This puts paid to a fellow who once argued with me that 'County’ class engines were never seen on the ‘Corny’! Hawksworth 4-6-0 No.1004 “County of Somerset” prepares to depart from Malvern Road with the up ‘Cornishman’ in 1959. (photographer unknown)

A view of Malvern Road station exterior taken in 1967 after closure. The station opened on 30th March 1908 as part of the GWR'S route from Birmingham to Bristol. The station had its own approach road off Malvern Road aznd had an island platform with a bay at the north end which was used by Honeybourne auto-trains coming in and out of St James station. (Bill Potter)

0-6-0PT No.9445 in the bay platform at Cheltenham (Malvern Road) station, with an evening local train 23rd May 1959 (M.Mensing)

On 8th May 1964 the 'up' Cheltenham Spa Express makes an explosive start from Cheltenham Malvern Road (West) with 2-6-2T No.4564 hauling the train to Gloucester (Central) from where it will reverse and be diesel-hauled to Paddington. The reason it was hauled from St James by a ‘Prairie’ was because a ‘Castle’ plus its tender was too long to fit on the turntable. (Photo by B.J.Ashworth)

No.7001 "Sir James Milne" departs from Cheltenham Malvern Road (West) with the last steam-hauled (and the last G.W. routed) 'down' Cornishman on 7th Sept. 1962. From 10th September the service was diesel hauled on the Midland line via (but not stopping at) Lansdown Station.(Photo by B.J.Ashworth - also see GL-169)

Stanier Class 5 No.45006 about to take the Honeybourne line at Cheltenham Malvern Road East Junction with the (SO) 11:22 am from Newquay to Birmingham Snow Hill. The Black 5 would have taken over from a W.R 4-6-0 at Bristol. The line to the left is the spur leading to the terminus and goods yard at St James (B.J.Ashworth0

With Great Western Road in the foreground, the 'down' Cornishman headed by 7001 "Sir James Milne" approaches Cheltenham Malvern Road (East) Junction. This was the last steam-hauled (and the last G.W. routed) 'down' Cornishman on 7th Sept. 1962. From 10th September the service was diesel hauled on the Midland line via (but not stopping at) Cheltenham Lansdown Station.(also see GL-166) (Photo by B.J.Ashworth)

GWR 'Aberdare' Class 2-6-0 No.2673 departs from the north end of Cheltenham (Malvern Road) in March 1945 while sister engine No.2638, allocated to Chester, sits on the back road of the loco shed, having broken a crankpin. The loco was not repaired and was still here in September 1945 when it was condemned. (Bill Potter)

"City of Truro" arrives at Cheltenham Malvern Road with a special train organised by the Gloucestershire Railway Society. The train is en route to Southampton and will travel via the former Midland & South Western Junction Railway. (Bill Potter)

Gloucester RC&W diesel railcar M55002 departs Malvern Road with a Gloucester to Leamington service on 24th July 1965 (Bill Potter)

Viewed from the reception sidings outside Malvern Road Shed, 0-6-0PT No.3759 prepares to depart with a local service from Gloucester Central to Cheltenham Spa St. James in August 1963 (Bill Potter)

5418, 4358 and 6381 are seen stabled at Cheltenham Malvern Road Shed in 1956 (R.S. Carpenter)

Cheltenham Malvern Road East Junction as viewed c.1965 from St George’s Road bridge (G.H. Tilt)

‘Bird’ 4-4-0 No.3447 “Jackdaw” reverses light-engine towards the shed at Cheltenham, Malvern Road in September 1944 (Bill Potter).

‘Aberdare’ Class 2-6-0 No.2673 passes through Cheltenham Malvern Road station with a northbound mineral train in March 1945. In the background sister engine No.2638 languishes by the shed with a broken crank-pin (Bill Potter).

The date is 1912, a mere four years after the opening to traffic of Cheltenham Malvern Road Station. Film exposures had to be fairly lengthy in Edwardian times so the station staff would have had to keep perfectly still for a few moments when posing for what could have been an official picture. When one visits this site nowadays, it's hard to believe that this sprawling railway site ever existed (photographer unknown, but anonymously immortalised by this precious image)

During the mid-1960s most of the ex-GWR locomotives had been stripped of their cabside numberplates and nameplates as non-ferrous metal held a high value as scrap. At this time people really had no inkling that, some forty years hence, these ornaments would be fetching unbelievable prices at auction. Devoid of cabside number-plates and nameplate and identified only by smokebox numberplate, 6827 (formerly "Llanfrecha Grange") departs from Cheltenham, Malvern Road on 26th June 1965 with 06:55 (SO) Wolverhampton to Penzance train. The trackbed has long since turned into a cyclepath and dog's toilet. (Photo by Courtesy of B.J.Ashworth)

View taken from Malvern Road Bridge looking north east towards St Georges Road Bridge. In the distance on the right can be seen Malvern Road East Junction Signal Box where the lines diverge - on the right into St James and on the left to the Honeybourne Line.

General view over Malvern Road Station and Yard looking south-west from Malvern Road Bridge in 1940 (Courtesy of Mowat Collection)

View from Queen's Road Bridge looking north east towards Malvern Road Station. The row of houses on the right is on Eldorado Road. c.1940 (Courtesy Mowat Collection)