In Ross there are various remnants of the railway around the town and these are a few details about some of the most prominent ones.
The Goods Shed
The Goods Shed is still standing. It is currently disused (12/8/05) and has been for a while. It was originally restored in the mid-1990's. This involved the painting of a mural, as shown above, illustrating steam engines passing through towards Five Ways, the junction of Brookend Street, Brampton Street, Overross Street, Millpond Street and Greytree Road. This would have been on the old Hereford to Gloucester line.
The Goods Shed (Click for a larger image)
The mural on the shed (Click for a larger image)
The plaque commemorating the goods shed
The Engine Shed
The Engine Shed is currently disused (12/8/05) since Baileys recently moved out to a new premises.
The shed was built in around 1855 and the arch on the western end of the building has been partially filled in when the railway changed over from broad to standard gauge rail in around 1870. In front of the engine shed was the turntable. The engine shed was finally closed in October 1963.
The Engine Shed (Click for a larger image)
The arch on the end of the shed (Click for a larger image)
The side of the shed (Click for a larger image)
Baileys
By September 1985, Mark and Sally Bailey had purchased and restored the shed to use it as the base for their architectural antiques business before they moved to Whitecross Farm, Bridstow, in around August 2005.
The Station
The site of the station was redeveloped in 1977 by South Herefordshire District Council and turned into the Ashburton industrial estate.
The back of the station in Ross was bordered by Scots Pine trees, eight of which still remain towering over the Ashburton Industrial Estate, and a lane that now runs from the Ashburton end of Station Approach to North Road. These can be seen in these photos along with the spearhead fencing that borders both sides of the lane.
The road at the back of the station that leads up to North Road (Click for a larger image)
Some of the trees at the back of the station (Click for a larger image)
The trees from the town end of Station Approach (Click for a larger image)
The station itself has been replaced by the Ashburton Industrial Estate which was opened on the 16th March 1979 by Lord Northfield who was the Chairman of H.M. Development Commission.
Lord Northfield opening the Ashburton Industrial Estate [thanks to Richard Mayo] (Click for a larger image)
The Signal Boxes
The Signal Box plate (Click for a larger image)
Nothing remains of the North or South signal boxes where they were sited at the station. Outside of Ross, in the Kidderminster Railway Museum
is one of the signal box plates.
Bus Depot
The station in Ross had a bus depot nearby and this site is now Brunel Workshops.
The site of the Bus Depot (Click for a larger image)
Five Ways
At Five Ways there were twin bridges over Ledbury Road and Brampton Road and only the piers remain.
These were restored in 1995 as part of the Fiveways Enhancement which was jointly funded by South Herefordshire District Council, Hereford and Worcester County Council and The Rural Development Commission. This has created a pleasant themed area dedicated to the memory of the railway with information and displays about the railways in the area.
Bridge piers at Fiveways, Ross-on-Wye, looking through the garden (Click for a larger image)
Bridge piers at Fiveways, Ross-on-Wye (Click for a larger image)
The central bridge piers looking back across Brampton Road towards Ledbury Road (Click for a larger image)
Remains of the bridge pier looking across Brampton Road (Click for a larger image)
A sample of bull-head rail at the Fiveways Enhancement (Click for a larger image)
A sample of Barlow rail at the Fiveways Enhancement (Click for a larger image)
The two photos below show the Over-Ross Street and Brampton Street rail bridges prior to removal, both of which were both plate girder bridges.
The Brampton Street Rail Bridge [Photo: J.C.Coombes] (Click for a larger image)
The Over-Ross Street rail bridge [Photo: J.C.Coombes] (Click for a larger image)
Coal Yards
There were three coal yards with weigh-bridges in Ross, but only evidence of two of them remain. The remaining ones are outside Ross Re-cycling (which used to be Real Fire Heating and prior to that it was Phoenix Coal) and the second is outside the council Household Waste Site (this used to be the South Herefordshire Fuels yard and before that it was Webb,Hall and Webb) both in Station Street. The third one was at the site of LLewellyns coal merchants and that was located somewhere near the entrance to Morrisons, opposite to Smallbrook road but all evidence has been completely removed. These are likely to have supplied the railway.
The weigh bed outside Ross Re-cycling (Click for a larger image)
The weigh bed has been removed (and filled in with tarmac) from the one outside Ross Re-cycling but the gauge [image] remains in the small building behind it.
The weigh bed outside Ross Re-cycling (Click for a larger image)
Only the bed remain of the one outside of the Skip yard, the rest of the equipment has been removed during re-development of the area.
The weigh bed outside the council skip yard (Click for a larger image)
A full page advert for Phoenix Coal taken from a pre 1964 Souvenir Guide (Click for a larger image)
A quarter page advert for Web, Hall and Web taken from a pre 1964 Souvenir Guide (Click for a larger image)