Kemble station and the surviving Cirencester branch platform – GWR magic!

[editor]

If you like original GWR country junction architecture - with perhaps an abandoned branch line lobbed in - you can't get much finer than Kemble station, which is a beaut!

Check out my super-spoddy collection of pics here:
Kemble railway station - Former GWR country junction
Kemble railway station - Disused Cirencester platform

 

[peterkro]

That water tank in the background of first pic is a beautiful example of victorian engineering on the occasions I'm there i stand on the opposite platform and study the intricate cast iron bits.

 

[editor]

That water tank in the background of first pic is a beautiful example of victorian engineering on the occasions I'm there i stand on the opposite platform and study the intricate cast iron bits.

It's Grade II listed too.

 

[agricola]

I love how that picture on the railbus leaflet must have been drawn by someone who had never actually seen one, only had it described to them.

edit: doh, ignore above, have just read the railbus site

 

[BassJunkie]

I love how the railbus made a stop at a Halt called 'Trouble House'.

 

[a_chap]

"In 2002/03, a total of 195,000 million passengers were recorded using the station" - a remarkable figure indeed!

 

[Miss-Shelf]

And theres a nice pub next door

 

[davesgcr]

Even better news , the single line towards Swindon will shortly be re-doubled (giving much more capacity Swindon - Stroud - Gloucester) - even better , the funding came from the roads budget !

 

[hipipol]

The railcar didn't operate on the Ciren branch - in the pic at top, left of the water tower, was another branch line, the bed of which is still in place, ran through the uplands to Tetbury, it was alays single track except for a couple of stations

 

[editor]

The railcar didn't operate on the Ciren branch - in the pic at top, left of the water tower, was another branch line, the bed of which is still in place, ran through the uplands to Tetbury, it was alays single track except for a couple of stations

Not true, squire. Here's the railbus at Cirencester.

http://www.urban75.org/blog/cirence...station-victorian-gothic-stuck-in-a-car-park/

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I had an Airfix kit of that railbus type. According to the info with the assembly instructions it said that they were mainly to be seen in Scotland. I never saw one but then I was living in Devon at the time.

 

[hipipol]

Not trying to be tricksy but I used the term Railcar - ie a GWR Railcar - the Railbus is a
British Rail - will get pics etc tommorrow as I can barely focus on this daft tiny screen!!!!!

 

[chemn]

...
Check out my super-spoddy collection of pics here:
Kemble railway station - Former GWR country junction
Kemble railway station - Disused Cirencester platform

Is the background of that first link supposed to be a bit like static on a tv?

 

[editor]

Looks fine to me.

 

[a_chap]

"In 2002/03, a total of 195,000 million passengers were recorded using the station" - a remarkable figure indeed!

Looks fine to me.

Are you sure that number looks fine? More than 195 billion people used the station...? I mean that would make the waiting room rather crowded. However the pub would do a roaring trade...

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Not trying to be tricksy but I used the term Railcar - ie a GWR Railcar - the Railbus is a
British Rail - will get pics etc tommorrow as I can barely focus on this daft tiny screen!!!!!

There is a rather good YouTube video of a simulator of a GWR Railcar (as in 1930s design) making a journey to be found by searching - not wishing to hi-jack this thread.

 

[editor]

Are you sure that number looks fine? More than 195 billion people used the station...? I mean that would make the waiting room rather crowded. However the pub would do a roaring trade...

That typo has already been pointed out to me thanks and I'll fix it when I get back, but what are you on about with this "static background" stuff?

 

[a_chap]

That typo has already been pointed out to me thanks and I'll fix it when I get back, but what are you on about with this "static background" stuff?

Not me Gov, I didn't mention "static background".

 

[editor]

Apols. But it does sound exciting.

 

[spliff]

It only looks like static if you scroll fast.

Great pictures and that video at the bottom of the first link is absolutely wonderful.

 

[editor]

My photos are not for fast scrolling!

 

[hipipol]

I meant one of these



However this (link below) rather cmprehensive listing of the GWR railcar fleet seems to destroy my long held belef that they worked the Tetbury branch - I blame some idiot who showed me a pic of one at Kemble during an open day at Gloucester sheds when I was a kid - it probably did the journey once for some excursion

http://glostransporthistory.visit-g...OD_Terminal 1_Rolling Stock_GWR railcar..html