The Bristol Railway Archive

Having first noticed them about 5 years ago on my regular trips to Warminster from Cheltenham they had interested me. A row of beautiful houses just left to rot away, after such a beautiful trip through Sydney Gardens and a footbridge that seeming went nowhere.

I have never been to the street ...

I went to Avonmouth yesterday (drawn in by the huge plums of smoke I could see from Weston-super-Mare) having taken the family there for the weekend.

I went on the hunt for the former train stations that use to be there. But after finding the current station and further down the road the old Docks ...

I think in the book The GWR Swindon to Bath Line by Colin Maggs has some info on the temporary station in Sydney Gardens I would think it would also have something on Hampton Row Halt.

Think Sydney Gardens was only open for the use by a Princess but cant be sure, I remember reading it was there ...

Has anyone been lucky enough to go on one of these tours? What is it like is it any good?

Im looking at things to do in the summer holidays with the kids and were planning to spend a weekend in Bristol sightseeing the kids havent ever been to Bristol so I wanted to show them the SS Great Britain ...

Bartonhillbum - Yes there was a Gatcombe station in Gloucestershire its location was on the Gloucester to Chepstow line just before the line went under the Severn Railway Bridge.

I have just loaned out a book called the Atlas of the Great Western Railway by R.A. Cooke. Im finding the book is very informative but it is also bringing up a number of questions in my head about stations that I had never even heard of before, namely the fact the book has 2 Hotwells stations.

The ...

Sorry to bring this old subject back up but I was in the Central Library yesterday looking in a few railway books. I stupidly forgot to take the name of a book I looked in that had an interesting black and white overhead picture of Temple Meads which included the goods yard and the line that led to ...

I just thought Id post this as I noticed while searching Amazon for any interesting railway books. Mike Oakley is releasing a new book on railway stations and halts, this time Bristol is the subject. I will be putting this one on order when its pay day.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN ...

re-doubling the Swindon to Kemble route would certainly have a hugh benefit on rail traffic in that area, and would probably cut the travelling time from Cheltenham to Swindon.

Hi everyone

I was in Bristol a few days ago partly for work and partly for reseach. Im doing my own website about railway stations in Gloucestershire and surrounding areas Bristol included (but my knowledge of Bristol is limited to Temple Meads and getting to College Green). I was wondering if ...