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View NNE from Churchdown Hill
Also known as Chosen Hill. The view is across Gloucestershire Airport towards Bredon Hill.
Image: © Pauline E
Taken: 3 Jul 2010
0.04 miles
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View to Bredon Hill
The single track road approaches the bottom of Churchdown Hill with views over Gloucestershire Airport towards Bredon Hill.
Image: © Pauline E
Taken: 3 Jul 2010
0.10 miles
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Lower slopes of Churchdown Hill/Chosen Hill
View towards Gloucestershire Airport, over the village of Churchdown with the northern Malvern Hills to the left and Bredon Hill to the right.
Image: © Pauline E
Taken: 3 Jul 2010
0.12 miles
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Gloucester - Cheltenham local train approaching Churchdown
View westward, towards Gloucester etc.: GW & Midland Joint main line, quadrupled in 1942. The train is on the (original) Up Main line, headed by '4500' 2-6-2T No. 4567 (built 10/24), a longstanding occupant of Gloucester Depot.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 7 Aug 1948
0.12 miles
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Up Midland line freight approaching Churchdown Station
View westward, towards Gloucester and South Wales/Bristol; joint ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol and ex-Great Western Cheltenham/Birmingham - Gloucester - South Wales/Swindon/Bristol lines. The train is a typical Class D freight, headed by LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44167. (My car is up on the right).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 4 Nov 1961
0.13 miles
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Newquay - Wolverhampton holiday express approaching Churchdown station
View westward, towards Gloucester, South Wales, Bristol, Swindon etc.; ex-GWR & Midland Cheltenham - Gloucester Joint main line. The train left Newquay at 11.15 and will have come up via Bristol on the GW exit via Filton Junction and by-passed Gloucester on the Tuffley Junction - Engine Shed Junction direct (ex-GW) line. (For further detail see
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Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 9 Aug 1958
0.13 miles
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Station Road Bridge in Churchdown
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 2 Sep 2009
0.13 miles
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Bristol - Bradford express at Churchdown
View westward towards Gloucester: ex-Midland & GWR Joint, Gloucester - Cheltenham main line; for route details, see other Churchdown scenes. Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 44963 (built 7/46, withdrawn 7/68 - almost the End of Steam) heads the Summer Saturday Relief 15.50 Bristol via Birmingham New St. and Leeds to Bradford Forster Square (due 22.45).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 20 Aug 1960
0.14 miles
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Two light engines coupled heading towards Cheltenham
View towards Gloucester etc. from a bridge over the railway, Churchdown station being off to the right: ex-GW & Midland Joint Cheltenham - Gloucester main line (see other Churchdown scenes for details of routes along this busy stretch, which was quadrupled 1942 - 1967). Two LMS Fowler 4F 0-6-0s, Nos. 44454 (1928 - 10/63) and 44179( 1925 - 12/64) are passing my Morris Oxford parked in the road above.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 23 Mar 1963
0.14 miles
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Up holiday express from Torbay
View westward just west of Churchdown Station, towards Gloucester, Bristol etc. This Paignton - Nottingham Summer Saturday express was headed by No. 92106, a BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 - useful on passenger expresses at busy times as they were capable of running smoothly at high speeds. The Joint GW and Midland line between Gloucester and Cheltenham was widened to four tracks in World War Two, but reverted to two tracks in the 1960s;
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 3 Aug 1957
0.14 miles