I believe AUU was exported to Africa, the pusher is not
TOT it is a pioneer recovery (trade plates)
TOT unfortunatly met the gas reaper.
Kerbut
Hi Nigel replied your pm
Just something to move up the page
Trunker08 not sure your on this one, may be Pete Mansbridge, others will recognise location
Dispatcher,
Nice picture,don’t recognise the location?
Well rememmeber all the timbers!!! and also Pete Mansbridge,
Think I have lost the plot?
Don’t recall a bridge on a34? Guess some one will put me right!!!
Yep,touch tight!!
Yes there was a bridge on the A34 could take you there where it as right now, when they put the new road in that bypassed Whitchurch (the old road runs parallel were that ends going North the road has a curve to the right and just round that the bridge was on your RHS but think it is now demolished and the old road is just used by the farmer.
If my memory serves me well when you went north as soon as you went under the bridge the road went sharp right which was a pain in a truck as you slowed for that and then it was an incline to try and get your speed back up, or am I completely bonkers Help ! ! ! Buzzer. 67yo.
Mere boy now you got me thinking, only other place siminlar was A32 but dont recognise background would have been trees,
I dont recall using A32 with high loads north of West Meon Hut
Up and down the A34 a lot in the '60s and driving cartransporters, tight bridges were a hazard and I would have remembered that one, the dogleg that Buzzer mentions I remember well.
Had another thought, that bridge reminds me very much on the one coming out of Salisbury on the A30, I have a photo of it somewhere, most have a look, if it is, there is a story attached.
Oily
Well chaps I have done a bit of digging and usually the reason for a bridge was a rail line and I have found a map which would put a line where I said I recall the bridge, bearing in mind a lot of these lines were axed by Beaching in the early sixties this this could have been the line between Salisbury and Basingstoke as per attached map, detective Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Well chaps I have done a bit of digging and usually the reason for a bridge was a rail line and I have found a map which would put a line where I said I recall the bridge, bearing in mind a lot of these lines were axed by Beaching in the early sixties this this could have been the line between Salisbury and Basingstoke as per attached map, detective Buzzer.
Sounds very feasable Buzzer. However I don’t remember that view. The open fields don’t ring a bell. However I have been wrong so many times on here. If I’m wrong. Sorry. If I’m right. I told you so!
Please put me right. Is there anyone out there older than me who knows the correct answer?
Regards Charlie 
charlie one:
Buzzer:
Well chaps I have done a bit of digging and usually the reason for a bridge was a rail line and I have found a map which would put a line where I said I recall the bridge, bearing in mind a lot of these lines were axed by Beaching in the early sixties this this could have been the line between Salisbury and Basingstoke as per attached map, detective Buzzer.Sounds very feasable Buzzer. However I don’t remember that view. The open fields don’t ring a bell. However I have been wrong so many times on here. If I’m wrong. Sorry. If I’m right. I told you so!
Please put me right. Is there anyone out there older than me who knows the correct answer?Regards Charlie
Depends "How Old You Are Charlie " ?
regards
Andy
OldishJoda:
charlie one:
Buzzer:
Well chaps I have done a bit of digging and usually the reason for a bridge was a rail line and I have found a map which would put a line where I said I recall the bridge, bearing in mind a lot of these lines were axed by Beaching in the early sixties this this could have been the line between Salisbury and Basingstoke as per attached map, detective Buzzer.Sounds very feasable Buzzer. However I don’t remember that view. The open fields don’t ring a bell. However I have been wrong so many times on here. If I’m wrong. Sorry. If I’m right. I told you so!
Please put me right. Is there anyone out there older than me who knows the correct answer?Regards Charlie
Depends "How Old You Are Charlie " ?
regards
Andy
I am a young 77 Andy. Still got a few teeth. Lovely head of hair.Regards Charlie
charlie one:
OldishJoda:
charlie one:
Buzzer:
Well chaps I have done a bit of digging and usually the reason for a bridge was a rail line and I have found a map which would put a line where I said I recall the bridge, bearing in mind a lot of these lines were axed by Beaching in the early sixties this this could have been the line between Salisbury and Basingstoke as per attached map, detective Buzzer.Sounds very feasable Buzzer. However I don’t remember that view. The open fields don’t ring a bell. However I have been wrong so many times on here. If I’m wrong. Sorry. If I’m right. I told you so!
Please put me right. Is there anyone out there older than me who knows the correct answer?Regards Charlie
Depends "How Old You Are Charlie " ?
regards
AndyI am a young 77 Andy. Still got a few teeth. Lovely head of hair.Regards Charlie
You win… I’m only 69… Likewise on the teeth and hair… lol
Well I’m at a loss, I can not place the bridge at all, I have checked old and fairly recent map book, shows rd going over rail line,? Presume bridge had been knocked down?
I traveled that rd many a time as a mate,then driver so must of been by it!
Thanks for imfo one and all!!
I’m sorry, me and Jimski have to sit this one out…not sure about Mappo tho’!
There were three bridges between Whitchurch and Newbury, very narrow as I remember, that went under the old Winchester-Newbury line but that line was single track so the bridges were fairly short unlike the photo. Probably the most famous bridge on the line was the Hockley viaduct (now a cycleway). I do remember when first using the A34 (1967) those three bridges were too narrow for lorries to pass another one going the other way but there was much less traffic then so no real problem.
MrJake:
There were three bridges between Whitchurch and Newbury, very narrow as I remember, that went under the old Winchester-Newbury line but that line was single track so the bridges were fairly short unlike the photo. Probably the most famous bridge on the line was the Hockley viaduct (now a cycleway). I do remember when first using the A34 (1967) those three bridges were too narrow for lorries to pass another one going the other way but there was much less traffic then so no real problem.
You are correct there were 3 bridges on the A34 north of Whitchurch,not a real problem just normal for the times. Stroker 76yo.
Charlie thought you were older than me I remember the bridges on the old A34 very well in the sixties was trunking for Pitter Bros started Newcastle trunk change over Leicester and back six nights a week, in those days there was a lot of companies running trunk services south to midlands and north no M ways no power staring. Before this on for Bakers low loaders wide loads by the way every one on this thread has told of registration plate EGB4 the one I remember was Eric Bakers Ford Zodiax 777 XOW two tone beige and blue any way Charlie hope your keeping that wallet well topped up still got my hopes on it LOL sorry missed this years do hope to make next year ps can any one say if Pats boy is carrying on Thursday coffee meets?? Maybe I am older than you Charlie but being a Charles I look a lot younger than U : OML.