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

[montyburns56]

20 hours ago, bradfordbuffer said:

That's a brill photo...look at the clearance between 08 handrail and the building on left!.....so modelible!  

 

Indeed, that's why I posted a load of pics of the line in this thread. And just imagine how it must have felt in that house when the train went past!

 

 

[Hunslet]

I think this has been covered before.

Coalville, Leics,  Belvoir road with line to Snibston Mine now made into a footpath.

Photo taken this morning on a bike ride which also included the Swannington Incline also previously mentioned.

 

 

Colin

[Andy Kirkham]

Multiple gauges at the former Andrew Barclay works, Kilmarnock. The other side ot the road used to be the BR goods yard, later occupied by Barclay's newer premises.

 

 

 

[bradfordbuffer]

7 hours ago, Andy Kirkham said:

Multiple gauges at the former Andrew Barclay works, Kilmarnock. The other side ot the road used to be the BR goods yard, later occupied by Barclay's newer premises.

 

 

 

You take the prize for the 'S' in abandoned railS!...Nice one

Edited September 8, 2021 by bradfordbuffer

[Engineer]

A couple of examples that are right on the edge of the theme of abandoned rails, just for interest and maybe for modelling ideas.

 

Wheelock station, near Sandbach, line now closed and converted to a path.  The station building remains, in use for other purposes now.

The access road to the side of the building also gives access to the path down to platform level.  At the edge of this roadway and at the foot of the building, there are short sections of rail which seem to be laid as a form of kerb to define the roadway edge and prevent wheeled vehicles from getting too close to the building.

 

 

 

[Engineer]

Recently I walked the Sheerness Tramway routes [closed 1917].  One route headed west-ish from the town and adjacent rail station, crossing into 'Blue Town' which sat at the walls of the dockyard.  Below is West Street, location of the tramway terminus.  No rails to be seen, though.  

A few minutes away on foot, there are rails in the road, however.  Part of a former branch from the main line  leading to the dockyard gate is still present, crossing Brielle Way then alongside it with several forms of paving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Engineer]

A former railway crossing on Rushenden Road, Sheppey.  No rails visible either side of the crossing.  https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4113547,0.7453425,3a,60y,21.79h,92.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfAFota8OOaIEnX70TPNoUQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e2

 

 

 

 

This seems to be a remnant of a now-closed branch from Queenborough to a pier.
https://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Queenborough.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBJkorJTtLc

[bradfordbuffer]

1 hour ago, Engineer said:

Recently I walked the Sheerness Tramway routes [closed 1917].  One route headed west-ish from the town and adjacent rail station, crossing into 'Blue Town' which sat at the walls of the dockyard.  Below is West Street, location of the tramway terminus.  No rails to be seen, though.  

A few minutes away on foot, there are rails in the road, however.  Part of a former branch from the main line  leading to the dockyard gate is still present, crossing Brielle Way then alongside it with several forms of paving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ohhhh last photo

cobbles ... rails...concrete...weeds ..what's not to like

[Colin_McLeod]

Last remaining rails of the Cork to Blarney line beside the hotel that is built on the site of the Cork terminus.

 

 

Zoom in,:

 

Edited September 13, 2021 by Colin_McLeod
Edit to add bridge pier in water photo.

[33C]

That is a good spot! Amazing survivors!

[Will Crompton]

This summer I went on a boat trip on the Chiemsee, a big lake in Southern Bavaria. One of the stops was on one of the Islands, Fraueninsel where I encountered  abandoned 'boat launching railways' (er, erm  not sure of the correct technical term). I managed a few hurried pics. The first one looked narrower than standard gauge (two photos). Some more to follow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Will Crompton
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[Will Crompton]

As promised some more from Fraueninsel. The second of these tracks looked a bit wider than standard gauge. A couple of what looked like disused wagons were also in attendance. I'll have to post these separately to get under the 10 mb limit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Will Crompton
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[Will Crompton]

Finally two abandoned boat wagons (?) on the Fraueninsel.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Will Crompton
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[Northmoor]

I wonder if the narrower ones are the same metre gauge as the tram from Prien Station to Stock (we holidayed in Prien as well, but 33 years ago!).

[Will Crompton]

24 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I wonder if the narrower ones are the same metre gauge as the tram from Prien Station to Stock (we holidayed in Prien as well, but 33 years ago!).

You could be right. The narrow gauge from Prien was running and I got a few pictures. When I get a moment over the next few days I will post some in the narrow gauge section. A diesel was the motive power but the steam tram could be seen through the depot window.

[Doncaster Green]

Will

 

You mean this tram?  Taken August 1990

 

John

 

[Will Crompton]

24 minutes ago, Doncaster Green said:

Will

 

You mean this tram?  Taken August 1990

 

 

John

 

That's the one. I couldn't get a picture of it as there was too much reflection coming off the depot windows. The little coaling stage was holding coal so maybe it was due for a outing.

[Northmoor]

55 minutes ago, Will Crompton said:

That's the one. I couldn't get a picture of it as there was too much reflection coming off the depot windows. The little coaling stage was holding coal so maybe it was due for a outing.

Here it is in 1988 at the Bahnhof:

[bradfordbuffer]

20 hours ago, Northmoor said:

Here it is in 1988 at the Bahnhof:

steady on!        think we have drifted in to dangerous territory hear....European railways! take two paracetamol have a 3 minuet nap and you will feel better.... destroy your latest edition of CM and return to the light that is UK modelling!

 

Ps nice tram loco!

[bradfordbuffer]

Every one is getting in on this abandoned railS thing.....Geoff Marshall on you tube just posted one on abandoned railS in Alderley!  Don't know how to put yt links in but quick search and you will find it....

 

Not a dig at Mr Marshall but he semms to be getting louder and louder on his vids! He posts some good content but shhhh..he was even heard on some one else's blog on avanti westcoast record run and he was at other end of coach at 125mph....I must be getting grumpy in old age!.....wheres my volume button?

[Engineer]

Recently I had a chance to walk the routes of the Sheerness tramways, closed 1917, and visit the depot site that's now in commercial use.  No track in sight there but nearby there's a footpath along the former trackbed of the Sheppey Light Railway.  East of the site of Sheerness East station, the footpath shifts to one side of the trackbed for a while to share the access road to a golf club.  At this point, a set of iron gates remain, maybe the remains of  a farm crossing.  The gates are quite a distinctive design, well mangled now, but still have their posts which appear to be re-worked bullhead rail - or look somewhat like it [this being the reason for inclusion in this thread].

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4261297,0.7809439,3a,60y,155.5h,67.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLB5RfCvZ8vv2A7ghIVdgVg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e2

 

 

 

A little more research found some web pages that relate to the gates:

http://lettersfromsheppey.blogspot.com/2013/10/

http://amy-elisabeth-curtis.blogspot.com/2011/09/isle-of-sheppey-light-railway.html

 

On the homeward train journey I spotted similar gates, this time across the 'main line' tracks about half a mile south of Kemsley.  Online mapping shows a view from a nearby road:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3568525,0.7304113,3a,15y,323.25h,91.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seSHzpsFUX3hszAjhJzUqMw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e2

[big jim]

The old crossing at birches head road in Stoke on Trent that carries the line to oakamoor, the tracks are still in place either side of the crossing here as the line is technically mothballed rather than abandoned, there has been talk of it reopening for a while now to run aggregate trains from a quarry on the branch and they began to clear it a few years back and were confident it would open not long afterwards but when you see things like this and the lack of fencing between the existing line and the cycle path next to it etc I really can’t see it happening any time soon or indeed if at all!

 

Dropped pin
https://goo.gl/maps/9uh9aHeXScGCWbxeA
 

[ejstubbs]

On 30/07/2021 at 14:57, Porcy Mane said:

 

Rails into Liverpool Riverside.

 

 

MD&HB No16. by Philip Parker, on Flickr

 

Off topic, but I'm intrigued by that tarp or whatever it is over the top of the funnel on the saddle tank.  Best explanation I can dream up is that the loco was out of use for an extended period and it was to stop rain getting in to the smokebox, but I'm sure someone will know the true answer.

[Michael Edge]

Many MDHB locos had a sort of inverted chip basket spark arrester over the chimney, this one has a tarpaulin cover fixed over it, presumably the loco was out of use at the time - it's outside Princes Dock shed.

[bécasse]

2 hours ago, Michael Edge said:

Many MDHB locos had a sort of inverted chip basket spark arrester over the chimney .........

whose principle purpose was to prevent sparks setting fire to the decking of the Liverpool Overhead Railway whose viaducts often ran over the top of dock lines. The locally-based L&Y Pugs had a circular metal plate on a "stick" which could be swung over their funnels and which served the same purpose.