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Just checked the photos I took in my collection, I have photos taken from the bridge but not of the bridge!

Hi Tim, Lots of photos taken from the bridge but very few of the bridge. Donald Flook was a railway employee.#

 

Robin

Robin, I'm surprised to see the track remaining in situ until 1981! Is that what we now call 'Barton Hill Depot' visible just under the bridge to the left-hand side?

 

Also, how far north did the tracks extend back then in 1981? Presumably they didn't last much longer.

Hi Tim,

The reason for taking the photos back then was the impending development of the shed site and the realignment of Days Road itself. The track work was taken out during 1981 having been used as an extended siding up to Lawrence Hill Road bridge.

I took a similar set of photographs of each of the arches of Barrow Road bridge itself which bisected the shed site - this will be useful for the next bridge project for Chris - :}

The two Gasometers at the rear of the shed, which formed the distinctive backdrop, were also cut down and dismantled during that year. Anyone fancy making a model of them?

I took some pictures of the dismantling of the gasometers. Wasn't the bridge you modelled approached by a narrow setted road, a right angled bend between high walls? I used to go that way to get to Max Williams. So many memories.

Will you be adding a representation of the thick layer of grease that was added to the top of the parapet c1963, presumably as an anti-climbing measure? (It soon dried out/got washed away tho'!)

Tim,

I would be interested in seeing those photos sometime. Days Road certainly had a right angled bend at the gasometer end - Fray Bentos on Flickr has at least three photos of the bridge from the road - quite nostalgic!

 

Martin,

I well remember the thick layer of grease and the fencing placed on top of the wall neither of which prevented access into the shed, the latter could be circumvented by going around the main line end of it, a bit like the 'Maginot Line' I think I will give the grease a miss though - it didn't get me in the prototype but I might not be so lucky in model form:}

Very interesting, I am glad to see this model move forwards again.