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I did actually email the transport musuem a while ago about these visits and as pointed out they are off limits because of health and safety reason etc, shame really. I was fortunate enough to get on a railtour though and that offers enough time to get some snaps.
http://lostlines.fotopic.net/p35150442.html
Verney junction, on on the Bicester - Bletchly line, which may reopened.
You're not going to believe this, but this was one the northern terminus of the metropolitan line and therefore also a disused underground station
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Verney junction, on on the Bicester - Bletchly line, which may reopened.
You're not going to believe this, but this was one the northern terminus of the metropolitan line and therefore also a disused underground station
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When I lived in Buckinghamshire, I went out in the car one day to explore the old stations in the county.
Quainton Road now forms part of the Bucks Railway Centre and has binliner traffic passing through, as well as the occasional passenger service from Aylesbury on some Bank Holidays.
Winslow station is also pretty much intact, although is hidden behind some houses. On the same line you can also see part of the station serving the Claydons, which is adjacent to a level crossing still complete with signage, lights & sirens (it was 2 yr ago).
Quainton Road now forms part of the Bucks Railway Centre and has binliner traffic passing through, as well as the occasional passenger service from Aylesbury on some Bank Holidays.
Winslow station is also pretty much intact, although is hidden behind some houses. On the same line you can also see part of the station serving the Claydons, which is adjacent to a level crossing still complete with signage, lights & sirens (it was 2 yr ago).
Kingswinford Railway Station- platforms and buildings still complete, with part of it now used as a cafe. Track lifted, and now that is part of the Kingswinford Railway Walk..was part of the Earl of Dudleys estate and used mainly for moving the coal mined in the area..
http://www.cobr.co.uk/e-cobr_inform...es/sections/rail_trails/birmingham/text.shtml
http://www.cobr.co.uk/e-cobr_inform...es/sections/rail_trails/birmingham/text.shtml
Respite
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Hi Demps,
By putting 2 & 2 together I'm guessing with your interest in derilect sites that you are Dempsey on 28days later?
I do like a good wander around such places as well, although theres not much left as there was due to the current housing development boom thats going on. Most sites as said are redeveloped or just bulldozed away.
I did have a wonder around Wolverhampton low level a fair few years ago, the biggest closed station I have come across anyway. Now mostly ruined in a completly unsympathetic way unlike how the bull**** that the developers claimed.
There's a nice series of tunnels under Birmingham from 5 ways station towards the city centre where a freight line used to run to a goods yard where Stanier house & the inner ring road is now (near the back of Bham new st box). Its got a BR #17 key on big wooden doors at the city end of the tunnel though & is located behind some new bling bling apartments. When I was an ops manager it used to be the only road vehicle access to the gloucester lines & have gone through there loads on the Network Rail fast response motorbikes. (Ok maybe not allways for faults ).
Also I remember a few years back whilst lost around warwick/ redditch ish way on the NR bike again, I stopped in a garage to get directions & the other side of a main road & a field was a station & signal box intact mostly & completly abandoned. I wish I knew where the hell I was at the time so I could go back & photo it.
hock:
I have started to look at sites like this :http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/ to try & figure out where it was. All I remember is that I turned out of warwick & just kept randomly turning...........hey it was a quite day & I was enjoying being out on the bike in sunshine...:-P
By putting 2 & 2 together I'm guessing with your interest in derilect sites that you are Dempsey on 28days later?
I do like a good wander around such places as well, although theres not much left as there was due to the current housing development boom thats going on. Most sites as said are redeveloped or just bulldozed away.
I did have a wonder around Wolverhampton low level a fair few years ago, the biggest closed station I have come across anyway. Now mostly ruined in a completly unsympathetic way unlike how the bull**** that the developers claimed.
There's a nice series of tunnels under Birmingham from 5 ways station towards the city centre where a freight line used to run to a goods yard where Stanier house & the inner ring road is now (near the back of Bham new st box). Its got a BR #17 key on big wooden doors at the city end of the tunnel though & is located behind some new bling bling apartments. When I was an ops manager it used to be the only road vehicle access to the gloucester lines & have gone through there loads on the Network Rail fast response motorbikes. (Ok maybe not allways for faults
).Also I remember a few years back whilst lost around warwick/ redditch ish way on the NR bike again, I stopped in a garage to get directions & the other side of a main road & a field was a station & signal box intact mostly & completly abandoned. I wish I knew where the hell I was at the time so I could go back & photo it.
hock:I have started to look at sites like this :http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/ to try & figure out where it was. All I remember is that I turned out of warwick & just kept randomly turning...........hey it was a quite day & I was enjoying being out on the bike in sunshine...:-P
Bonemaster
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http://lostlines.fotopic.net/p35150442.html
Verney junction, on on the Bicester - Bletchly line, which may reopened.
