Again it is a pleasure to welcome Paul Stanford to our site once more, our first picture of revenue earning traffic at Wapping Wharf.
Paul writes - I took this one, early in my railway career. 0-6-0 Hudswell Clarke diesel, Western Pride just runs around loaded air brake coal hopper wagons, at Wapping Wharf, which it had hauled from Ashton Jn. Likely a Peak or class 37 would have dropped the train at Ashton Jn. Coal traffic to this site ceased May 1987 and Western Pride travelled on its own power to the coal depot at Filton Jn, with a BR pilot driver, by night. The last BR movement to the site at Wapping was late summer 1990 when a BR 08 bought some wagons and collected some rails from the quayside and delivered a Weltrol wagon for Bristol industrial museum.
Paul writes - I took this one, early in my railway career. 0-6-0 Hudswell Clarke diesel, Western Pride just runs around loaded air brake coal hopper wagons, at Wapping Wharf, which it had hauled from Ashton Jn. Likely a Peak or class 37 would have dropped the train at Ashton Jn. Coal traffic to this site ceased May 1987 and Western Pride travelled on its own power to the coal depot at Filton Jn, with a BR pilot driver, by night. The last BR movement to the site at Wapping was late summer 1990 when a BR 08 bought some wagons and collected some rails from the quayside and delivered a Weltrol wagon for Bristol industrial museum.
Wapping Wharf, July 1985. 'Western Queen' delivers some coal to the wharf. Copyright Paul Stanford.