Gloucester Eastgate Station, with trains
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Gloucester Eastgate Station, with trains
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 14 Aug 1963
View NE, along the main Up platform from towards its southern end; ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line, Tuffley Loop (Tramway Junction - Tuffley Junction). This Station, along with the whole Loop, was eliminated in 1975 before the ex-Great Western Gloucester Central was converted to the only Station for Gloucester, forcing all trains on the Birmingham - Bristol axis to reverse there. Here two Down trains are present: a BR Standard Class 5 4-6-0 on the 16.40 from Birmingham New St., and a BR Standard Class 7 4-6-2 on a Down parcels train. In the distance the line curves round to join the GWR at Tramway Junction off to the right, past the GWR Horton Road Locomotive Depot.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.863044
Longitude
-2.236369