Trivia: isolated standard gauge lines

[AzureOtsu]

Croxley Green Station

 

[Goofle]

Is there track still laid in HMS Sultan for Network Rail apprentices? That’s pretty isolated from the network…

 

[Tester]

Croxley Green Station

And indeed the whole of the Croxley Green branch, with the station separated again. It's all there, mouldering away.

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

Mk3 sleeper at Southall depot stands marooned on a piece of track unconnected to anything else

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Reckon there will be various sections of out-of-use and now isolated standard gauge trackwork in the Trafford Park Industrial Estate area (a few miles South West of Manchester) particularly where the connecting rails have been lifted/removed and/or road crossings have been tarmacked over.

 

[D6130]

Is there anything left of the isolated standard gauge internal network at Blackburn Meadows sewage works , near Meadowhall in Sheffield? I know it (the rail network) was closed many years ago, but I was wondering whether any short sections of track still remained.

 

[route101]

I noticed a piece of track yesterday at Stroud station, looks like it ran into the old depot just to the East of the station.

 

[Donny_m]

Train ferries would be isolated from their systems whilst in the middle of the English Channel (or wherever)...

Where in the U.K. is there a ‘train ferry’ ??

 

[D6130]

Where in the U.K. is there a ‘train ferry’ ??

None nowadays.....but in the past Dover-Dunkerque, Harwich-Zeebrugge (IIRC) plus, in the much more distant past - prior to the opening of the Forth and Tay Bridges - Granton-Burntisland and Tayport-Broughty Ferry.

 

[Western 52]

There's a 143 unit on an isolated bit of track at Llanelli Goods Shed.

Gwili Railway is not connected to the main line at Carmarthen and is about a mile from Carmarthen Station.

Isolated tracks at Cynheidre Colliery site with some preserved vehicles.

Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway is isolated too.

 

[Western Sunset]

I've got a piece of rail in my garden; does that count?

 

[MattRat]

I've got a piece of rail in my garden; does that count?

Get another piece 4 feet 8 and a half inches away, then it will count. Probably use a sleeper to connect them too, just in case.

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

The bay platforms at Moorgate retain standard gauge track but are physically isolated from the rest of the network at Barbican