Ben04uk Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) I am researching Blue Circle Cement rail served depots in the 1970's. So far I am aware of the following: Chacewater, Cornwall Lawrence Hill, Bristol Exeter Central Barnstaple. Anyone suggest any others that I've missed out? Edited December 10, 2013 by Ben04uk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Hamworthy Poole Southampton Bevoir Park Southampton Northam? J Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold griffgriff Posted November 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2013 Wasn't one of those Southampton ones owned by Tunnel cement? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 There was a terminal at Scunthorpe, but who owned it I don't know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Heaton (Newcastle) Carlisle Avonside Wharf, Bristol (Lawrence Hill was Aberthaw, and possibly Rugby) Theale Llanthony (Gloucester) Dunstable Whitlingham (just east of Norwich) Tanhouse Lane (Widnes) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) From a 1978 TOPS Location Handbook, some of these locations will be quarries/works/factories:- 02105 Aberdeen Craiginches 81411 Avonside Wharf Bristol (Lawrence Hill was Aberthaw Cement) 83221 Barnstaple Yard 87991 Beeding Sdg 55211 Beeston 74601 Bletchington Cement Works 47003 Brookfield Fulbourne 07411 Cambuslang 85531 Chacewater 75352 Chippenham Goods Yard (supplied from Plymstock) 49022 Claydon 44324 Cotham 18432 Dewsbury Railway Street 03043 Dundee Camperdown Junction 62501 Dunstable 34006 Earles Sidings Hope Works 15811 Eastgate Works 83432 Exeter Central 68108 Gloucester Llanthony (BWB) - edit 05073 Grangemouth 51316 Grays West Thurrock 69401 Greaves Siding 86953 Hamworthy 65203 Handsworth Queen Head Sgds 12711 Heaton Yard 89304 Holborough Sdgs Snodland 01104 Inverness 08403 Irvine 26005 Kirton Lindsey 17127 Leeds Marsh Lane 86505 Mulfords SIdings Southampton 32401 Northenden 88712 Northfleet New Works 88703 Northfleet Swanscombe Sdg 08431 Oxwellmains Works 84132 Plymstock Works 86934 Poole 14126 South Dock Sunderland 59022 Syston 74704 Theale 07421 Uddingston View Park 82091 Westbury Works 48219 Whitlingham 35627 Widnes Tanhouse Lane cheers Edited November 30, 2013 by Rivercider 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Barnstaple was the subject of a pretty detailed study in the first Model Railway Compendium Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfsboy Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) There was one just outside Norwich near Thorpe st Andrew of the Norwich -Gt Yarmouth -Sheringham -Lowestoft line.Just a single siding on the Down line probably the Whitlingham mentioned above . Edited November 30, 2013 by alfsboy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) ...Ferriby, Hull Weaste, Manchester Edited November 30, 2013 by Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonbelle Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Ben, Picture on my website of the Barny cement terminal below - with one silo and a road tank lorry, sans wheels. Barny cement terminal closed to rail traffic in May 1987 and Lawrence Hill finished just under 3 years later. And just a stones throw away was Avonside wharf - I'd reckon cement traffic had petered out by about 1988/1989. http://northdevondiesels.webs.com/exetertobarnstaple.htm Of course BC dispatching terminals had their own locomotives - in the 1970s the ex BR class 14 was still at Westbury Cement works, later replaced by a smart Thomas Hill 0-6-0 in BC Blue/Yellow. Greaves siding has a 4 wheel Sentinel loco and Aberthaw had John Fowler 0-4-0 diesels having lost their 0-6-0 saddle tank (built by Peckett) in the early 1970s going to what's now known as the Avon Valley Railway. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 I am researching Blue Circle Cement rail served depots in the 1970's. So far I am aware of the following: Chacewater, Cornwall Lawrence Hill, Bristol Exeter Central Barnstaple. Anyone suggest any others that I've missed out? Here is a picture of Bristol Temple Meads High Level Sidings. In the background, on the other side of the River Avon, you can see part of the Blue Circle depot on Avonside Wharf. It was at the end of a freight only line from Lawrence Hill and served by the Lawrence Hill pilot loco, a class 03 in the 1970s, (03121 or 03382), and later worked by a class 08. 31258 and a BG stand on the High Level Sidings at Bristol Temple Meads, 24/6/80 cheers 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenn Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 Was there not one near King cross just below the north London line at Camden road? Brenn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted December 1, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2013 Dunstable was still active for a time into the 70s. See http://www.cementkilns.co.uk/cement_kiln_dunstable.html The branch (Luton - Dunstable. The rump of the old GNR line to Leghton Buzzard) also served a local fuel distribution depot and I remember Peaks there in the late 70s. I worked nearby. Type cement and dunstable into google and quite a lot of info turns up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 link Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Upper Beeding, near Shoreham, West Sussex. