Hi Jonas - as a Hfd lad born and now left it was good to read your thread about the old 'stomping ground'. Indeed it was an interesting place, well in the early 80's when I was interested in the railways and collecting numbers.
We were driven to school each day (77-80) along the Burcott Road (under the narrowest bridge in christendom!) and remember there being activity at Colas and getting stuck (quite often) behind BDA's being propelled into Painter Bros. There was often steel deliveries into the yard that was tripped around to Wiggins by the local BR arctic (A yellow Bedford with a longer the normal trailer).
I remember there being a double headed south-bound class 25 bitumen working each evening circa 1830. This used to stop and collect wagons from the Bars Court sidings and then head off. http://www.flickr.co...ds1/2325173588/ http://www.flickr.co...ds1/2324359175/
Blimey!!
25235_25213,Hereford,15-6-1984 by railhereford, on Flickr
- i have this picture - probably know who took it !!! Same with the circa 1800 parcels working, single 25, collect 2XGUV from the Bars Court Sidings and then head off south again.
25268,Hereford,24-12-1984 by railhereford, on Flickr
A few on the Bulmer’s branch
08932,Hereford,4-3-1988 by railhereford, on Flickr
08932,Hereford,4-3-1988 2 by railhereford, on Flickr
The branch leaves the sidings just in front of the 40!!
40122,37308,Hereford,8-7-1985 by railhereford, on Flickr
Notice that the signal box has been demolished.
I've been searching for ages for pictures and details of the small PW C&W repair depot (ahem shed!) that was situated just to the north of the College Road bridge near the timber yard on Burcott Road. I remember seeing a wagon on jacks there once, on the small concreted section, having an axle change. Would love to model it as a small cameo. Please - if anyone has any pictures please let me know.
Moving on - I remember watching a Class 47 reversing a long train of 100ton tanks up the Branch to the Power Station at Bulmer’s (as Swindon 123 mentions). Buy was there a lot of flange squealing around that 'checked rail' curve! Other memories include the Class 33 Crewe Cardiff / Cardiff Crewe trains. The circa 2115 north-bound postal; Class 47 hauled (usually returning a non CF or BR machine up north) a TPO with a BSK and BCK (?)
Favourite working was the Mossend - Severn Tunnel Junction Speedlink that was sometimes Class 40 hauled plus numerous north and south bound steel trains - BBA / BAA wagons. The 2 London trains were Class 50 (occasionally Class 47) hauled. The first at 2000 hrs would run around in the platform and then reverse down to the carriage sidings. The second 2100 hrs would run round and stable in Platform 2 overnight.
Normally we would wait for the Pengam - Crewe freightliner (Class 56 hauled) go north at 2145 before heading off home. Always Class 37's stabled during the week and weekends. Unfortunately I sent all my good photo's off to Rail Express many years ago and they haven't returned them :-(.
A good photo here:
47286,Hereford yard,11-4-1988 by railhereford, on Flickr
and here
47150,Hereford Railyard,16-8-1988 by railhereford, on Flickr
And there are lots of good shots in his album: http://www.flickr.co...s/railhereford/
An interesting rail town - might be worth getting to the library for an old map / plan of the track layout
Edited to show embeded picture after approval by picture owner!