Baltic/Canada Wharf

[BristleGWR]

Looking at a 'plan of new works' drawing (date unknown but around 1903?) showing the western end of Bristol Docks there is a line going to Baltic Wharf. It shows a junction just after Avon Cresent, one line heads north towards Canons Marsh the other heads east passing to the north of the hydraulic pump house, it then passes in front of underfall yard on a pier and swingbridge and onto the dockside at Baltic Wharf. The line then splits into a number of sidings which stretch nearly as far as Albion Dock, one siding heads south towards a timber yard near to the junction of what is now Mardyke Ferry Road and Cumberland Road.

Looking at various maps on old-maps.co.uk this line doesn't appear. I assume therefore that this line wasn't actually constructed?

[jules]

I don't think this particular line was ever built, BUT there are definately old tracks in the ground around the Marina and near the Orchard pub. Though I have always assumed the connection to these would have been just along the dockside from by the Indistrial Museum (although the boat building dock would have been in the way) or more probably, from the Bristol Harbour Railway which runs along the other side of Cumberland Road.

[tugboatcharly2]

I may be very wrong ,but when I lived in Hillsborough flats no 37? there was a siding into the abattoir almost apposite the Trinity rooms, which was a conection off the Bristol Harbour Line this could help you.