Wheatley's rail relics

Archive Notes:

Five photographs: of station platform and line before housing development. Also a remnant of rail ironwork in 2021 and railings typical of the rail era.

Also a photo of the deserted station and line in 1976 with Baynes yard visible on the right. The same source has provided detail of the ownership post Avery in the mid 1950s as follows.

Late-1950s to early 1960s: Griffiths Bros. (from Stokenchurch)

c. 1960            Mobb's Coal took over the area next to Ladder Hill

c. 1965            Dolton Bournes Dolton took over the rest of the sawmill area

c. 1969            Baynes Timber took over from Dolton Bourne Dolton

Also c. 1969    Tayson's Builders established a yard between Mobbs and Baynes

Also c. 1969     Mellowship Bros (glaziers) set up between Mobbs and Tayson's

From 1983       Jewsons took over from Baynes

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