Mangotsfield 1972, track lifting

horace · Post by **horace** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:39 am

Mangotsfield 1972.

Look what i found on flickr, posted by somebody i know. Hattie i will try and persuade him to send copies to you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8507625@N02/2300964876/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8507625@N0 ... otostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8507625@N02/2300951972/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8507625@N02/2300164521/

Post by **madhattie** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:11 pm

Fabulous! It's amazing that people have these kind of photos lying around unseen until now! The power of the web is amazing.

mangotsfield_mauler · Post by **mangotsfield_mauler** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:27 pm

These pictures are great. My family lived by the avoiding line and my earliest memories are of @1970-71 watching Hymeks run up this line with coal trucks from Bath. In fact whenever I heard a train approaching I would run and hide in my grandmother's kitchen, and watch the train from the safe distance of the kitchen window. Running away from a train? How things have changed. The reason these pictures are great is that I remember watching a crane lift the tracks from under the bridge(Turner's bridge) at Siston Common.

Punker · Post by **Punker** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:49 pm

Fantastic pictures but also very sad,if only someone had a little think back then as to what the solution to the current traffic problems could be.

Would'nt it be great to still see railway traffic running through Easton,Fishponds and Staple Hill today,I am sure that these stations would be busy with commuters.

I would like to see those cranes back there relaying the track and restoring it back to it's former glory,but with the ringroad that is now impossible.

At least we do have good photo's of what it was like.

simon · Post by **simon** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:03 pm

Like a fair few cities, Bristol could now have had a pretty good light rail network when you think of the branches that used to exist. Oh for a bit of planning.

nickt · Post by **nickt** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:15 am

Blimey, seeing the crane lifting track at mangotsfield takes me back to when I were a mere nipper. I can vaguely recal a similar scene in Farrington Gurney when the track was being lifted by the old road bridge by Miners Arms pub. ( I foolishly thought they were going to replace track with new. Ahh well. )

Splodge · Post by **Splodge** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:27 pm

Also some good photos of the docks frozen over in the 60's, none of Cannons Marsh though.