Closed Stations Journey quiz

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malinlee

 

[Ash Bridge]

Dawley & Stirchley

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Madeley Market

 

[Calthrop]

Dawley & Stirchley

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dawley & Stirchley

Already posted two postings ago.....we still need the final closed station to be named.

 

[Ash Bridge]

Madeley Market

Coalport East

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next move to Scotland for the next journey.....

This is number 699 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Clocksbriggs
It follows the line of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway
It then follows the line of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway
It then follows the line of the Dundee and Perth Railway
It then follows the line of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway....note 1st and 2nd stations
It then follows the line of the NBR Aberdour Line
It then follows the line of the NBR Forth Bridge Lines
It then follows the line of the E&GR South Queensferry Branch Line...via Kirkliston
It then follows the line of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
It then follows the line of the Caledonian Railway Main Line.., via the Balerno loop line
It then follows the line of the Solway Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway
It then follows the line of the Whitehaven Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the Furness Railway Main Line...via the Furness Abbey loop line
It then follows the line of the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway
It then follows the line of the Furness and Midland Joint Railway
It then follows the line of the "Little" North Western Railway
It then follows the line of the Yorkshire Dales Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Grassington & Threshfield

The first closed station on this journey is Clocksbriggs

 

[Ash Bridge]

Auldbar Road

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Guthrie

 

[Ash Bridge]

Friockheim

 

[DerekC]

Leysmill

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colliston

 

[A Challenge]

Elliot Junction

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Easthaven

 

[Ash Bridge]

Buddon Siding

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Ferry

 

[A Challenge]

Craigie

 

[Ash Bridge]

Stannergate

 

[A Challenge]

Roodyards

 

[Calthrop]

Already posted two postings ago.....we still need the final closed station to be named.

Sorry -- I saw that I'd somehow "double-posted" Dawley & Stirchley; then the Internet went "down" in my locality, and I couldn't do anything to rectify matters.

 

[Calthrop]

Camperdown Junction

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Camperdown Junction

That is the name of a rail junction, not a railway station, on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Roodyards

Magdalen Green

 

[DerekC]

Ninewells Junction (dates unclear)

Wikipedia quotes 1845 to 1846 but this seems unlikely since the railway wasn't opened into Dundee until May 1847 unless it was a temporary arrangement during completion. Two other sources say 1864 to 1865.

 

[Calthrop]

That is the name of a rail junction, not a railway station, on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway.

Re Camperdown Junction: Tony Dewick (of the "Complete Atlas...") thinks this was a station; but he thinks rather a lot of things which other people appear not to think. He also -- for what it's worth -- is in the considering- Ninewells-Junction-a-station camp (@DerekC -- sorry: I hung back here, and let you be the preceding vehicle which in times of trouble, runs ahead of the train proper, to detonate any mines laid under the track ).

"All things being equal" -- Longforgan

 

[DerekC]

@DerekC[/USER] -- sorry: I hung back here, and let you be the preceding vehicle which in times of trouble, runs ahead of the train proper, to detonate any mines laid under the track ).

"All things being equal" -- Longforgan

Hmm - a railway minesweeper is an interesting concept .. might need careful design!

Inchture

Historical note - a short horse operated tramway, opened in 1849, ran from Inchture station to Inchture village. It was closed in 1916 and the rails were indeed taken to France! (Remembering a recent suggestion on another thread).

 

[Calthrop]

Have read of this -- or things much like it -- on railways caught up in various conflicts. The fable of the mice putting the bell on the cat, comes to mind...

Errol

 

[Ash Bridge]

Glencarse

 

[Calthrop]

Kinfauns

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnhill