OUR archive picture from Trowbridge Museum published on April 18 sparked calls from several people, correcting an error: the train pictured again above was not passing through the station in 1935 but is a very special train which hauled an unusual load there, arriving on April 11 1938.
David Mitchell, who was a shunter at Trowbridge railway station for 15 years, and has lived in the town all his life, recalls: "The 20 30,000 gallon tanks on the load had been brought from Scotland for use at Ushers brewery, and cost £4,000 each. At the time it was believed to be the largest single delivery ever made in England."
Because of the train's position Mr Mitchell says it would have been waiting to be put into the station's then extensive sidings, ready for the tanks to be off-loaded and taken up to the brewery.
The photo appears in Michael Marshman's book, Trowbridge in Old Photographs, published in 1988.
Thanks to Douglas Male, of Trowbridge, and Mike Arlett, of North Bradley, who also got in touch with similar information. Mr Arlett wrote:
"Mention of Usher's reminds me that the picture appearing in Down Memory Lane just a few weeks ago, pictured, showing a line-up of some of the Usher fleet of lorries was indeed taken at the Trowbridge Flower Show Field.
"The vehicles are shown positioned against what was then the boundary wall between the recreation field and Trinity Church (before yet another part of Trowbridge was desecrated by a new road scheme).
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"The original print, far more impressive because it featured a line-up of what was possibly the entire Usher fleet based at Trowbridge, had until the recent change of tenancy hung on a wall in the Mash Tun in North Bradley."
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