Coach bogie Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 From my Aberdeen days. Just north of Aberdeen station, hidden in the undergrowth, is the remains of the turntable. What is unusual is, due to space restriction, the well has been cut into the hillside location with a girder supporting the high level town above. Mike Wiltshire 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) There is a similar 'incursion' into an embankment at Brentwood on the down side where space constraints required a cut out let into the embankment for a turntable. The turntable has long gone now with just the semi circular cut out to show where it once was. Edited June 4, 2015 by PhilJ W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Brunel Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Another example that comes to mind is definitely the old Livery Street entrance which is all that's left of the original Birmingham Snow Hill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted June 6, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2015 Very modellable! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 From my Aberdeen days. Just north of Aberdeen station, hidden in the undergrowth, is the remains of the turntable. What is unusual is, due to space restriction, the well has been cut into the hillside location with a girder supporting the high level town above. ABZ TT.jpg Mike Wiltshire Photo of the turntable in happier days Jim 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 27, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2015 Hi, everyone.Here's two photo's taken of the former station buildings at Stamford Bridge, E. Yorkshire. It has survived very well since closure in 1965, and is now 'The Station Club'. With regards, Market65. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted July 11, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2015 (edited) I think that I mentioned this a while back. It's not much to look at but there's a bit of rail poking through the pothole, and the spacing of those lines looks about right. This is right near the Whaley Bridge canal basin, so a quite probably survivor of the Cromford and High Peak Railway (mostly) buried under the tarmac. A few weeks ago they opened up the building over the end of the canal, rails and a crane still in there but unfortunately I didn't have a camera on me. Edited July 11, 2015 by Reorte 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 And carrying on from post #137, towards the other end of the Invergarry to Fort Augustus line, near the long gone terminus at Fort Augustus a bridge support still stands in the River Oich. Sorry for the quality of the pick, taken in the rain ( well it is Scotland ). 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted July 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2015 (edited) That very ornate bridge support was just for the extension to the pier (which also included a swing bridge over the canal), which I believe closed even earlier than the rest. A lot of money spent there for not a lot (but that was also said about the entire branch). It might've done very well as a tourist line now if it had survived but if ever one was bonkers at the time it was built it was the Invergarry and Fort Augustus. Edited July 12, 2015 by Reorte Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 From my Aberdeen days. Just north of Aberdeen station, hidden in the undergrowth, is the remains of the turntable. What is unusual is, due to space restriction, the well has been cut into the hillside location with a girder supporting the high level town above. ABZ TT.jpg Mike Wiltshire There was a similar arrangement at Dover Town, where the turntable was partly within a cavern hacked out of part of the White Cliffs because of space constraints. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 (edited) -(which also included a swing bridge over the canal)- Thanks for that, similar to the present road bridge over the canal, I was wondering how it was done, as it is obvious by the adjacent, still intact, road bridge that the track bed was only a couple of feet above canal water level. Edited July 12, 2015 by bike2steam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 More interesting pictures on here thanks neil. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev_Lewis Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Even though the station at Little Somerford on the old GWR South Wales direct line is long gone, the gate posts at the bottom of the approach still remain. The manufacturers details are cast on to the posts: T James, Vulcan Foundry, Cardiff, 1902. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted July 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 16, 2015 very definitely. this encounter one day with a GWR Wartime box at Woodhay led to curiosity about the Didcot Newbury and Southampton Railway which has lasted and grown alongside a collection of appropriate models ahead of a long planned model of Burghclere Station and Hockley Viaduct (Shawford) along with a "what might have been" DNS station in Southampton. Woodhay box My model of the identical one at Burghclere 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Axed earlier than most lines in Britain. What's left of the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway.The line was built in 1862 to Christchurch, and extended to Bournemouth in 1870 and then closed in 1935.The photo depicts the Christchurch to Ringwood segment, facing North toward Ringwood. Regards, Matt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Axed earlier than most lines in Britain. What's left of the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway. The line was built in 1862 to Christchurch, and extended to Bournemouth in 1870 and then closed in 1935. The photo depicts the Christchurch to Ringwood segment, facing North toward Ringwood. Built when Bournemouth was no more than a small village, Dorchester being more important for trade, then the little village quickly expanded into a big holiday resort, and the need for a direct link became necessary, so the line thro' New Milton became a must. It would be more than useful now to serve the airport - another chance lost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigherb Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 The only bit of track left of the Martin Mill military railway, quite a nice find when we where restoring the deep shelter. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Axed earlier than most lines in Britain. What's left of the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway. The line was built in 1862 to Christchurch, and extended to Bournemouth in 1870 and then closed in 1935. The photo depicts the Christchurch to Ringwood segment, facing North toward Ringwood. S1950049 - 1.jpg Regards, Matt Ironically, the route of much of this line sees far more traffic now than was ever carried in its railway days. The main road into Bournemouth from the north and east - the A338 Spur Road - follows much of the formation of this first rail route to that seaside resort. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 A rather uninspiring view taken at 09.12 this morning. But if I'd been standing here exactly 62 years ago, behind me would be the 9.25 to Liverpool & Manchester, the 9.30 to Birkenhead Woodside and the 9.45 to Manchester all waiting to depart. The next arrival would've been the more prosaic 7.28 local from Templecombe in 20 minutes. Yes, this is Bournemouth West. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 No more Queen of Scots. Sun setting on Sinderby station building, May 2009. Demolished shortly after. Sinderby A1 overbridge and station. Bridge also now demolished. The bridge had significance in the history of pre-stressed concrete that can be read about here: http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/cjb/4d8/public/history.html Porcy 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 No more Queen of Scots. SinderbyStation012EditSm.jpg Sun setting on Sinderby station building, May 2009. Demolished shortly after. SinderbyStation004EditSm.jpg Sinderby A1 overbridge and station. Bridge also now demolished. The bridge had significance in the history of pre-stressed concrete that can be read about here: http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/cjb/4d8/public/history.html Porcy Was it Sinderby that was home to some Mk2 coaches and a 47 for a while? Whatever happened to them? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Was it Sinderby that was home to some Mk2 coaches and a 47 for a while? Whatever happened to them? Some say they were scrapped. Some say these are they. https://goo.gl/maps/MMPNe P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raised On Steam Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 (edited) A few snaps from the former Wansbeck line near Scotsgap in Northumberland the other day. Edited July 20, 2015 by Raised On Steam 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raised On Steam Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 A few more from the wild, wild Wannie. On this one the trackbed is the line of trees across the bridge. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Some say they were scrapped. Some say these are they. https://goo.gl/maps/MMPNe P That looks like them as I remember them, a mix of NSE and Inter-City. Whatever happened to the 47? More intriguingly, why were they there in the first place and why did they end up where they are? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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