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Title: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: grahame on October 15, 2012, 17:55:00 (http://www.wellho.net/pix/cheese.jpg)
Title: Re: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: smokey on October 15, 2012, 20:39:01 TRAINS ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: JayMac on October 15, 2012, 20:51:04 TRAINS ;D ;D ;D Do remember though that as far as Melksham is concerned your response 'TRAINS' is only just correct in being plural. Title: Re: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: Electric train on October 15, 2012, 21:01:32 This http://thames.me.uk/s00710_files/mrb_1840.jpg (http://thames.me.uk/s00710_files/mrb_1840.jpg) and this http://thames.me.uk/s00710_files/rss%20turner.jpg (http://thames.me.uk/s00710_files/rss%20turner.jpg)
Title: Re: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: JayMac on October 15, 2012, 22:17:37 'Rain, Steam and Speed' by J.M.W. Turner. A fantastic painting of the early GWR.
Title: Re: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: eightf48544 on October 16, 2012, 09:38:21 Interesting ad for railway and the Cheese Market at Melksham, however, did the Cheese Market proceed the railway? Didn't you have a branch off the Wilts and Berks canal before the railway? Cheese would be transpotable by canal.
Title: Re: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: smokey on October 22, 2012, 19:23:15 Being Serious about Grahame's question, "What did the railways bring to your town"
I'd Say GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) as before the railways arrived towns and villages still had local time. Even in the 1950's a Time Signal was transmitted at 11:00 am from Paddington by Telegraph to all WR stations and a Horn was blown at Penzance station, by which Train Crew and Station Staff would adjust their watches. Title: Re: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: JayMac on October 25, 2012, 00:24:46 I'd Say GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) as before the railways arrived towns and villages still had local time. A clock showing the 'real' time difference between London and Bristol still remains in working order above St Nicholas Market in Bristol (formerly The Exchange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exchange,_Bristol#Clock)): (http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/home/twamoran/urbanghostsmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/st-nicholas-market-clock.jpg) Title: Re: What did the coming of the railway bring to your town? Post by: TonyK on October 25, 2012, 17:01:04 What did the coming of the railway bring to your town?
In the case of Severn Beach, it brought the town. Prior to 1900, it was farmland. Then the railway came, en route to Pilning. The railway owners saw possibilities, and built the village as a resort in 1922, along with a swimming pool and boating lake. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |