My local railway station

[Devil's advocate]

Not farming, but railways crop up on here quite often.

The above film shows lots of history & the fields are in the back ground.

I remember as a boy sleeping over at Grandma's house, counting the coal trains going to Manchester all night long. Its all ripped up now & a busy footpath, The Trans pennine trail. It was interesting to me hearing when the line was built 1840, because it dates the drystone walls which border the ex railway line. They look as if they were built 5 years ago, apart from where self set trees are pushing the walls down. I've been threatned with 25K fine if I cut any more down.

 

[melted welly]

We have the ex main Glasgow to Aberdeen line thru our farm, was closed in 1967. I was fascinated with it as a boy in the late 80’s, used to spend hours looking for stuff on the old track bed.

Got a big LMS water jug, a ceramic coated LMS bucket, broken bits of fancy first class pottery. Wife’s from wales and more recently we found some Welsh made drainage tiles. In the stream next to it you can easily find fragments of earthenware pots and old bottles. Believe this is from the navvies who lived on potted meat and beer.

Find it fascinating to think of all the commuters long gone who would have hurtled past on a daily basis. Dad saw the Queen pass on the royal train.

There’s an interesting site called railways archive where they have all accident/mishap reports logged going back to the 1840s. Really interesting, there was a train crash on our bend in the 1880s where a guard was killed, all relevant parties named on the report, some events have pictures.

I’m sure somewhere there’ll be film of the line thru the farm, but never found it yet.

 

[Devil's advocate]

We have the ex main Glasgow to Aberdeen line thru our farm, was closed in 1967. I was fascinated with it as a boy in the late 80’s, used to spend hours looking for stuff on the old track bed.

Got a big LMS water jug, a ceramic coated LMS bucket, broken bits of fancy first class pottery. Wife’s from wales and more recently we found some Welsh made drainage tiles. In the stream next to it you can easily find fragments of earthenware pots and old bottles. Believe this is from the navvies who lived on potted meat and beer.

Find it fascinating to think of all the commuters long gone who would have hurtled past on a daily basis. Dad saw the Queen pass on the royal train.

There’s an interesting site called railways archive where they have all accident/mishap reports logged going back to the 1840s. Really interesting, there was a train crash on our bend in the 1880s where a guard was killed, all relevant parties named on the report, some events have pictures.

I’m sure somewhere there’ll be film of the line thru the farm, but never found it yet.

Yes we think of our grand parents, reaping & binding. But they would think they were the most modern people in the world. When my Grandad was born in 1904, King Edward would be the King of 25% of the world.

Found another film of Barnsley college, foundation stone been laid in the 30's. The Prince of Wales was there to watch, my Grandad went to watch, I remember him saying it should have been King Edward the miners loved him.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Not farming, but railways crop up on here quite often.

The above film shows lots of history & the fields are in the back ground.

I remember as a boy sleeping over at Grandma's house, counting the coal trains going to Manchester all night long. Its all ripped up now & a busy footpath, The Trans pennine trail. It was interesting to me hearing when the line was built 1840, because it dates the drystone walls which border the ex railway line. They look as if they were built 5 years ago, apart from where self set trees are pushing the walls down. I've been threatned with 25K fine if I cut any more down.

theres still huge potential in the railways .
Up till the 90's there was fertilizer depot a few miles away down our line, as much as anything the store insurance was getting far higher , fairly close to a river didnt help. /regulatioins wopuldve closed it down as much as the demise of BR and freight trains.
far better than lots of artics trundling the roads imo.
we used to pick up with Tractors and trailers and local ag supply companies who sold smaller amounts had smaller flatbed lorries and sold it on without storing, worked well.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Lived and worked very close to a branch line all my life.

never worn a watch and before clocks in tractors /phones the train combined with hunger pangs was used to tell of a meal time

 

[Wood field]

Our village had a station on the Ulverston to Lakeside line , I remember playing on the ( disused viaduct, and the family who lived in the station house , I think the last trains ran in the 60’s .
Now gone under tarmac as they used part of the track bed to form a bypass for the village.
To think , the congestion it would save getting a train to the shores of Windermere in tourist season

 

[melted welly]

Our village had a station on the Ulverston to Lakeside line , I remember playing on the ( disused viaduct, and the family who lived in the station house , I think the last trains ran in the 60’s .
Now gone under tarmac as they used part of the track bed to form a bypass for the village.
To think , the congestion it would save getting a train to the shores of Windermere in tourist season

Went on holiday to Peak District last yr and cycled a path up an old rail line. It was excellent for a pair of young kids and a fat father, nothing too taxing.

