eaw008590 ENGLAND (1947). Marchington Camp, Marchington, 1947
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| Title | [EAW008590] Marchington Camp, Marchington, 1947 |
| Reference | EAW008590 |
| Date | 27-July-1947 |
| Link | |
| Place name | MARCHINGTON |
| Parish | MARCHINGTON |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 413964, 329997 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -1.792541896892, 52.866947831946 |
| National Grid Reference | SK140300 |
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 ARMY CAMP: e70680 |
 Matt Aldred edob.mattaldred.com |
Sunday 10th of March 2024 05:48:44 PM |
| Newlands farm |
 Eddie |
Sunday 8th of November 2015 06:39:49 PM |
| Newlands farm |
Eddie |
Sunday 8th of November 2015 06:39:48 PM |
| A very well laid out system with only a few dead-end sidings (I can only find six, white painted triangular shaped buffer stops) and plenty of access/storage space beside the tracks. It also include a complete circle of track, so beloved of railway modellers, but so seldom found in reality!
The sort of place that generated a lot of rail traffic between 1939 and 1945. However, as the railways were under government control and had fixed income, much of this traffic was never really paid for in the normal way. It could be (and is by some) argued that this period of government control was the final financial blow to the ailing private railways. A financial blow from which the railways never fully recovered and resulted in the work of Dr Beeching 50 years ago. |
 Maurice |
Tuesday 19th of November 2013 08:02:42 AM |
Marchington Railway Station was opened in 1848 and was finally closed in 1958 by the British Transport Commission, which had been set up in 1948 with a brief to close the least-used lines. |
 Lynda Tubbs |
Tuesday 19th of November 2013 11:25:01 AM |
| The only wagons to be seen on this extensive railway system, seem to include some lower than average 'gunpower' vans.
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Maurice |
Tuesday 19th of November 2013 07:52:50 AM |
| Railway system connected to the line from Stoke to Derby out of picture to the right (north). This can be seen in EAW008589, an image that also shows more of the military vehicles stored on the south western corner of the site.
This picture is looking approximately to west south west.
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Maurice |
Tuesday 19th of November 2013 07:45:03 AM |
| Jack Lane (Jack's Lane) |
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Monday 18th of November 2013 05:24:32 PM |
| Rushey Lea |
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Monday 18th of November 2013 05:19:04 PM |
| Hound Hall |
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Monday 18th of November 2013 05:14:44 PM |
| Stubby Lane |
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Monday 18th of November 2013 05:13:21 PM |
| Silver Lane |
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Monday 18th of November 2013 05:12:34 PM |
| Frostfields |
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Monday 18th of November 2013 05:11:48 PM |
User Comment Contributions
Royal Army Ordnance Corp Marchington, was built around 1957 and dealt with the supply and maintenance of weaponry and munitons and various other military equipment until 1993 when the corp amalgamated with the Royal Logistics Corp. It was also a Central Vehicle Depot during this time until the barracks closed in 1970, and the Territorial Army took over until finally closing the site in the early 1980s. Marchington also housed the Army`s fleet of Green Godesses (fire engines) which came under the jurisdiction of the Office Of The Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). |
Maurice |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 09:54:30 PM |
I served with the REME in this area in 1950 and Nov. 1951 till demob. It was the head quarters of 10 Veh. depot workshops, we transferred from Sinfin Lane in Derby where we were attached to the RAOC. The camp was an ex American eighth army airforce camp , outside the guardroom was a duckpond shaped like an 8 with a bridge across the centre of the 8. The guardroom was at the bottom of the road down from a sentry box situated where you entered the camp from a branch road just off the main road to Lichfield. The only railway that I remember was the Derby /Uttoxetor line and the station was Sudbury. I went back for a look see in July 1984 where the sentry box used to be there was a gate into fields , but there was a lot of ghosts. It would be nice if someone could add to this . A REME corporal assisting 2 education corp sergeants was from Marchington his name is Dave Tipper, If he is known to any reader tell him about this And to all who read this every good wish. |
James morrison |
Sunday 27th of April 2014 09:54:30 PM |
Today the site is mostly farmland, with an industrial estate to the south and what appears from the modern aerial images to be a prison on the old railway yards at the bottom of the picture. |
Maurice |
Tuesday 19th of November 2013 08:06:49 AM |
A few miles to the east was another weapons/munitions depot, RAF Fauld. At 11:11am on Monday 27 November 1944 a explosion destroyed a large part of that site and resulted in the deaths of 75 people. |
Maurice |
Tuesday 19th of November 2013 07:49:14 AM |
A rail network served the base. Perhaps there were stores areas or warehouses in the foreground, which had been cleared by 1947 |
MB |
Monday 18th of November 2013 06:37:13 PM |