Image B581, 12.15 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth, Avoncliff station
B581, 12.15 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth, Avoncliff station
B581, 12.15 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth, Avoncliff station A six-car DMU combination with class 119 set B581 on the rear pauses at Avoncliff halt. With a six-car DMU the arrangements for alighting passengers were a little long winded. Initially, the middle coach of the front set would be stopped at the platform for passengers from the front set to alight. Then, the guard would call the train on enabling anybody to alight from the rear set. The guard would sometimes also take the opportunity to join the other half of the train in order to complete his ticket inspection. The photograph is taken from the Avoncliff Aqueduct that spans the entire valley carrying the Kennet and Avon canal and a small road over the railway and the river allowing access to the excellent Cross Guns pub that was obviously of no interest to me in 1978! Keywords: B581 12.15 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth Avoncliff station
B581, 12.15 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth, Avoncliff station A six-car DMU combination with class 119 set B581 on the rear pauses at Avoncliff halt. With a six-car DMU the arrangements for alighting passengers were a little long winded. Initially, the middle coach of the front set would be stopped at the platform for passengers from the front set to alight. Then, the guard would call the train on enabling anybody to alight from the rear set. The guard would sometimes also take the opportunity to join the other half of the train in order to complete his ticket inspection. The photograph is taken from the Avoncliff Aqueduct that spans the entire valley carrying the Kennet and Avon canal and a small road over the railway and the river allowing access to the excellent Cross Guns pub that was obviously of no interest to me in 1978! Keywords: B581 12.15 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth Avoncliff station


A six-car DMU combination with class 119 set B581 on

the rear pauses at Avoncliff halt. With a six-car DMU the arrangements for alighting passengers were a little long winded. Initially, the middle coach of the front set would be stopped at the platform for passengers from the front set to alight. Then, the guard would call the train on enabling anybody to alight from the rear set. The guard would sometimes also take the opportunity to join the other half of the train in order to complete his ticket inspection. The photograph is taken from the Avoncliff Aqueduct that spans the entire valley carrying the Kennet and Avon canal and a small road over the railway and the river allowing access to the excellent Cross Guns pub that was obviously of no interest to me in 1978!