Meldon - site facilities

[Guest Jack Benson]

Hi,

 

Meldon Quarry is well supplied with online images, lots of train photos or hiking trails etc. but nothing much about the infrastructure when the quarry was an integral part of BR(S). One excellent colour image of a Dogfish beside a loader has appeared on RMweb but details of site facilities are pretty difficult to find. Is a book about Meldon Quarry available?

 

For example, a plan of the quarry would be useful, if only to identify facilities and their whereabouts, also images of quiet corners of the quarry, was there an onsite wagon repair facility etc.

 

These images of smaller buildings are useful:-

Loco shed

 

 

The weighbridge and workshop

 

The intention is to create a cameo of a 'quiet' corner of Meldon

 

Cheers

 

Jack

 

[Oldddudders]

Do you have Irwell's 'Okehampton Line'? On P44 there is a general view taken in 1964, and there is quite a lot of joined-up writing about the signalling, though not about operations as such. 

 

I confess to having walked across the viaduct in late-May.

[Wickham Green]

Apologies for the quality - of the camera and the weather - but this might give you a slight feel of the layout of buildings : -

 

 

 

...... I thought Weybridge was in Surrey !

Edited July 8, 2019 by Wickham Green

[Artless Bodger]

There was a series of articles, in Railway Bylines I think, a few years ago (possibly by Peter Coster?), with photos of the crushing plant, road vehicles used to transport stone, loading hoppers etc. I'm annoyed now I didn't keep my copies.

 

Cheers

[pb_devon]

In the museum on Okehampton Station run by the Dartmoor Railway Supporters Association is a large aerial photograph of the operational site. Maybe if you contact them they may oblige with a copy.