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2011 : A4175 High Street, Oldland Common
Heading north toward Bridge Yate.
Was part of Bristol's unofficial eastern bypass - for those in the know. Then the real one was opened about a mile nearer the centre of Bristol.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 17 Jan 2011
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Cottages, Oldland Common High Street
Image: © Gordon James
Taken: 22 Apr 2004
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North Street bridge
Over Avon Valley Railway and Bristol and Bath cycle path
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 10 Jun 2017
0.09 miles
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Avon Valley Railway near Oldland Common
Two Andrew Barclay 0-4-0DM locomotives - Nos. WD 824 / 70043 Grumpy and No. 70042 Overlord (visiting from Chatham Dockyard) - approach Oldland Common station on the Avon Valley Railway during the line's 1940s Weekend: Salute to Shunters event. These two locomotives had not been seen together for the past 70 years.
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 16 Sep 2023
0.09 miles
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Hunslet Austerity Locomotive at North Street Bridge
Austerity class locomotive WD132 "Sapper" passing under the North Street bridge on its approach to Oldland Common station on the Avon Valley Railway.
Sapper is an example of a Hunslet Engine Company Austerity 0-6-0ST, a steam locomotive designed for shunting. The class became the standard British shunting locomotive during the Second World War, Sapper was built in 1944 for the War Department by the Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds. Works number 3153, the WD gave her the number 75103. She was renumbered 132 after the war. After her military service, she was purchased by the National Coal Board for colliery work alongside many of her sisters. She has the distinction of being the last steam locomotive in industrial service in the UK, being taken out of use from Bold Colliery in 1984.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 18 Jul 2021
0.09 miles
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North Street bridge
Over the Bristol and Bath cycle path and Avon Valley Railway
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 10 Jun 2017
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Bristol-Bath Railway Path
On the Avon Valley railway, with Oldland Common station just behind the bridge.
Image: © Oli Allen
Taken: 2 Jun 2007
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Avon Valley Railway, the Southern End of Oldland Common Station
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 18 Jul 2021
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Cyclist on the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, Oldland
Seen from a train on the Avon Valley Railway. Both are heading south [locally south-west].
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 27 Mar 2016
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Austerity Locomotive "Sapper" at Oldland Common
Hunslet Austerity class locomotive WD132 "Sapper", built in 1844, working on the Avon Valley Railway at Oldland Common.
Sapper is an example of a Hunslet Engine Company Austerity 0-6-0ST, a steam locomotive designed for shunting. The class became the standard British shunting locomotive during the Second World War, Sapper was built in 1944 for the War Department by the Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds. Works number 3153, the WD gave her the number 75103. She was renumbered 132 after the war. After her military service, she was purchased by the National Coal Board for colliery work alongside many of her sisters. She has the distinction of being the last steam locomotive in industrial service in the UK, being taken out of use from Bold Colliery in 1984.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 18 Jul 2021
0.10 miles