No more trains to Friary

[brianusa]

The line past the loco maintenance facilities has been severed which cuts off the access to what remains of the Southern line to the terminus at Friary and which included the branch to the docks, is no longer part of the network.  Some of my earliest memories include catching the morning train to Waterloo, actually Surbiton where we alighted, when visiting relatives there.  All that remained until recently  was a loop for the docks line, on the site of the former goods yard!

 Brian.

[The Stationmaster]

The Cattedown branch was cutback considerably more than 10 years ago so I'm a little surprised that it has clung on this long.  The station and everything beyond the Tothill Road bridge is of course long gone having been sold off for 'development'.  But never nice to hear that the piece of railway nearest to the church in which I got married has bitten the dust.