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The day Bristol St Philips Marsh closed.  13 June 1964

Warship assisted into Bristol Temple Meads by GW Prarie 4132 on North to West train 9.05 Liverpool to Plymouth

Saturday 4 April 1964

GW 1420  and 6435 looking out of place next to the 8F's on Bristol Barrow Road.  17 October 1965

Black 5 44672 with self weighing tender on Dumfries Shed

Jubilees on Bristol Barrow Road ashplant

New Year's Day 1964

4951 Pendeford Hall backs onto a Paddington to Weston train at Bristol Temple Meads

7903 Foremarke Hall has arrived at Platform 6 at Bristol Temple Meads with a local from Weston

Coal pile and coal pens at Lawrence Hill, Bristol in 1963

Weekend of 20/21 November 1965, 55 years ago Bristol Barrow Road closed.

Saturday 20 November.  Stanier 8F 48266 leaves the sidings at Bristol Barrow Road Shed towing four withdrawn GW Halls to Gloucester on the first stage of their journey to the South Wales Scrapyards

Stanier 8F 48751 arrived in the afternoon and was photographed on the Sunday. It departed north on a freight on Monday morning.

9F 92209 is stabled on the departure Road on Sunday 21 November 

Pannier 9680 was the last engine to leave the shed, tidying up for a few days. Here photographed at the back of the empty shed in the gloom

Steam engines continued to visit Bristol until March 1966 and were stabled on Bath Road Diesel Depot. 

Close up of Ash Plant at Bristol Barrow Road

The loco at Bristol Barrow Road - the crest just about visible

Peaks worked into Bath Green Park on 3V17 00.37 Leicester to Bath parcels, returning from Bath on 3M28 20.25 Templecombe to Derby parcels.  Certainly during 1963 and possibly 1964, the Peak had a fill in turn on 2B93 10.10 Bath to Bristol Temple Meads and 11.49 (12.12 SO) Bristol to Bath.  When the Leicester parcels was steam hauled, Bath's two long standing Standard 3's 82004/41 deputised.

When the Leicester parcels was discontinued into Bath (instead going to Bristol) the turn was steam rostered in 1965.  Even after the closure of Barrow Road on 20 November 1965, the turn remained steam hauled, the final occasion being on 1 January 1966, appropriately hauled by 82041.

The locos noted for a week in August 1963 were:

Monday August 12          82041

Tuesday August 13          D158

Wednesday August 14    D144

Thursday August 15        82041

Friday August 16              82041

Occasionally if the parcels was steam and the Standard 3's were not available, Black Fives would work the train, 44777 on 3 Jan 1963.

Three friends pose as 82041 backs onto the 2B93 11.49 Bristol Temple Meads to Bath Green Park

Hi

There is a copy of London Area freight WTT Sept 1960-June 1961 in

michaelclemensrailways.co.uk

Patrick

The HST is probably 30 years older!

Bristol Temple Meads

New Year's Day 1964

Great Western Halls at Bristol Temple Meads (two of which have been preserved)

4951 Pendeford Hall & 4920 Dumbleton Hall

7903 Foremarke Hall

Just 54 years ago today, 20 November, 1965, steam ended in Bristol with the closure of Bristol Barrow Road.

On a cold dull Saturday morning Stanier 8F 48266 leaves the shed towing four condemned locos on the first stage of their final journey to South Wales

By 11.00 the shed was completely empty with the departure of 92209 towing the last four condemned engines to Gloucester.  8F 48751 arrived on shed in the afternoon

Happier days at the shed in the early 1960's

A month before closure in October 1965

inside the roundhouse

Some of the railway workers at the shed in the 1960's

Firemen John Clarke and Mark Meeks

Local coal merchant's premises at Lawrence Hill Goods Depot, Bristol, adjacent to the Midland mainline

Bath Road closed in September 1960 with remaining locos being transferred to St Philips Marsh.  I think it was in 1962 that most of the Pannier Tanks transferred to Barrow Road. When St Philips Marsh closed in June 1964, the remaing Halls and Granges transferred to Barrow Road, the last remaing steam shed in Bristol. When the shed closed in November 1965, its allocation was Halls, Panniers and Standards.  The last three Jubilees were withdrawn by May 1964. The last Midland engine on its books was 43924 in June 1965. Even before 1962 the shed had a small allocation of GW 53XX class. 

56 years ago - Tuesday 10 September 1963        Steam around Bristol

7022 Hereford Castle departs from Bristol Temple Meads with 3C16 9.00 Bristol to Plymouth

Castles 5054 Earl Ducie and 5056 Earl of Powis on Bristol Barrow Road

Black Five 44806 departs from Bristol Temple Meads on 15.45 Temple Meads to Gloucester

4910 Blaisdon Hall tows failed Hymek D7030 onto Bath Road Diesel Depot

Barrow Road Jubilee 45682 Trafalgar waits to depart from Platform 12 at Bristol Temple Meads with 3N10 20.15 to Leeds

56 years ago today.  Monday 9 September, 1963, first day of the Winter Timetable.  Steam in the Bristol area.

Jubilee 45676 Codrington climbs Fishponds Bank with 1E64 8.40 Bristol to Sheffield

Jubilee 45690 Leander descends Fishponds Bank with 1V31 7.35 Nottingham to Bristol

Pannier Tank 9660 runs LE through Bristol Temple Meads

Jubilee 45675 Hardy passes Barrow Road Shed with 1V39 Southbound Devonian

5972 Olton Hall at Temple Meads with 1M96 14.00 Plymouth to Manchester

With a quick turnaround Jubilee 45690 Leander returns north with 1N87 17.35 Bristol to York

Saturday 11 August 1962. (57 years ago today)

King at Bristol Temple Meads on the "Bristolian"

County on Summer Saturday Paddington train at Bristol Temple Meads

5042 Winchester Castle at Bristol Temple Meads

55 years ago, 1st August, 1964.   Yate, north of Bristol on the Midland mainline.  A busy Summer Saturday

1964 was the last year when over half the Summer Saturday extras were steam hauled

Jubilee 45721 Impregnable heads a relief 1V29 Midlands to the West Country

Holbeck Jubilee 45658 Keyes hurries north with 1N48. 11.45 (from Bristol) West Country to Leeds

Black Five 44825 heads north with 1N40 Newton Abbott to Bradford extra

Castle 5056 Earl of Powis leaves the Midland mainline at Yate to approach Bristol via Filton and Stapleton Road with 1V54 10.05 Wolverhampton to the West Country

Unexpectedly Jubilee 45721 Impregnable returned north with 1M39 18.10 off Bristol Temple Meads to Wolverhampton after the failure of the fostered Castle

Coaling and ash plants at Bristol Barrow Road September 1963

Weymouth Station

Bristol Barrow Road (although the arches were demolished in 1991 to make way for a dual carriageway)

Bristol Barrow Road Coaling Plant

The view from the Road at Lawrence Hill Station Bristol, looking towards the Midland mainline and Fisponds Bank