour slides around bristol in the mid 1950's, some really obscure and rare locations!

does anyone know the best place in the backwell farleigh or on the lulsgate plateau to pan - video trains coming out of tyntesfield cutting and down the long embankment through nailsea station?

However a run round loop in the platform would still be required unless youre going to top and tail loco hauled...