Western Glory Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Hello, I explored an old cutting yesterday and I wonder if anyone can guess which railway company built or rather excavated it? Larger versions of the above: http://250kb.de/u/160422/j/yIkgNNpuBOnf.jpg http://250kb.de/u/160422/j/5onpBXqInZNc.jpg http://250kb.de/u/160422/j/GvORBVKyufMX.jpg http://250kb.de/u/160422/j/HU0PkJuMUsnB.jpg http://250kb.de/u/160422/j/K12yhIfECxQ6.jpg I think identifying which part of Gloucestershire is not that difficult. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 I'm guessing The Forest of dean area. There are many abandoned railway tracks there so you need to give more info re location of your photos. Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2016 The Tiddley Dyke or Gloucester - Hereford? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2016 Glorious sylvian setting but not much to go on! Is the forest a doppelganger perhaps? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 "I think identifying which part of Gloucestershire is not that difficult." If you'd told me it was Buckinghamshire, or Sussex, or ..... Well, almost any County that has trees, mud, and dead-leaves in it, really, I would have been none the wiser. Is it that true locals possessed of good eyesight will be able to spot an example of the Twelve-Spotted Scrunging Beetle, which only lives in one acre of woodland in the entire universe, somewhere in one of those photos? K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Western Glory Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 I didn't see a Twelve-Spotted Scrunging Beetle but I spotted a Great Spotted Woodpecker! Not much guessing so far. As I'm a kind person I'll tell you the location is west of the River Severn, east of the River Wye and it is not the Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 OK, based purely on that clue, and because I've been there, and it was interesting: the wire-works branch, off the line through Tintern, which used to cross the Wye on an iron bridge. K (Actually, I'm not even sure that's in Gloucestershire, because it is west of Offa's Dyke, by a very short distance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2016 I recognise the 5th tree on the left. It's at Newent on the Ledbury-Gloucester branch. Here's the bridge over the cutting: https://goo.gl/maps/TAa3QXXGwjE2 Or not. Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 The wireworks branch leaves the Monmouth-Chepstow line, which at that point is east of the Wye, and it therefore starts in Gloucestershire. It runs over the Wye to the west side which, along with the wireworks, is in Monmouthshire. I don't think that the bit of the branch east of the Wye, to fit in with the described location, is that densely wooded. Other than that there are a few derelict lines in the Forest resembling those in the photos, I cannot see any clues to a specific location. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Western Glory Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 Not the Wye Valley Railway (Tintern Wireworks Branch or 'main line'). It was not a branch serving a quarry or mine (coal, iron, lead, gold or otherwise). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Western Glory Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 Not the Newent Railway / Ross & Ledbury Railway. * * * * * * * * * * Lines ruled out: Over Junction - Ledbury Grange Court Junction - Rotherwas Junction Wye Valley Junction - Monmouth Still plenty of candidates left! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Just guessing purely on the basis that they run through woodland, Between Parkend and Cannop Ponds on line to Speech House Road, or between Blakeney and Cinderford on the Forest of Dean Central Rly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2016 Looking at the pictures it could be any one of a few thousand branches. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Yes,there are several thousand branches in each picture. And, a few hundred trunks. K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Western Glory Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 The photos were the best I could do. Not the Severn & Wye Railway. Not the Forest of Dean Central Railway. Also not a tramway or tramroad. * * * * * * * * * * Lines ruled out: Over Junction - Ledbury Grange Court Junction - Rotherwas Junction Awre Junction - Blakeney and beyond Lydney - Lydbrook Junction Coleford Junction - Coleford Serridge Junction - Cinderford Tufts Junction - Drybrook Road Junction (Mineral Loop) Wye Valley Junction - Monmouth Branches serving quarries and mines Tramways and tramroads Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Derails Models Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2016 Tufts Junction - Drybrook Road Junction (Mineral Loop) Thats my guess out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2016 It's in the cutting approaching the tunnel at Severn Bridge -- I recognise the 3rd tree from the top: https://goo.gl/maps/dUgoVXgRAUo Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Remains of the ill-fated line from Drybrook to Mitcheldean? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Western Glory Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 Some of the guesses have been very plausible but alas not correct. Not the Severn Bridge Railway. Not the Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway. * * * * * * * * * * Lines ruled out: Over Junction - Ledbury Grange Court Junction - Rotherwas Junction Mitcheldean Road - Whimsey (Cinderford) Awre Junction - Blakeney and beyond Lydney - Severn Bridge Lydney - Lydbrook Junction Coleford Junction - Coleford Serridge Junction - Cinderford Tufts Junction - Drybrook Road Junction (Mineral Loop) Wye Valley Junction - Monmouth Branches serving quarries and mines Tramways and tramroads Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2016 Bullo to Cinderford? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Perhaps if WG could mention where roughly he was exploring, near which, town, village or hamlet he was near to when the pictures were taken, it might help. A GPS location would be even better! Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Mr Bullock, Is that some obscure call sign that you are using? K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2016 I explored an old cutting yesterday and I wonder if anyone can guess which railway company built or rather excavated it? Can you still remember where it was? Because there is nothing in any of those pictures to give the remotest clue. Here is another picture. Is this: a. the same place, or b. somewhere else? Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2016 Mr Bullock, Is that some obscure call sign that you are using? K Hee hee! If it is it must be Medicinal http://www.fweb.org.uk/dean/towns/bullopill.htm Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 I was onto what it really meant from the outset, but the image of you holding a walkie-talkie kept jumping into my mind. K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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