GWSR Broadway Developments

The signalling at Broadway makes it versatile as a terminus, and retains versatility when it becomes a through station. With advanced starters (37 and 9) it's easy to do shunting in the platforms and loop while not needing permission to 'Shunt ahead into section' from adjacent boxes. I can understand why 45 is motor-worked due to it's distance from the box (1800 yards) - probably have difficulty finding the wire and pulleys these days to go that far - to say nothing of the future maintenance. (And in any case the GWR was noted for motor-worked distants anyway, so it is prototypical!)

 

TV Alert!
BBC Midlands Today at 6-30pm should have a live broadcast from the Broadway station site. They were at Toddington at lunchtime and the reporter said he was going up to Broadway for the later broadcast.

Welcome publicity for a superb project.

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I'm in the East Midlands so watched it on I-Player. As you say, very good publicity for the GWSR and some good views of the Evesham Road Bridge at Broadway looking just like its been removed from its box as its so clean, shiny and unblemished! The still photo of 7903 leaving Greet Tunnel with a choc-cream rake of Mk1s made an excellent backdrop to the intro and the Anchorman introduced the topic in such a way as to underline what we all know to be totally obvious: nothing beats a sight like this in our lovely countryside (except perhaps 2 Lancasters flying over it!). Delighted, of course, to see 2807 in action flying the flag for the GWSR. What a lovely loco it is, but then I'm seriously biased!

 

Just watched it, a great piece, only thing that could have been better would have been a bit more on the share offer benefits, but maybe that goes into advertising then? Anyhow still a great piece, hopefully some more awareness as well, I liked the hit at the end!

 

The brief piece from Broadway concentrated on the repaired rail over road bridge, so we didn't see very much of the platform and signal box rebuild which would have been nice as that is being done with volunteer input.

Still, good publicity and brings the extension project to a large audience.

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Archaeologists discover new source of bricks for Broadway Station.



http://www.culture24.org.uk/history...ed-by-archaeologists-near-london-tube-station

They have said that they are getting short.

 

Edited due to misinterpretation of original post.

 

Apparently the turntable can turn an entire train!..

 

"Could" its only the pit that has survived......

 

Alright alright!

 

While we're poking fun at journalistic ignorance when it comes to railways, the item about the Brunel relics also states that "The shed shows evidence of the switch made from the seven foot-wide broad gauge train tracks, used by Great Western, to the standard gauge tracks prescribed in an Act of Parliament and implemented by the 1960s – a ruling Brunel resisted, creating a conflict known as the Gauge Wars."
Has anyone got any photos of a Churchward or Collett broad gauge locomotive that they could share?

 

Had a read of some of their other articles - they really could do with a competent sub-editor - missing words, factual errors, speeling errors - they've got the lot!

 

speeling-no comment.

 

It's called humour….

 

Blody spill chucker

 

That Isengard Kingdom Brunette was quite a visionary wasn't he? Didn't he build a city for that Saruman?

 

The Broadway station team need your help.

We have a good design for the station building, and indeed purchased all the bricks in readiness. What we don't have yet is a drawing of the original roof, so that we can go to a fabricator for a quote. We have tried with Network Rail, but they could not find the design, nor that of a number of alternatives we suggested.
Broadway was a late model GWR design. It was special in that the building itself was basically a brick box, with a large roof over it that was both roof and platform canopy. It was rather like an umbrella over the building, that gave it a special sense of space and light. It had a series of steel trusses, separated by a number of riveted steel arches parallel to the platform facade.

Broadway was not unique in this. A number of other stations of the same era (1904) were built to a similar design. We know of Toddington, Winchcombe, Gotherington, Bishops Cleeve, Henley in Arden, Hall Green, Shirley, Princes Risborough. There may even be others.

Who can help us find a drawing of this type of roof? It doesn't have to be of Broadway itself, it could be one of the sister stations, or perhaps even something from a modeller's magazine.

Many thanks for your help and suggestions. You can reply by posting, or send me a PM.

 

Try the Swindon and Wiltshire Archives at Chippenham, as that is where a lot of the GWR permanent way drawings have gone.

 

From what I can judge from photographs, was not a similar style used at stations such as Keinton Mandeville and Charlton Mackerell when the line from Castle Cary to Cogload was built about the same time?

 

Maybe you have seen this? Maybe not.

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/broadway/