Abandoned rails in the road.....(or elsewhere...)

[SHMD]

 

Just found it - Doh!

 

[009 micro modeller]

40 minutes ago, big jim said:

Yeah it’s Tyseley, it runs round the edge of the car park at the depot/museum next to warwick road station so I assume it’s an old visitor ride, I can’t find any pictures of it on line though and I only ever visited there once when it was a proper museum when I was about 10 so wouldn’t remember it 

 

 

 

This may give some context: http://wythallsteamrail.com/emes-history

 

Apparently they were previously based at Tyseley although it also mentions another line at the site.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

 

This is Dolcoath Siding down Camborne way.

According to the accompanying caption, part of it is preserved in a local housing estate.

Anybody fancy finding it via Google maps?, way beyond my capabilities!

 

Mike.

[Rivercider]

40 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

 

This is Dolcoath Siding down Camborne way.

According to the accompanying caption, part of it is preserved in a local housing estate.

Anybody fancy finding it via Google maps?, way beyond my capabilities!

 

Mike.

I think it might be taken from the footbridge on Lower Pengegon, if that is the Bassett Monument in the distance,

 

https://www.google.com/maps/search/carn+brea+monument/@50.2144599,-5.2831927,56m/data=!3m1!1e3

 

cheers

[Porcy Mane]

23 minutes ago, Rivercider said:

I think it might be taken from the footbridge on Lower Pengegon

 

Spot on. Cooks Kitchen (tin mine) on the horizon left of  the bridge, and the unmistakable Carn Brea at right.

Milk tanks must be in storage as it used to be a coal siding.

 

Walls still there.

 

https://flic.kr/p/2juQ6TN

 

Enterprising 50 with milk tank.

 

50049 Camborne by Andy Hoare, on Flickr

 

Edited June 26, 2021 by Porcy Mane
To add the link (Stupid!)

[Enterprisingwestern]

3 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:

Milk tanks must be in storage as it used to be a coal siding

 

Definitely still in use at the time as there are other pictures with the tanks undergoing the loading process, lids open etc.

 

Mike.

[Porcy Mane]

24 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

Definitely still in use at the time as there are other pictures with the tanks undergoing the loading process, lids open etc.

 

Hmmmmm.

Dairy Crest had a big creamery next to the A30 on the other side of Camborne. I reckon it still would have been the Milk Marketing Board back in 1980. Maybe it was them that used the siding?

Edited June 26, 2021 by Porcy Mane

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Further info about a third of the way down this page:

 

http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/camborne-to-redruth-drump-lane.html

 

Mike,

PS. Avoid the end bit, Drump Lane is no good for modelling restraint and sensibilities!

[melmerby]

In 1980 MMB still used the siding called "Dolcoath", which I assume it is.

[Porcy Mane]

3 minutes ago, melmerby said:

In 1980 MMB still used the siding called "Dolcoath", which I assume it is.

 

Yep, there's a pic of a MMB road tanker offloading in the link Moike gave.

[uax6]

On 18/06/2021 at 20:38, Engineer said:

Seen at Melton Mowbray on a recent trip, rails crossing the station approach.  Apologies for the state of the camera.

 

 

 

Ah the old link to Pedigree Petfoods site that was just the other side of the bridge. I can remember trains sat on them filled with dog food...  I think I even clocked the road railer trial train there as well once.

 

Andy G

[pH]

Today, I found a whole set of picture files that had been wrongly indexed. I've been enjoying flicking through them, seeing many pictures I thought I'd lost. As I did, I came across these three from 2013.

 

The first two are on the dockside at the Victoria Harbour in Greenock. The first looks west towards the East India Harbour:

 

 

 

The second looks east towards what remains of Scott's drydock:

 

The third is of the line that led down Arthur Street from the Glasgow-Gourock line at Cartsdyke Junction to the dock lines. The picture is at Charing Cross, where the line crossed the A8 to get to the docks.

 

 

 

[montyburns56]

Granton Harbour by Clive G

 

 

 

[montyburns56]

Maryfield Tram Depot by ee20213

 

 

[drjcontroller]

I came across these remains whilst wandering around the south bank of the River Tyne on Sunday afternoon.

 

The first shows a small section of track crossing West Holborn in High Shields which originally lead onto Harton High Staithes, part of the NCB Harton Railway. From what I have been able to find out, this branch led off from the St Hilda's Yard of the Harton Electric Railway, but I don’t know the date of closure or whether this section was electrified.

 

The second picture shows a piece of track crossing the B1297 Wagonway Road. This branch came off the main Newcastle to South Shields line between Hebburn and Jarrow and served a number of riverside works and yards as well as Hebburn Colliery.

 

 

[Engineer]

Abandoned rail buried in a road surface but not as part of a guided transport system, more likely marking a yard boundary.

Another section of bullhead has been driven into the ground midway to peg the rail in position.  Noticed today in Wigton.

 

 

[Porcy Mane]

55 minutes ago, drjcontroller said:

The first shows a small section of track crossing West Holborn in High Shields which originally lead onto Harton High Staithes, part of the NCB Harton Railway.

 

A favorite of this thread.

 

Next to Readhead's East gate and just down from the Penny Pie steps. A childhood haunt for me. Here's a pic back in the day.

 

https://flic.kr/p/brUbFQ

 

 Somewhere I have a pic of Mr. Axlebox doing a solitary Beatle /Abbey Road crossing impression on that very crossing.

