isolated standard gauge track

[two tone green]

The rest of the world and the GWR

[Ruston]

Blackburn Meadows sewage works, Sheffield. This continued working (into the late 1980s) as a self-contained system long after the mainline connection was removed. It had a Ruston 165DS and a Thomas Hill 4w diesel and a load of tipping wagons, built by Chas. Roberts.

[tebee]

Near Bolton, Kearsley Power station retained it's electrified internal system long after the incredibly steep connection with the main line was abandoned.

 

At least a couple of the four original Steeplecab Electric locos from here have been preserved and one lives on in industrial use as a battery electric I believe.

[mophead]

Blackburn Meadows sewage works, Sheffield. This continued working (into the late 1980s) as a self-contained system long after the mainline connection was removed. It had a Ruston 165DS and a Thomas Hill 4w diesel and a load of tipping wagons, built by Chas. Roberts.

 

that would make a interesting layout

 

i'm suprised by how many there is/was

[melmerby]

Shouldn't that be the other way round? As in "The rest of the world before the channel tunnel"?

 

Andi

 

As in "Fog in Channel, Europe cut off"!!!

 

Keith

[br2975]

Anybody know of any photos of this yard?

 

These photos date from the late 1980s, early 1990s and show the yard of Beal & Sons who were anchor and chain makers, and also took over from the Lloyd's Bute Proving House which had been located further south along Dumballs Road.

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Both had been served by the Glamorganshire Canal Railway which opened in 1887 and linked a number of wharves with the GWR Riverside Branch, crossing Dumballs Road in a number of places in order to do so.

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"The other GCR" was taken over By Cardiff Corporation in 1944 and it's sole loco, an Avonside 0-4-0ST 'Delwyn' was sold and replaced by a Greenwood & Batley 4wBE, Works 2002 which was known as 'GreenBat'.

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The line finally closed in February, 1963 leaving the original Bute Proving House to be shunted across Dumballs Rd. by BR for a short time. Beal's yard was left isolated and the crane moved around the sidings carrying chains and anchors.

 

'GreenBat' was scrapped by Western Metals of Ferry Rd. Cardiff.

 

Brian R

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[mophead]

These photos date from the late 1980s, early 1990s and show the yard of Beal & Sons who were anchor and chain makers, and also took over from the Lloyd's Bute Proving House which had been located further south along Dumballs Road.

.

Both had been served by the Glamorganshire Canal Railway which opened in 1887 and linked a number of wharves with the GWR Riverside Branch, crossing Dumballs Road in a number of places in order to do so.

.

"The other GCR" was taken over By Cardiff Corporation in 1944 and it's sole loco, an Avonside 0-4-0ST 'Delwyn' was sold and replaced by a Greenwood & Batley 4wBE, Works 2002 which was known as 'GreenBat'.

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The line finally closed in February, 1963 leaving the original Bute Proving House to be shunted across Dumballs Rd. by BR for a short time. Beal's yard was left isolated and the crane moved around the sidings carrying chains and anchors.

 

'GreenBat' was scrapped by Western Metals of Ferry Rd. Cardiff.

 

Brian R

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that would make a fascinated shunting layout now im distracted from trying to plan/build a steelworks themed layout

 

mophead

[Kris]

In the video on this topic here there is a brief clip of a standard gauge siding (only one or two wagons long) that is unconnected to any other section of standard gauge track. It is connected to a narrow gauge track that carried the standard gauge wagons on narrow gauge wagons though.

[flyingsignalman]

I believe the internal system at Brymbo Steelworks continued in use for a few years after the BR line to Wrexham closed in 1982.

 

At Cliffe Hill Quarry there was a standard gauge line in the quarry that was a feeder to a narrow gauge line that ran to the Leicester to Burton line south of Bardon Hill. The line in the quarry was replaced by lorries not long before the NG line was abandoned.

[Colin_McLeod]

The Belfast to Bangor line, 12 miles of intensely worked double track commuter railway, was isolated from the rest of the Irish system from July 1965 to April 1976.

 

Despite this, new Mk 2 coaches for the Belfast to Dublin "Enterprise" service were shipped to that line for completion in the workshops, before being transported by road to York Road works.

[DVLR Dave]

BOCM was still connected up to at least 1960 as far as I can remember - they had coal inwards until the boilers went over to oil (at quite an early date - a great uncle of mine worked in the boiler house). It was common to see vans/vanfits there in the late 1950s from what could be briefly seen from a passing train.

 

Possibly Olympia Sidings at Barlby might have had something to do with BOCM (?),but there were siding connections at Barlby North which went back towards the works (in fact looking on Google satellite view the latter can't have gone anywhere else).

 

Yes, BOCM merged with/absorbed the Olympia Oil and Cake Mills after World War Two-the works were on both sides of the line, and both had sidings-the ones to the south were double ended, according to an NER track plan I have unearthed. I think that the Connection with B.R. was severed by the mid1970's.

 

This is the Unimog Shunting in 1992:

 

 

Previous shunters were also present on the same day:

[halfwit]

Woolston Shipyard, never connected to the main line. Used horses at first then then cranes shunting bogie wagons carrying steel plates.

See 'A Further Look at Southampton's Quayside Railways' by Dave Marden.