a derelict station on picture
 

wondered if anybodys got any comments on the beecham after affects.i took these at the end of last week while i was at work, you'll have to excuse the quality of the pics, i took them on me phone. i took these at Tumby Woodside lincolnshire.
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...tation/043.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...tation/042.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...tation/040.jpg
then when we was going to the next job i took these of the bridge further up the line crossing the drain going towards Newbolingbroke,
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...tation/048.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...tation/047.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...tation/046.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...tation/045.jpg
them bridges was made of some good bricks eh, mind you they had some weight to carry i would think.
it's sad to see these places when you think how hard the people worked to keep them up to scratch, getting passengers on and off the trains etc,

Every structure that is left abandoned, be it bridge or station or embankment or cutting, is testament to a time when a pride existed in the constuction of them.
I spend a lot of time looking for this sort of thing and the abandonment of them is sad. They where built to last forever. Nice record Buffer.
Long may they last.
Paul.

A useful record Buffer. Thanks for posting.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

What a waste of infastructure!!
Richard

Tumby Woodside was not part of the Beeching cuts closing in 1970
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumby_W...ailway_station

Thanks for that Bubblewrap, also in this case i better say sorry to Beecham, i guess i took it for granted he was behind it.
Mind you it was still sad to come across the old station and see it in that state.

Beeching not Beecham.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beeching

It is quite surprising what survives of closed railways you only have to look around.Some of the railway buildings survive of the old LNWR line Loughborough - Coalville are still in place.And a good section of the track bed survives.

Thats right Bubblewrap, as I have said many times I love finding, and photographing anything that left. They have dissappeared next time you go back.
Paul.

It's a pity the job wasn't given to Beecham rather than Beeching. An orchestral conductor would have understood that the piccolo, though rarely used, is an essential part of the orchestra, and that you don't weigh in all the trombones for scrap just because you're doing string quartets this week.

That's a very nice analogy.

What a fool hey, fancy eh, while i was writing i was saying beeching in me mind, and everytime i've written beecham, mind you took along while before it was noticed, well done Bubblewrap, mind you theres no prize...

Beechams made some nice powders
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/100000245.html

But if you are doing string quartets you dont keep paying the wages of a dozen musicians when eight of them will have nothing to do ;)

Well I have just found this thread in the Archive, it makes you sick when good old buildings like these, which were an important part of the community for many a long year and they are left to decay and rot away like that, but an absolutely Awful, disgusting modern structure like the Shopping centre building in Milton Keynes which has no history and no atmosphere recently became a Grade two listed building.

This country has got things wrong somewhere !!!!

48111

Of course Tumby Woodside was immortalised in the song "Slow Train"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Train

Miller's Dale for Tideswell ...
Kirby Muxloe ...
Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...

No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road.
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
We won't be meeting again
On the Slow Train.

I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw.
At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more.
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
I won't be going again
On the Slow Train.

On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
The grass grows high
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside
And Trouble House Halt.

The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
No one departs, no one arrives
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
They've all passed out of our lives
On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train.

Cockermouth for Buttermere ... on the Slow Train,
Armley Moor Arram ...
Pye Hill and Somercotes ... on the Slow Train,
Windmill End.

This one is situated in my locale.

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m...ld/index.shtml

Here's a whole bunch of stuff I've thrown together about my local stations in Gosport (long closed, sadly).
http://daverowland.fotopic.net/c1668655.html

Nice gallery John and equally well presented.

Curtis.

Who's John ?:D

Sorry Dave - yet another senior moment - where's them pills ?