 

55 minutes ago, drjcontroller said:

Jarrow and served a number of riverside works and yards as well as Hebburn Colliery.

 

You'll be meaning the Bede Copper Works. The Colliery (Hebburn C) & Palmers were originally served by the wagon way that ran directly along the road.

Only much later was this crossing altered to serve what had become Hawthorn Leslies.

 

Much can be seen in the enlarged version of this image.

 

https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW048224

 

P

Edited June 30, 2021 by Porcy Mane

[drjcontroller]

1 hour ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

A favorite of this thread.

 

Next to Readhead's East gate and just down from the Penny Pie steps. A childhood haunt for me. Here's a pic back in the day.

 

https://flic.kr/p/brUbFQ

 

 Somewhere I have a pic of Mr. Axlebox doing a solitary Beatle /Abbey Road crossing impression on that very crossing.

 

 

You'll be meaning the Bede Copper Works. The Colliery (Hebburn C) & Palmers were originally served by the wagon way that ran directly along the road.

Only much later was this crossing altered to serve what had become Hawthorn Leslies.

 

Much can be seen in the enlarged version of this image.

 

https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW048224

 

P

 

Amazing, thanks so much for that. I follow Ivan on Flickr (know him from when I worked for EWS/DB) and remember that picture being posted but didn't put 2 and 2 together. 

Don't know too much about the individual histories of the sites served, but looking at old maps, the amount of lines in the area was mind blowing!

 

Thanks again,

 

Douglas

[33C]

It amazes me how many MILES of sidings have disappeared, especially when you use the side by side maps! I bet there are more abandoned rails lurking just under the tarmac everywhere.  

[ianmacc]

Eshald Lane in the Leeds suburbs. Remnants of a set of points in situ from the former brewery complex closed in c1970s. 
It was covered over in the past year but is still underneath the new tarmac.

The entire lane is under threat from HS2.

[Porcy Mane]

18 minutes ago, ianmacc said:

points in situ from the former brewery complex closed in c1970s. 

 

Quarry and brickworks perhaps?  I'm sure there was a thread on RM web about that crossing.

 

Aerial pic here:

 

https://britainfromabove.org.uk/cy/image/EPW039037

[Rivercider]

The Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway was cheaply built to light railway standards with stiff gradients and eleven level crossings, (eight of them in and around Braunton). A couple of years ago when on holiday in the area I caught a glimpse of abandoned rails as I was driving and last week when back in the area made a couple of stops to take photos.

 

To the north of Braunton rails remain across the road at both Stoney Bridge Crossing, and Heddon Mill Crossing.

 

Stoney Bridge Crossing looking north towards Ilfracombe 23/6/21

 

Stoney Bridge Crossing looking north towards Ilfracombe, 23/6/21

 

Looking east shows how close the crossing is to the main A361 road. 23/6/21

I believe the original crossing box here was demolished when the line was double tracked shortly after opening.

 

 

cheers

 

[Rivercider]

Heddon Mill Crossing on the former Barnstaple and Ilfracombe line is clearly owned by a railway enthusiast.

 

Heddon Mill Crossing looking east with the A361 Barnstaple - Ilfracombe road in the background. 23/6/21

 

Heddon Mill Crossing looking north towards Ilfracombe. 23/6/21

 

Sign and gradient post, 23/6/21

 

Looking west at Heddon Mill Crossing, the line rises to the right towards Ilfracombe 23/6/21.

 

Heddon Mill Crossing Signal Box (edited - as it became a block post circa 1889), located next to the crossing keepers cottage. 23/6/21 

 

cheers

 

 

 

 

Edited July 2, 2021 by Rivercider
additional information

[Rivercider]

Earlier this week I visited Braunton to walk the Tarka Trail along the track bed back to Barnstaple, a lovely day out.

I made a brief visit to the Braunton Museum located near the site of the former station, I will have to return for a proper look as there is an OO model of Braunton station, and other railway artifacts. In fact the station masters house still survives as a newsagents, and the former goods shed is now the Surfing Museum. There are also a couple of semaphore signals still standing.

Anyway, back on topic, at Braunton Gates at the south end of the station the tracks still remain in the road.

 

  

Braunton Gates looking north towards the site of Braunton station. If I have it right the new brick office building stands on the site of the two spurs used to hold banking engines provided here for the climb up to Mortehoe and Woolacombe.  29/6/21

 

Braunton Gates looking north towards the site of the station, 29/6/21

 

Braunton Gates looking north eastwards. 29/6/21,

 

cheers

 

Edited July 1, 2021 by Rivercider
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[33C]

1 hour ago, Rivercider said:

Earlier this week I visited Braunton to walk the Tarka Trail along the track bed back to Barnstaple, a lovely day out.

I made a brief visit to the Braunton Museum located near the site of the former station, I will have to return for a proper look as there is an OO model of Braunton station, and other railway artifacts. In fact the station masters house still survives as a newsagents, and the former goods shed is now the Surfing Museum. There are also a couple of semaphore signals still standing.

Anyway, back on topic, at Braunton Gates at the south end of the station the tracks still remain in the road.

 

  

Braunton Gates looking north towards the site of Braunton station. If I have it right the new brick office building stands on the site of the two spurs used to hold banking engines provided here for the climb up to Mortehoe and Woolacombe.  29/6/21

 

Braunton Gates looking north towards the site of the station, 29/6/21

 

Braunton Gates looking north eastwards. 29/6/21,

 

cheers

 

Lovely stuff.