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Pill Station
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:08 pm
by mangotsfield_mauler
Taken during the Bristol Coal-Stone Haul earlier this year.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:00 am
by stumpytrain
Fantastic photograph! That headboard looks really good!
I remember shouting some suitable abuse at the tresspassing protestors as we went by...
Alex
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:51 pm
by mangotsfield_mauler
Well, as you liked it, here's one at Iron Acton Station, and I was on the public side of the fence!
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The platform is to the right of the 50, beyond the T&C boxes. Heavily overgrown and barely recognisable as a station. The owners of the former stationmaster's house to the left of the 50 came out and chatted for a while, surprised at the level of excitement. I was impressed by the 50 on the day, I know it had problems, but I was also down at Ashton Gate to watch it return from Portbury. It held at the signal near the old Ashton Gate platform, and was motoring by the time it reached the level crossing.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:10 am
by tonyperks
was a very good tour much enjoyed by myself and the daugter, i seem to have lost all the photos we took on the day though
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:31 pm
by get_that_bus_out
I remember shouting some suitable abuse at the tresspassing protestors as we went by...
What were they protesting about? Are some of the locals still narked that the railway has been reinstated?
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:39 pm
by stumpytrain
get_that_bus_out wrote:What were they protesting about? Are some of the locals still narked that the railway has been reinstated?
Yes, and Network Rail had cut "their" trees down.
Alex
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:53 pm
by Gary
As long as we're retrospectively posting stuff,
here's some wobbly video of the Coal-Stone Haul on its approach to Bath.
