Ghosts in the Machine.

[Wickham Green too]

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 ?

[SHMD]

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.

🤣

[Wickham Green too]

OK, that's an illusion then ...... and I guess the girls are younger / smaller than I was imagining.

[big jim]

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.

[rodent279]

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.

[PhilJ W]

The Bristol tramways were standard gauge,

[big jim]

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 

[PhilJ W]

The Bristol trams ceased operation in 1941 after a sub station was destroyed in the Blitz and the power supply cables were severed.

[rodent279]

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.

[Southernman46]

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 👍

[eastglosmog]

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
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[melmerby]

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.

[melmerby]

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.)

[PhilJ W]

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.

[lmsforever]

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.

[KeithMacdonald]

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.

 

 

 

[Artless Bodger]

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.

[KeithMacdonald]

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

 

[Artless Bodger]

Friends of Bathurst Basin photo.

https://www.fobb.org.uk/history/redcliffe-tunnel/

[TheSignalEngineer]

I think that these two manhole covers on Platform 1 at Stoke-on-Trent must qualify.

[2251]

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:

 

[rodent279]

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.

[KeithMacdonald]

 

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.

 

[Ray M]

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.

[iands]

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?