Air Ministry Railway Sidings

Part 3 - Minor sites without a locomotive.

TAIN: NH850840

WWII Air Gunner training base opened in September 1941. A moving target range was set up to the north east of the airfield, in sand dunes beside a small lochlan called Loch Nan Tunnag, firing direction NNW. There were practice bombing targets to the north west of the site, although the railway was outside the bombing danger circle. The station was closed in November 1949, but the area of sand dunes is still in use as a bombing range.

Source: Action Stations No,7; TNA AIR20/7586

Ray;63733 wrote:

I believe that all of the RAF stores depots were rail fed. I remember well those at Quedgeley, Carlisle, Hartlebury and Milton.
The Quedgeley siding terminated in the Transportation Shed on HQ site. This shed normally contained at least half-a-dozen rail wagons loading or unloading.
In the 60s the siding was extended for use by the adjacent Dowmac factory
When I was serving at Quedgley (1971-3) there were two diesel locomotives operated by the MU plying to and from the main line.
According to my mother`s hazy memory (she worked there in 1917) there were sidings on the earlier site of the munitions factory during WW1, but I cannot be absolutely certain of this fact. However there was a picture taken in 1917 of the site which used to hang on the landing of the stairs in SHQ in 1973.
I wonder what happened to that picture.

Graham wrote:

Going farther afield, both Wildenrath and Gutersloh had rail sidings