APOLLO Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Bog Hall Junction (Whitby) Thrutch Tunnel (Rawtenstall) Throstle Nest Jcn (Fallowfield Manchester) Boars Head Jcn (Wigan) Winwick Jcn (Warrington) Sheet Stores Jcn (Derby) Stank Branch (Barrow in Furness) There was a Sod Hall Jcn near Clegg Lane Farnworth (Colliery Railway from Walkden) Bag Lane (Atherton) Knob End (Little Lever Bolton) - Any Knob Enders here ?? Chowbent (Atherton) & Chequerbent (Westhoughton) - Separate but nearby locations, both had stations on LNWR Whelley (LUR / LNW Wigan avoiding line) Strangeways Junctions (Hindley, Wigan) OA&GB Junction (Oldham Ashton & Guide Bridge Jcn, Manchester) Sough Tunnel (Darwen) No doubt many, many more. Many still exist, railway wise, but very few have stations or signalboxes, etc, no identity these days. Brit15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durranhill Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Durranhill sidings - now an old Council tip & close to the site of an early railway murder . Howe & Co sidings - still has a working signal box & where the Royal train has been parked up for the night in the past . Long Meg sidings - i think an old signal box remains here . Stainmore Summit Belah Viaduct Bleath Gill - of BTF snowdrift fame Stewart . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted June 1, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2010 Pocket nook Oh yes - and Gerrards Bridge too B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 1, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2010 Chaddesden Sdgs i have mixed feelings about that place, both happy and sad times!! i like: kenyon cutting (hard to imagine there used to be a junction station there, on the chat moss line) bessie gill (named after a murdered prostitute i believe?) slitting mill crossing decoy sidings atlantic dock jn (imagining just what and who used to go across it heading to the ships in liverpool for a new life!!) buttington jn (where the mileage change occurs on the cambrian, cambrian railways miles from whitchurch start and end there and gwr? miles to and from shrewsbury are picked up) moat house jn wenlock edge lightmoor jn (the mileage on the line changes near there, there are 2 X 161 mileposts about 1/2 mile apart, one is miles from london via wolves and snow hill etc, the other is miles from london via hereford) buildwas jn (down the road from lightmoor, just a dead end now but used to be a 4 way Jn to shrewsbury, craven arms, bridgnorth and oakengates) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 2, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2010 On my patch we have in South London the grandly named 'Atlantic Lines' near Battersea (indeed a message came over the Company Blackberry this very morning that an ECS was being routed via 'the atlantics'. Near Pulborough we have the evocatively named Codmore Hill Substation, it has a little green sign on it and everything but is in fact just a bog standard Southern Electric 1930's substation literally in the middle of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckdancer Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Gowhole sidings - always summoned up images of potholing for me. Neath Court Sart - an evocative name for a once great shed. Polmadie - unknown to the man in the street, a "suburb" of Glasgow but once famous for it's locomotive allocation. Eg all up and down the WCML (at least south of Carlisle) - "Semi! I hope it's a Polmadie one". Evocative name to me at least! Cambois - picture a French rural town but you would be so wrong.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 St Enoch Tring Pinwherry Hurlford Ais Gill Dent Garsdale Road Beattock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Dayz Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Friargate Duke Street Goods Chaddesden Sidings (again) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Some places had some very evocative smells. Warrington Bank Quay, Crosfield soap works. still there. Harlesden, especially early mornings, McVities, Guinness, Heinz. Widnes,always a good selection of chemicals. Crewe South shed messroom in the 1960's, always somebody cooking,with a touch of smoke,from the cooking and the shed. Choose your own fuelling point, diesel ! Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheDukeOfWellingtons Posted June 2, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2010 Laira Menheniot The Fowey Valley Long Rock Merehead Doublebois Riverside Yard Sunny days...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 2, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 2, 2010 Near Pulborough we have the evocatively named Codmore Hill Substation, it has a little green sign on it and everything but is in fact just a bog standard Southern Electric 1930's substation literally in the middle of nowhere. I always though Codmore Hill Substation would be a great name for an early '70s rock band! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 ...and one I haven't heard for many a long year " East Rudham" I have, my sister lives there! I think most of mine are GCR ones Annesley Warsop loops etc and a US one, Pidgeon Street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stuartp Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Howe & Co sidings - still has a working signal box & where the Royal train has been parked up for the night in the past . Don't I know it. "And where exactly do you think I'm going to find 25 copies of the Sporting Life at 4am in Carlisle ?" Back on topic - Quintinshill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 2, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2010 From Lincolnshire: Gunhouse Junction Pyewipe Junction Bellwater Junction Cuckoo Junction Dogdyke Maud Foster I've hardly ever been to Lincolnshire, but I've always been charmed by the name Tumby Woodside. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted June 2, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2010 A few from me: Halwill Junction (lines to Padstow, Bude, Torrington and Okehampton - now sadly just a housing estate) Exmouth Junction (the shed) Boscarne Junction (clay and Beattie Well Tanks) Meldon (Quarry, Viaduct and Jct) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plarailfan Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 A gem for the ladies, - Just a mile from my house was 'Dymonds Siding' near Heckmondwike, now a footpath (The Spen Valley Greenway) Other evocative names that come to mind : - Cadishead, Teviot Dale Monsal Dale Springs Branch Riddings Junction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted June 3, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2010 thornton junction, already mentioned, was a gateway to fife, a real interchange of main-line, branch-line and industrial traffic - i can imagine (don't know if it was ever thus) a cry of 'change at thornton junction for.....' kinnaber junction - famous from the 'races to the north', the wee man in the box had the final say on who got to aberdeen first, was still well known until the brechin line was finally closed in the 80s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalmaintainer Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 On your side of The Pond: Cumbria Evercreech Junction Dent Firth of Forth Ribblehead And on my side: Stampede Pass Chama and Durango (Right with you, Pete!) Olympic Branch Wishram Home Valley SP&S Junction St. Paul Pass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted June 3, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2010 Patricroft, Rose Grove & Lostock Hall.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil R Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Dr Day's Junction & Rhubarb Loop Cogload Junction Proof House Juction Washwood Heath Mutley Tunnel Long Rock St Philip's Marsh Litchurch Lane Water Orton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Wasn't Garsdale Road more likely to have been featured in Railway Modeller than Railway World? Possibly . However there a quite a few Garsdale Roads dotted around the place and it is nice and northernly evocative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 A few of my locals that you would struggle to find on the current map of Coatbridge Gunnie Yard Kipps Shed Garnqueen South Junction Cuilhill Gullet The Souterhouse Branch Nackerty Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 5, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2010 I might have said that Afon Wen was one of those place names that was meaningful only to railway enthusiasts, until the other day I saw a van belonging to this company http://www.afonwenservices.com/ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 How about: Rose Grove - a misnomer if ever there was one if you've ever been there (I'm sure someone must grow roses there though). Bay Horse Boars Head Mallerstang Long Meg Heath Trent (Edit - Sorry if these are duplicated, I missed page 2!!) On a shed bashing trip round the North East we came across a 'Chemical Works Road' and a 'Factory Lane'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Hi, What about: Thornaby Southampton Maritime Top Shed Shakespeare Cliff Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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