IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Colwell School Close, GLOUCESTER, GL1 4EQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Colwell School Close, GL1 4EQ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (67 Images Found)
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Distance
1
Gloucester Tramway Junction
Looking across Tramway Junction and the site of the GWR loco sheds, with Gloucester station just on the left.
Image: © David Stowell
Taken: 14 Dec 2003
0.03 miles
3
Alfred Street 'junction' with Metz Way
The Great Western Public House is located at the end of Alfred Street. Metz Way is the road visible on raised overpass, although there is no vehicular access to the road at this point. The railway line also crosses here on the right.
Image: © Clint Mann
Taken: 3 Dec 2014
0.06 miles
6
Gloucester Tramway Junction, with train for Cheltenham, 1957
View NW towards Gloucester Central station at the busy road crossing and railway junction next to the ex-GWR Horton Road Shed. The 12.35 for Cheltenham St James is headed by '5101' class 2-6-2T no. 5105 (built 11/29, withdrawn 10/58).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 26 Oct 1957
0.09 miles
7
Down freight at Gloucester Tramway Junction, approaching from the Cheltenham lines
View eastwards, towards Cheltenham, Birmingham etc. (left) and the loop to Gloucester South Junction, Swindon and Bristol etc. (right): the Class H freight is on the southbound Slow line and crossing the Loop. The locomotive is Collett '5205' class 2-8-0T No. 5230 (built 6/24, withdrawn 7/64). (For route details, see other scenes at this location).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 26 Oct 1959
0.09 miles
8
Gloucester (Tramway Junction), with an LMS 0-6-0T shunting the Midland Yard
View westward, towards Bristol (left) and the Great Western main line to South Wales (right). At this critical and busy junction between the main lines of the ex-Midland (Birmingham - Bristol) and ex-GW (Swindon/Birmingham - South Wales), there was a busy road level-crossing: constant shunting movements as well as main line trains kept two men occupied continuously working the gates and controlling the motor and pedestrian traffic - but it was a splendid place for the Train-Watcher. On the right is the ex-GW Horton Road Locomotive Depot, from which a small 0-6-0 Diesel shunter is emerging. Gloucester Cathedral can be glimpsed in the left background: the ex-LMS Eastgate Station was off the left and the ex-GW Central Station straight ahead. The engine shunting is LMS 3F 0-6-0T No. 47417.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 1 May 1961
0.09 miles
9
Down 'Cornishman' entering Gloucester at Tramway Junction
View NE, towards Cheltenham, Birmingham etc.; ex-GWR & Midland Joint main lines from Cheltenham, Birmingham etc., joining the ex-GWR main line from Swindon, London, Bristol etc. The 'Cornishman' was 09.00 from Wolverhampton (Low Level) via Birmingham (Snow Hill), Stratford-on-Avon, Cheltenham (Malvern Road) to Penzance via Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth; for a few years around this time (1962) it came into Gloucester (Eastgate) and took the ex-Midland loop to rejoin its earlier route at Tuffley Junction. After Summer 1962 the name 'Cornishman' was transferred to a Sheffield (Bradford from 1967) - Penzance service running down to Bristol by the ex-Midland main line; after closure of the Eastgate loop this and all other trains on the NE - SW route had to reverse at Gloucester Central. The locomotive on this occasion was 4-6-0 No. 7026 'Tenby Castle' (built 8/49, withdrawn 10/64).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 16 Jun 1962
0.09 miles
10
Local train from Cheltenham St James' entering Gloucester at Tramway Junction
View eastward, towards Cheltenham, also Birmingham and the North on both the ex-GW and ex-Midland routes (shared to Cheltenham Lansdown Junction); to the right is curving the ex-GW loop to Gloucester South Junction, Swindon, Bristol etc.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 16 Jun 1962
0.09 miles