Gloucester Docks (UK) and their Railways

Neil Parkhouse, in one of his fantastic collections of color photographs from the last decades of steam in Gloucestershire (British Railway History in Color), focuses on the lines of Midland which serve the docks, more precisely on three lines of the region - the Tuffley loop, the High Orchard branch and the Hempsted or New Docks branch. Les approches occidentales des docks sont traitées dans le premier volume de la série.

This thread is intended to cover the dock railways - the first article below is a general overview. Elsewhere, I talked about the old streetcar that first served the docks - it was a 3 foot 6 inch thick track that linked Gloucester to Cheltenham - the Gloucester and Cheltenham track.

The following posts on the discussion thread will seek to follow the routes of the different branches and their branches.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/05/17/gloucester-docks-and-railways-part-1

Ce deuxième article de la série traite des chemins de fer à l'est du canal et des docks de Gloucester - la branche High Orchard, la branche Hempsted et les voies d'évitement associées à ces deux lignes et au côté est des docks ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/05/28/gloucester-docks-and-railways-part-2-the-high-orchard-branch-and-railways-to-the-east-side-of-the-docks

C'est le dernier volet de mon regard sur les chemins de fer des docks de Gloucester. Cet article couvre le côté ouest des docks et les tronçons supérieurs du canal de Gloucester et Sharpness ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/06/11/gloucester-docks-and-railways-part-3-over-junction-the-llanthony-branch-and-railways-to-the-west-side-of-the-docks