Description:

VOWCHURCH

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

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Station Master Pinnock at Vowchurch Station, c. 1901

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Engine No 1428 at Vowchurch Station c. 1901.  Station Master Pinnock is on the platform.

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Engine No 5818 arriving at Vowchurch Station from Bacton, 1937. Engineman looking out of cab CG Smith of Pontrilas.

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Vowchurch station in the 1930s, looking south towards Bacton. Note siding to rear right of the platform and timber in the yard behind waiting to be loaded.

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Vowchurch Station, Golden Valley Branch GWR [Date unknown]

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At Vowchurch crossing, looking towards Peterchurch [Date unknown]

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Golden Valley Branch; train in motion leaving Vowchurch for Pontrilas. Left, Stanley [?Hurle] (Porter, Dorstone); centre the one and only George Lewis, Guard; right wearing uniform cap, Bert Bevan, Porter Guard

Photograph by C Smith taken from the footplate [Date unknown]

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Taken from bottom end of Vowchurch yard Golden Valley Branch, looking towards the Black Mountains

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Engine No 5818 leaving Vowchurch for Pontrilas, 1940. Fireman Lewis Ibell standing on the footplate.

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Mowlems [contractors] men unloading hardcore from railway wagons into lorries at Vowchurch Station for Madley Aerodrome during the Second War. [c. 1940]

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Engine No 4822 with a train for Pontrilas approaching the level crossing at Vowchurch in June 1945, engineman Dick Trapp on the footplate. The rear of the train is just clearing the bridge over the river Dore. Date unknown

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Vowchurch Level Crossing, looking north towards Peterchurch. Date unknown

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Vowchurch Yard, 1950; loading material recovered from lifting the line north of Dorstone.

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Vowchurch Yard, 1950; Loading materials recovered from the top end of the Golden Valley Branch after the line had been taken up between Hay junction and Dorstone (at Vowchurch Yard on a Sunday). [c. 1950]

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Loading materials recovered from the top end of the Golden Valley Branch after the line had been taken up between Hay junction and Dorstone (at Vowchurch Yard on a Sunday). [c. 1950]

Guard George Jones; Driver CG Smith; Fireman L Ibell; Permanent Way Inspector Bob Layton [Hereford]

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Loading materials recovered from the top end of the Golden Valley Branch after the line had been taken up between Hay junction and Dorstone (at Vowchurch Yard on a Sunday). [c. 1950]

Guard George Jones; Driver CG Smith; Foreman L Abell [?]; Permanent Way Inspector Bob Layton [Hereford]

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Near Vowchurch Station, Golden Valley branch; distant view of Black Mountains. Materials, sleepers etc lying near Vowchurch yard, part of the remains of the top end of the branch. [c. 1950]

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Taken from the footplate of engine No 5818 when standing at Vowchurch Station 1951

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Engine No 5818 shunting at Vowchurch, 1951

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Engine No 5818 hauling a goods train at Vowchurch Station heading towards Pontrilas, 1953.

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The last train to Dorstone arriving at Vowchurch station on the outward journey; 30th  January 1953

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Demolition train at Vowchurch, 1954

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.

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