Heritage Railway Station with closure signs / decline

[McMetro]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could name any heritage railways with stations preserved to a closure period, with associated closure posters and decline.
Or is this yet to be done at a heritage railway..?

Most heritage stations obviously represent a period in its heyday such as early BR days or Grouping for example.

Thank you

 

[Cowley]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could name any heritage railways with stations preserved to a closure period, with associated closure posters and decline.
Or is this yet to be done at a heritage railway..?

Most heritage stations obviously represent a period in its heyday such as early BR days or Grouping for example.

Thank you

I have definitely seen a couple of those at a preserved railway. Possibly Bodmin but I’m not sure?

 

[IWSR Steve]

Smallbrook Junction on the isle of Wight Steam Railway is portrayed in British Railway (SR) era complete with closure posters.

 

[McMetro]

Smallbrook Junction on the isle of Wight Steam Railway is portrayed in British Railway (SR) era complete with closure posters.

Ah really interesting - thank you

 

[DelW]

Smallbrook Junction on the isle of Wight Steam Railway is portrayed in British Railway (SR) era complete with closure posters.

Ah really interesting - thank you

Although of course there wasn't a station there in BR days, it was only built in the preservation era.

 

[D6968]

May have seen something similar at Thuxton the Mid Norfolk?
There’s a very well known one being seen posted at ‘Titfield’

 

[Gloster]

Given the rising price of coal and other problems, including the increasing average age of active volunteers, could we see closure notices for real at some preserved lines?

 

[D6968]

Given the rising price of coal and other problems, including the increasing average age of active volunteers, could we see closure notices for real at some preserved lines?

Let’s not bother getting out of bed in the morning shall we?

 

[steamybrian]

There are a number of stations which were opened by Heritage Railways then subsequently closed. The Bluebell Railway has four- Bluebell Halt, Holywell Waterworks, Freshfield and Ketches Farm Halt. The first three have been demolished without trace but the last time I travelled on the line the derelict platform for Ketches Farm Halt was still in situ.
Elsewhere in the country there are others such as Aviemore Riverside was another long abandoned station.
Eardington on the Severn Valley Railway was abandoned for years but I believe has now been restored..?

 

[peteb]

There are a number of stations which were opened by Heritage Railways then subsequently closed. The Bluebell Railway has four- Bluebell Halt, Holywell Waterworks, Freshfield and Ketches Farm Halt. The first three have been demolished without trace but the last time I travelled on the line the derelict platform for Ketches Farm Halt was still in situ.
Elsewhere in the country there are others such as Aviemore Riverside was another long abandoned station.
Eardington on the Severn Valley Railway was abandoned for years but I believe has now been restored..?

Eardington on the SVR is very nicely restored but the regular advertised trains don't stop there.

 

[507020]

The museum at Okehampton displayed the closure poster when it was part of the Dartmoor Railway and still does now it has reopened

 

[Class800]

I have definitely seen a couple of those at a preserved railway. Possibly Bodmin but I’m not sure?

Bluebell Railway, as well

 

[DavyCrocket]

There are a number of stations which were opened by Heritage Railways then subsequently closed. The Bluebell Railway has four- Bluebell Halt, Holywell Waterworks, Freshfield and Ketches Farm Halt. The first three have been demolished without trace but the last time I travelled on the line the derelict platform for Ketches Farm Halt was still in situ.
Elsewhere in the country there are others such as Aviemore Riverside was another long abandoned station.
Eardington on the Severn Valley Railway was abandoned for years but I believe has now been restored..?

Ketches Halt has now gone, this was only in recent years, though had not been used for over 20 years

 

[patrick.hearn3]

Eardington on the SVR is very nicely restored but the regular advertised trains don't stop there.

It is. It last appeared in the timetable as a request stop in 1982. For information, it will again be open to visit on 3rd April 2022 at the SVR's Open House weekend

There’ll be a whole host of things to see, do, discover and explore during our Open House Weekend across the full length of the line including:

• Vintage bus services to Eardington Halt to see the station building and the famous lamp room (Sunday only)

I think its last passenger trains were in 2015 and 2016 when the 82045 Steam Locomotive Trust ran a special fundraising train, the Eardington Explorer. This ran between Bridgnorth and Hampton Loade, calling specially at Eardington.

If you're interested, there's more on the station on the SVR Wiki.

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

I think I saw 1960s closure notices at Alton Station on the Mid Hants / Watercress Line.

 

[Flying Phil]

Here is the Great Central closure notice (May 1969), with some interesting comments....

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

Very sad notice.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Thought there was a closure notice pinned up at Dunster (WSR) but it's over a decade since I was there so I could be mis-remembering.