The Bristol Railway Archive

I was taking a stroll along the Kennet & Avon canal wednesday evening about 6.30 when a long EWS hauled train came through heading Bristol direction. The train consisted of numerous light blue vans in sets of four mainly. But these sets of four vans were joined by a concertina type canopy ( like the bendy busses. ), and the joint between one set of four and the next was an ordinary coupling. There did not appear to be any side doors or windows only presumed doors in ends of groups.
Has any one seen this movement before or know what is being carried. I've a hunch it might be cars to/from Portbury. This may be a regular train as my son saw similar movement passing through Sydney gardens at about the same time a few days ago. The one thing I'm sure of is that this is not the bin liner.

Sounds very much like this is the southampton docks to castle bromich car service.Worked by eastleigh driver to parkway where he gets releif by saltley driver then travells to birmingham for his back working via oxford.

Sounds feasible. would that working come up via westbury / Trowbridge etc through Bath, around the rhubarb loop and up.
Is this a regular run.

Thanks for reply.

Yes thats the way its booked to run.Its supposed to run monday to friday but it all depends on the ammount of traffic .

Goes past me near Wylye in the late afternoon every week day. Probably linked to this little boat on its way out of Southampton

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mao_zhou/2440706231/

In fact it went past me today, saturday.

I will try and get a photograph.

As promised, a picture of it passing through the Wylye valley at 6:10 in the evening.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mao_zhou/2449746184/

Yep thats the chap. It's interesting to see the train is made up of 5car sections. I assume they are split into 5 car lots for loading then shunted.

The car transporter went through warminster at 7 p.m. tonight (tues)...in case anybody was looking for it...chippy