Description:

WESTBROOK

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Westbrook Station and surroundings, from the 25-inch  Ordnance Survey of 1904

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Engine No 566 with a mixed train to Hay standing in Westbrook Station in 1924.  Engineman CG Smith on the footplate, Station Master Knowles on the platform.

Photo by one of Station Master Knowles’ sons – either Jimmy or Howard.

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Loading timber at Maen Twlch, 1927. Vowchurch Stationmaster J Williams is on the left, Engineman C Smith behind, holding the wagon side.

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Engine No 521 at Maen Twlch waiting to return to Pontrilas with timber. Engineman C Smith on the footplate [?1927]

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Train from Hay at Westbrook Station, 1932. Note well-tended flower beds on the platform and timber by the siding waiting to be loaded.

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Shunting at Westbrook Station in 1938, Guard John Tidmas on the line. Note the flower beds on the platform; Westbrook and Clifford competed with each other for the unofficial title of best kept garden.

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Westbrook Station, Golden Valley Branch, January 1940

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Westbrook Station Golden Valley Branch February 1947, looking towards Hay. Guard G Lewis, Pontrilas; Porter Tom Beddoes, Westbrook. Note hamper of bread on the platform brought out by train; the bread van could not run owing to the depth of snow on the roads.

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Westbrook Station, Level Crossing and Siding c. 1949

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Dismantling Newton Road Bridge between Dorstone and Westbrook by the Gloucester Bridge Gang, September 1950

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Dismantling Newton Road Bridge between Dorstone and Westbrook by the Gloucester Bridge Gang, September 1950

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Dismantling Newton Road Bridge between Dorstone and Westbrook by the Gloucester Bridge Gang, September 1950

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The ‘Three Bridges’ at the summit of the Golden Valley railway, looking towards Dorstone c. 1950

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Westbrook Station and Level Crossing after it closed on 2nd January 1950 and the track had been lifted. [?c.1951]

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Drawings of Westbrook Station buildings

Observations:

Original photographs from a collection by CG Smith, Engineman on the Golden Valley Branch of the Great Western Railway from 1924 to c.1960. Reproduced by kind permission of his son, David Smith of Ewyas Harold.

Return to Index page for photographs of other stations on the Golden Valley Branch.