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Eastbourne Road, BRISTOL, BS5 0HN

This OS cut mark can be found on No27 All Hallows Road. It marks a point 20.861m above mean sea level.

View northward, towards Stapleton Road, Filton Junction, then South Wales via the Severn Tunnel, to Gloucester and the North, also eastward via Badminton to Swindon and London: ex-GWR main lines. The locomotive is Collett 4-6-0 No. 5963 'Wimpole Hall' (built 7/36, withdrawn 6/64).

Seen from the Bristol and Bath Railway Path.

Taken from the Bristol & Bath Railway cyclepath looking towards the Easton Road bridge; a reverse view of Image taken nearly 50 years earlier. This is the main line between Lawrence Hill and Stapleton Road stations.

View southward, towards Lawrence Hill, Dr. Day's Bridge Junction and Bristol: ex-GW main lines out of Bristol. (For detail see Image] and other views here). The engine is Collett '5700' class 0-6-0PT No. 8746 (built 7/31, withdrawn 12/62). The bridge crossing carries the ex-Midland main line to Birmingham via Mangotsfield.

This OS cut mark can be found on the NW buttress of the railway bridge on Bannerman Road. It marks a point 12.119m above mean sea level.

View southward from Easton Road Bridge, Lawrence Hill station being beyond the bridge carrying the ex-Midland main line out of Temple Meads to Mangotsfield - on which passenger services ceased on 7/3/66 (goods on 3/1/70). The express northbound on the Up Fast ex-Great Western line is a Summer Saturday relief from Paignton to Kidsgrove (Staffs.), headed by Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45301 that will have taken over the train at St Philip's Marsh on the Bristol Relief Line and is climbing up via Filton Junction and Stoke Gifford (now Bristol Parkway) to regain the Midland route at Yate.

View southward, towards Lawrence Hill, Dr Day's Bridge Junction, Bristol etc.: ex-GWR main lines west-, north- and eastwards from Bristol, through Stapleton Road and up to Filton Junction. (The ex-Midland line out towards Mangotsfield, Gloucester and the North, also Bath, is on the bridge above the train. The Summer Saturday 12.00 Kingswear - Manchester Piccadilly is headed by Collett 4-6-0 No. 6810 'Blakemere Grange' (built 11/36, withdrawn 10/64): it will run via the Severn Tunnel, Pontypool Road, Hereford to Shrewsbury, where an LMR engine will take over and run via Crewe.

View southward, towards Bristol Temple Meads and the West, also (from Dr. Day's Bridge Junction) to Bath and the South. Hawksworth 'Modified Hall' 4-6-0 No. 7921 'Edstone Hall' (built 4/50, withdrawn 12/63) is heading the 12.55 Summer Saturdays from Paignton to Wolverhampton Low Level (due c. 19.15), which will run up here to Filton Junction, round to Yate and to Gloucester South Junction, then to Cheltenham and via Stratford-on-Avon on to Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Ahead is the ex-Midland direct main line out of Temple Meads to Mangotsfield etc., subsequently dispensed with.