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High Street, BRISTOL, BS30 9TG

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.

Sign dated 1893 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.

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.

Over the Bristol and Bath cycle path and Avon Valley Railway

On the Avon Valley railway, with Oldland Common station just behind the bridge.

The former railway route is shared by the Avon Valley Railway and the Bristol & Bath Railway Path.

Opened in 1935 by the London Midland & Scottish Railway on the line from Bristol to Bath Green Park via Mangotsfield, this station closed to passengers in 1966. It was rebuilt (slightly further away from the camera position) in 1992 as part of what is now the heritage Avon Valley Railway. View north east towards Warmley and Mangotsfield.

Two Andrew Barclay 0-4-0DM locomotives - No. 70042 Overlord (visiting from Chatham Dockyard) and No. WD 824 / 70043 Grumpy - are seen having run around their train at 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.