Hythe Essex - History

[M.I.B]

Most weekday mornings before the sparrows have got out of their sleeping bags, I stand at Hythe (Essex) and wonder why such a long double platform was constructed here?  A large coal yard and goods yard perhaps ( local docks etc)   but space for a 14 coach train in both directions?

 

I am not a local ( might be regarded as one in 20 years time(!) )  so I have no idea other than obvious industrial architecture in the area.

 

Must have had a proper station building once upon a time, but all we have now is a bus shelter at one end of one platform.  I should be grateful that there is a train service at all - I would hate to have to commute across Colchester and pay someone £4 a day to park in their driveway.

 

Thanks in advance for any Hythe related pics to make my morning wait more interesting.

[mcowgill]

I believe the platforms are a relatively recent change, extended to that length sometime around ten years ago, the station building was demolished and the connections to the yard taken out at the same time.

 

Martin

[Tony_S]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hythe_(Essex)_railway_station

 

Provides explanations for the long platforms.

Hope this helps!

Tony

Edited November 21, 2017 by Tony_S

[M.I.B]

Many thanks.  I hadn't expected it to have been enlarged.  

[EddieB]

I'm reminded that my plans to revisit and photograph extant Great Eastern stations (open and closed) still have a way to go - not having visited Hythe and Wivenhoe for many years (although judging by the Wikipedia photo, there's not a lot to see at Hythe nowadays).

 

Before busshelterisation, Hythe had station buildings of similar design to those that survive at Alresford, Kirby Cross, Great Bentley and Weeley.  Here are a couple of views of the station taken from a train in 1975.

 

 

[M.I.B]

Colchester Lathes - I learned on them at school.  

 

I am pretty sure that other than the track of the rails ( not the rails themselves) nothing else existed in those pictures now - fore ground, background etc.

 

Thanks you for sharing.