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Adrian

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Over the years I've slowly collected bits of information about the Tewkesbury Quay Branch. Various articles and photo's from several sources. As part of the project I thought a bibliography might be of interest for the scholars amongst us. So with out further adieu and in no particular order:

  • LMS Engine Sheds - Volume 2 The Midland Railway,
    Chris Hawkins and George Reeve,
    Wild Swan Publications,
    ISBN: 0 906867 05 03
    Three pages of photos and plans to the usual WSP quality that sparked off this project.
     
  • British Railway Journal - Issue 40, Winter 92,
    Roger Carpenter,
    Wild Swan Publications,
    ISSN 0265-4105
    An essential 8 page article with superb photo's, maps and stock details.
     
  • British Railway Journal - Issue 42, Summer 92, (yes this is listed as 1992 - one can only assume that WSP published the Winter issue in January-February!)
    Wild Swan Publications,
    ISSN 0265-4105
    Just a couple of letters, one on the original Birmingham and Gloucester branch at Tewkesbury and one on the fate of the wagons shown in issue 40.
     
  • Bromsgrove to Gloucester including Ashchurch to Great Malvern - Midland Mainlines
    Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith
    Middleton Press - 2006
    ISBN : 1 904474 73 X
    6 pages on Tewkesbury including a 1902 map of the station and MPD, one nice photo of the MPD from 1949 of 3F 43506 which to my recollection doesn't appear in the other publications
     
  • Tewkesbury Historical Society Bulletin No.12
    John Dixon
    Tewkesbury Historical Society
    A fascinating article describing the original Birmingham and Gloucester Branch to Tewkesbury with a photo of an early B&G loco in the street approaching an ornate Gothic arch entrance to the station
     
  • The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
    P.J. Long and The Reverend W.V. Awdry
    Alan Sutton 1987
    ISBN : 0-86299-329-6
    8 pages about the building of the line, no photo's of the MPD but an interesting account, none the less.
     
  • Midland Record, Issue 20
    Wild Swan Publications
    ISSN : 1357-6399
    No article but a cracking photo of a Midland 0-4-4T P-class No. 58071 outside the shed in 1955 spread over 2 pages (2-3)

 

If anyone knows of any other sources then please let me know.

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Kenton

What a lovely compact and somewhat claustrophobic choice - definitely approve. A perfect excuse to use a 3-way point.

Are you intending to build it post LMS alterations to the coal stage - converting it to a ramp with a shelter? The track was raised slightly so should be a challenge in S7.

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Adrian
What a lovely compact and somewhat claustrophobic choice - definitely approve. A perfect excuse to use a 3-way point.

Are you intending to build it post LMS alterations to the coal stage - converting it to a ramp with a shelter? The track was raised slightly so should be a challenge in S7.

Cheers for the feedback.

 

I was intending to model the coal ramp just for a bit fun, actually I think the rear would be a little devoid of detail if I didn't include it. In keeping with the competition 5 ethos I was contemplating setting the date as 1955. I just need to check the configuration at that time.

 

I really need to draw up a time line of the various modifications because there were quite a few. Not a comprehensive list but off the top of my head it includes

 

  • The original station used to have a canopy over the tracks later removed.
  • The original coaling stage was next to the shed, it then got moved opposite and put on the ramp. The shelter over the ramp wasn't always there, again I need to check details.
  • The malt house behind the shed at some point had windows put in the tiled roof.
  • Towards the end of the shed life the terrace houses behind got demolished.
  • Again towards the end the trackplan got simplified, maybe a couple of times, down to one or maybe two turnouts for a return line into the shed.
  • A small brick built "utility" room got built infront of the shed ( one photo caption labels it as a privvy!).

I can see myself poring over photo's again tonight.

 

As for the 3-way - that could be the basis of another posting, following the examples on the Templot site I used the GIMP to tweak a photo and build the templot plan on top of it.

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Kenton

Are you going to have room for the station as well ? I wouldn't have thought so.

Downings Maltings would make an excellent scenic break to the FY.

 

I guess you will have the viewing side along Station Street so having the plain backs of the terraced houses as the backscene. How far will you go to the west - the High Street crossing?

 

There was an office to the back of the shed and original coaling stage against the Maltings wall.

Actually to call the replacement a coaling stage was incorrect. It was a ramp - a simple raised track replacing the original coal road that was on the level - it looks to be level (counting bricks in the photo) for 3 wagon lengths than a very steep drop to the point - hence my comment about doing that in S7.

I am afraid I cannot help with narrowing down the date other than between 1937 and 1948.

 

There were two small "utilities" built as pretty low lean-to's against the yard wall both before the engine pit and water column. Only the furthest is shown on the 1900 OS map and matches the plan in LMS Engine sheds reference - which refers to it as a toilet - which is interesting because the 1900 OS mapp has a "urinal" clearly marked on the opposite side of the track at the end of the Maltings.

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Kenton

Ha! just read the other pages of the blog - so ignore my dumb questions and last comments :D

.... that's what comes from reading a blog upside down/back-to-front ....

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buffalo
What a lovely compact and somewhat claustrophobic choice - definitely approve...

 

Couldn't have put it better myself :icon_thumbsup2:. A fascinating prototype -- you could choose almost any part from the station down to the quay as the basis for a layout. I'll be watching this one with interest.

 

Nick

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Hi

 

I toyed with this as a project in the early 1990's but it never got off the planning board. At the time, I did go and visit Bill Potter who then lived in Bishops Cleeve as he had photographed the area frequently in the late 1950s/early 1960s. However, most of his pics were already published, even then.

 

The problem I had with the project was I wanted to concentrate on the shed and old (original) station but there were just too many walls making viewing the model difficult and I didn't want to omit buildings as this would change the character of the confined space that was the character of the place.

 

Anyway, I would be very surprised if Jim Clemens had not shot some footage of the Tewkesbury Quay Branch. He lived in Evesham and covered the local scene extensively. Have you had a look at his B&R DVDs? (they were not out when I was researching the area).

 

Another place I would now try is the National Monument Records office at Swindon (in the old works offices, just opposite STEAM). A search of the aerial photographs is free and you can view up to 200 photopgraphs per visit. The link is below, just pop in the OS grid reference, within a week someone will come back to by e-mail and tell you if they have any matching material. Most of the collection is pre 1960 so should be relevant (I'd be very surprised if there was not something of use).

 

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100300b005002

 

I'd also contact the Tewkesbury YMCA Railway Club http://www.shelbrooke.co.uk/wls/wls3-5.htm, Ian Boskett's number is on the link (I'm sure he'll be more than happy to chat). They will know for sure if there are any 'private' collections that cover the branch. Actually, looking down their 2009 schedule, they had Mike Clemens (Jim's son?) this year. It is also quite funny for me as I was the Gloucester Support Group (of the Glos Warks Rly) events organiser back in the late 1980's and my line up for 1987 was virtually identical as their 2009 programme.

 

Best of luck - btw I always fancyed a model of 58071 (but I've gone over to the dark side - well Corporate Blue anyway).

 

 

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Rail-Online

Hi again,

 

There was an article published in a magazine in the early 1970s, it may well have been the Railway World mag, does anyone know an on line index? I suspect all the information has been updated since then ,but there might just be a "new" photograph Cheers Tony

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