IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Station Road, GLOUCESTER, GL3 2ND
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Station Road, GL3 2ND by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (18 Images Found)
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Churchdown Park
The Churchdown Parish Council Skate Facility, which is soon to be replaced by a more sophisticated sett of ramps, pipes and rails. Churchdown Park nestles just south of the A40.
Image: © Stephen Bowden
Taken: 23 Apr 2005
0.09 miles
2
GW 0-6-2T on a Paddington - Cheltenham express at Churchdown
View westward, towards Gloucester: ex-GW&Midland Gloucester - Cheltenham Joint main line - see also Image and Image etc. This is the 09.05 from Paddington on the final part of its journey, rather unusually hauled by an 0-6-2T, No. 6696 (built 10/28).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 4 Nov 1961
0.09 miles
3
Pembroke Dock - Birmingham Snow Hill express passing Churchdown
View westward, towards Gloucester etc.: ex-GW & Midland Gloucester - Cheltenham Joint line (for details see other scenes at Churchdown). During the brief period when BR 9F 2-10-0s were used on express passenger work, No. 92237 (built 9/58, withdrawn 9/65) heads the Saturdays Only 08.30 from Pembroke Dock, due Snow Hill at 15.17.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 20 Aug 1960
0.10 miles
4
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 Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 44963 (built 7/46, withdrawn 7/68 - almost the End of Steam) heads the Summer Saturday Relief 15.50 Bristol via Birmingham New St. and Leeds to Bradford Forster Square (due 22.45).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
0.10 miles
5
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
0.10 miles
6
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 Image], Image] and Image]). The locomotive is 4-6-0 No. 5912 'Queen's Hall' (built 6/31, withdrawn 12/62).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 9 Aug 1958
0.10 miles
8
Site of Churchdown station, 1986
View NE, towards Cheltenham etc.: ex-GW & Midland Joint Gloucester etc. - Cheltenham etc. main line. This important line had been quadrupled for War traffic in 1942, but reverted to double-track in 1967. Churchdown station was closed from 2/11/64. (See also several other scenes, Image] etc.).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 21 Jun 1986
0.10 miles
9
Churchdown: Down relief express to Bristol from Birmingham and the North, 1957
View NE towards Cheltenham on the four-track LMS&GW Joint main line to Gloucester and beyond, which was only four-track 1942-67. The locomotive is Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44826 (built 1944, withdrawn 9/67).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 28 Dec 1957
0.10 miles
