The Bristol Railway Archive

The footbridge close to the site of Saltford station:



This would be a great location for watching the trains go by if the bridge wasn't clad in reinforced metal panels meaning the railway is completely invisible below. very disappointing

I still like this photo though!

It looks like we're being invaded by a very rusty flying saucer

James wrote:It looks like we're being invaded by a very rusty flying saucer

I like pictures of rust.

I think there's something wrong with me.

PS. bloody hot up this way... too hot to stand around taking pics of trains at stations.. what's it like down your way?

Sweltering...although I don't think it's as bad as yesterday! I took the Adelante service from London - Taunton and the air conditioning was fantastic...it was like sitting in a big fridge all the way home.

I'm growing to like the Adelantes...they're a much better design than the Voyagers and have lots of little common sense features (a manual lock on the toilet door etc), that most modern trains seem to have replaced with malfunctioning gimmicks.

The seats are still too hard though...

Have you been to the footbridge here yet? You were obviously in the area...

clicky

James wrote:Have you been to the footbridge here yet? You were obviously in the area...

clicky

Nope! It's on my list.

I've tried three times so far, always on a weekend and with the intention of doing a circular route from that bridge along the river to Saltford and back. Each time both my little 'uns have fallen asleep on the journey there and we've ended up going somewhere else so they can sleep. (Keynsham station car park once, and Bitton station twice ) (The AVR have ended up having a lot of my wage packet of late!).

I saw the same 59 (59204) four times over the last two days! My HST overtook it on the approach to London, and then slowed down, allowing it to pass us, but then we sped up and passed it again!

And then heading back yesterday, which 59 did I see sitting in Westbury yard? You've guessed it!

Also saw 47150 and three scrap 4VEPs waiting in Reading...got a few pics but there was a platform between the two trains so they're not good!

I wanted to ride a VEP, but I only saw one at London Bridge in two days of looking...and it went past in the opposite direction while I was on another train!

There's no 4VEPs earmarked for preservation...preserved lines don't seem to like their large number of doors

James wrote:I saw the same 59 (59204) four times over the last two days! My HST overtook it on the approach to London, and then slowed down, allowing it to pass us, but then we sped up and passed it again!

And then eading back yesterday, which 59 did I see sitting in Westbury yard? You've guessed it!

I have the same 'problem' with 143611. Everywhere I go, and every journey I take, involves that bug!

I stopped to buy some water at the garage next to Nailsea Station yesterday and, like you do, took the camera onto the station for half an hour. And of course the first train that rolls into view... 143611!

I was going to wait to see if the Nukes were going to trundle through, but the heat was so intense that the greenhouse that my van is seemed a better bet.

Nailsea isn't the most sheltered station...stupid greenhouses should be at bus stops not stations!

Bring back canopies and proper waiting rooms!

Nailsea used to have a nice (almost certainly) GWR shelter on the down side.