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GWR Swindon To Bath Line by Colin G. Maggs w/ dust jacket
The GWR Swindon To Bath Line by Colin G. Maggs w/ dust jacket
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
183 pages
Copyright 2003
CONTENTS
Map vi
Introduction vii
1. Planning & Construction 1
2. Opening the Line 23
3. Description of the Line 34
4. Passenger Train Services 98
5. Locomotives & Engine Sheds 112
6. Permanent Way & Signalling 130
7. Accidents 138
8. Railways associated with the Swindon to Bath Line 150
Appendices
1. Corsham Signalman, Norman Whalley 161
2. Box & Bathampton Stationmaster, Wilf Talbot 165
3. Refuge Sidings & Running Loops for Freight Trains 167
4. Miscellaneous 168
5. Station Accommodation, 1956 169
6. Traffic dealt with, 1903-33 170
7. Chippenham Log, 22 June 1963 177
Bibliography 179
Index 181
INTRODUCTION
The Swindon and Bath line was the last link of the Great Western Railway between London, Bath and Bristol. For hundreds of years a road had united these cities, but the Industrial Revolution brought the need for faster passenger
transportation and created heavy commercial traffic unsuited to the roads of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Kennet & Avon Canal, opened in 1810, provided a partial solution, but the development of the steam railway engine in the 1820s provided a more efficient alternative.
The ideal concept of a railway held by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the GWR's engineer, was a straight, level line. This was possible from Paddington to Swindon, the ruling gradient being 1 in 660, but he was then faced with a difficulty: Swindon lay about 300 ft above sea level and Bath 100 ft. His answer was two steep gradients of 1 in 100 worked by stationary steam engines, water power, or a line on the atmospheric principle. In the event, during the years between the line's planning and opening, locomotives were improved to such an extent that they proved capable of climbing such a gradient.
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