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The day Bristol St Philips Marsh closed. 13 June 1964

Warship assisted into Bristol Temple Meads by GW Prarie 4132 on North to West train 9.05 Liverpool to Plymouth Saturday 4 April 1964

GW 1420 and 6435 looking out of place next to the 8F's on Bristol Barrow Road. 17 October 1965

Black 5 44672 with self weighing tender on Dumfries Shed

Jubilees on Bristol Barrow Road ashplant

New Year's Day 1964 4951 Pendeford Hall backs onto a Paddington to Weston train at Bristol Temple Meads 7903 Foremarke Hall has arrived at Platform 6 at Bristol Temple Meads with a local from Weston

Coal pile and coal pens at Lawrence Hill, Bristol in 1963

Weekend of 20/21 November 1965, 55 years ago Bristol Barrow Road closed. Saturday 20 November. Stanier 8F 48266 leaves the sidings at Bristol Barrow Road Shed towing four withdrawn GW Halls to Gloucester on the first stage of their journey to the South Wales Scrapyards Stanier 8F 48751 arrived in the afternoon and was photographed on the Sunday. It departed north on a freight on Monday morning. 9F 92209 is stabled on the departure Road on Sunday 21 November Pannier 9680 was the last engine to leave the shed, tidying up for a few days. Here photographed at the back of the empty shed in the gloom Steam engines continued to visit Bristol until March 1966 and were stabled on Bath Road Diesel Depot.

It was on the Marsh on that day in the roundhouse next to the storage sidings. It may well have gone back to Crewe LE. 46229 was stabled on Bath Road Shed on route to Minehead on April 20 1964, hauled by 6825 Llanvair Grange. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/5285905560/in/photolist-946DyL I believe 46201 attended at least one Bath Road Open Day, perhaps 1967. It went back LE to Dowty via Mangotsfield.

Close up of Ash Plant at Bristol Barrow Road

The loco at Bristol Barrow Road - the crest just about visible

Peaks worked into Bath Green Park on 3V17 00.37 Leicester to Bath parcels, returning from Bath on 3M28 20.25 Templecombe to Derby parcels. Certainly during 1963 and possibly 1964, the Peak had a fill in turn on 2B93 10.10 Bath to Bristol Temple Meads and 11.49 (12.12 SO) Bristol to Bath. When the Leicester parcels was steam hauled, Bath's two long standing Standard 3's 82004/41 deputised. When the Leicester parcels was discontinued into Bath (instead going to Bristol) the turn was steam rostered in 1965. Even after the closure of Barrow Road on 20 November 1965, the turn remained steam hauled, the final occasion being on 1 January 1966, appropriately hauled by 82041. The locos noted for a week in August 1963 were: Monday August 12 82041 Tuesday August 13 D158 Wednesday August 14 D144 Thursday August 15 82041 Friday August 16 82041 Occasionally if the parcels was steam and the Standard 3's were not available, Black Fives would work the train, 44777 on 3 Jan 1963. Three friends pose as 82041 backs onto the 2B93 11.49 Bristol Temple Meads to Bath Green Park

Hi There is a copy of London Area freight WTT Sept 1960-June 1961 in michaelclemensrailways.co.uk Patrick

The HST is probably 30 years older!