Mark_A Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 > The avoiding line 'avoided' all of these issues, and I would say the loss of it IS actually quite a big deal still A bit OT but the Lincoln avoiding line provided a lovely view of the cathedral. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted January 31, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2017 And on to French Drove. Seems quite an imposing building considering where it is. Dave 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Interesting layout,no facing points at all. Did the siding get used much or was it out of use by the end? What about the one to the left of the signalbox to access the loop? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted February 1, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2017 Any of the box Dave? My mate has got part of the frame from there in his garden (and not its not LNERGE this time!) Andy G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 1, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2017 "What about the one to the left of the signalbox to access the loop?" If you enlarge the image you can see it is a single slip, so not facing. Shades of the Midland. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Any of the box Dave? My mate has got part of the frame from there in his garden (and not its not LNERGE this time!) Andy G And the other part is in Cesspit Sidings signalbox in Arlesey. The relay cabinet from the box is in Soham and one of the bracket signals is prominent at the Nene Valley Railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted February 1, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2017 Any of the box Dave? My mate has got part of the frame from there in his garden (and not its not LNERGE this time!) Andy G The box and towards the goods shed. Like Cowbit no photos of inside the box, but as the steps have been removed, I guess that would have been a little difficult. Dave 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 The box and towards the goods shed. Like Cowbit no photos of inside the box, but as the steps have been removed, I guess that would have been a little difficult. French Drove SB 250287.jpg French Drove SB a 250287.jpg French Drove GS 250287.jpg Dave I'd had the lever frame away by the time this picture was taken so not that much left to look at inside the box <G>. The last picture is Twenty Feet River goods shed. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted February 2, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2017 I'd had the lever frame away by the time this picture was taken so not that much left to look at inside the box <G>. The last picture is Twenty Feet River goods shed. That goods shed does appear to be wrongly recorded as French Drove, when in fact it is still extant on Rings End Nature Reserve, at Friday Bridge or Twenty Feet River. So these two accompany it, Friday Bridge, extinct in that form, and the signal which appears on Google Streetview in a somewhat rustier condition. Dave 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Legroom Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Thank you for posting these photos. There is something very haunting and desolate about an abandoned track and the flat countryside just adds to this atmosphere. When I was a kind in the early 1970s there seemed to be abandoned bits of railway all over the place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted February 3, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2017 Reverse back up the line a bit, having skipped from French Drove to Friday Bridge, we have Murrow. Looking on Google, Murrow now has two signal boxes, the one pictured as a private residence, and another which seems to be part of a large reclamation yard complete with a restored splitting signal left from the old M&GN line. Dave 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted February 3, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2017 Incredible how some places have changed in what seems to be a relatively short space of time isn't it, when you look at them now on Google! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 (edited) The other box at Murrow is Horsemoor. I moved it there just after it closed. The home arms on the bracket came from Whitemoor Junction. The distant was one of Collectors Corner's finest. Edited February 4, 2017 by LNERGE 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2017 Quite ironic that the closed part of the joint had had quite a lot more modernisation than the rest of the line Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2017 (edited) Thanks for posting these photos Dave. I have happy memories of trips down the Joint line in the later 60s. I went down to the Broads for organised sailing holidays for 4 years at Easter, probably 66 to 69. I travelled by train from Giggleswick to North Walsham on my own. (13 to 17). My parents would probably be visited by Social Services these days. The best bit of the journey for me was the trip from Doncaster to Norwich behind a Class 31. I think about 3 coaches. I loved the trip and this section was a vital part of it. Whitemoor yard and the vast expanse of March shed as well as the way we seemed to go and and round at Ely. Some times we called at Ely other times it was straight on towards Norwich. Thanks again. Jamie Edited February 4, 2017 by jamie92208 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2017 I think your parents may have been questioned by social services for having a holiday in North Walsham!! It may have been nicer then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2017 organised ailing holidays Were you a sickly child? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2017 I think your parents may have been questioned by social services for having a holiday in North Walsham!! It may have been nicer then Thanks Russ, we actually started from Potter Heigham but had transport from North Walsham fortunately. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2017 Was only joking Jamie, if you had gone seven years previously you could have gone direct to Potter Highham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 One other great loss was the Woolram Wygate level crossing cabin. Well maintained right up to the end, with a delightful 'ships wheel' to open the gates, it was destroyed overnight with just a pile of rubble and broken timbers left by the morning. Now the freight traffic is diverted through Spalding we have the wonderful prospect of the whole of Spalding being severed from the emergency services as all 4 level crossing gates shut for several minutes every time the long containerised trains go through. Usually, but not just, at 8.55 am and 3.40 pm in time to foul up traffic in town and bring everything to gridlock! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 One other great loss was the Woolram Wygate level crossing cabin. Well maintained right up to the end, with a delightful 'ships wheel' to open the gates, it was destroyed overnight with just a pile of rubble and broken timbers left by the morning. Now the freight traffic is diverted through Spalding we have the wonderful prospect of the whole of Spalding being severed from the emergency services as all 4 level crossing gates shut for several minutes every time the long containerised trains go through. Usually, but not just, at 8.55 am and 3.40 pm in time to foul up traffic in town and bring everything to gridlock! Just as well you weren't there 60 years ago, the gates would have been closed for a much greater part of the day than they are now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted February 6, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6, 2017 Well there are no more pics of the trackbed/infrastructure along the line, just a few taken around March at that time. 08s presumably withdrawn, one with half its rods, another with none. 37144 right of shot, rest unknown. 37252 on Polybulks. Dave 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cravensdmufan Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Dave, very many thanks for posting all the great photos. Very interesting. Would you have any of Spalding and surrounding area please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted February 7, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2017 Dave, very many thanks for posting all the great photos. Very interesting. Would you have any of Spalding and surrounding area please? I don't have anything from Spalding, but there are a few from Deeping St James, Ely, Whittlesea and Stamford if they are of interest? Apart from that my own photos span from around Sleaford up to Barnetby, but much later being from the noughties when I lived in Ruskington. Last few from March in February 1987. Dave 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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