Down express on the Tuffley (Gloucester) Loop
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Down express on the Tuffley (Gloucester) Loop
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 17 Jul 1954
View NE at California Crossing, towards Gloucester Eastgate (formerly Midland) station, on the ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line, where also the Goods line to High Orchard (Gloucester Docks) branched off. This is the 02.55 (!) Leeds City - Bristol (with some curious carriages), headed by Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 45040 (built 1934, withdrawn 7/67). The Loop, the High Orchard branch and Eastgate were abandoned in 12/75, in favour of new roads. Since then all trains have had to reverse in the former GWR Central Station, which was adapted - inadequately. Since then the situation at Gloucester has reverted to that prior to 1896, when the Midland Railway built its own Station and the Tuffley Loop.
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Image Location
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51.858537
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-2.241863