Historical Railway Photograph Gallery 1051-1100

1001-1050<-

Photos 1051-1100

->1101-1150

Photo

ELR

Branch

Subject

Location

M

C

Elev'n

Date

Time

BPM01051		     Double-pull mechanical detection at facing points (BRWR pattern). Note the series of holes on the detector bars, for adjustment of tension in the pull-wires         ~1960  

BPM01052		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View of Barry Island East yard & DMU refuelling Depôt before 1964 rationalisation programme Barry Island East signal box 8 75 SW    

BPM01053		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Layout at Barry Island East during first stages of remodelling at 1964 rationalisation programme. (A new turnout is already laid in fourth track from right) Barry Island East Yard & DMU Refuelling Depôt (Viewed from Barry Island East signal box) 8 75 South    

BPM01054		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier General view of DMU servicing Depôt & sidings before modernisation programme was in full progress (A new turnout is already laid in fourth track from right) Barry Island yard 8 76 West    

BPM01055		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Diesel depot & associated sidings with alteration to siding already underway (see BPM01056 for later details) Barry Island yard 8 74 West    

BPM01056		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Alterations to layout due to abolition of Barry Island East signal box & installation of new ground frame Barry Island yard 8 74 West 3-May-1964 11:22

BPM01057		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier General view of Barry Island East signal box (now abolished) & new ground frame Barry Island yard 8 74 South 2-May-1964 11:26

BPM01058		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Removal of scissors crossover No.3 platform to No.2 platform or Barry Pier lines, due to abolition of Barry Island East signal box Barry Island station 8 73 East 3-May-1964 11:26

BPM01059		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Removal of compounds & scissors crossover in association with installation of new ground frame & abolition of Barry Island East signal box Barry Island East 8 74 West    

BPM01060		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Abolition of Barry Island East signal box (New ground frame cabin on right of signal box). S&T official, Mr. Ron Andrews seen here also (centre) Barry Island East 8 74 South 3-May-1964 11:25

BPM01061		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier General view of Cadoxton Low Level Junction signal box (Last day of operation) Cadoxton Low Level Junction 6 28 South 19-Apr-1964 15:00

BPM01062		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier General view of Barry Dock signal box Barry Dock signal box 7 4½ SE    

BPM01063		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View looking north-east from end of Barry station during remodelling programme of permanent way & signalling, showing temporary severance of  up main with No.1 platform line & sidings & line to Hydraulics stores Barry station 8 06 SW    

BPM01064		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View looking north-east from end of Barry station after remodelling programme of permanent way & signalling, showing new connection (in distance) with up main to No.1 platform line & sidings & line to Hydraulics stores Barry station 8 06 SW    

BPM01065		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Recovery of general & cattle-pen sidings, Barry station. The signal & telegraph dept HQ  for the Barry area comprised the two cream coloured steel huts at the foot of the Water tank. The area is now part car park, part garden centre (2001) Barry station 8 07 SE    

BPM01066		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Recovery of sidings, Barry station. The platform shown was No. 1 & known as the bay from which the Wenvoe-Pontypridd passenger service ran until closure of that service. The platform edge is now the east boundary of a commuter car park (2001) Barry station 8 10 SW    

BPM01067		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Alterations to layout in conjunction with abolition of Cadoxton Low Level Junction signal box Cadoxton Low Level Junction 6 19 West 19-Apr-1964 15:05

BPM01068		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Alterations to layout in conjunction with abolition of Cadoxton Low Level Junction signal box Cadoxton station 6 14 East 19-Apr-1964 15:07

BPM01069		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Cadoxton Low Level Junction  during rationalisation. The 2-arm semaphore assembly lying on its side, had only been installed a couple of years earlier North of Cadoxton Low Level signal box 6 19 South    

