The Nineteen-fifties

Background to Gloucester’s Railways 

Early Midland Days
Family influences
Docks & Wagon Works
Midland Steam in the Gloucester area
Schooldays at Tuffley Junction

Early Western Days
Two school trips
Gloucester Central activity
The ‘Great Western’ revisited
Early trips to Swindon Works

1955: The BR Modernisation Plan
The last steam locomotives
The Rise of the Diesel
Passenger rolling-stock
Network proposals

1958: Regional Boundary Changes
The Eastern invasion
Summer Saturday traffic