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CHELTENHAM GWR MODELLERS GROUP EXHIBITIONS IN AID OF CLIC SARGEANT

 
Introduction
 
Cheltenham Rail Location Map
 
Review of Spring 2006
 
Review of Autumn 2006
 
Review of Spring 2007
 
Review of Autumn 2007
 
Review of Spring 2008
 
Spring 2008: The Untold Story
 
Review of Autumn 2008
 
Review of Spring 2009
 

Review of Autumn 2009

CHELTENHAM GWR MODELLERS GROUP EXHIBITION IN AID OF SAINT MICHAELS CHURCH (WHADDON) ROOF FUND

 
Review of January 2008
 
COTSWOLD MODEL RAILWAY SHOW

Review of 2009

 INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC MODELLING SOCIETY GLOUCESTER BRANCH EXHIBITIONS

 
Review of 2009
 

STONEHOUSE MODEL RAILWAY SHOW

 
Review of March 2009
 
CIRENCESTER  MODEL RAILWAY SHOW

Review of September 2009

THORNBURY  MODEL RAILWAY AND MODELLING EXHIBITION

Review of November 2009

THE JET AGE RESERVE MODEL COLLECTION
 
Introduction
 
The Square Airfield
 
AIRCRAFT AT DISPERSAL
 
Modular Display Cabinets
 
American Aircraft at Dispersal
 
French aircraft at Dispersal
 
German aircraft at Dispersal
 
Italian aircraft at Dispersal
 
Japanese aircraft at Dispersal
 
Soviet aircraft at Dispersal
 

BRITISH STORIES

 
Bristol Aircraft
 
Bristol Type 170 Freighter,Wayfarer & Superfreighter
 
A walk round Bristol Type 170 Mk 31 G-BISU
 
Bristol Type 170: A view from Filton

De Havilland DH2, the fighter that founded Gloster Aircraft
 
De Havilland Mosquito
Away with the Faireys

Fairey Delta 2 and The Wings of Speed
 
The Lost Flying Boats of Blackburn, Fairey and Supermarine
 
Britain's First Seaplane
 
A model history of Gloster Aircraft
 
Gloster Gladiator N5520: Model restored
 
The Gloster Hudson - a missed opportunity?
 
Handley Page Aircraft
Flashpoint Korea

Tribute to Skyfame
 
Sydney Camm and the Winds of Change
 
Westland Aircraft
 

AMERICAN STORIES

 
Lockheed Aircraft
 
Rainbow of the US Navy
 

GERMAN STORIES

 
Kaiser Bill's Air Force: Albatros to Roland
 
Kaiser Bill's Air Force: Angrif England!
 
Kaiser Bill's Air Force: The Zeppelins
 

JAPANESE STORIES

 
Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" and the loss of Force Z
 

THE GUEST LIST

 
Ken Guest's Photographic Index
 

KIM HIBBERD

TOP GLOUCESTERSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHER

1953 - 2009

 
Tribute to Kim Hibberd
 
Kim Hibberd meets 771 Royal Naval Air Squadron
 
Kim Hibberd meets RAF Strike Command
 

RAILWAY OPERATING DEPARTMENT

 
Background to the Background
 
Capital Works
 
Capital Works: Guest Motive Power
 
The Class 47 Connection
 
The Fastest Diorama in the West
 
Flightline
 
Kaiser Bill's Trains
 

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 Aircraft


Terminal 1 Rolling Stock


N Gauge
Steam Push-Pull 

Flying down to Cheltenham

Terminal 1 2010 Departures

Universal Works

Universal Works salutes English Electric 

Wagon Repairs Diorama: All Change
 

THE LEIGH VALLEY LIGHT RAILWAY

 
Introduction
 
Steam Locomotives
 
Garratt Millennium
 
Diesel Locomotives
 
Rolling Stock
 
Tribute to Norman Bozzard
 
Norman Bozzard Day 2007
 
Open Weekend 2008

Open Weekend 2009
 

BROADBAND TRANSPORT CINEMA

 

