The Bristol Railway Archive

Hi everyone,

Can anyone help me. I'm looking for a photos of the signal box at Ashley Hill Junction. The one that stood near the Ashley Hill road bridge in 1941.

I am researching the crash of a Wellington bomber in St Andrews Park, Bristol on 30th April 1941. My grandfather was the front gunner and died in the crash. Take a look at my Google Map http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF ... 4&t=h&z=16 and look at the 3rd placemark in the list for my interest in this signal box.

Whilst I'm here does anyone know who the signal man might have been?

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I can remember this signal box. As a small boy, I went in it just before it closed in 1966.

There is a picture of the original signal box in a book called "Branch Lines around Avonmouth" Middleton Press. This box was replaced in 1959 by a modern, brick built, concrete flat roofed box, which is the one I remember.

The route from Ashley Hill Junction to Kingswood junction closed on 14th June 1965 and Ashley Hill Junction box closed 27th Feb 1966. The remains of what I think was a fogsignalmans shelter are still next to the line today.

I can also remember vague stories from when I was a kid of a plane crash in the area during the war. I'll have to ask my older sister for more detail about that though ....

Thanks. I'll try and get a copy of the book at the library.

I have loads of info about the crash, but anything else may prove useful.

I have been sent two photos, one taken in 1910 showing the original box and another taken in 1959 showing the old and new box. In the 1959 one you can see the gas holders in the background.