TimC

Top job!  Well done.  Look forward to 26043 returning to service.

Excellent work Kevin!  Looking forward to see this one progress.  

Good to see you and Simon at Yate on Saturday.  I hope you had a good day and from the feedback I received, I know you stole the show.  Sitting on the door in the porch all you could hear were your guns - the church acoustics picked up your normally quite subdued ambient soundtrack and worked some magic.  

Oh, and thanks for look after John on Hollow Fosse who was on his own, he appreciated it.  

Hope to see you around.  Cheers, Tim

Hi

I toyed with this as a project in the early 1990's but it never got off the planning board. At the time, I did go and visit Bill Potter who then lived in Bishops Cleeve as he had photographed the area frequently in the late 1950s/early 1960s. However, most of his pics were already published, even then.

The problem I had with the project was I wanted to concentrate on the shed and old (original) station but there were just too many walls making viewing the model difficult and I didn't want to omit buildings as this would change the character of the confined space that was the character of the place.

Anyway, I would be very surprised if Jim Clemens had not shot some footage of the Tewkesbury Quay Branch. He lived in Evesham and covered the local scene extensively. Have you had a look at his B&R DVDs? (they were not out when I was researching the area).

Another place I would now try is the National Monument Records office at Swindon (in the old works offices, just opposite STEAM). A search of the aerial photographs is free and you can view up to 200 photopgraphs per visit. The link is below, just pop in the OS grid reference, within a week someone will come back to by e-mail and tell you if they have any matching material. Most of the collection is pre 1960 so should be relevant (I'd be very surprised if there was not something of use).

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100300b005002

I'd also contact the Tewkesbury YMCA Railway Club http://www.shelbrooke.co.uk/wls/wls3-5.htm, Ian Boskett's number is on the link (I'm sure he'll be more than happy to chat). They will know for sure if there are any 'private' collections that cover the branch. Actually, looking down their 2009 schedule, they had Mike Clemens (Jim's son?) this year. It is also quite funny for me as I was the Gloucester Support Group (of the Glos Warks Rly) events organiser back in the late 1980's and my line up for 1987 was virtually identical as their 2009 programme.

Best of luck - btw I always fancyed a model of 58071 (but I've gone over to the dark side - well Corporate Blue anyway).