Historic Footage

 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE AVIATION

 
Bristol Aircraft and the bomber gap
 
Civil Aviation - A Gloucestershire Perspective
 
Cosmic Heroes
 

Dorniers over Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire Propellers
 
Gloster Meteor IVs in Argentina

The Royal Air Force in the 1930s A-G
 
The Royal Air Force in the 1930s H-W
 
Rotors over Gloucestershire
 
A walk round Westland Sea King HAR3 XZ589
 
Staverton Hero: Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
 
The Telstar Story
 
Tiger Airways Stampe of Approval

SKYFAME CIRCUIT - THE BEST OF WHAT'S LEFT

 
Introduction
 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE BUSES

 
Bristol Double Deck Buses in Gloucestershire
 
Bristol Single Deck Buses in Gloucestershire
 
Bristol VR - The Big Firm Bus

Cheltenham District 75
 
Gloucestershire Stagecoach 2008 - 09
 
Just the Ticket Punch
 
Michelle Ryan: The Girl with the Big Firm Bus


Stagecoach  Gold

The Trident life of Stagecoach Cheltenham
 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE RAILWAYS

 
Berry Wiggins at Whimsey 1949-1967
 
British Telecomm rings the changes
 

Boom Time for 60019 "Bittern"

C.B Collett's Air Force

Gloucestershire's Chemical Romance
 
3440 "City of Truro" leaves Toddington

Churchdown School Railtours 1978-79
 
Cotswold Rail at Gloucester 2007
 
Diesel Locomotive Driving
 
English Electric Exportese
 
The Greenest of Diesels
 
Up the line from Kemble
 

70013 "Oliver Cromwell" at Cheltenham

Llanthony Road Yard Gloucester

 
Railways in Gloucester and Churchdown-up to 1845
 
Railways in Gloucester and Churchdown - after 1845
 
Railfuture Gloucester 21 October 2006
 
Railfuture Gloucester: Kemble to Swindon
 
60163 "Tornado" at Gloucester

Torque to the Trees
 
JOE GREAVES' PRIVATE OWNER WAGON INDEX 
 
Introduction and Letter A
 B

THE GLOUCESTER RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND WAGON COMPANY

 

INTRODUCTION TO GRCW

 
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Limited
 
GRCW's FW.Sinclair on Carriage Building
 
GRCW's Henry Wright
 
GRCW Works Shunters
 
Wagon Repairs Ltd
 
GRCW Wagons For Hire
 

GRCW AND ARGENTINA

 
GRCW and Argentina
 
GRCW y la Argentina Version Espanol
 

PIONEERING PRODUCTS BY GRCW

 
GRCW and GWR Diesel Railcars
 
GRCW's Class 100 Driving Trailer Composite 56317 preserved
 
GRCW's Class 122 rail car 55000 preserved
 
GRCW and Cement Wagons
 

PRIVATE OWNER OPEN WAGONS BY GRCW

 
GRCW Private Owner Chronology
 
GRCW Private Owner Coal Wagons: Introduction, Airfix & Bachmann models
 
GRCW Private Owner Coal Wagons: Dapol & Grafar models
 
GRCW Private Owner Coal Wagons: Hornby models
 
GRCW Private Owner Coal Wagons: Robbie's Rolling Stock
 
Ian Pope's view of GRCW Private Owner Coal Wagons
 
Ian Pope's 7mm scale models of GRCW Private Owner Coal Wagons
 

GRCW AND THE TORONTO SUBWAY

 
GRCW and Toronto's Subway
 
"Gloucester Trains Keep City Moving"
 

RAILSPOT RELOADED

 
British Standard Six Coupled Steam
 
Coal
 
English Electric Type 3 Co-Cos
 
Great Western Railway Express Passenger 4-6-0s

Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways
 
"King Arthur" 4-6-0s
 
The Midland & South Western Junction Railway
 
National Waterways Museum Wagons

46201"Princess Elizabeth"
 
