*The Sixty Marches* charter, Part 3:
Cab view from Westbury (Heywood Road Junction) to Bristol (Dr. Day’s Junction). Filmed from Hastings Diesels Limited’s preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 24 March 2018, during the outward leg of The Sixty Marches private charter.
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In this video we travel the 28 miles and 1 chain across parts of Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol. As it begins, we turn off the Reading – Taunton Line to join the Wessex Main Line through Trowbridge and Bradford-on-Avon, following the valley of the river Avon; we cross it several times, and are crossed by the Kennet & Avon Canal three times on imposing aqueducts. At Bathampton Junction we join the Great Western main line for the run through Bath (where we chanced upon steam loco ‘Tornado’) to Bristol; there, instead of entering Temple Meads station we turn right at Feeder Bridge Junction to join the Filton Lines.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Redhill and Guildford to Reading, then via Hungerford (part 1) to the Westbury area (part 2) where we turned right at Heywood Road Junction, through Bradford-on-Avon and Bath to Filton (this video), through the Severn Tunnel into Wales, to Maindee Junction (Newport) (part 4, to follow) for the line through Abergavenny to Hereford (part 5, to follow); the return journey was via the same route. We intend to produce video footage of the entirety of the rest of this journey to Hereford.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield.
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1:12 – Westbury HEYWOOD ROAD JUNCTION
3:04 – Westbury East Loop Junction
4:42 – Hawkeridge Junction
9:31 – Trowbridge station
11:46 – Ladydown Aqueduct
12:08 – Bradford Junction
18:27 – Bradford Tunnel
18:40 – Bradford-on-Avon station
20:10 – Avoncliff station and Aqueduct
21:06 – Freshford station
21:53 – Limpley Stoke disused station
22:14 – Site of junction with the Bristol & North Somerset branch to Camerton
22:42 – Dundas Aqueduct
28:01 – Bathampton Junction
29:47 – Hampton Row Halt disused station
30:29 – Sydney Gardens East Tunnel
30:35 – Sydney Gardens West Tunnel
30:47 – Bath Spa station and ‘Tornado’
32:44 – Oldfield Park station
33:15 – Twerton-on-Avon disused station
33:48 – Twerton Short Tunnel
33:58 – Twerton Long Tunnel
36:07 – Saltford disused station
36:27 – Saltford Tunnel
38:49 – Keynsham station
40:01 – Fox’s Wood Quarry
41:08 – St. Anne’s Park No.3 Tunnel
41:58 – St. Anne’s Park No.2 Tunnel
42:13 – St. Anne’s Park disused station
42:40 – Bristol East Depot, rems of
43:49 – Site of facing junction with the Bristol & North Somerset Railway
44:35 – North Somerset Junction
44:55 – Feeder Bridge Junction
46:21 – DR. DAY’S JUNCTION
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with focus modification, suction-mount and extra batteries; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are the actual timings for the day’s outing:
https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/diary/2018-03-24_actual-timings
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Here are annotated extracts from the Network Rail Section Appendix:
Outward: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nexbk2jdnmph69u/2018-03-24_Hereford_sectional-appendix-OUT-annotated-fixed.pdf?dl=0
Our return journey’s route was changed just a day or two before the trip because of a bridge strike — from Hereford to Filton Abbey Wood we were supposed to have been routed via Worcester and the Gloucester area to Yate and Bristol Parkway, but as things turned out we had to retrace our steps via the Severn Tunnel. The following shows our original route.
Return: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kana0042y09fy13/2018-03-24_Hereford_sectional-appendix-RTN-annotated-fixed.pdf?dl=0
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