The Bristol Railway Archive

Thanks Chris,
altogether a very interesting discussion with some forthright opinions expressed! As you say there are good reasons put forward for believing it could be either Durston or Portbury. I do wonder though what Morten would be doing at Portbury - a very minor station without even a passing ...

Chris,
has Durston as the mystery location now been ruled out?

For those not on the GWR or WSR elists there was the following contribution from Peter Jordan towards the end of August:

'After fairly detailed research I am now convinced that what the picture shows is a Yeovil branch train arriving ...

Which raises the question - before the curve was put in, where did the Monkey Specials reverse? Stoke Gifford? Or maybe even Stapleton Road or TM?

The Monkey Specials reversed at Pilning (& came through Severn Beach), Stoke Gifford (& via Henbury), or Stapleton Road (& via Montpelier). The return ...

[In those days, as a general rule, when something went seriously wrong with a railway line (be it landslips, embankments collapsing, bridges being washed away, whatever), the Engineers were usually out virtually immediately putting it right. This never happened in the case of the Severn Bridge.

I ...

Am I the only sad case around here with a collection of old bus and railway timetables? :P

By the way, I bought a May 1964 WR timetable on Ebay yesterday - info on services immediately before closure to Portishead, Henbury loop, Severn Beach to Pilning, Gloucester stoppers, Chalford auto trains ...

WHEELTAPPER wrote:Can you repost the Max Williams link as it is saying no photos.

Try:
www.flickriver.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/5377223055

It was the rogue full stop at the end ot URL that caused the trouble!

Robin Summerhill wrote:Anything online about this that you can provide a link to?

Try:
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/New-plat ... story.html

Has anyone heard of Ben Brooksbank? A poster on the GW elist has recently posted this link to his remarkable photo collection, currently over 2400, mostly railway subjects, & growing: http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/44502
They date from about 1946 & there are quite a few from the Bristol area ...

Clive Williams' database of references to published station photos lists 12, it can be found here:
http://www.mulehouse.myzen.co.uk/

HTH
Martin

Can I advertise the model railway exhibition that the Great Western Study Group are holding this weekend at Abbeywood Community School, Stoke Gifford. Details are here:
http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/gwsg/

Well, here's a photo of 70000 & 6024 waiting to leave the WSR this morning bound for Didcot!
http://www.wsr.org.uk/cgi-bin/gallery8a ... 0411_1_man

I'm pretty sure that 6201 attended one of the first Bath Road Open Days - 1965/1966???. At that time it was based at Ashchurch & so may have gone past Kingswood Junc twice. Whether it was in steam I have no idea. Has anybody a better memory (or not suffering the inconvenience of being at work)?

I've had a look, but been unable to find any suitable photographs of the location or comparison - in fact, LR seems very scarce in railway books, only 2 pix found!

Clive Williams' photo-listing site gives 25 references - but there's likely to be some duplication, see:
http://www.mulehouse.myzen ...

If Wells is still "in the frame" ... Logic ... would suggest that the photograph would have been taken from somewhere adjacent to the S&D engine shed.
In which case I think the line of sight onto the infirmary would be much the same as that of a photo taken from Tucker Street station looking ...

I am intending to spend an hour or two on Sunday researching S&DJR fence designs from the turn of the century!

There are so many oddities with this gate & fencing that I wonder whether we are looking at a mainline railway company at all. Could it be a private line - to a miltary camp perhaps ...