Warship Class diesel hydraulic locomotives
 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROAD TRANSPORT

 
Andrew Hughes Model Police Car Collection
 
Andrew Hughes' Pageant of Motoring
 
Andy Peckham's Travel 2000 Ltd
 
The Best of the Burrells
 
Meet The Mellor Brothers


The Mellor Brothers keep on trucking

The Mellor Brothers On The Buses


 
The Mellor Brothers: Layby Diorama
 
The Mellor Brothers present The A Team
 
The Mellor Brothers win on aggregate
 
The Mellor Brothers animal passions
 
The Mellor Brothers push the boat out
 

The Buccaneering Mellor Brothers

The Mellor Brothers chill out

The Mellor Brothers : Good with Co-Operative vehicles

The Mellor Brothers salute Moreton C. Cullimore

It's curtains for The Mellor Brothers
 
The Mellor Brothers go flat out

The Mellor Brothers Heavy Metal
 
The Mellor Brothers Lift and Separate
 
The Mellor Brothers go nuts
 

The Mellor Brothers pass the parcels


The Mellor Brothers go rigid

The Mellor Brothers tractive effort
 
The Mellor Brothers in Wharfedale
 
The Mellor Brothers wheels within wheels
 
The Mellor Brothers get wood
 
A model history of Royal Air Force vehicles
 
Roman Roads
 
Tanks for the memory
 
Tibberton Methodist Church : A Rural Journey
 

Eric Vick's MAN TGX

GLOUCESTERSHIRE MOTOR SPORT HISTORY

 
A barrel of Coopers
 

BRITISH RAILWAYS LOCOMOTIVE DEPOTS 1950 - 1959

 
BR London Midland Region Locomotive Depots
 
BR Eastern Region Locomotive Depots
 
BR North Eastern Region Locomotive Depots
 
BR Scottish Region Locomotive Depots
 
BR Southern Region Locomotive Depots
 
BR Western Region Locomotive Depots
 
BR Locomotive Allocations 1950 and 1959
 

LONDON MIDLAND REGION 1960S & 70S

 
London Midland Control
 
LMR 2 January 1973
 
RAIL REPORTS

Introduction

Rail Reports 2007

Rail Reports 2008

Rail Reports 2009

ALAN'S WORLD OF RAILWAYS

 
Duffy's Progress
 
Electrification Pioneers
 
Fred The Steam Fugitive
 
High Speed Trains
 
Isle of Wight Steam Locomotives
 
In the hole with 57 315 "The Mole"
 
Know Your 1950s Trains

Meet me at St Pancras
 
More about St Pancras
 
Price Discrimination on Virgin Trains
 
The Railway Raptors: NBL 10800 Hawk D0280 Falcon and HS4000 Kestrel
 
Maximum Steam with L.D. Porta
 
Tracks to the Future
 
Waterloo Sunrise
 
Wheels on Rails
 

TRANSPORT SCIENCE FICTION

 
Aliens of Coventry

The Desperation of the Daleks
 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE WATERWAYS

 

Arco Trent's Reality Check

HMS Aeneas at Bristol
 
The Battle of the Atlantic

The Battle of the River Plate

The Ghosts of Gloucester Docks
 
Radio Cruise Control
 
Tugs On Film

STOP AND EXAMINE

 
Reverend Douglas Drane's Transport Sunday message
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRANSPORT HISTORY

Celebrating everything connected with

transport and Gloucestershire

GRCW built Great Western Diesel Railcar 18


NOW WITH ADDED HEREFORDSHIRE!



THE ART OF GLOUCESTER

This beautiful atmospheric oil painting of a wet day at Gloucester's Barton Street Junction in the days of the old swinging gates and LMR "Black Fives" is from the brush of Gloucester artist Rob Rowland. Click on the picture for more information.

