The Bristol Railway Archive

The Quayside lines were not worked by locomotives but by either horses or water hydraulic capstan vertical drumheads. The locos propelled the wagons across the road from the Yard where the loading team took over.

When I last moored up at Z shed (after the Lloyds building pushed us out) the capstans ...

For several years now I have read references to Kingsland Rd and/ or Barton Hill dep¶ts in which locomotives appear to be serviced ( including present day steam locomotives).

Is this the old wagon works just off the start of the Midland main line or is it thecarriage sidings just further on ...