Friday 29th March 2013
A sprinter train, en route from Warminster
to Salisbury, passes the Norton Wood Plantation
(on the right of the picture) as it approaches
the Norton Plantation Bridge, at Norton Bavant.
The photograph was taken by Danny Howell
on the afternoon of Friday 29th March 2013.
Wednesday 6th March 2013
A sprinter train en route from
Salisbury to Warminster, approaching
Norton Plantation Bridge at Norton Bavant.
Skew Bridge and Cotley Hill in the background.
The photograph was taken by Danny Howell
on Wednesday 6th March 2013.
Two photographs taken by Danny Howell
on the afternoon of Monday 7th May 2012,
showing a goods train, pulled by two diesel
locomotives, heading from the Salisbury direction
towards Warminster, seen here as the train
approaches Middleton bridge and passes
Railway Cottages at Middleton Lane, Bishopstrow.
On Wednesday 5th October 2011,
a Bath Spa Express tour,
passed through the parish of Norton Bavant.
Hauled by a BR Pacific 70000 Britannia,
this excursion had departed from Poole
in the morning, travelling via Bournemouth,
Brockenhurst, and Southampton Central,
to Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads,
returning during late afternoon, early evening.
Seen here at 4.35 p.m., passing under the
North Farm Road bridge at Norton Bavant,
on the downline towards Salisbury,
returning via Southampton Central,
Brockenhurst and Bournemouth to Poole.
Approaching Norton Plantation Bridge.
The Norton Wood Plantation is on the right
(north) side of the tracks.
Having passed under Cotley Bridge,
the train headed on towards Skew Bridge.
The loco was hauling a train of
refurbished Royal Scot heritage carriages.
Premier dining was £199 per person,
First Class was £129, and Standard Class was £85.
Party of four reduction of £20.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell.
Two photographs of a sprinter train either side
of Cox’s Drove Bridge, Bishopstrow,
photographed by Danny Howell, on the
afternoon of 29th August 2011.
Above:
The sprinter, en route from Warminster to Salisbury,
approaching Cox’s Drove Bridge.
Battlesbury Hill is in the background.
The sprinter, having passed under Cox’s Drove Bridge,
approaches the bridge over Middleton Lane.
North Farm Road Bridge, Norton Bavant,
can just be seen further on.
Saturday 7th March 2010
Train featuring the preserved steam locomotive BR standard class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell approaching Cotley Bridge (Warminster Bypass) at Heytesbury, en route between Salisbury and Bath. Saturday 7th March 2010. Photograph taken by Danny Howell.
Saturday 7th March 2010
Train featuring the preserved steam locomotive BR standard class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell approaching the bridge at New Road, Heytesbury, en route between Bath and Salisbury. Saturday 7th March 2010. 6.05 p.m. Cotley Hill is in the backgound. Photograph taken by Danny Howell.
Film clip of Tornado steam loco at Upton Scudamore:
Uploaded to youtube by XxBec3509 on 14th February 2010.
(HD)60163 Tornado Storms Upton Scudamore Bank, near Warminster, on 14th February 2010.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9ANfe5xlE
Tuesday 8th March 1988
Diesel locomotive 56038 hauling stone trucks, at Upton Scudamore, travelling from the Warminster direction to the Westbury direction. The A350 Link Road (Warminster Bypass) bridge in the background. Arn Hill in the distance on the left. Photograph taken on Tuesday 8th March 1988.
Wednesday 22nd April 1987
From Yesterday’s Warminster by Danny Howell, 1987:
Another of the inmates [at Warminster Union Workhouse, Sambourne], who spent the last year of his life at the Workhouse, was William Tucker who formerly lived at Brook Street. He earned a great deal of notoriety for himself and he had two nicknames. ‘The Workhouse Terror’ was a reflection on his behaviour at the establishment, where he assaulted a fellow inmate called Allard, for which he was sentenced to gaol. Not long after that, in August 1902, he found himself in trouble again for assaulting a porter and the Master of the Workhouse, Jesse White. Tucker was taken into custody, during which time he broke the windows of a cell at the Police Station. He was sent to gaol again – two months for assaulting the Master, one month for assaulting the porter, and one month for breaking the windows.
Tucker’s other nickname was ‘Benny Lantern’ which probably stemmed from his time as a supernumerary porter at Warminster Railway Station, where he met with an accident on the evening of 23 December 1903. While attempting to cross the tracks at the pedestrian crossing place, with a trolley loaded with goods for the platform on the other side, a light engine which had banked the 6.45 p.m., came out of a yard. The engine and its tender struck the trolley, smashing it to bits and dragged Tucker down the line for about 20 yards. He was taken to the Cottage Hospital, where he was attended to by Dr Partridge and Dr Willcox, and although severely cut and bruised about the scalp and body, he fully recovered. However, ‘Benny Lantern’, aged 44, died at the Workhouse, eleven months later in November 1904.
