Docks Collection

GWR Docks Brentford, c1930

GWR Cardiff Docks, 1946
Unloading cargo from S.S Inishowen Head

GWR Docks Penarth, c1920s
Unloading esparto grass from ship to rail

GWR Harbour & Docks Fishguard, 1909
Arrival of the Maurentania from New York

GWR Docks Fowey, c1920s

King George V at Plymouth, c1930s
King class locomotive number 6000, King George V, can be seen here at the GWRs Millbay Docks in Plymouth. It is seen alongside a Western Nation bus

Great Western Railway Goods Depot, Liverpool, c1930
The GWR Goods Depot was situated at the Manchester Dock Depot on Mann Island and was part of the Liverpool Dock complex. Cargo was brought over from the GWRs premises at Morpeth Dock in Birkenhead

Brentford Docks, early 1900s
Overall view of the docks, including a wagon turntable

GWR Plymouth Millbay Docks, c1920s
Sacks of mail can be seen being unloaded from the tender, Liverpool, onto a waiting Ocean mail train. The mail would have come from a liner anchored just outside the docks

Newport Docks, 1950
S.S Lanarkshire loading material for Australia

A Sea Hurricane being loaded onto an armed merchant ship at Cardiff docks, c. 1941
As well as assisting in the transportation of military goods by rail the GWR also facilitated the war effort at their docks

The Goods Yard at Cardiff Docks in 1943
The Goods Yard at Cardiff Docks in September 1943 is the subject of this image featuring a group of ladies stacking boxes that have probably just been off-loaded from a goods train

US soldiers embarking a ship in a GWR South Wales Dock, 1942
The GWR docks in South Wales became busy points for the arrival and departure of US troops from mid 1942 when the first American ship to arrive at the Companys docks berthed at Swansea on the 18th

Brentford Docks, c1920
Crane unloading timber at the dockside

King George V at Cardiff Docks, 1927
King George Vs boiler being craned at Cardiff Docks, on its way to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Centenary celebrations in America in 1927

American troops boarding a train at Swansea Docks, October 1943
The soldiers had just disembarked from the SS Santa Rosa and were boarding the train to take them to their British military base during World War II

GWR Docks Cardiff - Queen Alexandra Dock, 1960
Unloading cargo from American Clipper

Newport Docks, c1930s

Newport Docks, 1936
Electric cranes at South Dock

Newport Docks, 1949
Floating crane discharging a buggy

Construction of Fishguard Harbour Station, Pembrokeshire, c1905
A view of the construction of Fishguard Harbour Station on the Pembrokeshire coast, Wales in c.1905, one year before the station opened

North Star being craned, 1927
North Star being unloaded from the SS Chicago City after its arrival in America for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Centenary celebrations in 1927

Newport Docks, 1947
S.S Empire Moon discharing timber from New Jersey

Avonmouth Docks Railway Station, c. 1950s
A view of Avonmouth Docks Railway Station near Bristol, c.1950s. The station opened in 1910 as the terminus of the Henbury Loop Line but officially closed in 1919 due to the need to make wartime

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