Salisbury Milford Goods Station

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I'm looking for any information or pictures of the Milford goods yard, situated on the east side of Salisbury. 

 

The goods yard was originally the LSWR terminus station on their line from Eastleigh, opened in 1847, and turned into a goods-only yard with the opening of the current station in 1859. 

 

Except for a couple of photos, OS maps and a plan from the Network Rail archives, I'm struggling to find much more information. I've read somewhere that the traffic was mainly coal coming in and livestock going out, but any more detail would be very useful. As the current station used to have a small goods yard, how was the traffic divided? Were certain goods sent only to the Fisherton side or was this only used by GWR traffic from Westbury? I can take a pretty good guess at which locomotives were used during its use by looking at the depot allocations, but have no hard evidence that a particular loco was the on duty shunter (I presume G6's at first, falling later to class 2 tanks and then 08's and 12's by the time of its demise). 

 

Any particular book recommendations would also be a great help. 

 

Thanks! 

 

Xander 

 

 

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I've decided to collate all of my research here, that way I've got it all together and available incase it interests anyone and if anyone can help then they know exactly what I do/don't know! 

 

I've contacted both Salisbury Museum and the Network Rail Engineering Archives, although the museum had nothing on the goods yard, Network Rail had a plan that they've published on their website/shop (https://nr.printstoreonline.com/non-operational-railway/salisbury-milford/salisbury-station-milford-layout-19201641.html). I'll try a couple of other museums/collections to. I've also dug through the HMRS photo collection; despite a few around salisbury, there are none near the Milford side. 

 

This is the only good photo of the rail side of Milford Goods that I can find: 

 

There's a very useful website with images of the buildings on the street side and a couple of maps here: https://www.milfordstreetbridgeproject.org.uk/content/places/milford-goods-station/milford-goods-yard 

 

Xander

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Salisbury shed allocations: 

 

Both LSWR and SR shed allocations are available as searchable spreadsheets through the Southern Region E-Group: 

http://www.semgonline.com/shed_allocations/shed-alloc.html 

 

LSWR are also separate (you don't have to open them in Excel): 

http://www.semgonline.com/shed_allocations/lswr-shed-alloc.html 

 

And from 1945-67: 

http://shedbashuk.blogspot.com/2017/06/salisbury-1945-1967_80.html 

 

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There are a few pages about Milford (both as a Passenger Station and as a goods yard) in the book  Mainline to the West (Basingstoke to Salisbury) by John Nicholas and George Reeve. It includes two pictures of the goods yard, two pictures of the signal box, two freight timetables (1909 and 1958) and the signal box diagrams (1885 and 1905). There is a bit of text - mostly copied from a 1934 article (Southern Railway Magazine) and a 1960 article (Salisbury and Winchester Journal).

 

 

Rob