Former railway stations on closed beeching lines moved and rebuilt on current preserved heritage lines.

[Ziggy3legs]

On the South Devon Railway, Bishops Bridge Signal Box controlling the loop just north of Staverton was originally at Athelney, whilst at Totnes Riverside station, Ashburton Junction Signal Box came from Cradley Heath. The signal box at Crowcombe Heathfied station on the West Somerset Railway originated from Ebbw Vale Sidings.

 

[High Dyke]

The Nene Valley is rebuilding the Wansford Road station building at Peterborough.

And the wooden station building at Wansford was formerly the waiting room at Barnwell.

 

[norbitonflyer]

The temporary platform at Cheedale - erected for a ramblers service to and from Edale, was dismantledcand re-erected at Matlock Riverside on Peak Rail, at the other end of the closed section of the Midland Railway's route through the Peak District via Bakewell.

 

[Ashley Hill]

On the South Devon Railway, Bishops Bridge Signal Box controlling the loop just north of Staverton was originally at Athelney, whilst at Totnes Riverside station, Ashburton Junction Signal Box came from Cradley Heath. The signal box at Crowcombe Heathfied station on the West Somerset Railway originated from Ebbw Vale Sidings.

Whilst on the subject of the SDR, the ground frame hut at Totnes came from Pilning Low Level. The tin shed on the platform from Bovey Tracey, the canopy from Axbridge and the lamp hut by the box came from Bridgewater.
Talking of canopies, the one on Yatton upside is ex Dauntsey.

 

[Tim M]

Raglan station building is now at the Welsh National History Museum - St Fagans.

Raglan railway station to move to St Fagans museum

Raglan's historic railway station is to relocate to a museum, more than half a century after it closed.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Does anyone know what happened to the trainshed roof from London Bridge? IIRC it was headed for Aberystwyth.

It's now a very effective part of the Engine Shed Museum at Aberystwyth station and well worth a visit.

 

[Rail Ranger]

The signal box and associated buildings come from other (ex) NER stations

The signal box at Beamish came from Carr House East (Consett).

 

[swt_passenger]

I understand the original Alnwick passenger station, (used before the later terminus built at the same time as the Cornhill branch), was then used for many years as a goods station, and it was later transferred to Beamish and used as the goods station, at the west end of the short Rowley line..

 

[John Webb]

The over-track canopy at Wallingford station on the preserved Cholsey-Wallingford Railway came from Maidenhead station when the GW mainline was electrified - see https://www.cholsey-wallingford-railway.com/maidenhead-canopy/ for more information.
View of it in 2020 soon after erection:
The new canopy

© Copyright Bill Nicholls and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

 

[Cowley]

One that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Kidderminster station on the Severn Valley.

That’s entirely created from scratch. Does anyone know where the various bits came from?

 

[Rail Ranger]

I know that Arley signal box is an LNWR box which came from Yorton on the Crewe-Shrewsbury line.

 

[Rescars]

Thinking about this thread, the portability of buildings and other infrastructure recorded here is really quite remarkable. The train sets of our youth were more realistic than we realised!

 

[edwin_m]

Thinking about this thread, the portability of buildings and other infrastructure recorded here is really quite remarkable. The train sets of our youth were more realistic than we realised!

Things like footbridges and signal boxes were often kits of standard parts, relatively easy to dismantle and re-erect somewhere else, plenty being made redundant on the main line, far easier than building one from scratch, and with more "heritage value" than a replica. So it's not surprising that many and probably most such structures on heritage railways are "second hand". Station buildings are more complicated, as they might have to be dismantled brick by brick.

 

[SuspectUsual]

The signal box at Leeming Bar on the Wensleydale came from North Wootton, near Kings Lynn

 

[Rail Ranger]

Claydon LNE Junction signal box is now preserved on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway.

 

[simonw]

The title of the thread is

Former railway stations on closed beeching lines moved and rebuilt on current preserved heritage lines.

A fair number of the examples quoted are not from closed lines, but are just redundant assets moved to new sites

 

[SECR 65]

Sheffield Park on the Bluebell Railway:

• The footbridge is from Lingfield (double width for race traffic - useful on busy days). It isn't in a great way and there's the posibility of building a replica in the original place when the signal box has been moved / decomissioned / demolished.
• The signalbox on platform 2 as part of the museum is from Withyham.

 

[ThirteenArches]

Butterley station at the Midland Railway Centre is from Whitwell.

And Swanick from Syston.

I seem to recall that Butterley is not all of Whitwell, part of it was stolen while in storage. Which WAS on a line closed to passengers (though I don't know if due to Beeching), but is now revived.