Photographic Survey

[roundhouse]

East Grinstead, Sussex. Once a two level station with platforms going over the top of the low level at roughly 90 degrees.

 

Get 2 stations for 1 these days with the new Bluebell platform now open.

 

Looking South at the Network rail station

 

Looking North

 

North end of the station showing the recently extended platforms to cater for 12 coach services to London.

 

The newly opened station building on the site of the 70's concrete structure whih was next to the now demolished LBSCR one.

 

 

Looking South showing the remaining abutments of the bridge that carried the high level platforms from Three brisges to Ashurst Junction on the Uckfield line (closed 1966)

 

Looking North again with the main roads going over the top of the cutting. Beyond in the distance St Magarets curve went off to the left to join the high level.

 

Looking back at the new ticket office on our way to the Bluebell platform

 

The Bluebell platform and facilities

 

Looking South onto Imberhorn Viaduct and the gateway to the Bluebell railway

Edited April 22, 2013 by roundhouse

[DonB]

Andy started a thread to record the 50th anniversary of last day of steam. I posted pictures of Windsor (GW) taken on that day. Should I re-post them here or link them?

Similarly, there have been threads on (for instance) bridges, some out in the wilds, and what about remaining infrastructure on old routes now footpaths / cycle tracks?

[Peter Kazmierczak]

If links are put onto this thread, then I'll include them in the index. I'll update the index this evening.

Thanks,

Peter

[Rugd1022]

Kemble (part #1) - still a Cotswold gem despite losing both of it's branches...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Index updated. Thanks for the contributions.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Poole (ex-LSWR but station rebuilt by BR c1988) - April 2013

 

Photo 1. A Weymouth - Waterloo train approaches the level crossing over Poole High Street. The station platforms commence at the rear of the train.

 

Photo 2. A Poole - Waterloo service waits departure time from the up platform.

 

Photo 3. The modern station buildings are situated on the up side of the station.

 

Photo 4. The former goods yard with Poole signalbox in the background. Note that part of the right hand siding is electrified.

Edited April 22, 2013 by Western Sunset

[Kenton]

Although grateful for anything and the contributions made so far.

 

Can I ask for some additional annotation on each photo (as has been done on some posts)

 

Some (actually many) of these far flung places I have never heard of let alone visited. Some orientation like for example which (ex) company built it and which direction the photo was taken? I know it takes a little more effort than simply posting the photo - but I can assure you that to the rest of us who have no idea the extra information adds so much more to the simple holiday snaps turning them into real photographic record.

 

Thanks

[roundhouse]

Although grateful for anything and the contributions made so far.

 

Can I ask for some additional annotation on each photo (as has been done on some posts)

 

Some (actually many) of these far flung places I have never heard of let alone visited. Some orientation like for example which (ex) company built it and which direction the photo was taken? I know it takes a little more effort than simply posting the photo - but I can assure you that to the rest of us who have no idea the extra information adds so much more to the simple holiday snaps turning them into real photographic record.

 

Thanks

Edited East Grinstead - now with captions. Will do the rest of mine as time permits.

 

Ian

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Point taken Kenton.

[Rivercider]

Here is Whimple a former LSWR station between Salisbury and Exeter Central. Pictures taken in February 2012.

It opened in 1860, the goods depot closed in 1967 though Whiteways Cider was still dispatched until  the early 1980s.

 

The station building on the former up platform was another designed by Sir William Tite, it is now a private residence.

 

Class 159 set 159002 calls on a Exeter St Davids - Waterloo service, 23/2/2012

 

Looking down towards Exeter Central.

When the line was singled in the 1960s it was the down platform that originally remained in use,

at a later date the up platform was extended out to meet the remaining single line and brought back into use.

 

A small hut on the platform is a product of Exmouth Junction Concrete Works.

 

cheers

Edited April 22, 2013 by Rivercider

[Shadow]

Question for Andy really, would it be feasible to do something like the SubBrit site does with it's ROC posts.

 

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/category/nuclear-monitoring-posts

 

Can the RMWeb site do something like this?

 

Dave

[roundhouse]

Coulsdon Town (used to be called Smitham)

This station has bern extensively rebuilt a few years ago.

