RJL Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 The Little Eaton to Denby line is also disappearing. I don't know about dissappearing it is all but gone apart from a very small section hiden in the undergrowth just south of Denby Station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oldlugger Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 All the more reason to model these disappearing lines (as they they stand) to preserve their memory. Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Found it. Network Rails answer to accomodate stock of any gauge! More prosaically, the remains of the track at Swans Way near Swanbourne station on the mothballed section of the Oxford - Bletchley line after someone had stolen most of the sleepers and before they returned for the rails. Oh dear; what a 'waist' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJL Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Do you see Debs did there ? my sides have just split. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Emily Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 On the Leamside line I noticed yesterday that the pandrol clips are missing to the west of the bridge that carries the road into Pattinson industrial estate from the link road to J64 of the A1(M). The trees seem to have been cut back too and the rails rolled off the sleepers. Is this official, or metal thieving scum activity? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Is this official, or metal thieving scum activity? I think we're recovering all the materials - sure I read it somewhere. If/when it reopens it'll need full renewal anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2mm Andy Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Yes - the track either side of Fence Houses level crossing had disappeared when I last drove over it in mid-October. Surprisingly it was quite modern track - concrete sleepers and flatbottom rail. I suppose it dates back to the line being used as a diversion when the ECML was being electrified. A lot of the embankments and bridges will need work too if the line ever reopens - when we inspected some underbridges near Sherburn about 10 years ago the 'cess' rail was in mid air in quite a few places as the top of the embankment had slipped! Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I think we're recovering all the materials - sure I read it somewhere. If/when it reopens it'll need full renewal anyway. Aren't some of these materials off for a new (scenic) life in the Borders? Or did I dream that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Aren't some of these materials off for a new (scenic) life in the Borders? Or did I dream that? Not sure but I think a good deal of Scittish mechanical signalling is heading to the borders. Though with Leamside, I suspect the p-way materials will simply be recovered through the normal channels, if some can be reused it will be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 As I understand it, a fair bit of track is heading up to Millerhill - I regularly see Class 66 powered PW recovery trains sitting at Tursdale Junction, adjacent to the old NCB workshops, loading up. I think that a fair bit has been deemed suitable for re-using on the Waverley route. The Weardale line is getting about 3 1/2 miles of recovered track too, & that line is getting some serious use from loaded coal trains these days, so it can't be 'that' bad. The point about having to relay the whole route before it could be reopened stems, I think, from the fact that much work would have to be done to assorted embankments which have slipped, either due to the collapse of old mine workings or the burrowing propensities of certain forms of wildlife. Also I would think that the drainage would have to be looked at. Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Found it. Network Rails answer to accomodate stock of any gauge! More prosaically, the remains of the track at Swans Way near Swanbourne station on the mothballed section of the Oxford - Bletchley line after someone had stolen most of the sleepers and before they returned for the rails. I know a certain NR DU manager who would still try to classify this as a mis-alignment rather than a track buckle I've seen a scheme to re-open this section through to Bletchley - but blowed if I can remember where.......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 As I understand it, a fair bit of track is heading up to Millerhill - I regularly see Class 66 powered PW recovery trains sitting at Tursdale Junction, adjacent to the old NCB workshops, loading up. I think that a fair bit has been deemed suitable for re-using on the Waverley route. The Weardale line is getting about 3 1/2 miles of recovered track too, & that line is getting some serious use from loaded coal trains these days, so it can't be 'that' bad. I was reading about the recovered materials going north - nice to know it'll be put to good use and not just weighed in! The point about having to relay the whole route before it could be reopened stems, I think, from the fact that much work would have to be done to assorted embankments which have slipped, either due to the collapse of old mine workings or the burrowing propensities of certain forms of wildlife. Also I would think that the drainage would have to be looked at. That will come into it but with less mkaintanence everything starts to deteriorate - most of what you mention can stem from this. Obviously mine workings are a bigger issue but I was reading about work on disused mine workings recently to secure them to try and prevent subsidence, part funded by NWR. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I know a certain NR DU manager who would still try to classify this as a mis-alignment rather than a track buckle I've seen a scheme to re-open this section through to Bletchley - but blowed if I can remember where.......... It's part of the 'Spine Electrification' scheme from Network Rail, supposedly to allow electrically hauled freight (largely containers) from Southampton, via Reading and Oxford, thence Bletchley and Bedford as far as Sheffield. Such a pity there's no container depot in Sheffield, the nearest being Leeds/Doncaster/Wakefield... There's being something about in recent Modern Railways Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 On the Leamside line I noticed yesterday that the pandrol clips are missing to the west of the bridge that carries the road into Pattinson industrial estate from the link road to J64 of the A1(M). The trees seem to have been cut back too and the rails rolled off the sleepers. Is this official, or metal thieving scum activity? Hi,after reading this thread,i wanted to go for nose at this disused line.I use the M1 north alot with work going to and from Port of Immingham to Crewe,so i was over my hours today so parked up off j30 and went for bit of nose!! found this line.Very interesting walk!! had to hide in the under growth from two BTP who were walking on the same track towards me!! So had lucky escape.Least there petroling this area i guess...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplex Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I noticed when crossing the remaining stump of the Northampton to Bedford line at Brackmills on the A45 that the track has been lifted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 When I went into Trafford Park the other day a lot of the track there has disappeared too. I work in Trafford park and have noticed a fair bit of track in the undergrowth running along side roads. A fair bit has simply been surfaced over when adding new roads or widening existing ones with the odd bit of rail breaking surface to make my journey more interesting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robuk1981 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Talking about buried track. There doing an enormous overhaul of roads where I live and the amount of old dockside railway simply buried under dirt or under the old roads was insane. They uncovered this real nice bit which had red cobble stone inlaid was gone before I could get back with my camera. And while putting new gas mains in another street I saw a chunk of cut out tram line beside the road. And just up the road from my house I noticed a house was getting new electrical connection from the street a good few inches of Tarmac down was the old cobble road quite possible the tram lines are under there still. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 It's quite common for cobbles to have been simply surfaced over along with tram lines still in place. I live in a small old mill town and pretty much every road is cobbles under the surface, it's a solid foundation for a road, so why remove it to replace it with something else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rekoboy Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 The Leamside line's track is being re-used on the Waverley route. The Leamside route was extensively modernized as a diversionary route when the ECML was being electrified and the track is good for many years of use on the rebuilt Edinburgh-Tweedbank line. There is a great NR website on the Waverley - http://www.bordersrailway.co.uk/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 More interesting stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 It's quite common for cobbles to have been simply surfaced over along with tram lines still in place. I live in a small old mill town and pretty much every road is cobbles under the surface, it's a solid foundation for a road, so why remove it to replace it with something else. The contractors installing the new tram lines here in Nottingham had to remove some of the old tram lines first, which had been buried under tarmac for 70+ years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy h Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 some more has gone in the last few weeks at Trafford park soon there will be none left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Thumper Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 i haven't been up for a long time, but IDK if the Staveley, Bolsover and Clowne line has been lifted east of Barrow hill or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Emily Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 The railway line that passes under the M1 just north of J29A has just been lifted. Passed over it on Sunday to see that all that were left were rotten sleepers piled higgledy-piggledy on the trackbed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Thumper Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 if I have my memory right that was the part of the line which went down to Bolsover Coalite works. Not sure if the track leading to clowne is still there or not... might have to go and have a look myself Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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