Held at:

Private Collection

Reference:

CG Smith Collection

Source:

Original photographs and notes

Title:

Digital Archive: Photographs of the Golden Valley Railway – Elm Bridge

Place name:

Golden Valley

Date:

1940 - 1953

Description:

ELM BRIDGE

 

97

 

Strengthening a culvert near Elm Bridge Crossing in 1940 – 41 to permit heavier locomotives to run to the ordnance depot.

 

9925

 

GWR Engine No 359 “Hilda” standing outside the Marshalling Yard at Elm Bridge, March 1941

 

125

 

Elm Bridge Level Crossing, with the crossing keeper’s cottage by the gates. Date unknown [?1950s]

 

 

0112

 

Elm Bridge Crossing; Golden Valley Branch, winter 1953-4

 

197

 

Track layout diagram of the sidings at “Pontrilas Ammunition Storage Depot” [otherwise known as ‘Elm Bridge’, ‘The Dump’ or the ‘Old Depot’.]

 

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.

 

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