The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway and the Nesscliffe MoD Training Area

[rogerfarnworth]

Apologies for the long title for this thread. I was challenged by someone who read my posts about the Bicester Military Railway and about MoD Kinston to look at the Nescliffe Camp.

 

I have started by looking at the feeder railway which was commandeered by the military and this has become a post in its own right. I will get round to the military areas in the next post in the series.

 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/05/18/the-shropshire-and-montgomeryshire-light-railway-and-the-nesscliffe-mod-training-area-and-depot-part-1

[Captain Kernow]

I really need more time to have a better look through your link but thank you for posting this information, it looks extremely interesting. I didn't realise that the military still had a presence in the area.

 

[rogerfarnworth]

The next post in this series links the place I grew up during teenage years with the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway. 'Gazelle' was made in King's Lynn and has had an interesting history!

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/07/21/gazelle

[rogerfarnworth]

Gazelle is known to have taken charge of two different coaches in its time on the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway. The first was a cut down version of a London Horse Tram. The second used the same chassis with a body from a Wolseley-Siddeley Railcar which Colonel Stephens first used on the Selsey Tramway. That Railcar was itself a signioficantly modifies rail-lorry based on a Wolseley-Siddeley chassis........

 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/07/27/gazelles-trailers

Edited July 27, 2019 by rogerfarnworth

[5050]

When we got married in 1970 our first home was in Oswestry and my new wife tended to get a bit bored with me saying, virtually each time we went out in the car,  "that's the trackbed of the old Shropshire and Montgomeryshire railway over there".

 

She's more used to it now..................

Edited July 29, 2019 by 5050

[rogerfarnworth]

Colonel Stephens loved to experiment. Railmotors were a particular theme. He bought a series of Ford Railmotors for his different light railways. One set was purchased for the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway. This post provides an introduction to these small vehicles:

 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/08/02/ford-railmotors-on-colonel-stephens-lines-in-general-and-on-the-smlr

[rogerfarnworth]

This is probably my last post on the S&MLR. It covers the line and the military depots that it served from 1941 until it closure in the very early 1960s.

 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/08/12/the-shropshire-and-montgomeryshire-light-railway-and-the-nesscliffe-mod-training-area-and-depot-part-2