{"id":3407,"date":"2023-11-16T02:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/temple-meads-what-it-needs-4\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T02:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T02:29:15","slug":"temple-meads-what-it-needs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/temple-meads-what-it-needs-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Meads – What It Needs (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Making The Marsh Magnificent?<\/span><\/p>\n The above old map shows the station, the water courses and the cattle market. The GWR (the original and best, God’s Wonderful Railway and not the upstart First operation) built an avoiding line through the Marsh area to take freight past the city, but avoiding the busy Temple Meads.<\/p><\/div>\n Missing from today’s rail map is a line south following the A430 (map above, right) which led to places like Radstock and Midsomer Norton. There was also a complicated set of lines exiting the above map centre left and serving the harbour and docks area.<\/p>\n There was a lot of dock and a lot of railway serving it!<\/p><\/div>\n This is now a large part of the Temple (non)Island development area.<\/p>\n At the north end of the station was Barrow Road.<\/p>\n fbb thinks this was the LMS depot for locos from the line to Derby. Here Bartow Road can be seen on a preset day map.<\/p>\n The depot still holds trains today.<\/p>\n The biggie, depot wise, was St Phillips Marsh. The main buildings have long gone and fbb could find no pictures of its exterior; or even a simple track diagram. There were two turntable-equipped sheds.<\/p>\n But there are plenty of illustrations of the atmospheric and nostalgic inside “parking”.<\/p>\n Those were<\/span> the days!<\/p>\n The steam shed has been demolished and the site taken over by Bristol’s wholesale fruit market.<\/p>\n But is hard to imagine there was ever a smoky, noisy, greasy engine shed there!<\/p>\n If you like that sort of thing!<\/p>\n The big shed was located on the south of the by-pass line. Mainly to the north of the tracks, two sets of sidings we developed.<\/p>\n The tracks to the east were a depot for HST sets, trains soon to disappear completely from out national rail network.<\/p>\n The western set of tracks are used for more mundane diesel units.<\/p>\n Of course, to imagine this area as part of a trendy residential and light industrial area under the overall title of Temple Quarter is almost impossible.<\/p>\n