Halts in the Bristol Area

Hobbler · Post by **Hobbler** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:48 pm

Does anyone know of the existance of any photographs of any of the following Halts in the Bristol area ?

Nightingale Valley Halt - Portishead branch.

Long Ashton Halt - Bristol to Yatton main line

Whitchurch Halt - Bristol to Hallatrow line

Combe Hay Halt - Camerton branch

chippy · Post by **chippy** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:29 pm

For combe hay halt photo's,you might try and get hold of the book,The camerton branch,if you haven't done so already...it sometimes comes up on ebay and is rare as rocking horse s..t
It's by colin maggs & gerry beale.

jolly47roger · Post by **jolly47roger** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:24 pm

There's this one of Combe Hay I took in 1962, looking East http://bristol-rail.co.uk/wiki/File:Combe_Hay_Halt1.jpg

There are several of Ham Green Halt from 1960 on this site, too.

nickt · Post by **nickt** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:40 pm

found this for whitchurch halt http://www.tventon.freeserve.co.uk/whit.htm
shows a photo of halt long after closure.
There are photos in existance of halt open. will post info here if I can find more..

hope this link works.

Hobbler · Post by **Hobbler** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:56 am

Thanks guys .

Chippy - yes I have a copy of the Camerton book - when I was trying to find one as they dont come up very often I wrote to the publishers and fortunately they still had a couple in their stock room.

I have yet to find a picture of Combe Hay , Nightingale Valley or Long Ashton showing trains using the halts . I know there are some of Whitchurch around but have not located them as yet - regretably on the many occasions I used to travel the Wells Road back then and would see trains using the Whitchurch Halt I never had a camera with me or more likely didnt think it interesting enough to waste my then expensive film on . If only ...........

AndyK · Post by **AndyK** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:08 am

I'm sure I've seen a picture of Long Ashton halt on the web recently. I think it was on a local history website but I don't seem to be able to find it again now. The photo showed a Castle running through the station with a clear view of the running-in board. The same picture may have appeared in one of Colin Maggs's books that I browsed in the Central Library recently.

Marsh'Un · Post by **Marsh'Un** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:48 pm

There are a couple of Whitchurch pics in the book "Through Countryside and Coalfield" by Mike Vincent.

By the way Hobbler, copies of the Camerton Branch book are currently for sale on the Amazon website at Ãº65 - Ãº80 !!

Hobbler · Post by **Hobbler** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:46 pm

Marsh'Un wrote:
By the way Hobbler, copies of the Camerton Branch book are currently for sale on the Amazon website at Ãº65 - Ãº80 !!

There is one on ebay at the moment with a starting bid of Ãº12.99 and no bids as yet.

Personally I take no notice of the Amazon prices - an aquaintenance who writes model railway instruction books was somewhat surprised to see one of his current titles which retails at around Ãº10 and is readily available from many shops on the amazon site for Ãº840 - theres always some ready to try it on !

Tiddles · Post by **Tiddles** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:05 pm

The Picture of Long Ashton can be found in Somerset Railway Stations by Mike Oakley (Dovecote Press) and shows the Nameboard and a LMS Crab on an Excursion train in 1937.
Nightingale Valley Halt is also shown in this fine book and this is the only Pic
I have ever seen of this. Incidently I have been collecting GW tickets now for 50years and issues to this site are unknown by my fellow collectors.

sideways · Post by **sideways** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:22 pm

I have found a picture of whitchurch halt on youtube under,

westcountry stations-THE DECLINE 1832 1982

Infact there are louds of station in the film

Hobbler · Post by **Hobbler** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:26 pm

sideways wrote:I have found a picture of whitchurch halt on youtube under,

westcountry stations-THE DECLINE 1832 1982

Infact there are louds of station in the film

Thanks for that - will definitely have a look

sideways · Post by **sideways** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:43 pm

Sorry my spelling is terrible!

Hobbler · Post by **Hobbler** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:06 pm

sideways wrote:Sorry my spelling is terrible!

No problem - I knew what you meant.

Actually the youtube clip seems to be an online copy of a duplicated A4 publication the department did many years ago .

chippy · Post by **chippy** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:45 am

The 'camerton branch' book on ebay sold for Ãº27 + postage.

sideways · Post by **sideways** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:29 pm

I was watching that!