This beautiful atmospheric oil painting of a wet day at Barton Street Junction in the days of the old swinging gates and LMR "Black Fives" is from the brush of Gloucester artist Rob Rowland, who has also depicted former Great Western 2-8-0 3864 hauling a fast freight towards Central station. Further south ex LMS 3F 0-6-0 43645 runs light past Eastgate's Passenger Station Box.

by Eastgate's Passenger Station Box,

This beautiful atmospheric oil painting of a wet day at Barton Street Junction in the days of the old swinging gates and LMR "Black Fives" is from the brush of Gloucester artist Rob Rowland, who has also depicted former Great Western 2-8-0 3864 hauling a fast freight towards Central station. Further south ex LMS 3F 0-6-0 43645 runs light past Eastgate's Passenger Station Box.

TRANSPORT ART COLLECTIONS

If you prefer road vehicles however, then why not check out the work of Dewsbury based John G. Kinsley?  His current range includes Southdown buses, as featured on this website's Herefordshire sister. 1952 vintage Leyland Tiger seen here forming the 32 service from Hassocks to Horsted Keynes carried the fleet number 1506 on its East Lancashire DP40 series body.                      


For a consumer review of your latest book, DVD or other Gloucestershire and Transport related product or service why not email Alan



If you like high quality card mounted photographs of interesting aircraft - and more - then why not call Gloucester photographer Ken Guest on +44 (0)1452 413511 or email ken.guest@tiscali.co.uk? Prices start from just £5.00 for a 7" x 5" print and for a further selection of images click on the picture of Swiss marked Hawker Hunter F6 J-4015 at Kemble above.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEN GUEST

If you like high quality card mounted photographs of interesting aircraft - and more - then why not call Gloucester photographer Ken Guest on +44 (0)1452 413511 or email ken.guest@tiscali.co.uk? Prices start from just £5.00 for a 7" x 5" print and for a further selection of images click on the picture of Swiss marked Hawker Hunter F6 J-4015 at Kemble above.

CARD MOUNTED 7" X 5" KEN GUEST PRINTS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT A SPECIAL PRICE OF £3.00 EACH OR £ 5.00 FOR TWO AT SELECTED VENUES THIS SUMMER. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

ALTERNATIVELY, WHY NOT BROWSE KEN GUEST'S PRINTS IN PERSON AT THE AVIATOR  RESTAURANT AT GLOUCESTERSHIRE AIRPORT?

ALTERNATIVELY, WHY NOT BROWSE KEN GUEST'S PRINTS IN PERSON AT THE AVIATOR RESTAURANT AT GLOUCESTERSHIRE AIRPORT?



THE MELLOR BROTHERS
 VEG OUT





2009 has been a busy year for Paul and David Mellor, most notably with the completion of their Charles Russell low loader complete with Blackburn Buccaneer twin jet bomber.

Their aim for 2010 is to replicate even more Gloucestershire based commercial vehicles in 4mm scale and Gloucestershire Transport History visitors can help them achieve this.

Do you have any colour or monchrome pictures that you could email of any lorries and vans that worked in the county from 1950 onwards?

In particular the Mellor Brothers would appreciate any more images of Loader & Munckton vehicles such as the one above and also of any used by Western Trading ( mainly yellow and black Fords ) and Haine and Corry ( orange ) builder's merchant's.

And what about vegetables?  They'll have the same!  In particular Paul and David hope to model more of the Bedford TK and Commer vehicles used by Francis Blakeway, Ford, Griffiths ( brown and orange markings ) and Hintons.

Any help would be gratefully received.



REQUEST STOP

Gloucestershire Transport History really started with my interest in the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited and although Bristol Road's output of private owner coal wagons and more advanced rolling stock stock for British Railways have been explored and celebrated on these pages relatively little attention has been given to products sold to the "Big Four" railways and their antecedents.