First shot is looking towards Purley and the Brighton mainline


This shot is looking the other way towards Woodmansterne and Tattenham corner. The ticket office is to the left of this photo.


The new ticket office which replaced the old South Eastern Railway on the same spot


General signage from the station forecourt and above the A23 bypass


Turning round 180 degrees is the site of Coulsdon North station which closed in 1983/4 and is now the A23 bypass round Coulsdon


The modern lifts and footbridge built to replace the subway prior to building the A23 bypass underneath the station



And finally the railway over the old A23 at the bottom of the station approach road. this is at the Tattenham Corner end of the station.

Edited April 25, 2013 by roundhouse

[Peter Kazmierczak]

The footbridge at Smitham, sorry, Coulsdon Town, looks very much like an unpainted kit.

[Shadow]

Hi All,

 

Been playing with Google Maps and HTML and have made up the following page.

 

It displays locations of images on stored on the PANORAMIO site tags of either Railway, RMWeb Survey, or All.

 

In the Railway map option (Top Left), the Railway lines are highlighted in red.

In the Satellite Map option, it's as per normal.

 

As I mentioned before, it is only looking at images on PANORAMIO.

If people want to upload their images to PANORAMIO, and give them a tag of RMWeb Survey, then selecting the "RMWeb Survey" button will display only those.

Giving them a tag of both "Railway" and "RMWeb Survey" and they will come up in both,... etc., etc.

 

 

Copy the file to your hard drive, and then double click it. Should open in your browser.

 

I have only tried it on Chrome and Internet Explorer as that's all I've got!!

 

Any comments welcome.

 

Looking at trying to get something similar to work with Flikr, but their privacy/account system isn't the same!

 

Dave

 

RMWebMap_v1_00.html

[Shadow]

The only problem that I have seen with PANORAMIO over Flikr, is that it can take upto 4 weeks for uploaded

images to appear on the public image viewing site.

Apparently each image is reviewed for in-appropriate content!

 

I've uploaded a few images I did of Pitlochry to the site, with tags of RMWeb Survey and Railway, but will have to wait a few weeks before

I can test that the "RMWeb  Survey" button works.

 

Dave 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Index updated. Thank you.

[black and decker boy]

This Smithybridge on the Ex L&Y Rochdale to Hebden Bridge Calder Valley line. The signal box is ex L&Y. The Station etc is modern day BR. The area is being resignalled and the box is due to be demolished later this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 3, 2013 by black and decker boy

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Nice collection. Any chance of rotating some of the sideways ones please?

[cary hill]

Hinckley Station, Leicestershire, ugly sister to Narborough (see post # 23), and situated a few miles further west on the Leicester-Birmingham line.

 

 

The former Railway Hotel (1874?), currently undergoing a re-furb by a local pub chain. Note the new "Railway Inn " sign. This was the only building near to the station for many years after opening, as the town centre was about a half mile to the North, and the land to the South of the railway line was just open fields.

 

 

View from the "Railway Hotel" down "Station Yard " to the Station frontage. One end of the MR Goods Shed would have been just behind the white van.

 

 

A view of the unjustifiably plain and undistinguished station frontage (were the LNWR always mean ?) - which has been messed with by recent extensions to provide commercial property lettings. The original awning has been replaced by two small canopies, the left one of which is above the booking office entrance, the other entrance being to the commercial premises. Note the BR totem style "Station Therapy" sign.

 

 

This is the approach from the South and gives access to both the station and to the public footbridge over the tracks to the town centre - a short path between fairly densely packed suburban houses since the war. 

 

 

View from the footbridge towards Leicester with no sign of the London Road overbridge, which is the next means of crossing the railway in this direction. 

 

 

View from the footbridge towards Birmingham - the "clearing" to the left of the train is roughly where Hinckley Signal Box was and one of the late Mr Cohen's emporia can be seen to the right occupying most of the site of the former goods yard. Note the weathering on the corrugated roof of the platform awning. Rugby Road underbridge is about a quarter of a mile distant and a view of the extensive Sketchley Dyeworks HQ (later Drycleaners) was once possible - now all flattened. Just over a mile distant from the Station was (briefly) HinckleyJunction for the double track "Ghost Line" to Stoke Golding and the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Line.

