Lost branches around the Solent: Eling Wharf

47063 stands at ARC's Eling Wharf terminal on a blustery January morning in 1988 after arriving with the first portion of 6O53, the 0803 from Whatley Quarry. After unloading the train will return to Totton yard and the locomotive will collect the second portion for unloading.

The Eling branch was 1/2 a mile in length, having being opened by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway when the mainline through Totton opened in 1847. It was always freight only, and in its time served a tar distillery, chemical works, a corn mill, a saw mill and the wharves at Eling. By the date of my photograph the only remaining traffic was roadstone for coating at the ARC bitumen plant.

A view from 1970 when the branch was still serving a saw mill is here: flic.kr/p/AVmbet

Taken on: January 6, 1988

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