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LAMBOURN - 3
Photo : C Gordon Watford Photo : M.B Warburton
Photo : T.B Sands Photo : T.J Saunders

Above - An 0-6-0 Panier Tank passes the signal box,  nudging its way to the platform to collect its train for the return trip to Newbury.
Below left - A Dean Goods arriving at Lambourn in the early 1950s. Tender first working was never popular with the crews, as on summer days the coal dust constantly blew into their faces. Conversley, in the winter the rather miserly cabs on the Dean Goods provided very little shelter from the harsh weather.
Photo : P.J Garland Photo : J.H Moss
Above Right - APlatelayer is seen lubricating the the points on the approach to the terminus
Photo : J Smith Photo : C Gordon Watford
The gas lighting used in the horseboxes was sourced from a Cordon (Gas Tank Wagon)  which was based at the terminus. The pressurised tanks were re-filled from a GWR gasworks near the junction with the West London Line.  The 3-ton crane pictured here in the early1950s replaced the earlier 5-ton version.  The very first crane to exist at Lambourn was a 1-ton 10 cwt model.
Photo : D Canning
Photo : Unknown Photo : Unknown
Photo : H Ballantyne
Railcar No.18 awaits departure on the 8th of June 1954
Photo : D.B Clayton Photo : D.B Clayton
Photo : E . Wilmshurst Photo : D.B Clayton
Photo : A.E Bennett Photo : J Smith

Above - Two photos from 1956 and we are back to soley steam hauled trains, the railcars were not used again.  Left of the water pump housing is yet another picture of what must be THE most photographed gas tank wagon ever. Beyond the 3000 gallon conical water tower, can be seen the concrete weighbridge office. The weighbridge capacity was increased in 1945 from 6-tons to 20-tons.
Photo : S Fletcher Photo : Unknown
Photo : J Smith
Photo : Unknown Photo : Unknown
Photo : M.J Deane Photo : I.D Beale
Lambourn in the late 50's with 0-6-0PT No 4666 near the water tower, effecting runaround for the return trip to Newbury.The postman on the platform wheeling the trolley I believe to be none other than my old friend and work colleague the late Cyril Prince.
The storm clouds gather over Lambourn Terminus as indeed they did over the entire Lambourn Valley operation.
On the 4th of January 1960, the Lambourn Branch Line was officially closed. It had seen a lifespan of just 62 years.
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