Wickham Green too Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 1 hour ago, rodent279 said: This one also fits in the Disused lines still with track thread. Tramlines still set in the ground at Bristol Temple Meads, don't think they've been used since before the second world war. That first photo looks to show broad gauge - is that an illusion ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted June 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2022 9 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: That first photo looks to show broad gauge - is that an illusion ? No. Just follow the lines down to where the three girls are sitting. (I don't think they would take too kindly to someone thinking their behinds were 7'/3 wide!) Kev. 🤣 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 OK, that's an illusion then ...... and I guess the girls are younger / smaller than I was imagining. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2022 7 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: OK, that's an illusion then ...... and I guess the girls are younger / smaller than I was imagining. 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted June 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2022 I think, to be fair to the girls, they are sitting in the 4 ft of one line, and the other line is to the right. Being a tramline, it's not spaced as far apart as mainline railway. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19, 2022 The Bristol tramways were standard gauge, 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2022 14 minutes ago, rodent279 said: I think, to be fair to the girls, they are sitting in the 4 ft of one line, and the other line is to the right. Being a tramline, it's not spaced as far apart as mainline railway. i thought the same until you look at which side the flangeway is 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19, 2022 The Bristol trams ceased operation in 1941 after a sub station was destroyed in the Blitz and the power supply cables were severed. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted June 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2022 Not quite as early as I thought then, I had in my head that it was about 1934 that they ceased. Even so, quite a while OOU. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 On 25/12/2019 at 23:58, sem34090 said: Not sure if it counts, but there's still a few yards of the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway (closed 1935) running off into the undergrowth and thence a roundabout at Basingstoke West Yard. To about 100 yards beyond where it diverges behind the houses - Still has a rail-built buffer on the end - during my spell as Track Maintenance engineer for the area I would make a point of walking right up to the stop to ensure I had completely "beaten the bounds" of my area 👍 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 (edited) A few ghosts from the long gone Midland branch to Tewkesbury: The railway bridge over the southern branch of the River Avon, into Healings (Borough) Mill and on into the mill and terminating at the river Quays on the main branch of the River Avon. The bridge betrays its origin by being flat, unlike the humped road bridge beyond. The line ran on the left hand side of the gap in the mill buildings to the quay, which is now covered in trees. Station Street in Tewksbury has not had a passenger station since 1864, when the original station in Tewksbury was closed in favor of a new one on the Ashchurch Great Malvern line. The base of the signal box still lurks in the undergrowth near the junction of the Tewksbury branch with the Ashchurch Great Malvern branch. Edited October 29, 2022 by eastglosmog Remove duplicate photo 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 29, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2022 8 hours ago, eastglosmog said: Station Street in Tewksbury has not had a passenger station since 1864, Station Street in Bromsgrove has never even seen a railway of any description, its about a mile from the railway at it's nearest point. Unusually it is named after the Police Station. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 17, 2022 One that I don't think has been mentioned. The old Rewley Road swing bridge on the approach to Oxford LNWR station Note, by the fence, the small stubs of rails still in situ as well. (it is deliberate.) 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, melmerby said: One that I don't think has been mentioned. The old Rewley Road swing bridge on the approach to Oxford LNWR station Note, by the fence, the small stubs of rails still in situ as well. (it is deliberate.) It's a listed structure as is the wooden trestle viaduct on the long closed Maldon branch in Essex. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 There was an item on the Oxford tv news last night showing it working and talking with the people who funded the work ,glad it was reworked as it was getting to be an eyesore. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 On 19/06/2022 at 12:51, rodent279 said: This one also fits in the Disused lines still with track thread. Tramlines still set in the ground at Bristol Temple Meads, don't think they've been used since before the second world war. That line (once upon a time) ran though a tunnel and across the Bathurst Basin, past the Ostrich Pub. Last I was there (c.25 years ago) there was a human skeleton in one back corner of the pub (but no mention of a ghost IIRC). Some track is still visible close to the pub. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4475319,-2.5940229,3a,38.1y,358.59h,80.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOVytyEf1b7hkERyi0gI4Rg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Then it joined the Bristol Harbour Railway and the track still besides the Museum. Then alongside the Cumberland Road, down to the Ashton Avenue Bridge. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artless Bodger Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said: That line (once upon a time) ran though a tunnel and across the Bathurst Basin, past the Ostrich Pub. Last I was there (c.25 years ago) there was a human skeleton in one back corner of the pub (but no mention of a ghost IIRC). Some track is still visible close to the pub. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4475319,-2.5940229,3a,38.1y,358.59h,80.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOVytyEf1b7hkERyi0gI4Rg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Then it joined the Bristol Harbour Railway and the track still besides the Museum. Then alongside the Cumberland Road, down to the Ashton Avenue Bridge. Wasn't that link to the BH railway the one which left the goods yard, crossed the road / roundabout outside BTM on a viaduct then passed through the tunnel you mention under St Mary Redcliffe churchyard, and came out behind the old Bristol Royal Infirmary before crossing Bathurst Basin? https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.6&lat=51.44899&lon=-2.58447&layers=117746211&right=BingHyb I'm sure I've seen a photo of the viaduct in the 1950s or thenabouts on a Flickr page, I think its by Brizzle born and bred or similar name. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 11 minutes ago, Artless Bodger said: Wasn't that link to the BH railway the one which left the goods yard, crossed the road / roundabout outside BTM on a viaduct then passed through the tunnel you mention under St Mary Redcliffe churchyard, and came out behind the old Bristol Royal Infirmary before crossing Bathurst Basin? https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.6&lat=51.44899&lon=-2.58447&layers=117746211&right=BingHyb That looks like the one. 🙂 Left hand down a bit to see Bathurst Basin. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.5&lat=51.44757&lon=-2.59408&layers=117746211&right=BingHyb 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artless Bodger Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Friends of Bathurst Basin photo. https://www.fobb.org.uk/history/redcliffe-tunnel/ 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 2, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2022 I think that these two manhole covers on Platform 1 at Stoke-on-Trent must qualify. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2251 Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 On 19/06/2022 at 21:20, big jim said: i thought the same until you look at which side the flangeway is Where they are sitting is more or less the location of the former tramway station: 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted December 2, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2022 7 minutes ago, 2251 said: Where they are sitting is more or less the location of the former tramway station: Correct. I took the photo more or less where the T of Tramway is on the map. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 On 02/12/2022 at 13:35, 2251 said: Where they are sitting is more or less the location of the former tramway station: Thanks, I'd confused the tramway at the station with the line to Redland Tunnel. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Out on the motorbike in 2010 i took this pic. i`ll let you guess where it his. But i used to love looking through these gates in the late 60s- 80s. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted January 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2023 35 minutes ago, Ray M said: Out on the motorbike in 2010 i took this pic. i`ll let you guess where it his. But i used to love looking through these gates in the late 60s- 80s. Doncaster? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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