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Posted: **Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:03 pm**

Excellent photo of the Peak at Nailsea & Backwell with its signal box. I only got bitten by the railway bug in 1975 by which time the semaphores were long gone. Does anyone have any similar photos of Nailsea & Backwell, I would be very interested in seeing them.

Posted: **Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:11 am**

AndyK wrote: And I'll tell you something else I bet you didn't know: apparently the line alongside Cumberland Road was originally double-track. This was stated in an article about the Bristol Harbour lines in Railway Bylines magazine in (I think) 2001. I was so surprised that I emailed the editor to query it; he was brought up locally and went to Bristol Cathedral School when Canons Marsh depot was still working, so he knows the ground personally; however he was a bit vague about the source for the information, so it still might not be true.

I wonder if a search in the City archives pre-First World War would turn up anything about acquistion of a strip of land from the GWR for road-widening.

I know this thread has been dormant for some time, but....

You are right the editor does claim that it was double track. Don't have the original article but have just seen your response in the mag to the article.
I bought the magazine for my son as there is an article on the Whittingham hospital railway (rather outside the Bristol area but how many people on here have a railway named after them

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Was interested to see, Andy, that you were at the Cathedral school - two years ahead of me if you started there in 1967.

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