Bibliography

See the ‘Photo's’ section for more detail of the photo-coverage.

Recommended Reading:

Evans, Kevin. 1976. Radstock West Goes East Great Western Echo — No.55. Spring 1976. pp.10-13
Published by the Great Western Society Limited, Didcot, Oxfordshire.

Price, Alan. 1979. Radstock Signalbox Great Western Echo — No.67. Autumn 1979. pp.15-16
Published by the Great Western Society Limited, Didcot, Oxfordshire.

The rationale behind the locking and OES system adopted for the box.

Thomas, David St. John. 1973. A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume 1, The West Country (fourth edition). David and Charles: Newton Abbot. ISBN 0 7153 6208 9.

A railway history of the area is offered on pages 178-179.

Vincent, Mike. 1990. Through Countryside and Coalfield: the GWR’s Bristol and North Somerset Railway. Haynes: Sparkford: . ISBN 0-86093-428-4

The definitive text on the line including sixteen Photographs of the boxes.

Other Information:

A necessarily incomplete list of where to find published information on the history of the GWR line through Radstock, and information and photographs concerning Radstock North Box and its predecessor.

See the ‘Published Photo's'’ section above for more detail of the photo-coverage.

Adams, William, ed. 1993. Encyclopaedia of the Great Western Railway. Patrick Stephens Limited. Sparkford, Somerset. ISBN 1 85260 329 1

Casserley, H.C. 1975. Railway History in Pictures: Wessex. David and Charles. Newton Abbot. ISBN 0 7153 7058 8

Interesting picture of station dated 1906, showing walkway and rodding still in place.

Clinker, C.R. 1978. Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England Scotland and Wales (1830-1977) - New Edition. Avon Anglia Publications and Services, 9 Poplar Avenue, Bristol BS9 2BE. ISBN 0 905466 19 5

Coleford I. C. The North Somerset Line in BR Days. Railway Bylines: Vol 7. Issue 4. (March 2002) pp.164-177. Published by Irwell Press Ltd. 59a High Street, Clophill Beds MK45 4BE.

Hall, Stanley. 2000. The History and Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles: Volume 1 - Broad Survey. The Friends of the National Railway Museum. ISBN 1 872 826 12 1.

Handley, Chris. 1979. The Railways and Tramways of Radstock. The Somerset and Dorset Railway Museum Trust. 23 Russell Road, Bristol. ISBN 0 9506790 3

One Photograph on page 48, and lots of interesting information about the lines

Handley, Chris. 1991. Radstock, Coal & Steam. The Somerset and Dorset at Radstock and Writhlington — Volume 1. Millstream Books. 7 Orange Grove, Bath BA1 1LP. ISBN 0 0 948975 27 X

Four Photographs, including some very early ones, of the boxes

Handley, Chris. 1992. Radstock, Coal & Steam. The Somerset and Dorset at Radstock and Writhlington — Volume 2. Millstream Books. 7 Orange Grove, Bath BA1 1LP. ISBN 0 0 948975 30 X

One very early Photograph including the McK&H box on page 135

Howell, Christopher.1988. Midsomer Norton and Radstock in Old Photographs. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. Brunswick Road, Gloucester. ISBN 0 86299 552 3.

Photograph on page 106

MacDermot, E. T. 1964. History of the Great Western Railway: Volume Two 1863-1921 (First Revised Edition). Ian Allan Ltd. Shepperton, Surrey. ISBN 0 7110 0412 9

Maggs, Colin G. 1992. The Last Days of Steam in Bristol and Somerset. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0 7509 0001 6

Photograph on page 45

Maggs, Colin G. 1993. Branch Lines of Somerset. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. Phoenix Mill, Stroud, Gloucestershire. ISBN 0 7509 0226 4

Information about the Bristol-Frome Line pp.3-4. Photograph on page 13.

