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Official BR plan updated to October 1970 for the sidings at Quedgeley, about three miles south of Gloucester alongside the Bristol - Gloucester line.
A large military munitions depot - National Fillings Factory No.5 - was built here in the First World War and workers' trains from Stroud, Gloucester and Cheltenham were run to a platform near the main line. Although closed after 1921, it reopened in 1938 and was used by the Air Ministry, later MOD, with rail traffic coming in and out until 1976. The MOD used its own locos, as did the adjacent Dow-Mac factory,opened in 1963,which manufactured concrete railway sleepers.
An old warhorse from the First World War, ex-ROD 2-8-0 3042, built in 1917, at Naas Crossing adjacent to Quedgeley, on a freight, 13 August 1949. This is early BR days and the loco still has its front number on the buffer beam, not on the smokebox door. The train has just passed the Factory site, on the near side of the line here. Photo Ben Brooksbank
Footnote:
A comprehensive article by Brian Edwards on National Fillings Factory No.5 is here http://www.gsia.org.uk/reprints/1994/gi199432.pdf
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