Research Sources
Peter W. Gray

Research Sources

Peter W. Gray

The end of a long day's photography as one red tail lamp wanders off into a sympathy of red signals at Bristol Temple Meads East on 13 August 1960.

© Peter W. Gray
Glory Days: Western Signalman

A view for the modellers of the back of Tiverton Junction Signal Box as 0-4-2T 1471 shunts meat containers into the Cattle Pens siding on 1 June 1963. A further line of containers partially obscures the engine shed, which normally housed overnight the 0-4-2Ts working the Culm Valley and Tiverton branches.

© Peter W. Gray
West Country Branch Lines: A Colour Portfolio

In the warm rays of a rapidly sinking sun, 0-4-2T 1421 arrives back at Tiverton Junction on 3 November 1962, with the 1445 from Hemyock; four loaded milk tanks and a passenger coach.

© Peter W. Gray
West Country Branch Lines: A Colour Portfolio

The relative peace of Tiverton Junction station is shattered for a few moments on 1 June 1963 as 2-8-0 2882 races through with the Westbury - Exeter Central cement train, while a Warship class diesel hydraulic murmurs at the head of a up mixed freight.

© Peter W. Gray
Steam On West Of England Main Lines