Gloucestershire Transport History really started with my interest in the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited and although Bristol Road's output of private owner coal wagons and more advanced rolling stock stock for British Railways have been explored and celebrated on these pages relatively little attention has been given to products sold to the "Big Four" railways and their antecedents.

As such, I was very pleased when Richard Salmon emailed with news of a four wheeled 10 ton five-plank 9' wheelbase wagon ( pictured above ) built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company for the Great Western Railway and now being restored at Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex.

87782 was one of a thousand "OPEN A"  wagons (Nos. 87001–88000) in GWR Lot 697  ordered on 20 October 1911 and completed on 28 December 1912. 

The average cost to the Great Western per Gloucester RCW built wagon was £112 and 87782 was completed during week ending 23 November 1912.  In all 10,815 wagons identified by the telegraphic code "OPEN A".were built by or for the GWR to their diagram O11.

Rather than the continuous brakes of more modern wagons, 87782 was fitted only with a  Dean / Churchward ratchet type hand brake with handles on the right hand of either side. As the name suggests, this was designed by two succeeding GWR Chief Mechanical Engineers and widely used by the GWR but rarely by other railways. 87782 thus had a relatively low original tare (empty) weight of 5 tons 18 cwt 0 quaters, although it was marked 5 tons 17 cwt on arrival at the Bluebell Railway.  However, 87782 was originally fitted with a sheet support rail to prevent water accumulating in hollows in covering tarpaulins and leaking onto the goods below.

During the Great War (1914–1918) a number of locomotives and wagons were taken over by the military for use overseas. 87782 was so requisitioned on 21 February 1917 and was returned to the GWR on 11 April 1920, thus making this particular OPEN A a War veteran!

Notes on 87782 from the GWR Wagon Register further describe the iron framed wagon's wooden body as measuring 15' 6" long, 7' 7" wide and 3' 3" deep while suspension was provided by 3' 4 1/4" long leaf springs.

Length between centres of axle journals was 6' 6", size of journals 8" x 3 3/4", diameter through boss of wheels: 5 1/4" and diameter in middle: 4 3/4".  on the end of each axle were wheels with a diameter of 3' 1 1/2".  The buffers were self contained.

GWR maintenance records show 87772 being repaired and returned to traffic on 11 May 1932 and a Haywoods Slack Adjuster was fitted at Swindon on  7 January 1939

W87782 was condemned on the London Midland Region on 21 February 1959 and sold by British Railways to the Port of Bristol Authority on 26 December 1959. It was renumbered PBA 59627 and continued in service within the docks until the late 1970s, after which it was purchased for the Bluebell Railway by Neil Cameron, arriving with other vehicles from Bristol Docks in June 1981.

The Port of Bristol Authority wagons were regularly repaired and PBA 59627 was fitted with replacement headstocks and reinforced door pillars. The original GWR self-contained buffers were replaced with Dowty pneumatic buffers although the original solebars and underframe on this wagon are in particularly good condition for nearly a century of service.

Volunteers would now like to restore GW 87782 during 2010 at an estimated £850 cost - not a huge amount by many railway restoration project standards.  To put the costs in perspective, each floorboard costs around £12; each 2.5 litre tin of paint costs almost £25. There will be no labour costs – all donations will be spent on materials.

Practical help is also required for such jobs as rivetting the headstocks into position, modifying the door pillars to the original pattern and rivetting them onto the solebars, obtaining and fitting suitable GWR pattern self-contained buffers or similar, repairs to body metalwork, fitting new floor and body timberwork, and painting.

The volunteer restorers
- who have also worked on LMS medium goods wagon 474558 - would also be interested in learning of any more about the history of 87772 and specifically would like to reproduce the correct G-plates for the OPEN A.  It is believed that the plates would be a slightly older version of those pictured below with the "Carriage & Wagon" lettering is straight rather than curved and the lettering underneath  longer, probably including the words "Company Ltd".