 

 

A view of the Station Buildings. Years ago there would have been a view of the LNWR Goods Shed, an end-loading dock and cattle pens behind where the modern extension is built. The MR Goods Shed was situated on the other side of the Goods Yard opposite the Railway Hotel shown in the first picture. There was a footbridge connecting the platforms only towards the west end of the platform, in addition the public footbridge, but this was abolished many years ago. 

 

 

View of the footbridge which saves pedestrians a long walk. There used to be a large hosiery factory, the high walls of which butted up to railway property, and ran all the way from the station building to the Leicester end of the platform. This has been flattened for re-development and has the effect of "opening up" this side of the station which used to feel rather hemmed in.

 

 

Close-up of the ugly underside of the Platform Canopy although it might be easier to model than some.

Edited May 3, 2013 by cary hill

[roundhouse]

Truro this morning




The signal box and crossing at the East end




The signal at the east end of platform 3






Platform 3 for Plymouth bound trains

The signals at the West end of the station looking towards Penzance and Falmouth

 

The Falmouth bay Platform 1

 

Looking East from the West end of the station

 

The main footbridge at the east end of the station

 

The foorbridge towards the west end of the station

 

The public footbridge that crosses over the top of the station and the old yard

 

And finally whats left of the old goods yard, now in use as engineers sidings.

 

Edited May 7, 2013 by roundhouse

[Ceptic]

St. Denys - L&SWR, Built 1865.

 

To facilitate the connection with the West Coastway line, this station replaced the original one, built 1/4 mile to the north. Then named 'Portswood', it was renamed 'St. Denys', ten years later, to avoid confusing with 'Portsmouth'. Now, barely visible from passing traffic on the Thomas Lewis Way.

Now privately owned, the main building, including the booking office and waiting room, is Grade ll listed, 

 

Passenger facilities (such as they are) are catered for on, and contained within, the island platform's (2 & 3) building. Note the staggered platforms 1 & 2.

 

Looking north from the south end of platform 1.

 

Looking north from the footbridge above platforms 3 &.4.

 

Looking north from platform 2.

 

Looking south from platforms 2 & 3

 

Looking south from footbridge above platforms 1 & 2.  'Horseshoe Bridge', in the background, replaced the level-crossing, once situated approx. where the radio mast stands.

 

Not only served by SWT.  XC , Southern and FGW also call.

 

Lastly, a few details.

Remember these ?.

Steps in the platform side-wall.

 

Edited May 7, 2013 by Ceptic

[roundhouse]

Falmouth Town - the busiest station on the Falmouth branch. For a short while this was the last station on the branch when it was built (back in the 1970's?) but the trains still went to the Docks station to change ends due to the grade at the Town station, so it wasnt long before the Docks station reopened.

 

Luckily most people had just got on the train to Truro as I got the camera out but more people were turning up for the next one as its a half hourly service weekdays and Saturdays.

 

The station entrance on the road

 

The rail over bridge next to the station entrance

 

The entrance ffrom the car park. The ramp to the right leads to the platform at high level

 

The ramp

 

The platform shelter from the ramp

 

The concrete platform supports taken from the ramp

 

The paltform names recently altered.

 

Looking towards the Docks station

 

Looking towards Penryn and Truro - love the fancy railings!

Edited May 7, 2013 by roundhouse

[roundhouse]

Falmouth Docks - the end of the line and possibly the ned of the loop and sidings in the near future  ( as mentioned in another post).

 

 

Its surprising that the canopy survived especially with the station closing for for a while soem years ago.

 

Looking towards Town station with the heavily overgrown loop and sidings

 

The overgrown sidings alongside the station

 

A few not so good shots taken from the train but as there is no other access here they are.

 

 

[62613]

Didn't the line continue into the drydock? That station hasn't changed, except for the monstrosity on the right in the second or third picture. I was there in autumn 1974.

[roundhouse]

Didn't the line continue into the drydock? That station hasn't changed, except for the monstrosity on the right in the second or third picture. I was there in autumn 1974.

Yes the lines head off to the docks still but not seen any use in a long time.

 

Dont know how far they go these days though as its not accessible to the public.

 

Ian