Bath Road Depot

To Temple Meads: The New Cut

Track Plans

A track plan of Bath Road Depot from 1903.

A track plan of Bath Road Depot from 1988.

Pride of place in this section is Gerald Peacock aboard 7010 Avondale Castle in 1962. © Gerald Peacock	4985 stands on shed during 1962. © Gerald Peacock	5908 stands on the turntable at the back of the shed. © Gerald Peacock	Not even two years old, D817 Foxhound stands on an unfinished Bath Road shed during January 1962.
This photo was also taken during the rebuilding works and shows Hymek D7001 on shed with Warship D810. Another Hymek and a couple of Warships are also on view.	A 1962 view out of the shed. © Gerald Peacock	6024 stands on Bath Road. © Gerald Peacock	6141 during an open day. The Blue Pullman stands behind. © Gerald Peacock
6859 on shed. © Gerald Peacock	A view inside the newly built diesel depot. © Gerald Peacock	A photo taken during an open day on 20.3.65. C/o Julien Weston	An open day sometime around 1968. © Clive Moore

A leaflet advertising an open day on 17.10.70.	A line up of locos on shed in 1970/71 includes two Warships and a Hymek. © Simon Whittingham	Hymek D7040 keeps Brush Type 4 1729 company in the early 70s. © Phil Bidwell	A general view of the shed. © Laurence Spring
Another shot showing a pre-tops 47 coming off shed. © Laurence Spring	D864 Zambesi waits work. This loco was withdrawn on 27th March 1971, and cut at Swindon 8 months later. © Andy Kirkham	D6354 on shed the same day. © Andy Kirkham	D867 Zenith also on shed. She was withdrawn on the 18th October 1971 and cut at Swindon during September 1972. © Andy Kirkham
Contrasting front ends in 1974. © Andy Kirkham	Metrovick CoBo TDB968006 arrived at Bath Road on the 11th February 1975. It was to be used as a static generator but never was because of a problem with blue asbestos. © Peter Rendall	The Class 28 was no. 5705 before entering departmental service. Here she poses with fitters Ken Sperring (L) and Roy Scott. © Peter Rendall	An awful photo of a couple of Westerns on shed at Bath Road. I include this because it's one of the first photos I ever took. It's a polaroid and the quality is rubbish.... but I love it :) D1010 and D1048 leave the depot and prepare to follow sister locos D1023 and D1013 to Plymouth as backup on the last day of the Westerns. 26.2.77.

A general night time view of locos on shed at Bath Rd. 37207, 56039 and 37159 await their next duties. 3.5.88.	56050 departs on 24.6.88. © Simon Jones	A general view of the shed taken on the 15.1.89. Locos visible include 47095, 47634, 47539, 47500 and 47528. Like an idiot, I didn't archive the number of the 08!	Another view of the sheds, this time taken on the 13.7.89.
47567 Red Star trundles off shed.	47492 at the head of a brace of Scotrail liveried locos as Bath Road hosts an open day. © Andy Mitchell	45022 © Andy Mitchell

A view of the shed taken on the the 18.5.90. Visible in the shot are 150267 and 50037. © David Burrell	08483 positions 47801 on 18.5.90. © David Burrell	50031 Hood at Bath Road on 16.6.90. © David Burrell	Unique liveried 50019 was stabled at Bath Road on the same day. © David Burrell
As was a rather crumpled looking 47202. © David Burrell	47627 shunts locos around on 18.5.91. © David Burrell	47581 awaits work on the same day. © David Burrell

7.5.03

A view of the by then closed sheds on the 7th May 2003. © Mike P

Poignant marks on the soon-to-be-demolished walls. © Mike P

A TPWS sign stands guard over the closed depot buildings. © Mike P

A view of the site of Bath Road Depot taken on the 7.10.04.

What was the entrance to the depot on the same day. The signal box that controlled movement into and out of the depot had recently been demolished.

These arches alongside the River Avon date from the original Bristol & Exeter shed built on this site.

Another view of the arches.