Maggs, Colin G. 2007. Somerset Railways. Halsgrove. Halsgrove House, Ryelands Industrial Estate, Bagley Road, Wellington, Somerset TA21 9PZ. ISBN 978 0 86183 442 6

Three Photographs on pages 34-35.

Maggs, Colin G. 2013. The Bristol-Radstock-Frome Line. The Oakwood Press. PO Box 13, Usk, Mon. NP15 1YS. ISBN 978 0 85361 726 6

Eight Photographs on pages 106-109 and page 232.

Mitchell, Vic & Smith, Keith. 1986. Frome to Bristol. Middleton Press. Midhurst, West Sussex. ISBN 1 873793 77 4

A good pictorial survey of the line, with eight photographs of the box and some useful track diagrams.

Oakley, Michael. 1986. Railways in Avon. Avon Anglia Publications: Annesley House, 21 Southside, Weston-s-Mare. ISBN 0 905466 80 2

Information about railways to Radstock pp.17-18

Oakley, Mike. 2002. Somerset Railway Stations. The Dovecote Press. Wimborne, Dorset. ISBN 1 904349 09 9

Summary information about the station and one photograph on pages 102-103.

Robertson, Kevin. 1990. Somerset & Avon Railways in Old Photographs. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. Phoenix Mill, Stroud, Gloucestershire. ISBN 0 86299 800 X

Four Photographs on pages 99—103.

Signalling Record Society. 2007. Signal Box Register - Volume 1: Great Western. Signalling Record Society ISBN 978 1 8732 2827 2

Basic details on Radstock North Box (p.153)

Signalling Study Group, The. 1986. The Signal Box. Oxford Publishing Company: Poole, Dorset. ISBN 0 86093 224 9

General information about Mackenzie & Holland type 1 boxes, as used by the North Somerset Railway (pp.89-93) and GWR Type 7 boxes (pp.163-164).

Smith, Martin. 1992. The Railways of Bristol and Somerset. Ian Allan: Shepperton, Surrey. ISBN 0 7110 2063 9

Brief history of the line on pp.22-23 and one photograph on page 21

Toop, Ronald E . 1973. Great Western Steam South of the Severn. D Bradford Barton Limited: Truro. ISBN 0 7110 2063 9

One photograph on page 68, showing the top of the box behind a goods train.

Vaughan, Adrian. 1977. A Pictorial Record of Great Western Architecture. Oxford Publishing Company: Poole. Dorset. ISBN 0 902888 22 6

One Photograph on page 133.

Warnock D.W. 1978. The Bristol and North Somerset Railway 1863-1884. Temple Cloud Publications:

A small book containing some useful information about the line.

Warnock D.W. & Parsons R.G. The Bristol and North Somerset Railway since 1884. Avon Anglia: 9 Poplar Avenue Bristol BS9 2BE. ISBN 0 905466 21 7

Companion volume to above.

Waters, Laurence. Around the Great Western Railway - Then and Now. Ian Allan: Hersham, Surrey. ISBN 0 7110 2843 5

One Photograph on page 79.

 

See Also:

Model Railways magazine - April 1976 - pages 200-201 for a write up and drawing for modelling Radstock box by D G Gibbs.

 

In addition, various copies of the Great Western Echo (GW Echo), Great Western Society National Newsletter (GWS NN) and Great Western Society (Bristol Group) News (BGN), all published by the Great Western Society, have been consulted.

Original Documentation has been consulted at The National Archives at Kew (TNA), and the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office (WSRO), originally in Trowbridge but now relocated to Chippenham.

Newspaper reports were taken from the Western Daily Press (WDP), Bristol Times and Mirror (BTM), Bristol Evening Post (BEP) and The Times (TT), all of which are viewable (mostly on microfilm) at Bristol Central Reference Library, the various incarnations of the Bath Chronicle (BC), which are viewable (on microfilm) at Bath Central Library, and of the Somerset Guardian (SG) which are viewable (on microfilm) at the Somerset Local Studies Library in Taunton.

Information has also been obtained from the digital archive of The Railway Magazine (RM).