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Contents of top envelope, titled 'Swindon to Gloucester', on front of item 11, seven...

Catalogue reference: ZSPC 11/482/12

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ZSPC 11/482/12
Date
1897 Oct 1-1964 Nov 1
Description

Contents of top envelope, titled 'Swindon to Gloucester', on front of item 11, seven photographs, two postcards and four cuttings, relating to Great Western Railway (GWR) line:

Four photographs, monochrome, 8cm x 12cm, with typed notes on reverse, '[photograph] C F D Whetmath':

1) Front three-quarter right-side view, [GWR 0-4-2T, possibly No 1420, with local passenger train], 'Gloucester Central station, 1 November 1964, view towards Chepstow'.

2) Front three-quarter right-side view, 'Chalford, with 0-6-0PT No 6412, 31 October 1964'.

3) Right-side view, 'Chalford station, with 0-6-0PT No 6412 on train, 31st October 1964'.

4) Front three-quarter right-side view [taken from over-bridge], 'St Mary's Crossing Halt, with No 6412 on train, 31 October 1964'.

5) Photograph, monochrome, 8cm x 13cm, front three-quarter left-side view, GWR steam rail-motor at [Brimscombe Bridge Halt], [c 1903].

6) Photograph, monochrome, 9cm x 14cm, [Brimscombe Bridge Halt] station platform notice 'cars for Brimscombe and Chalford, cars for Ham Mill, Bowbridge, Stroud, Downfield, Ebley and Stonehouse' [original Great Western Railway cast sign converted for BR Western Region use, image c 1955].

7) Photograph, monochrome, 9cm x 14cm, typed notes on reverse, 'Site of Chalford [Locomotive] shed', stamped 'Locomotive and General Railway Photographs', [image No] '19519'.

Postcards, monochrome photographic illustrations:

8) 8cm x 13cm, 'General view of Stroud', reverse typed 'ex T R Perkins's collection, 16 July 1936'.

9) 9cm x 14cm, 'Churchdown Station', [unidentified 4-4-0 locomotive and passenger train arriving from Gloucester], 'Burrow, Publisher, Cheltenham', [image c 1910].

Cuttings:

10) [Rail and Platform Plans of British Stations, Part One, published by Railway and Technical Press, 1947, page 47], 'Kemble [Junction], 1 April 1930'.

[Railway Magazine, October 1897, pages 355 and 359]:

11) 'Up the line view from Stonehouse signal cabin'.

12) Front-side view of Stonehouse signal cabin.

13) [Railway and Travel Monthly, October 1917 page 209], 'Bank engines in siding at Brimscombe, at the foot of the Sapperton bank or 1 in 60'.

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Open on Transfer
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Open Document, Open Description
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