Green perspectives on Stockwood and Bristol. Mostly.

Friday, 24 February 2012

Rail down to Radstock

Just an afterthought to the previous post....

90 years ago, when the Whitchurch railway path along the Sturminster valley here was a real, GWR, railway, albeit mostly carrying coal trains, there was a through passenger branchline service from Temple Meads along much the same route as our spanking new GBBN buses will take.

The journey from BTM to Radstock, with 5 intermediate stops, took a few minutes short of an hour.   The trains continued on, to link with the main line at Frome.

There was an evening train, and even a couple of Sunday trains.

West Of England Partnership, be proud of your progress.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear pete I found an article from years ago about a train crash somewhere along that line it caused a boiler to exploded do you know anything about it as I've lost the information and have spent hours trying to find it again but no luck.