BPM01070		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Arrangement of elbows (swing nose crossing) in down main at Barry Dock (Shown clipped & padlocked). 3-aspect colour light signal also shown. These elbows & all lines to the left of the down main are now recovered & the land re-modelled Barry Dock signal box 7 06½ East 9-May-1964 11:35

BPM01071		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View of up & down main with new colour-light signal for down main line, out-of-use elbows in down main & also storage sidings & No.1 dock coal hoists Barry Dock signal box 7 04 East    

BPM01072		 SWM South Wales Main Line Poor quality photo’ of Llanharan West Junction for Wern Tarw-Tondu line, (Cardiff & Ogmore branch) with stopping cross-country train at Llanharan station. (Just visible is a semaphore bracket signal (right) with former GWR 5ft wooden arms) A473 road overbridge at Llanharan West Junction 183    0 65    00 East    

BPM01072a		 SWM South Wales Main Line Llanharan West Junction for Wern Tarw-Tondu line (Cardiff & Ogmore branch), after severance of branch & showing Llanharan station. (Just visible on the right is a former GWR wooden, tall semaphore signal post from which the arms have been removed (See poor earlier photo’ BPM01072). A new 2-doll bracket semaphore assembly has been erected at the right foreground A473 road overbridge at Llanharan West Junction 183    0 65    00 East    

BPM01073		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Arrangement of up & down main & relief lines (to Barry Sidings) when in full use A4050 St.Nicholas Road overbridge adjacent to Ship Hotel, Barry 0 16 SW    

BPM01074		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Arrangement of up & down main & relief lines (to Barry Sidings) when undergoing rationalisation, showing recovery of Barry Sidings up relief line A4050 St.Nicholas Road overbridge adjacent to Ship Hotel, Barry 0 16 SW    

BPM01075		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Layout of main & down relief lines after alterations to layout between Barry Junction & Barry Sidings A4050 St.Nicholas Road overbridge adjacent to Ship Hotel, Barry 0 16 SW 31-Jul-1965 11:17

BPM01076		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Arrangement of Barry Sidings & before abolition of signal box & removal of all but one of the sidings Lane overbridge at west end of Barry Sidings 0 47 West 17-Apr-1964 13:47

BPM01076a		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Arrangement of Barry Sidings & before abolition of signal box & removal of all but one of the sidings Lane overbridge at west end of Barry Sidings 0 47 West    

BPM01077		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of Barry Sidings signal box after closure, showing spiked facing turnout from up main to sidings. Severed sidings & dead-end loco’ spur can also be seen as can the former up homes bracket semaphore assembly, lying on its side Lane overbridge at west end of Barry Sidings 0 47 West    

BPM01078		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of Barry Sidings signal box after closure, showing permanent way partly dismantled & also full bore of Porthkerry No.1 tunnel in distance Lane overbridge at west end of Barry Sidings 0 40 East    

BPM01079		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of realigned down sidings connection showing severed down sidings section of former sidings. Up & down main line connections to former sidings had been taken out-of-use by time of photograph Barry Sidings, east of Barry Sidings signal box 0 40 West    

BPM01080		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of sidings fan & up & down relief lines when in full use A4050 St.Nicholas Road overbridge near Ship Hotel, Barry Sidings 0 16 NE    

BPM01081		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of partly dismantled sidings fan & up & down relief lines at Barry Sidings A4050 St.Nicholas Road overbridge near Ship Hotel, Barry Sidings 0 16 NE    

BPM01082		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of trackbed of former Barry Sidings with only the up & down VOG lines & down relief line surviving A4050 St.Nicholas Road overbridge near Ship Hotel, Barry Sidings 0 16 East    

BPM01083		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of Barry Junction & signal box when in full use A4055 Harbour Road overbridge west of Barry Junction 0 00 SW    

BPM01084		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of Barry Junction & signal box while being partly dismantled due to 1964 rationalisation A4055 Harbour Road overbridge west of Barry Junction 0 07 SW    