You're not going to believe this, but this was one the northern terminus of the metropolitan line and therefore also a disused underground station
It isnt the furthest north either, some of the platforms still exist at Woodford Halse near Daventry in Warwickshire which is the furthest north disused underground station
GhostCav wrote:- Also I remember a few years back whilst lost around warwick/ redditch ish way on the NR bike again, I stopped in a garage to get directions & the other side of a main road & a field was a station & signal box intact mostly & completly abandoned. I wish I knew where the hell I was at the time so I could go back & photo it...
If its the same signal box as I know, its 6 miles south of Evesham on the A46 dual carriageway.. It's a 'concrete' box construction which sort of says its 1950's construction...Now the trees have shed their leaves its much more visible.
If its the same signal box as I know, its 6 miles south of Evesham on the A46 dual carriageway.. It's a 'concrete' box construction which sort of says its 1950's construction...Now the trees have shed their leaves its much more visible.
Heversham station on the Sandside-Hincaster Branch. Closed 1941, track taken up/demolished 1966.
Very overgrown now, but you can just about walk through to Hincaster on the trackbed, and to Sandside on the other side of the estuary.
Picture of it in its heyday: http://www.heversham.org/graphics/p14_heversham_station_1900_big.jpg
This website is also useful for info:
http://www.heversham.org/heversham_history_bingham_2.html
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Random, sort of unrelated thought: It is 50m walk from where I live, I can get some snaps when it dries up (floods very easily down there). I find it very sad to see the state of it now, just to the East of the station one of the bridges was torn down to make way for a gas compression place. I just wish I could hvae seen the line in it's heyday.
My dad was lucky enough to work/play (he was 8 )with the men taking up the track
Very overgrown now, but you can just about walk through to Hincaster on the trackbed, and to Sandside on the other side of the estuary.
Picture of it in its heyday: http://www.heversham.org/graphics/p14_heversham_station_1900_big.jpg
This website is also useful for info:
http://www.heversham.org/heversham_history_bingham_2.html
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Random, sort of unrelated thought: It is 50m walk from where I live, I can get some snaps when it dries up (floods very easily down there). I find it very sad to see the state of it now, just to the East of the station one of the bridges was torn down to make way for a gas compression place. I just wish I could hvae seen the line in it's heyday.
My dad was lucky enough to work/play (he was 8 )with the men taking up the track
Respite
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Thanks for that, it does sound about right with the concrete box. Kinda looked like something hornby dublo would of made. Will look on google earth before going down & having a look. Was there a station there as well? or just the box?
Was interested to see comments about Cambois ('Cammus') as I used to work in the area - in offices over the site of Ashington Station. The platforms will still in situ in my days - and probably still are - as were the building and platforms at Bedlington Station - junction for Ashington/Newbiggin and Morpeth via Hepscott. Of course, there are plans for an hopeful re-opening.
I assume the platform concourse and the station building will be as well as the walkways under the station, I dont know whether you have ever been to the thameslink station but it does already have a disused platform it is next to the used platform B but is concealed behind a wall, you can actually see it when on a circle line train. Tomorrow sees the opening of st pancras international (thameslink station) which is sited further north than the previous, though trains will continue to pass through the disused thameslink station as it is on the bedford to brighton line.
Of course, part was already disused before this evening. There were three platforms at one time, two serving Midland and northbound GN trains (and for a short while in the late 1930s, some Met services) and the third City bound GN trains coming off York Street curve. Which platforms were used for Thameslink - and what happened to the third?
Platform A is still operational (the one nearest the station building) and the central island platform was incorperated into the thameslink station this is now platform B, the only platform that is completely abandoned is that which served the westbound circle line before resiting, this is now hidden behind a wall. (working away from platform A) lines 1 & 3 come off the York Road curve and line 4 comes off the Hotel curve.
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Some of the Stations on the old Isle of Wight network still exist. For example, at Merstone station, the single island platform is still in tact and the site is now used as a car park for cycleway route. http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/m/merstone/index11.shtml . Also Yarmouth station on the Newport to freshwater line still exists with the platform and the buildings. The station is now used as a youth club!
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Woodford Halse was built by the Great Central Railway and was part of their London Extension which joined the Metropolitan at Quainton Road.
The met diverged at Quainton and went onto Verney Junction which was also on the Oxford - Bletchley line.
The line from Quainton - Verney pre-dated Woodford Halse.
P156KWJ
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Ruddington station on the former LNER line through Nottinghamshire unfortunately has been built on and is now a housing estate. You can still see the odd rail, the 2 platforms and lots of sleepers.
