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MOD Ashchurch and Ashchurch Railway Station

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Old 4th August 2018, 20:24
RogerFarnworth RogerFarnworth is offline  
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MOD Ashchurch and Ashchurch Railway Station

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I was reading a book by Neil Parkhouse and looking at a series of photographs of the historic station at Ashchurch which was demolished as part of the fall out from the cuts associated with Dr. Breeching. Apart from feeling a sense of dismay that the original station and its building, together with the branch-lines it served, has been lost for ever, I noticed a reference to a siding serving MOD Ashchurch and decided to investigate.

DE&S Ashchurch, known locally as "Ashchurch Camp", was the UK MOD's primary vehicle storage and distribution site for all types of armoured and soft-skinned vehicles, together with Royal Engineer bridges, boats and construction plant. The Centre was the only vehicle depot in the UK using Controlled Humidity Environments (CHE) for long-term vehicle storage.
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MOD Ashchurch remains at risk of closure and its site is marked in the local authority plan for mixed development.


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Old 28th July 2019, 15:56
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hello, I was a freight guard at Gloucester Railway depot 1970/71.recall shunting mod yard loaded trains etc. I lived on Ashchurch camp my father was a MOD Policeman. on few occasions caught trains back and forth from Gloucester then trains ceased stopping there 1971 ?
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Old 29th July 2019, 08:49
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Hi dfporth
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