BPM01085		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan View of Barry Junction after remodelling & abolition of Barry Junction signal box A4055 Harbour Road overbridge west of Barry Junction 0 07 SW    

BPM01086		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View at north end of No.4 platform showing former Taff Vale lines, latterly used for Penarth branch passenger trains & also showing Cadoxton South signal box. The right line survives & is used for docks reception traffic from the Cardiff direction Cadoxton station 0 08 SW    

BPM01087		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View from track level showing  former Taff Vale lines & former Collis siding connection on right & Cardiff/Penarth lines to centre & in left background, Wenvoe lines & Cadoxton North Yard Cadoxton South Junction 6     0 07       01 South    

BPM01088		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View of partly dismantled Cadoxton South Junction, showing Cadoxton North Yard & Wenvoe branch Cadoxton South signal box verandah 6     0 06      00 South    

BPM01089		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View of partly dismantled permanent way showing severed swing-nose & diamond crossings in down main Cadoxton South Junction 6 04½ South    

BPM01090		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View of Barry Junction signal box & lifted track at carriage shed sidings Barry carriage shed sidings 8 20 SE    

BPM01091		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Clipped & padlocked facing points at south end of Cadoxton station after commencement of rationalisation programme, 1964. Note the evidence of semaphore signal slotting weights on the wooden semaphore signal post in the background. The signal was a bracketed 3-doll assembly, jointly worked by Cadoxton South & Cadoxton Low Level signal boxes Cadoxton station (Docks Line Junction), south end of platform 4. 6 14 NW    

BPM01092		 CAR Cardiff (Stonefield Junction) & Rhymney View of former up & down main lines with relief lines & junction to Roath Branch (A housing estate now lies to the left of the third line from the right) College Road road overbridge at former Roath Branch junction 3 63 NW    

BPM01093		 SWM South Wales Main Line Bridgend East signal box & East Junction (For Vale of Glamorgan line) Road overbridge at east end of Bridgend station 190 37½ NW    

BPM01094		 SWM South Wales Main Line Llanharan West Junction showing former goods Depôt, cattle pen & sidings with compound crossing in up main & 2-blade traps in exit from down relief line A473 road overbridge, Llanharan West Junction 183 62 West    

BPM01095		 WAH Hereford & Worcester Track layout showing half compounds & double traps to goods sidings. South end of Ledbury tunnel can be seen at centre background Ledbury station footbridge 135 76 SW 13-Jul-1964 13:20

BPM01096		 BAG Birmingham & Gloucester Ashchurch Junction showing signal box & partly truncated former London Midland branch to Upton-upon-Severn & Malvern A438 road overbridge, Ashchurch station 79 49 South 30-08-1964 14:45

BPM01097		 BAG Birmingham & Gloucester View of Ashchurch signal box & partly dismantled Upton-on-Severn & Redditch junction lines A438 road overbridge, Ashchurch station 79 49 South    

BPM01098		 CAR Cardiff (Stonefield Junction) & Rhymney View of Cherry Orchard sidings fan, showing double, inside compound points, trackbed of former up relief line & elevated down line on which a 6-car DMU is travelling from Rhymney to Cardiff. Cherry Orchard signal box is on the left in the cutting. Note the newly-painted signal posts & the sighting enhancement quadrant fitted to the down main starting signal Road overbridge at Cherry Orchard, Lisvane 5 48¾ SE    

BPM01099		 CAR Cardiff (Stonefield Junction) & Rhymney View of Cherry Orchard wagon repair shops & sidings (The 1985-built Thornhill & Lisvane station now stands alongside this site) Thornhill & Lisvane station site 5 48¾ NW    

BPM01100		 CDT Cadoxton South Junction & Trefforest Junction Partial view of facing points with fouling bar. Note the evidence that the rail section is fairly new since the rail table was only partly worn Tynycaeau Junction 5 54½ South    

1001-1050<-

Photos 1051-1100

->1101-1150