epw038819 ENGLAND (1932). The Engine Repair Shed and Feltham Marshalling Yard on the Windsor Line (Southern Railway) at Hounslow Heath and the Graf Zeppelin (D-LZ127) moored at Hanworth Aerodrome (London Air Park), Hanworth, from the north-east, 1932

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Title [EPW038819] The Engine Repair Shed and Feltham Marshalling Yard on the Windsor Line (Southern Railway) at Hounslow Heath and the Graf Zeppelin (D-LZ127) moored at Hanworth Aerodrome (London Air Park), Hanworth, from the north-east, 1932
Reference EPW038819
Date 2-July-1932
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Place name HANWORTH
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 512134, 173475
Longitude / Latitude -0.38614309037745, 51.448655189929
National Grid Reference TQ121735

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Tunnel entrance where the river Crane passes beneath the yard.

Dank
Friday 21st of January 2022 03:24:44 PM
Could this be Mill Farm Crescent?

Dank
Wednesday 17th of November 2021 05:35:11 PM
G16 Locomotive

Jw
Monday 27th of April 2020 05:16:16 PM
My uncle worked here as a Q1 loco driver.

The Blue Max
Sunday 3rd of May 2015 12:15:06 PM
Down hump box.

Brian
Wednesday 11th of February 2015 04:06:03 PM
Sewage works. Still visible today. 2015.

Brian
Wednesday 11th of February 2015 03:56:05 PM
Little Park Farm.

Brian
Wednesday 11th of February 2015 03:55:10 PM
St. Georges church, Hanworth.

Brian
Tuesday 10th of February 2015 03:11:53 PM
Coal stacking ground.

Brian
Monday 9th of February 2015 04:41:17 PM

Brian
Monday 9th of February 2015 04:39:51 PM
Wagon repair shop.

Brian
Monday 9th of February 2015 04:37:08 PM
Coaling tower.

Brian
Monday 9th of February 2015 04:20:45 PM
uxbridge road hanworth

bumblee
Tuesday 3rd of December 2013 06:43:39 PM
Possibly a Southern Railway 4-6-0, with smoke deflectors; looks a bit too long in the boiler for a 2-6-0 ..

MB
Monday 28th of October 2013 09:40:25 PM
Is this one of Maunsell's Z Class 0-8-0 tank engines, designed for heavy shunting duties, introduced in 1929?

MB
Monday 28th of October 2013 09:38:36 PM
Looks like one of the Feltham "G16" 4-8-0 Tank locos, designed by Urie in 1921 specifically to shunt the hump at Feltham.

Leslie B
Wednesday 6th of April 2016 03:34:59 PM
Queen Mary Reservoir

Class31
Monday 10th of December 2012 10:00:40 AM

Class31
Monday 10th of December 2012 09:52:32 AM
Up Marshalling Sidings

Class31
Monday 10th of December 2012 09:51:20 AM
Down Reception Sidings

Class31
Monday 10th of December 2012 09:50:23 AM
Feltham Motive Power Depot Southern Railway

Class31
Monday 10th of December 2012 09:45:50 AM

User Comment Contributions

I lived in Viola Avenue Feltham 1951-1958 and can recall the sound of shunting in the hump yard all night. The sound carried several miles in the quiet of the night but living little more than a mile away I could hear the engine sounds in addition to the wagon buffers striking each other down the hump. My grandmother's sister was married to a railwayman who worked at Feltham and he took me to visit the yard and engine shed in 1952. I can recall wagons rolling down the hump and shunters hanging on to their poles as they braked individual wagons. To be honest the engine shed was more interesting aged - as I was 5 - but of all my memories it's the sounds of night shunting that lives on in my mind. I went back to the yard circa 1961 but it was already clearly in decline. The traffic was way down and the night sounds much reduced. I moved to near Winchester in 1958 and can recall the sound of Bulleid pacifics pulling their trains on the nearby main line. There is little as evocative as a steam whistle at night.

John 1947
Saturday 19th of November 2016 06:44:57 PM
This NOT the Staines West branch railway, and the "engine repair shed" should probably be better referred to as the "locomotive power depot" at Feltham Marshalling Yard.

Thor
Friday 23rd of August 2013 01:05:33 PM
Thanks for all the comments on this one. We'll get the caption for this amended and the revised record will appear here in due course. Appreciate all the feedback.



Thanks,

Angharad

Britain from Above Cataloguer

Angharad Wicks
Wednesday 17th of July 2013 03:20:44 PM
London's Railways from the Air Ian Allen and Aerofilms 2006 ISBN (10) 0 7110 3144 4 has a description for this photograph on page 97 as shown.

Class31
Wednesday 17th of July 2013 12:53:10 PM
"The Engine Repair Shed on the Staines West Branch Railway"

How did this get in the title? As commented, it's Feltham MPD on the Southern Railway's line to Windsor (and Staines and beyond, but not 'Staines West'. The Staines West branch was on the Great Western, from West Drayton.

Isleworth1961
Monday 17th of December 2012 11:54:14 PM
I suggest that this one is given a revised title to read Feltham Locomotive Depot and Marshalling Yard, Southern Railway and the Graf Zeppelin then continue as above. This is nowhere near Staines West.

Class31
Monday 10th of December 2012 09:57:05 AM