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17/6/2008
Just a brief update today with news that Ron Ashby has identified the previously unknown person on this photograph at Worcester as being Tommy Reeves who worked in the machine shop. Thanks to Ron for this information.
25/5/2008
Various cosmetic changes have been made to more than 50 pages to improve consistency and layout such as ensuring photographs are centre justified. Also these pages have been spell checked and some annoying errors eliminated.
We are also to David Jones who has pointed out that two of the bibliography entries were not displaying correctly and that there was a photograph missing on this page about No.7034
More pages will be amend in the next week or two. We are always grateful to hear from anyone who find errors, missing photos or links or can add to the text we have provided.
Added new review: Severn Valley Railway News
Added new review: Central Birmingham (Rail around Birmingham)
23/5/2008
Added a new page containing three historic photographs of railwaymen at Worcester in the late 1950s which have been sent to us by Dave Ankers who was a fireman at Worcester in steam days.
22/5/2008
Added six more photographs taken in the 1960s of steam at Worcester (Nos. 1016, 1472, 2222, 2884, 5903 and 70030
21/5/2008
Added to the Mick Rock observations a visit in 2008 to Abbotswood Junction.
19/5/2008
We have been told that Mr Gerwyn Evans (aged 83 years of age) has passed away peacefully at his home in Worcester. Gerwyn was based at the worcester shed and rose through the ranks. During his time he had driven most engines based at Worcester, Castles etc He will sadly missed by his family and friends.
Stephen adds that he was the secretary at the railway club in Tolladine Road for many years.
His funeral was on 20th May 2008 at St Baribus church Worcester.
Information supplied by Steve Draper, a family friend.
Added new page containing four colour photographs of LMSR locomotives at Worcester in the 1960s (Nos.42969, 44269, 48410 & 48424). (Pete Wilcox collection)
Added new page containing six more of Mick Rock's historic photographs from the 1960s of steam in Worcestershire. The locomotives are: 6859, 5951, 7023, 48739, 70051 & 78008
12/5/2008
Added new section with details of Railways and the Worcester & Birmingham Canal. Also added a new page about tramways from quarries at Tardebigge. Also added a walk from Bromsgrove Station to Tardebigge & Vigo. Also added a few new entries about non loco worked tramways in Worcestershire
7/5/2008
Added: bibliography entry for 'The Worcester & Birmingham Canal'
6/5/2008
Mick Rock has provided this fascinating list of visiting locomotives that he saw at Worcester engine sheds during the period from 19th April 1960 to 31st October 1961.
Andy Cope has provided this photograph of a BR class 116 suburban dmu in blue livery between Droitwich and Hartlebury.
Antony Wright notes that the former goods yard at Tolladine Road is in the course of being re-developed and that some buildings and bridges have recently been demolished at Worcester. These being:
1. A bridge across Tolladine Road to the east of the main line.
2. Four former railway buildings in the former goods yard.
3. A goods platform at the north end of the freight yards.
4. A building at the north end of Shrub Hill Station.
Added new page on BR class 14 'Paxman' diesel hydraulic locomotives with a rare photograph of one in use in Worcestershire.
Added new page on BR class 22 'North British type 2 locomotives with observation notes from Phil Bullock
5/5/2008
CORRECTED: The page on Newland Halt has been updated to include the previously missing photograph.
Added six more photographs from the Robert Pritchard collection. These shows diesels in use around Worcestershire in early 1966. No.D1737 & No.D62 at Worcester; No.D1748 at Newland; No.D7052 at Great Malvern; No.D6837 at Malvern Link and No.M55993 & the former GWR shed At Malvern Wells.
3/5/2008
We have provided a link to a new site that will be of interest to all involved with model railways. It is all about the Bromyard branch which is a 00 scale model railway under construction in a private home near to where the original line ran into the Herefordshire market town of Bromyard. This 1/76th scale model attempts to capture the essence of this GWR branch line which came to an end in 1964. The station area at Bromyard has been modelled completely from pictures as the site has been completely re-developed. However, the station at Rowden Mill is depicted as it still is, being an award winning restoration, to the original by the current owners. The 'end to end' railway runs into a busy motive power depot, that they call 'Worcester' as the branch started there on its way to Leominster, via Bromyard.
1/5/2008
Apologies for the lack of updates in April! Now that I have finished with the publication of a large book (on Baguley-Drewry) I should have more time to get the site up to date (ACS)
Added new page (supplied by Mick Rock) with details of locos seen on the 7:25pm Bristol to Newcastle mail trains in the period 1961 to 1963.
Added more observations from Mick Rock. These are at Norton Junction on 3rd May 1963 and 11th September 1963 and are very interesting as by the second visit diesels had taken over many former steam duties.
Added three photographs provided by Bob Young of steam in Worcestershire. No.6155, No.6877 and No.7005
11/3/2008
Bob Young has supplied this photograph of Pannier tank No.1639 shunting the Vinegar works branch on the last day of operation.
Keith Gunner has pointed out that there ought to be an entry on the site for Prosser's scrapyard in Worcester as it held a former BR Wickham railcar later purchased for preservation. This entry has now been added
4/3/2008
We are delighted to have been granted permission by Chris Wilkinson to publish some of his photos of steam at Worcester in the 1960s on this site. Chris was a cleaner/fireman at Worcester from 1962 until May 1965 and unusually for the period he sometimes used colour film and some of these photos of 'Castle' class 4-6-0's can be found on the first page of his photos.
There are plenty of railwaymen on these photographs and many have not been identified so your help to identify them would be gratefully received.
18/2/2008
Added a most fascinating list of locomotive observations made by Mick Rock in September 1965 at Abbots Wood Junction.
Added another photograph of ex-LNER 4-6-2 No.60114 at Worcester in June 1964. (Photo by Brian Parsons).
Added part of a Worcester shed staff rota from March 1965 (available to download as a pdf file). Thanks to Brian Parsons for sending us this information.
Corrected link to WLS Visit to South Wales 18/11/1962
31/1/2008
January has been a very busy month so this has left no time for any updates but this will soon change as we are preparing to use February to post many photographs from the growing archives of material from the 1960s. We have some superb items to post. In the meantime here are a few photographs taken at Worcester Shrub Hill on 31/1/2008.