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben04uk Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 Don't think I've ever seen a picture of a loco at the Upper Beeding cement works - there is nothing on Flikr. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben04uk Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 With regards to the cement terminal at Exeter Central and Chacewater, I notice there are small brick buildings located adjacent to the main cement silos. Does anyone know if these are boiler houses or just simply an office or stores builidng? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted December 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2013 Dewsbury was active at that time and still is. I'm not sure when it moved from Railway Street to its current location a little bit further down the branch where it is now. Railway Street also had a traffic of redland Building products up to closure. Served by a trip from Healey Mills. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 With regards to the cement terminal at Exeter Central and Chacewater, I notice there are small brick buildings located adjacent to the main cement silos. Does anyone know if these are boiler houses or just simply an office or stores builidng? No reason for a boiler house; they might have served to house the compressor for the air supply required to discharge the tanks, or as weighbridge huts/ offices. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 The Beeston depot used the old station goods yard on the Down side at the Nottingham end of the station. The old goods shed was used for offices I think and ther was a cement holding tower. The tower and a rake of wagons can be seen in the left background in this photo of 25270 taken from "Boots Bridge" 25270 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8412452547/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 While looking through my old photos I realised I made another visit to Exeter Central, in 1985. A mixture of vacuum fitted and air braked stock in the yard at Exeter Central, also a ferryvan in the Premier Transport siding, 17/7/85 cheers 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben04uk Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Cheers Rivercider, do you know what that brick building immediately next to the cement silo is? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 The Beeston depot used the old station goods yard on the Down side at the Nottingham end of the station. The old goods shed was used for offices I think and ther was a cement holding tower. The tower and a rake of wagons can be seen in the left background in this photo of 25270 taken from "Boots Bridge" 25270 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8412452547/ Another view in the background showing the Goods shed http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/7968616492/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 (edited) Cheers Rivercider, do you know what that brick building immediately next to the cement silo is? Sorry no idea about that. I have tried to look through old pictures of Exeter Central goods yard to see when it was built. It appears to be present in summer 1964 when the yard was still handling general goods traffic. It is in the background of a photo of 35025 Brocklebank Line, edit - but I can not see it in a 1959 view of the yard cheers Edited December 12, 2013 by Rivercider Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Sorry no idea about that. I have tried to look through old pictures of Exeter Central goods yard to see when it was built. It appears to be present in summer 1964 when the yard was still handling general goods traffic. It is in the background of a photo of 35025 Brocklebank Line, edit - but I can not see it in a 1959 view of the yard cheers I'd suggest that it might well be a compressor house; the various cement wagons relied on a supply of compressed air which both made the powder behave like a fluid, and also moved the resultant 'fluid' into storage silos or road tankers. What's the wagon in the foreground of the right-hand siding, next to the Premier Transport building? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 (edited) Was there a cement depot at Kings Cross? Yes, it was on the "railway lands" next to the North London incline, between KX and STP. Edited December 12, 2013 by roythebus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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