If anyone reading this has a suitable G-Plate from which a latex-rubber moulding could be taken then please email me and for details of donating to the restoration of 87772 please click on the pictures above and below.

The volunteer restorers - who have also worked on LMS medium goods wagon 474558 - would also be interested in learning of any more about the history of 87772 and specifically would like to reproduce the correct G-plates for the OPEN A. It is believed that the plates would be a slightly older version of those pictured below with the "Carriage & Wagon" lettering is straight rather than curved and the lettering underneath longer, probably including the words "Company Ltd".

Meanwhile, if you have a 3 1/2" gauge live steam model of a British Standard Britannia 4-6-2, similar to 70041 "Anzac" pictured below, in running condition or not, then John Clifton would be interested in acquiring it from you.

Meanwhile, if you have a 3 1/2" gauge live steam model of a British Standard Britannia 4-6-2, similar to the ones pictured below, in running condition or not, then John Clifton would be interested in acquiring it from you.

It may well be that it was built from the plans supplied by Model and Allied Press ( MAP ) as L.O. 81 volumes 104-109.  A completed example - numbered 70051 and named "Firth of Forth" is seen at work below in Walton Park, Sale, Cheshire with members of the Sales Area Model Engineering Society.



RED NOTICE CASE


 FROM 1000 TO 1700 ON SATURDAY 13 MARCH 2010 STONEHOUSE MODEL RAILWAY SHOW WILL BE HELD AT STONEHOUSE TOWN HALL. ADULTS £2.00, CONCESSIONS £1.50, CHILDREN £1.00 IN AID OF THE ELMS NURSING HOME ( ST JOHNS CARE TRUST )

FROM 1000 TO 1700 ON SATURDAY 13 MARCH 2010 STONEHOUSE MODEL RAILWAY SHOW WILL BE HELD AT STONEHOUSE TOWN HALL.  ADULTS £2.00, CONCESSIONS £1.50, CHILDREN £1.00 IN AID OF THE ELMS NURSING HOME ( ST JOHNS CARE TRUST )

ATTRACTIONS INCLUDE
BROCKLEY ACRES ( BRIDGES DIVISION ) , LLANTONY ROAD, CLEMENT WHARF AND TROUBLESOME TRUCKS.

FROM 0930 TO 1300 ON SATURDAY 13 MARCH 2010 "TRACKS TO TRACKS" - A MINI CONFERENCE CONSIDERING THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE ROAD AND RAIL REVOLUTION ON GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILL BE HELD AT THE FRITH CENTRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES, ALVIN STREET, GLOUCESTER GL1 3DW

FROM 0930 TO 1300 ON SATURDAY 13 MARCH 2010 "TRACKS TO TRACKS" - A MINI CONFERENCE CONSIDERING THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE ROAD AND RAIL REVOLUTION ON GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILL BE HELD AT THE FRITH CENTRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES, ALVIN STREET, GLOUCESTER GL1 3DW

SPEAKERS INCLUDE NICHOLAS HERBERT, FORMER EDITOR OF THE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND IAN POPE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FOREST OF DEAN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY.  THERE WILL ALSO BE DISPLAYS BY SELECTED LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETIES AND RELATED READINGS.

ADMISSION £ 5.00 BY PRE BOOKING AT archives@gloucestershire.gov.uk


GLOUCESTER FILM MAKERS PRESENT "STEAM TRAINS TO THE SEA", A FILM SHOW BY MICHAEL CLEMENS AT ST GEORGES CHURCH CENTRE, COURT ROAD, BROCKWORTH GL3 4ET AT 1930 ON MONDAY 15 MARCH 2010. ILLUSTRATING THIS IS A DETAIL FROM FREDERICK LEA'S PAINTING "DEVON BELLE AT ILFRACOMBE". FREDERICK LEA'S GLASLYN JUNCTION LAYOUT WILL BE DISPLAYED AT CHELTENHAM ST MARGARET'S HALL ON 10 AND 11 APRIL 2010.