Got to thinking it was a pity the old lines weren’t covered with an 8ft wife skin of tarmac and the routes semi-preserved as walking/cycle paths. Some I’m sure would have been re-opened as population/demand increased again.

 

[Wood field]

Went on holiday to Peak District last yr and cycled a path up an old rail line. It was excellent for a pair of young kids and a fat father, nothing too taxing.

Got to thinking it was a pity the old lines weren’t covered with an 8ft wife skin of tarmac and the routes semi-preserved as walking/cycle paths. Some I’m sure would have been re-opened as population/demand increased again.

The old Keswick line is part cycle way , I used to do a bit of mountain biking , it’s nice and quiet and the bridges and tunnels make interesting viewing

 

[melted welly]

The old Keswick line is part cycle way , I used to do a bit of mountain biking , it’s nice and quiet and the bridges and tunnels make interesting viewing

Kids love a good tunnel. Whoop whoop!

 

[Wood field]

Just found this grainy old image, the village station slap bang on the estuary shore , with the viaduct in the background
What a place to grow up , river crake from Coniston and river Leven from Windermere, hills ,woods , it was a playground that I still miss
Thank you @Devil's advocate , this thread brought back so many fond memories

 

[hoff135]

My father ordered a little teagle fertiliser spreader back in the late 60's. It was £45, it arrived by train in the North of Scotland. Sat in the station for a few days before he collected it. Same as below, still in the back of a shed here

 

[Devil's advocate]

Grandad's generation thought nothing of catching a train to scottish borders. Buying Scotch Haldbred shearling, organising them to be sent down to Yorkshire on the train & then walk them home from the station.

 

[Wood field]

Grandad's generation thought nothing of catching a train to scottish borders. Buying Scotch Haldbred shearling, organising them to be sent down to Yorkshire on the train & then walk them home from the station.

Can you imagine doing that today? It’s all over Facebook if there’s a sheep on the lane here

 

[Netherfield]

Dad told the story, just after the war he and his mate would travel from Huddersfield to Penistone on the train, collect some live hens from family and contacts of theirs, on the return journey sit in the guards van, ring their necks and pluck them, throwing the feathers out behind them, no doubt a little incentive was given to the guard.
All this because for some strange by law which prevented live animals coming in to Huddersfield station.

 

[Netherfield]

Some rig for tractor testing, set up where the turntable for Meltham station used to be, steel rings set in concrete can still be seen now.


And the Station yard at Meltham where tractors were despatched from, last tractor trains went out 1965 ish. Passenger trains finished in 1949.

Morrisons Supermarket, former Safeway, and some houses built in the station area now, some of the old line, maybe half a mile is now called a greenway.

 

[sahara]

Lived and worked very close to a branch line all my life.

View attachment 1160612

never worn a watch and before clocks in tractors /phones the train combined with hunger pangs was used to tell of a meal time

The Tarka line to Barnstable?

 

[Andy26]

Our village had a station on the Ulverston to Lakeside line , I remember playing on the ( disused viaduct, and the family who lived in the station house , I think the last trains ran in the 60’s .
Now gone under tarmac as they used part of the track bed to form a bypass for the village.
To think , the congestion it would save getting a train to the shores of Windermere in tourist season

Not the same line, but quite close I think?

 

[Wood field]

Not the same line, but quite close I think?

Yes just up the road , that would be a busy line now with the tourist trade

 

[Andy26]

We have an old railway on the edge of the Farm, which Dad bought in the 80's, went down to the National archives at Kew to see the original plans for when it was built, if you look at this embankment it shows the date each part was complete.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Went on holiday to Peak District last yr and cycled a path up an old rail line. It was excellent for a pair of young kids and a fat father, nothing too taxing.

Got to thinking it was a pity the old lines weren’t covered with an 8ft wife skin of tarmac and the routes semi-preserved as walking/cycle paths. Some I’m sure would have been re-opened as population/demand increased again.

The transpennine trail ex railway that runs through our farm has been resurfaced with a type of tarmac.

They mix ground up tyres with tar & lay it like concrete, tamped down & its a firm all weather surface but just a bit of give if anyone falls off a bike. When it comes to the end of its life?????