barrowroad

Pete, Most of my recent work on the layout has been on the wiring and there are only so many photos you can take on this subject:)

Tim, They are all my photos with one of my first rolls of colour film - I still have the slides. I might post some B&W too.

Dave,  It is indeed - one of a lot of ex Southern locomotives destined for the South Wales scrapyards. They were stored at the shed prior to begin routed via Gloucester as withdrawn engines were not permitted through the Severn Tunnel.

I like the wagon of sludge from the water softening plant in that photo!

That photo shows the two remaining 20ft loco turntables at the rear of the shed which were used to gain access to the workshop.

I spoke to Donald Flook at the meeting last night - Donald is an 89 year old former employee at the shed who worked in workshop - who told me midland 0-6-0s were uncoupled from their tenders and were pince barred into the shed smokebox first whilst 4-4-0s had their bogies jacked up [ wheelbase too long] and were then pince barred in cab first. Once at the workshop doors the overhead crane was used to haul the engines into position inside the workshop!!! Donald has been a mine of useful information. Later he was responsible for plant and equipment maintenance including the 60ft turntable in the roundhouse. The perimeter wall of the turntable had a small recess which could hold one man - a squeeze for 6ft Donald - and this was used to gain access to space between the turntable bridge girders in order to carry out inspection and maintenance! Then there is the problem of railway sleepers being tipped into the coaling plant hoppers.............

Robin 

Nice one - Well done  Morgan:)

Robin

I really do hope that the Barrow Rd bridge was on a bus route! Then you can continue that old modelling cliche!  Something built in Bristol and in Tilling Green would be entirely appropriate.

 

Gerry

Hi Gerry,

I believe the 236 and the 36 crossed the viaduct. I have a Bristol Lodekka, a Bristol K5G and a Bristol MW all in Tilling Green in the cupboard.

Maybe will get around to taking a photo although the numbering is incorrect at present:)

Robin

I went to Modelmania in Bristol on Saturday and saw an advert for a talk that might interest you:

 

Barton Hill History Group

Presents

 

"BARROW ROAD REMEMBERED: A night of Photos, Memories and Reunions"

 

Presentation by Dave Cheesley to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the closure of Bristol's last steam locomotive depot.

 

At Betheseda, Church Road, Redfield

Wednesday 18th November 2015, 7:30pm start

Admission

Robin,

Very impressive views. It's certainly coming along and capturing the real place very well. An equally impressive line-up of locos - all P4? I do like the ex_Crosti 9F lurking on the back road.

Dave.

Dave, All locos are P4 except the Crosti which is currently an 00 purchase from ebay at a surprisingly reasonable price. Sold my DJH Crosti kit to recover most of the outlay. Due for conversion using a Bradwell chassis sometime in the future:).

Robin

Hi Peter,

Good to see you again at the show albeit very brief. I have some more shots which include your Coaling Tower which I shall post over the next few days.

Cheers,

Robin

Hi Jeff, It's just my preferred method. I fit the droppers with a tag and solder them to the Palatine rail dropper, Doing it this way enables me to find the best position for the BUS bar prior to connecting it all together. Also it makes it more unlikely to put off a wire from the rail dropper at a later stage. 

Mike, with an ex BT man on my case I have no choice:)

Hi Michael,

I have a number of different styles of pit on the layout. All those in the roundhouse are made up from 2mm MDF which has laser cut brickwork on the walls. These were done for me by Chris Dening now of 3DCD. I requested a large set on pieces sufficent for the outside pits as well but as some are concrete additions I reversed the MDF to make these.

The sides are either laser cut brick or plain NDF to represent the concrete. Bases are also laser cut brick with a drainage channel down one side. The top surround on the outside pits is made from 60thou plasticard [ maybe 40thou - I need to measure to confirm ]. The ash disposal pits are made from similar material but the top section is made from scratchbuilt brass panels - see previous blog http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/116/entry-5141-bristol-barrow-road-ash-disposal-pits-update/

Hope this helps

Hi Chris,

I will make sure of producing updates on the detailing and painting of the bridge.

Hi Tim, I will be adding extra detailing to the model followed by painting and weathering. I shall add some additional walls which are made from stone - probably carved from DAS modelling clay. The two non brick wing walls are of stone. The model needs to be fitted into it's surroundings - for example the bank at the end of the sidings.

Hi Dave, I need to add the capping stones on top of the bridge walls. Very please with the model:}  There was a doorway leading to a platform and a flight of steps leading down to Engine Shed Sidings signal box and the wagon works alongside the main line.

