The Kemble Wagon Book, July-November, 1881


The Kemble wagon book gives details of all wagon movements which took place at this GWR station in the latter part of 1881. The station was in its unrebuilt state at that time and did not handle the passenger traffic for the Cirencester Branch which was transferred at Coates, a couple of miles to the west

Traffic occurred on most days and there were regular specials to deal with particular events at Cirencester Market. My preliminary analysis of the data leads me to conclude that there were also a small number of through trains between Swindon and Cirencester whose wagon numbers were not recorded at Kemble - without this assumption, wagons appear to arrive at Cirencester and never leave!


Below is a sample from the database. As yet I have only transcribed about 25% - about 2000 records. It is available on this site as an HTML file (around 2 MB) which you can browse, or as a ZIP file for download

Kemble Wagon Book, HTML version Kemble Wagon Book, ZIP download

Kemble Wagon Book, July-November, 1881, (extract)
Index Date Train identification 1 Arrival time From Description Owner Wagon No Date Dispatch Train identification 2 Dispatch time Train, origination Destination Remarks
1 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Empty GWR 1374 15/07/81 21:20 00:35
Minety
2 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 12797 14/07/81 19:25 22:10
Swindon
3 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 22902 14/07/81 19:25 22:10
Holt
4 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 11435 15/07/81 21:20 00:35
Hockley
5 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 16808 15/07/81 00:30 02:10
Paddington
6 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Empty Read 259 15/07/81 14:40 16:10
Bullo

7 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 15543 15/07/81 01:05 02:50
Stroud
8 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 8845 14/07/81 20:30 21:30
Cardiff
9 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 15459 14/07/81 20:30 21:30
Edinburgh
10 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 22529 14/07/81 20:30 21:30
Abergavenny
11 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 6168 14/07/81 20:30 21:30
Rookery Bridge
12 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 24957 14/07/81 20:30 21:30
Hereford
13 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Empty LNWR 13930 14/07/81 20:30 21:30
Home
14 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Goods GWR 15410 14/07/81 20:30 21:30
Gloucester
15 14/07/81 19:15 19:25 Cirencester Empty MR 25892 14/07/81 20:30 21:30
Home
16 14/07/81 19:50 20:40 Swindon Casks GWR 25987 14/07/81 21:00 21:00 Kemble Cirencester
17 14/07/81 19:50 20:40 Bristol Cattle GWR 13964 14/07/81 21:00 21:00 Kemble Cirencester
18 14/07/81 19:25 21:50 Bullo Coal Cole 28 15/07/81 07:05 07:05 Kemble Cirencester
19 14/07/81 19:25 21:50 Bullo Coal Cole 3 15/07/81 07:05 07:05 Kemble Cirencester
20 14/07/81 21:50 23:15 Gloucester Timber GWR 1955 15/07/81 07:05 07:05 Kemble Cirencester

A section from an arrivals page in the Kemble Wagon Book




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