Lifting railway at Mangotsfield
The old Midland Line at Mangotsfield Station in May 1972, looking toward Bristol. Literally only a few hours before the track was lifted. I don't recall when the line closed I think it was in 1970 or 1971, I recall there was a flood and or landslide and it actually closed a few weeks earlier than scheduled. I believe the track was used to reinstate the line between Yate and Tytherington quarry in order that stone could be taken by train as opposed to road. The station is probably nowadays best known as somewhere on the Bristol to Bath cycle track, these images are taken just beyond where the original line split, right toward Bath Green Park, left onward toward the Midlands. Taken on my first camera a Kodak Instamatic 233X using a good old 126 cartridge to produce 2"X 2" slides.
I should probably have been in the nearby Rodway School when I took this, getting ready to take some GCE 'O' levels, maybe the fact that I was taking a few photographs goes part way to explaining why my results were such a disaster.
Lifting railway at Mangotsfield
The old Midland Line at Mangotsfield Station in May 1972, looking toward Bristol. Literally only a few hours before the track was lifted. I don't recall when the line closed I think it was in 1970 or 1971, I recall there was a flood and or landslide and it actually closed a few weeks earlier than scheduled. I believe the track was used to reinstate the line between Yate and Tytherington quarry in order that stone could be taken by train as opposed to road. The station is probably nowadays best known as somewhere on the Bristol to Bath cycle track, these images are taken just beyond where the original line split, right toward Bath Green Park, left onward toward the Midlands. Taken on my first camera a Kodak Instamatic 233X using a good old 126 cartridge to produce 2"X 2" slides.
I should probably have been in the nearby Rodway School when I took this, getting ready to take some GCE 'O' levels, maybe the fact that I was taking a few photographs goes part way to explaining why my results were such a disaster.