Travelling on the branch

[dursleyglos]

Did you travel on the Dursley branch line to or from Coaley Junction? If so what can you remember of the stations, the line or the journey?

[davegoldsmith]

Andy, I do remember on quite a few occasions my mother taking me down to the station at Lister's and getting our tickets to go to Gloucester. It seemed to take forever but great fun. I guess Ernie was the driver then. Dave

[dursleyglos]

Thanks for that Dave. Ernie was probably one of the drivers but there were other names as well, John Humphries for one. What do you remember of Dursley station itself?

[kriskros]

I remember going on what was called the Dursley Donkey to Gloucester, carriages with no corridors, I can almost smell it now thinking about it.

[Patricia]

When a child I lived at Teetotallers Cottages, Noggins Hole, Hopton Road, Upper Cam and my best friend lived at Everlands so regularly crossed the Gallows Bridge to meet up after school.

I remember a serious accident where a young child fell through the wooden Gallows Bridge onto the railway lines and died as a result of the accident. The bridge was closed for a while for repairs. Does anyone know who the child was.

Teetotallers Cottages were named because the man who lived there gave up drink and saved enough money to build the cottages.

[ken]

The accident on the gallows bridge was about 1950ish, the boy's family name was Isles, but I can't remember his first name.
I think that the family lived in St George's Road.

[dursleyglos]

I believe that after the accident the old wooden bridge was replaced by the steel one which survives to this day.