| Re: Bath Spa: postwar rail ambitions Posted by Mark A at 20:38, 13th January 2026 |     |
Reading on that link that the Westmoreland proposal may have been an initiative under consideration by the GWR and LMS, you wonder whether the two of them had any intentions for Lansdown in Cheltenham (where lines adjacent to the Midland station had no interchange platforms, and even when the GWR's line to Honeybourne arrived, a station materialised some distance away, something that could be argued didn't exactly optimise the passenger experience.)
A side by side comparison on the National Library of Scotland's web site is instructive.
Mark
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.8&lat=51.89920&lon=-2.09398&layers=178&right=206
| Re: Bath Spa: postwar rail ambitions Posted by grahame at 16:13, 13th January 2026 | |
Didn't take long to answer my own musings as a web search looped straight back to this very web site.
Mark
https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/t30230.html
Mark
https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/t30230.html
A good / excellent indicator that the Coffee Shop provides a significant knowledge resource to a far wider public making general enquiries online.
| Re: Bath Spa: postwar rail ambitions Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:03, 13th January 2026 | |
| Re: Bath Spa: postwar rail ambitions Posted by Mark A at 15:48, 13th January 2026 | |
Didn't take long to answer my own musings as a web search looped straight back to this very web site.
Mark
https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/t30230.html
| Bath Spa: postwar rail ambitions Posted by Mark A at 15:43, 13th January 2026 | |
Before the closures, did BR have ambitions to sort out Bath's rail infrastructure? One being that they would close the constricted Bath Spa Station and replace it with a higher capacity station on the site of Westmoreland goods yard? This with the intentions, among other things, to plumb the Midland line, for the purposes of passenger trains, into the GWR route, with the Midland into the city being retained for freight?
Mark
