Returning Steam to the Avon Valley
If you've enjoyed learning about the Avon Valley Railway from our website you may also find the following of interest. We've included a number of links to other sites where you can find out about other railways, places of interest, historical information or just somewhere to do some more shopping!
The Avon Valley Railway's online version of 'Semaphore' - the magazine available for AVR members. Excerpts are available on the web for everyone, visitors and members alike, so be sure to check this out!
AVR volunteer James Fibbens' online home for our famous Southern Railway locomotive. Read all about the restoration project going on at Bitton right now!
A wonderful site full of excellent photos, all aimed at the railways of Bristol and the surrounding area. All sorts of current and bygone images to be found here - bound to bring back memories! We've even got a page or three to ourselves! See Bitton and Avon Riverside in particular, or visit their homepage with the link above.
An excellent gallery of past & present rail photographs. Galleries of particular interest iclude Fishponds in Victorian times and 1970's collection of the defunct LMS line.
Home of the West Country Railway Archives - a repository of historical information about all the railways in our area.
Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway
Paul Gregory's fascinating site about the long-lost WC&PR, containing pictures, facts, maps and line-walking information for this little-known local branch. A late 19th Century GWR standard-gauge line that linked the seafront towns, but closed and then totally disappeared during WW2, your local railway-history knowledge is not complete without a visit to this site!
The Portishead Heritage Rail Project is campaigning for the reopening of the line from Portishead to Bristol.
The North Somerset Heritage Trust is the body which has been established to support the creation of The North Somerset Railway, a new rail link which will put Radstock firmly back on the map by re-connecting the town with the national rail network at Frome.
The Shillingstone Station Project aims to restore the station to how it was in the early 1960s, incorporating a small museum, and relaying a stretch of the former Somerset and Dorset Railway track bed for the operation of standard gauge trains.
Home page of the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust. The S&D shared much of its traffic with the Midland Railway (upon which the AVR is situated), and both lines went to Bath Green Park in the old days, so they are very much kindred spirits.
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last updated: andy stone, Sat 31st Dec 2005
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 Theres Murder on the Avon Valley Railway Express! Come for an evenings entertainment to find out who dunnit?. |
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