Bedford - Trains crossing at Tan y Bwlch. Version 1

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Bedford - Trains crossing at Tan y Bwlch. Version 1

Trains crossing at Tan y Bwlch circa 1874. Earliest known photograph of the completed station. James Spooner on Down mixed train, with one of the Large England locomotives on a substantial Up mixed train. James Spooner is in early condition, with no cab or bunker protectors. Curly Roofed Vans Nos 1 & 2 and the other carriages in mixture of two-colour plum and cream and single livery. These include bogie carriages Nos 15 & 16 (the only such vehicles on the railway at this time), and a mixture of Small Birmingham and Ashbury 4-wheeler carriages. The Up train contains various goods waggons, some with sheeted loads, between the carriages and the locomotive, whilst at the rear of the Down train is the open sheep truck.

The station building looks freshly painted and is yet to acquire a brick chimney. Note the wooden water tank and horse-drawn carriage (probably some form of dogcart or Irish jaunting car) from the Oakeley Arms Hotel on the right. In the distance are the white painted wooden steps leading to the signal and top points. The middle road was used for goods waggons. Prior to vacuum brakes being fitted to carriages, these were marshalled directly behind the locomotive, so it was simple to detach them during the station stop and put them in the middle road. After the trains had gone, they would be gravitated down the station, over a diamond crossing with the Up line, and into the goods yard.

Source. Bedford 1622, TY/JS/CP/ /A

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