montyburns56 Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 Itchen Abbas 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted August 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2020 Actually quite impressive how neat and tidy Itchen Abbas was in the years before closure. The ballast is neat, the platform surface is good in the area where the train stops and the building, whilst boarded up, still looks solid. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 No wonder it was closed though; the weather there was always horrible. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 5, 2020 Author Share Posted August 5, 2020 Sandown 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 5, 2020 Author Share Posted August 5, 2020 Sandown Pt 2 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted August 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22, 2020 This station is operational, but has shorter trains these days, so the unused part of the platform sort of qualifies..... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinza-C55 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Burdale station on the Malton & Driffield railway closed to passengers in 1950 and altogether in 1958. The stationmaster and his family then had to move out. When I first visited it in October 1976 it was a roofless shell and I visited it twice after that in 1977 and 78 and both times it got significantly worse. In 78 one end wall had collapsed taking most of the roof with it. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 8 hours ago, Davexoc said: This station is operational, but has shorter trains these days, so the unused part of the platform sort of qualifies..... Where is it? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 1 hour ago, 009 micro modeller said: Where is it? Teignmouth? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D826 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 (edited) End of the platforms under the skew bridge at Teignmouth. The long platforms date from when there were long holiday trains depositing hundreds of holidaymakers- still a common sight at Dawlish and Teignmouth in the 70s. Was at Dawlish the other day - pleased to see the concrete base pad of the down outer home signal outside Kennaway tunnel has survived all the recent shenanigans, (that's some wall along Marine Parade) and bade farewell to the lifeboat house at the end of the colonies at Dawlish station. Fell off the seawall there watching a Western pull out - Up- about 48 years ago. Landed on my head, never been the same since ! About 10 years too late, but this vid from YouTube gives a flavour of the seawall. Best regards Matt W Edited August 23, 2020 by D826 A flavour of Dawlish in the mid 80s 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Like the IOW photos went on trains in fifties enjoyed trips out ,now the line is to be rebuilt coming full circle a good thing . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 South Aylesbury Halt 1966 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted September 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2020 (edited) Moses Gate, back in its better “bad” days... Edited May 16, 2021 by adb968008 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 No photo I'm afraid but Blythe Bridge would qualify for something now I think. I worked through there for the first time since lockdown on Wednesday. The station itself, such as it is, is tidy but the trackbed resembles a wildlife garden with trees growing in the six foot shaped to the sides of trains! There always does seem to have been a lot of greenery in the track in the area but this is the worst I've seen it. Photo taken nearby. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 This is an abandoned railway, right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2020 18 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: This is an abandoned railway, right? Its the line from Stoke to Derby. Darius Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1234 Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 21 hours ago, adb968008 said: Moses Gate, back in its better “bad” days... The bridge over the line would make for a good small layout / diorama to experiment with achieving grimy, weathered urban surfaces. The ramp provides a bit of visual interest without being too distracting. In the real world, one wonders how filthy those windows got back in the steam era... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2020 (edited) On 12/09/2020 at 20:15, ed1234 said: The bridge over the line would make for a good small layout / diorama to experiment with achieving grimy, weathered urban surfaces. The ramp provides a bit of visual interest without being too distracting. In the real world, one wonders how filthy those windows got back in the steam era... Add in the two pubs either side. So rough one of them was torn down. i have a totem sign from Moses Gate. The interior of the station was pretty basic LMS, wooden paneling, 2 ticket office windows (though it only ever used one). Soiled wooden floor, never cleaned in years. The glazing had 1cm mesh within it. Three rooms (porters room was converted to a kitchen). To think nearly a dozen people once worked here... station master, ticket staff, platform staff, Porter... down to zero...yet we wonder where the jobs went.. and blame immigration. it used to have ramps to both platforms, but the manchester side was demolished in the mid1980’s, along with the station masters house, leading to the station master’s pathway becoming the access ramp, which it still is today. As a kid I new the station well, the regular clerk worked this station and Moorside, always gave me the gen on whats what.. What was the route of “The Red Rose” railtours ? - A summer tour based around Manchester, featuring 4771,777,45596,60009,46229 and 48151 (just in my own collection) at 5pm he’d be part of the Friday crowd than congregated at Ronnies.. Farnworth Rail and Model Centre near Kearsley. Edited May 16, 2021 by adb968008 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinza-C55 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 On 26/07/2020 at 19:53, montyburns56 said: Brading Pt 2 Apparently Network Rail plan to restore the passing loop at Brading thus bringing that platform back into use. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Are you sure that station was used by passengers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted November 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2020 14 minutes ago, Tim V said: Are you sure that station was used by passengers? http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/highfield/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted November 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2020 16 minutes ago, Tim V said: Are you sure that station was used by passengers? Not enough to keep it open past 1954! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Don't think it qualifies for inclusion on this thread! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted November 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2020 7 minutes ago, Tim V said: Don't think it qualifies for inclusion on this thread! It's decrepit. It's derelict. There are a lot of other closed stations on this thread. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 On 04/05/2020 at 19:34, montyburns56 said: I came across this picture of New Holland Pier station from a few days before it was closed and it is one one of the most filthiest, neglected looking stations that I have ever seen. So I just thought that we could have a photo competition to post pictures of the most filthiest, derelict looking stations that were still in use at the time that the photo was taken. I'll throw down the gauntlet.... New Holland Pier 1981. 1980 The OP asks for pictures of stations "that were in use" at the time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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