JZ Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 What you see below is probably the worst photo posted on RMweb. It was grabbed hastily from the back cab of a 153 leaving Avonmouth the other day. Some clearance of vegetation has been taking place on the industrial grounf alongside the station and the old turntable pit has appeared from it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icknieldrobin Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 What you see below is probably the worst photo posted on RMweb. It was grabbed hastily from the back cab of a 153 leaving Avonmouth the other day. Some clearance of vegetation has been taking place on the industrial grounf alongside the station and the old turntable pit has appeared from it. The Bricks are, I believe, destined for the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway where they will be used to rebuild Broadway station buildings. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 The Bricks are, I believe, destined for the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway where they will be used to rebuild Broadway station buildings. When I went past yesterday, work had already started on removing the brickwork. Not a good location to photograph as it is a little way off the end of platform and I need to be ready to open doors, or have just set off at that point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfsup Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 The Bricks are, I believe, destined for the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway where they will be used to rebuild Broadway station buildings. What you see below is probably the worst photo posted on RMweb. It was grabbed hastily from the back cab of a 153 leaving Avonmouth the other day. Some clearance of vegetation has been taking place on the industrial grounf alongside the station and the old turntable pit has appeared from it. They certainly will be, you can follow the Broadway (&Cheltenham Racecourse) progress blogs via here: http://broadwaygwsr.blogspot.co.uk/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
82C Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 What you see below is probably the worst photo posted on RMweb. It was grabbed hastily from the back cab of a 153 leaving Avonmouth the other day. Some clearance of vegetation has been taking place on the industrial grounf alongside the station and the old turntable pit has appeared from it. I was going to say to you when I saw you, but I forgot. Any ideas about this, I assume there was a shed and depot there for the docks ? 83 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Can't find any pictures of it and the 1921 survey shows it on a spur from the bay platform and no other facilities. It's not very big, maybe 50' at most and there was a triangle that could have been used for turning, the present sharp curve to St Andrew's Rd crossing was one chord. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mow Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Via an on-line news story on Bristol 24/7 18 Things You Might Not Know About Bristol Temple Meads. http://www.bristol-c...l-temple-meads/ I haven't noticed that there is a Chaplin's office on the site. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
modfather Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 mow - turn right after you pass through the gateline and keep walking towards the motor rail/fish dock where the driving school is, its one of the small buildings forming the island after the bike racks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanders Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 So it's been a while, but I noticed the other day that work has begun at Bristol Temple Meads, with the cladding removed from the old Post Office walkway and if I remember correctly, demolition is due to happen during Christmas. From that point on I believe the work to relay & re-signal BTM, including taking the old box out of service and bringing the old Brunel platforms back into use, finally kicks off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mow Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 So it's been a while, but I noticed the other day that work has begun at Bristol Temple Meads, with the cladding removed from the old Post Office walkway and if I remember correctly, demolition is due to happen during Christmas. From that point on I believe the work to relay & re-signal BTM, including taking the old box out of service and bringing the old Brunel platforms back into use, finally kicks off. This was from ITV West, on the demolition of the conveyor way. http://www.itv.com/news/west/update/201 ... -the-west/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 22, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2014 So it's been a while, but I noticed the other day that work has begun at Bristol Temple Meads, with the cladding removed from the old Post Office walkway and if I remember correctly, demolition is due to happen during Christmas. From that point on I believe the work to relay & re-signal BTM, including taking the old box out of service and bringing the old Brunel platforms back into use, finally kicks off. The re-signalling will cover Bristol TM eastwards, south-west of Bristol TM it looks like a re-control to an alternative location, once it becomes necessary to demolish the panel itself. The relaying is of Bristol East Jct only, which is going to be a big job in itself. The new layout there is tied-into the ongoing work on Filton Bank and also - in due course - the works in the old trainshed. Refurbishment work on the major Digby-Wyatt curved overall roof starts soon as well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Do you have a timetable for the work Tim ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 22, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2014 Do you have a timetable for the work Tim ? I'd need to check.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Saw some big cranes at TM today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mow Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 (edited) Saw some big cranes at TM today. These are from a flickr photostream taken by a quadcopter of the work by those big cranes. They present a different view of the work. https://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/16103472171/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/16075974296 https://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/16099844621 Edited December 26, 2014 by mow 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 (edited) It was announced on Radio Bristol the other day that the mail 'bridge' would be removed over the Christmas period. At last there will once again be an uninterrupted view of the eastern side of the station. Even electric catenary can't be as hideous as that thing was! Good aerial shots, those are. Edited December 26, 2014 by Coppercap Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 The parcels bridge at East a Croydon finally went a few years ago to allow the new passenger footbridge to be built. Redhill still has a similar ugly parcels bridge which will hopefully go In the near future Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanders Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 These are from a flickr photostream taken by a quadcopter of the work by those big cranes. They present a different view of the work. I didn't realise the work on Cattle Market Rd. was quite so involved, but at least something is finally happening. With the conveyor way gone now all they need to do is raze the old Post Office building to the ground... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Looks like something going on at the Down end of TM? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 26, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 Looks like something going on at the Down end of TM? Nothing significant as regards the railway side of the fence. There is a possession on-going, started after the last trains on Christmas Eve and will be given up before the first booked trains tomorrow morning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 Before that backdrop to locos entering Temple Meads to park or refuel on Bath Road vanishes forever , let's remember it in its Heyday. 31107 in the 1980s. Neil 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ullypug Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2014 (edited) I always remember standing on platform 12 watching the murmuration of starlings swarming around the old post office building at dusk. Don't see that so much these days unless you're down on the levels. Edit: give it it's proper name. Edited December 26, 2014 by ullypug 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivatt46403 Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 The worst thing about the Cattle Market road reconstruction is that it's severed my usual route to Modelmania! Marcus. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted January 8, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2015 (edited) This has just been posted on the "Bristol then and now Photographs" Facebook page, several railway ones have been recently surfacing, and may be of interest to RMwebbers. It's a high level view of Lawrence Hill taken in the 1960s and a remarkable shot in that it shows the extent of the sidings there. Unfortunately no "now" photograph as the vantage point has been demolished. Note the former Midland line in the foreground. Neil Edited January 8, 2015 by Downendian 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Max Williams just out of sight... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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