Items added on June 6th June 2017 Those added most recently come first

Lydney Harbour
Colin Burges

Why does this wreck of a Severn Trow (sea and river going barge), beached to help prevent erosion at Lydney Harbour, have a pair of Barlow rails within it?  Was it a train ferry?  asks Colin.  Many thanks for the latest puzzler.  By the way Colin agrees that the picture submitted yesterday was indeed at Treamble. 

Severn Trow at beached at Lydney. Copyright Colin Burges

Dunball Wharf
Colin Burges

The wharf was formerly linked to the Bristol and Exeter Railway by a rail track which crossed the A38, on the right hand side of the hotel. The link was built in 1876 by coal merchants, and was originally operated as a horse-drawn tramway. It was removed during the Beeching Axe  and Dunball also lost its railway station  on 5th  October 1964, which had opened in 1873. The wharf was used during World War 2 to bring Welsh coal to the nearby Royal Ordnance Factory,  The wharf is now used for landing stone products, mainly marine sand and gravels dredged in the Bristol Channel.        Courtesy Wikipedia ​

Colin, a keen cyclist,parks his steed at Dunball Wharf in 2015. Though closed in the 1960;s rails still remain. Copyright Colin Burges

Dunball Wharf 2015 Copyright Colin Burges

Western Memories
Andrew Jones

This photograph was taken in December 1976, at Carlyon Bay, very much towards the end of class 52 operation on the mainline. Taking photographs at twilight was always tricky with FP4 film and although a bit grainy, in my opinion it sums up those last few months of this class. Copyright Andrew Jones.

A Luftwaffe photograph of the Royal Albert Bridge taken on the 11th April 1941. From the Phil Hadley Collection

For more of the World War Two Railway Diaries click here.

Bristol TM
John Cornelius

Copyright John Cornelius