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Location notes
Naas lane, Quedgeley is a public foot crossing situated next to the former Dow Mac Concrete sleeper works(which is now a car import company) and situated on the main Gloucester - Standish junction line.
Update March 2010
A travellers camp has appeared just dowm the road from this location. On occasions travellers have been known to hastle and threaten photographers claiming the public crossing is part of their camp! Keep your Wits about you!!
Update March 2010
A travellers camp has appeared just dowm the road from this location. On occasions travellers have been known to hastle and threaten photographers claiming the public crossing is part of their camp! Keep your Wits about you!!
Railway type and traffic
A usual day at Naas Lane sees:
First Great Western:
143, 150, 158, 180 and HSTs
Virgin:
220 and 221 voyagers
Freight usually consists of class 60s on oil trains to and from Westerleigh.
66's on coal trains to and from Avonmouth/Portbury Docks.
DRS traffic runs on an as required basis to the rail heads at Berkeley and Bridgewater usually in the care of class 20s and 37s.
Freightliner's twice weekly Cement trains to Cornwall pass through here although run late at night sometimes due to pathing issues run in daylight hours.
Cotswold rail loco's can be seen here working out of their base at Gloucester.
Weekends in the summer months often see charter trains and diverted traffic due to Severn tunnel being closed. Charters are usually in the hands of class 47 or 67.
First Great Western:
143, 150, 158, 180 and HSTs
Virgin:
220 and 221 voyagers
Freight usually consists of class 60s on oil trains to and from Westerleigh.
66's on coal trains to and from Avonmouth/Portbury Docks.
DRS traffic runs on an as required basis to the rail heads at Berkeley and Bridgewater usually in the care of class 20s and 37s.
Freightliner's twice weekly Cement trains to Cornwall pass through here although run late at night sometimes due to pathing issues run in daylight hours.
Cotswold rail loco's can be seen here working out of their base at Gloucester.
Weekends in the summer months often see charter trains and diverted traffic due to Severn tunnel being closed. Charters are usually in the hands of class 47 or 67.
Environment
There are open fields to one side and the former sleeper works on the other.
Road directions
From the M5, Junction 12:
Head along the B4008 until you reach the Macdonald's roundabout take the 3rd exit (A38 dual carriage way) at Waterwells round about take the 2nd left to pass the Holiday Inn on your left. At the next roundabout go straight ahead onto Waterwells drive with the police station on your left. drive for about 1/4 of a mile. At the next roundabout take the 1st left the road then becomes Naas Lane. Follow the road road until you pass the gates of the Car importers, there is a small layby on the left hand side which can take 2/3 cars. At the layby there is a path which leads up to the crossing.
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Naas Lane, Gloucester map co-ordinates
Head along the B4008 until you reach the Macdonald's roundabout take the 3rd exit (A38 dual carriage way) at Waterwells round about take the 2nd left to pass the Holiday Inn on your left. At the next roundabout go straight ahead onto Waterwells drive with the police station on your left. drive for about 1/4 of a mile. At the next roundabout take the 1st left the road then becomes Naas Lane. Follow the road road until you pass the gates of the Car importers, there is a small layby on the left hand side which can take 2/3 cars. At the layby there is a path which leads up to the crossing.
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Naas Lane, Gloucester map co-ordinates
Parking
Just passed the car importers is a small lay-by where you can park the car and then follow a small footpath up to the crossing.
Public transport
Take the Number 12 bus from Gloucester to Waterwells Park and Ride take a left out of the Park and Ride and then a right on to Naas Lane walk for 1/4 mile till you get to the car importers, 300 yards beyond is a small footpath this take you to the crossing.
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Amenities
Nearest Facilities are:
McDonalds at Hardwicke (1.5 miles away) and Tesco also (1.5 miles away) on the B4008 at Quedgeley.
McDonalds at Hardwicke (1.5 miles away) and Tesco also (1.5 miles away) on the B4008 at Quedgeley.
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Photographic notes
Best place to stand is on the Eastern side on the crossing opposite the old siding this gives good 2 miles viability in both directions. Light can be tricky photographing northbound trains at sunset due to the sun being in your lens.
General views - All photographs © Giles Mockford unless otherwise stated
Fig 1 - Looking North
Fig 2 - Looking south
Fig 3 - Looking south
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This site has been created to assist railway photographers in their travels around the country. It is based on the personal knowledge and experience. No liability can be held against the web site or its contributions for incorrect information. Trainspots will endeavour to check all information and corrections will be accepted and posted accordingly.
Advice as to the locations general environment is given as a guide on each page. This information is a GUIDE only. ALWAYS be careful with your equipment, Trainspots can not be held responsible for your personal security. Avoid leaving your property on display for all to see, be aware of your surroundings at all times. There are, sadly, people who will not think twice about trying to steal your equipment.
Trainspots DOES NOT condone trespass and none of the information on this site should be taken as a right to trespass on either railway or private land. To the best of our knowledge all locations are publicly accessible areas, where they are not contact information will be given to the appropriate authority for permission to be obtained.
The content of this site is created and intended for all age ranges but the content of sites linked from this site are not subject to the same intentions. Trainspots will attempt to check links for validity but as time passes and the site grows this will not always be possible. Broken, or indeed updates to, links should be submitted to the editor for inclusion in the updates. All links external to the Trainspots site are opened in a new browser window. Trainspots has been running now for over 10 years and there are imitation sites and guides to railfotspots. But we are a free site and we continue on the path we started out on over a decade ago to provide a useful guide to UK Railway Photographic Locations.
