It is situated at the end of a long siding from honeybourne station on the oxford worcester line and used to be on the gwr main line from birmingham to the west country and south wales.
Long marston railway sidings.
Others are standing useless at ely in cambs and long marston warks.
In june 1941 a new west ground frame with four levers together with an east ground frame was supplied for the war department sidings with both being released from long marston signal box.
Stratford midland junction railway.
The side panels of a drs class 20 can just be glimpsed between the white ici tankers and a little further along 37170 is partly visible.
Long marston central engineer park depot long marston.
Thousands of ghost trains are standing idle in railway sidings despite years of chronic overcrowding a probe found.
I seem to remember seeing withdrawn sr emus stored in the sidings at micheldever on the south western main line during the 70 s 80 s.
A view of the exchange sidings and yard at long marston.
Long marston is an ex mod site some 7 miles to the south west of stratford upon avon.
It consists of some 20km of storage sidings and is connected to the national rail network at honeybourne which is on the worcester to london line.
London north western railway.
The long marston military railway project sought to keep alive military railway skills such as re railing of trains as well as locomotive driving and track laying following the disbanding of the british army s last railway unit the royal logistic corps 275 railway squadron in march 2014 as a result of government defence cuts.
Once the train had run into the exchange sidings at long marston 47813 was detached to be replaced by this 0 4 0 shunter named james.
In 1903 long marston had a staff of seven this increased to eight staff in the 1920 s and in 1931 the staff at milcote also became the responsibility of the station master at long marston and the combined establishment numbered twelve staff.
The site at long marston is the largest and most extensive rail storage facility in the uk and its customers read like a who s who of rolling stock ownership.
London north eastern railway.
The site at long marston is the largest and most extensive storage facility in the uk.