Isn't Ruddington on the GCR(N)?
CraigS
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It is, but I think the original Ruddington station was demolished.
Dulverton railway station in Devon. The station building and good shed still in situ with part of one of the platforms. Was terminus for the Exe Valley Railway and a through station for the Taunton and Barnstaple Branches.
Http://www.lostrailways.fotopic.net/p46479841.html
Also as far as I know most of the stations on the Taunton and Barnstaple line survive intact.
Also Yarmouth Beach station, Great Yarmouth. Long gone but a memorial is in place recognising the fact that the Midland great Northern terminus stood there. It's now a coach park.
Http://www.lostrailways.fotopic.net/p46476018.html
Also Disused Railways has detailed info on this station. Most stations have indeed been sold off now for development.
Http://www.lostrailways.fotopic.net/p46479841.html
Also as far as I know most of the stations on the Taunton and Barnstaple line survive intact.
Also Yarmouth Beach station, Great Yarmouth. Long gone but a memorial is in place recognising the fact that the Midland great Northern terminus stood there. It's now a coach park.
Http://www.lostrailways.fotopic.net/p46476018.html
Also Disused Railways has detailed info on this station. Most stations have indeed been sold off now for development.
DaveNewcastle
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Three more - not fully abandoned, but very interesting. And intact:-
Alnwick station is/was the terminus for 2 long gone lines and is now the home of the UK's biggest second-hand bookshop, Barter Books, http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/bb/barterstaticpages.nsf/web/staticpages/shop (take the site's tour, they are rail enthusiasts) which is largely unchanged and now has a model railway (somewhere between O and N guage) crossing overhead above the bookshelves in the concourse or poetry section. It also hosts meetings of the local society trying to re-open the line from the ECML at Alnmouth (which is pretty much sound apart from not having a bridge over the A1). Plenty well kept station memorabilia, cold platforms and ancient toilets!.
And Melrose station, although occupied by craft-type shops, the platform is still there and the track bed is a cycleway alongside the A7, the new bypass built partly on the track bed. Its lagely unspoilt with all the fine detail to the canopy. This might still be re-invigourated - the Scottish Executive approved funding to re-open the single line (with loops) from Edinburgh to Tweedbank (near Melrose & Galashiels) with an opening date of this year! Its a lovely station.
Its also fascinating that lots of locals opposed the closure of that line in 1968 and obstructed the last train. Now its local residents objecting again, this time opposing the project (206 votes against, 67 for, just last week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7193937.stm ).
Plan to take away a railway and they object - plan to put it back and they object!
Seems we just can't keep people happy!
And another northern gem which looks very abandoned, overgrown and with rust on its filligree metal supports to the canopy (which is also partly missing) BUT WHICH IS STILL IN USE is Tynemouth. It was brought back into service when the Tyne & Wear Metro took back the lines (and stations) but as they only run 4-car EMUs most of the platform space is unused - some for weekend craft fairs but largely out of bounds. Its a real beauty.
Alnwick station is/was the terminus for 2 long gone lines and is now the home of the UK's biggest second-hand bookshop, Barter Books, http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/bb/barterstaticpages.nsf/web/staticpages/shop (take the site's tour, they are rail enthusiasts) which is largely unchanged and now has a model railway (somewhere between O and N guage) crossing overhead above the bookshelves in the concourse or poetry section. It also hosts meetings of the local society trying to re-open the line from the ECML at Alnmouth (which is pretty much sound apart from not having a bridge over the A1). Plenty well kept station memorabilia, cold platforms and ancient toilets!.
And Melrose station, although occupied by craft-type shops, the platform is still there and the track bed is a cycleway alongside the A7, the new bypass built partly on the track bed. Its lagely unspoilt with all the fine detail to the canopy. This might still be re-invigourated - the Scottish Executive approved funding to re-open the single line (with loops) from Edinburgh to Tweedbank (near Melrose & Galashiels) with an opening date of this year! Its a lovely station.
Its also fascinating that lots of locals opposed the closure of that line in 1968 and obstructed the last train. Now its local residents objecting again, this time opposing the project (206 votes against, 67 for, just last week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7193937.stm ).
Plan to take away a railway and they object - plan to put it back and they object!
Seems we just can't keep people happy!
And another northern gem which looks very abandoned, overgrown and with rust on its filligree metal supports to the canopy (which is also partly missing) BUT WHICH IS STILL IN USE is Tynemouth. It was brought back into service when the Tyne & Wear Metro took back the lines (and stations) but as they only run 4-car EMUs most of the platform space is unused - some for weekend craft fairs but largely out of bounds. Its a real beauty.
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