GLOUCESTER FILM MAKERS PRESENT "STEAM TRAINS TO THE SEA", A FILM SHOW BY MICHAEL CLEMENS AT ST GEORGES CHURCH CENTRE, COURT ROAD, BROCKWORTH GL3 4ET AT 1930 ON MONDAY 15 MARCH 2010.  ILLUSTRATING THIS IS  A DETAIL FROM FREDERICK LEA'S PAINTING "DEVON BELLE AT ILFRACOMBE".  FREDERICK LEA'S GLASLYN JUNCTION LAYOUT WILL BE DISPLAYED AT CHELTENHAM ST MARGARET'S HALL ON 10 AND 11 APRIL 2010.

THE MIND ROBBERS - GLOUCESTER'S OWN DR WHO SOCIETY - WILL MEET AT THE LINDEN TREE, BRISTOL ROAD, GL1 5SN AT 2000 ON SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2009

THE MIND ROBBERS - GLOUCESTER'S OWN DR WHO SOCIETY - WILL MEET AT THE LINDEN TREE, BRISTOL ROAD,
GL1 5SN AT 2000 ON SATURDAY 27 MARCH 2010

FROM 1000 TO 1600 ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 10 AND 11 APRIL 2010 THE CHELTENHAM GWR MODELLERS EXHIBITION WILL BE HELD AT ST MARGARET'S HALL, CONISTON ROAD, CHELTENHAM. LAYOUTS WILL INCLUDE WOOD STREET (0) RIVENDELL (0-16.5) CANADA ROAD (EM) DUDLEY ROAD, GORPETON BLYMEE, STONEBRIDGE, UNIVERSAL WORKS (00) AND GLASLYN JUNCTION (TT)

FROM 1000 TO 1600 ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 10 AND 11 APRIL 2010 THE CHELTENHAM GWR MODELLERS EXHIBITION WILL BE HELD AT ST MARGARET'S HALL, CONISTON ROAD, CHELTENHAM.  LAYOUTS WILL INCLUDE WOOD STREET (0) RIVENDELL (0-16.5) CANADA ROAD,  YEOFORD (EM) DUDLEY ROAD, GORPETON BLYMEE, STONEBRIDGE, UNIVERSAL WORKS (00) , GLASLYN JUNCTION (TT) AND QUELQUE PART EN FRANCE (Z)

26 AND 27 JUNE 2010 WILL MARK THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY RALLY OF THE MODEL STEAM ROAD VEHICLE SOCIETY AT TEWKESBURY. LOOK OUT FOR TERMINAL 1 IN THE MODEL TENT.

26 AND 27 JUNE 2010 WILL MARK THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY RALLY OF THE MODEL STEAM ROAD VEHICLE SOCIETY AT TEWKESBURY.  LOOK OUT FOR TERMINAL 1 IN THE MODEL TENT.

FROM 1000 TO 1700 ON SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER 2010 AND FROM 1000 TO 1600 ON SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER 2010 CIRENCESTER MODEL RAILWAY SHOW WILL BE HELD AT DEER PARK SCHOOL, A419, CIRENCESTER, GL7 1XB. ADULTS £4.00, CONCESSIONS £3.00, FAMILY 2+2 £10.00

FROM 1000 TO 1700 ON SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER 2010 AND FROM 1000 TO 1600 ON SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER 2010 CIRENCESTER MODEL RAILWAY SHOW WILL BE HELD AT DEER PARK SCHOOL, A419, CIRENCESTER, GL7 1XB.  ADULTS £4.00, CONCESSIONS £3.00, FAMILY 2+2 £10.00  

ATTRACTIONS INCLUDE MELSTOCK INTRINSICA (S GAUGE) BRINKLEY (SCALEFOUR) LLANTONY ROAD AND
TROUBLESOME TRUCKS. (00), KINGS CROSS AND TERMINAL 1 (N)


TERMINAL 1 WILL BE APPEARING AT THE COTSWOLD MODEL RAILWAY SHOW , HELD ON SATURDAY 6 AND SUNDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2010 AT THOMAS KEBLE SCHOOL, EASTCOMBE, GL6 7DY.

                         


Set at the lowest natural crossing point on the River Severn, Gloucester has always been a focus for travellers and as a result both the City and County have a rich transport heritage.

First came the Romans with their roads, which evolved from the pathways of the Ancient Britons and grew into the complex of trunk roads and Motorways that we enjoy today. These roads not only allowed Welsh livestock to be driven to London but also accessed the coal, iron and timber of the nearby Forest of Dean

As the centuries passed too, the Severn was also exploited for the movement of goods, leading Queen Elizabeth I to grant the Letters Patent that made Gloucester a Port in 1580. Indeed, the trade on the Severn was so busy by the reign of Charles I that his imposition of Ship Tax helped the citizens of Gloucester decide to stand against him in the English Civil War.

fter decades of manual labour, the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal also opened in 1827, allowing the dangerous sandbanks of the river to be bypassed by ocean going vessels. The longest, widest and deepest ship canal in the World – as it was when new – also brought an abundance of timber to the Cathedral City.

After decades of manual labour, the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal also opened in 1827, allowing the dangerous sandbanks of the river to be bypassed by ocean going vessels. The longest, widest and deepest ship canal in the World – as it was when new – also brought an abundance of timber to the Cathedral City.

This in turn laid the foundation for such firms as Morelands – the "England’s Glory" match manufacturers – the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited and H.H. Martyn's of Cheltenham.

From Gloucester's tradition of blacksmithery and pin making too, sprang Cotton Motorcycles and – ultimately – the Gloster Aircraft Company. Among this company's illustrious products were the Gloster E28/39. In 1941 this became the first Allied jet aircraft to fly and led directly to the development of the Meteor and Javelin fighters.

From Gloucester's tradition of blacksmithery and pin making too, sprang Cotton Motorcycles and – ultimately – the Gloster Aircraft Company. Among this company's illustrious products were the Gloster E28/39. In 1941 this became the first Allied jet aircraft to fly and led directly to the development of the Meteor and Javelin fighters.

Indeed, prior to the creation of the new counties of Avon and South Gloucestershire in 1973, Gloucestershire also embraced Parnall's of Yate and the Bristol Aeroplane Company with its omnibus building ancestry.

Prior to the creation of the new counties of Avon and South Gloucestershire in 1973, Gloucestershire also embraced the Bristol Aeroplane Company with its omnibus building ancestry.

From the latter's base at Filton, the British prototype Anglo - French Concorde first flew on 9 April 1969. With Brian Trubshaw at the controls, G-BSST landed at RAF Fairford - still a part of the transport infrastructure of Gloucestershire today and host to the annual Royal International Air Tattoo.

From the latter's base at Filton, the British prototype Anglo - French Concorde first flew in 1969. With Brian Trubshaw at the controls, G-BSST landed at RAF Fairford - still a part of the transport infrastructure of Gloucestershire today and host to the annual Royal International Air Tattoo.

Gloucestershire also boasts a rich heritage of railway operations, having been the Nineteenth Century battleground of the gauges between the factions of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and George and Robert Stephenson. As a result, the county still has direct links with Cardiff, Bristol, Swindon and Birmingham.

Indeed, Gloucestershire can also lay claim to preserved railways,horse drawn tramways, narrow gauge and miniature railways as well as a thriving model transport enthusiast community. This includes the Gloucester branch of the International Plastic Modelling Society which meets at Churchdown Community Centre on the first Tuesday of every month. For further information please contact Mr Barnfield on 01242 862826.

     

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