The wagon works, the old Bristol & Exeter loco shed buildings, are still standing and are now know as Barton Hill Works. All the engines for steam excursions from Bristol use this yard for stabling. Part of the wall containing the doorway is still standing and forms the perimeter wall at the rear of a Formula One car repair business.

The bridge is looking great. It should look superb when painted and in situ. Excuse my ignorance, but is Days Road Bridge near Dr. Day's Junction?

This Days Road Bridge was over the Midland Main line now truncated at the Barton Hill Depot. Dr Day's Junction is on the current Bristol TM to Bristol Parkway/ South/Wales line. The Bridge over this line was around half a mile from the bridge over the old Midland line.

Tim,

I would be interested in seeing those photos sometime. Days Road certainly had a right angled bend at the gasometer end - Fray Bentos on Flickr has at least three photos of the bridge from the road - quite nostalgic!

Martin,

I well remember the thick layer of grease and the fencing placed on top of the wall neither of which prevented access into the shed, the latter could be circumvented by going around the main line end of it, a bit like the 'Maginot Line' I think I will give the grease a miss though - it didn't get me in the prototype but I might not be so lucky in model form:}

Hi Tim,

The reason for taking the photos back then was the impending development of the shed site and the realignment of Days Road itself. The track work was taken out during 1981 having been used as an extended siding up to Lawrence Hill Road bridge.

I took a similar set of photographs of each of the arches of Barrow Road bridge itself which bisected the shed site - this will be useful for the next bridge project for Chris - :}

The two Gasometers at the rear of the shed, which formed the distinctive backdrop, were also cut down and dismantled during that year. Anyone fancy making a model of them?

Hi Tim, Lots of photos taken from the bridge but very few of the bridge. Donald Flook was a railway employee.#

Robin

Hi Tony,

I believe 9680 was the last engine inside the shed. Have you seen the photos by Patrick O'Brien.

www.bristolsteam64.co.uk/page14.html

Other good photos also on his flickr site.

Robin

Hi Mark, 

Thanks for the tip I will certainly bear it in mind. I have just moved in a thermostatically controlled heater - although it is warm enough in there at present without the heater and the building is fully insulated - 25mm floor and roof and 70mm in the walls.

The exterior timber has been treated with two coats of fire retardant, two of wood preservative and two coat of wood paint, whilst the interior has two coats of wood preservative.... thank god for paint rollers!

Mike the 'log cabin' is their 10m x 5m  Severn Grande - delivered as one and a half lorry loads. Mr Yates and myself managed to get it to this finished state in two months! An interesting exercise which I liken to a mix of assembling lego and several pieces of IKEA furniture IKEA.........   One of my sons tells me it is bigger than his flat in London.

I look forward to your visit:)

The shed kit is from a company called Dunster House http://dunsterhouse.co.uk/log-cabins

Jeff,

I moved house to Tewkesbury in December 2014 and and in the process of building a large shed to house Bristol Barrow Road in an extended form. My intention is to convert the layout into a 30ft x 15ft continuous run with a fiddle yard feeding trains on the main line running past the shed complex. Scenic breaks at each end will be Lawrence Hill bridge to the north and Days Road bridge to the south at the rear of the shed. Today [25th Feb] the foundations fro the shed are nearly complete.

I'm afraid you'll have to be patient:)

Hi Dave,

The centre shaft is designed to take an 1/8in pinned drive shaft which will be powered by a suitable motor an gearbox. Glad you like it:)

Regards,

Robin

Hi Tim,

Hope this is of some use to you;-

The following is in  Colin Maggs Oakwood book Number 26, The Bristol and Gloucester Railway & The Avon and Gloucestershire Railway.

At page 148 - Appendix Two - Industrial Branch Lines & Sidings Bristol - Gloucester.

Up Side: Coalpit Heath Colliery served by mile long LMS branch ( formerly the Bristol & Gloucestershire ) from Westerleigh. Also spur to GWR. Colliery closed 1950, but line was retained for wagon storage until March1956.

Locomotives:

                        0-4-0T   Fletcher Jennings Works No 58

                        0-6-0ST Fox Walker Works No326

Lord Roberts   0-6-0ST Peckett Works No 825

Lord Salisbury 0-6-0ST Peckett Works N0 1041

                        4wDM    Rushton & Hornsby Works No 242869

Regards,

Robin

Thank you for all your kind comments chaps

Robin

Looks very nice Tim keep up the good work.

Robin