1962

SO8318 : Gloucester Central Station, with trains

taken 62 years ago, near to Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

Gloucester Central Station, with trains
Gloucester Central Station, with trains
View SE on the main Down platform, towards Cheltenham etc. and Swindon etc.; ex-Great Western South Wales Main Line, which runs from (London etc.) via Swindon to Chepstow, Newport, Cardiff, Swansea etc., branching off the original Cheltenham & Great Western Union line at Gloucester South Junction. The lines from here to Cheltenham are joint with the ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line, which join from the Bristol direction at Tramway Junction. Since the whole railway layout at Gloucester was altered in 1975 by the elimination of the ex-Midland Gloucester Eastgate Station (see SO8318 : Gloucester Eastgate Station and SO8318 : Gloucester Eastgate Station, with trains) with the Tuffley Loop line, and the reconstruction of Gloucester Central, all trains on the Birmingham - Bristol axis calling at Gloucester have had to reverse here, as well as those from Cheltenham. Before 1975 only trains Cheltenham - Swindon, London etc. did so, and the 94XX 0-6-0 Pannier-tank on the right is probably arriving on a train from Cheltenham destined to reverse. The 51XX 2-6-2T on the train at the opposite platform will have arrived on a train from the West, probably from Hereford via Grange Court (on the South Wales line). The 'Castle' 4-6-0 on the Up middle line is running light engine towards the nearby Horton Road GWR Locomotive Depot.

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Category: Railway station
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Gloucester [1527] · Road [242] · Station [225] · Gloucester Railway Station [119] · London Road [113] Other Photos: · Gloucester station, entrance 1995 ·
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SO8318, 2084 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ben Brooksbank   (more nearby)
Date Taken
14 April 1962   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 28 August, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 837 185 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:51.9281N 2:14.2874W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 837 185
View Direction
Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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