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Here's a linky to the excellent SubBrit site...http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...ll/index.shtml |
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Although the platforms are no longer there some of the station buildings of Kegworth (north of Loughborough on the Midland main line) remain.
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on that subject, on the right as you approach farringdon in the tunnel is a house! ![]()
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There are several structures down there. Firstly there seems to be a platelayers' refuge which looks quite old - This is a photo I took several years ago and posted to Wiki. We drivers have had alot of discussions about this, and wonder if it is part of the old station. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...unny_Patch.jpg It's just off the north end of what remains of the down (southbound) line platform, and the photo has been taken whilst standing at the king points of Smithfield sidings Additionally there are much newer 'equipment blockhouses' on the Up line, which have been built on top of the old Snow Hill platform itself. You must remember that Snow Hill station was located very close to Holborn Viaduct, so that when they modernised the area they tore down the old raised Ludgate Hill station and arches to the Holborn Viaduct complex, and built City Thameslink pretty much in the hole that was created. There is no gap; where Snow Hill station ends, City T/L begins. VS346 signal (which by no coincidence is the last northbound main aspect signal controlled by Victoria ASC before control switches to West Hampstead ASC) just about defines where the old and the new 'meet'. If you look at the link to Nick Catford's excellent site which I embedded in my previous post, it might help you visualise. HTH, Foggy Last edited by Foghut; 17th March 2008 at 10:56. |
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What an incredible photo!
On the line, long gone, that ran from Pinxton,Nottinghamshire, to join the line to Nottingham Victoria at Awsworth Junction, was a viaduct known locally as "Forty Bridges. This had quite a few of the arches bricked up and these had houses in them. As a kid in the 1950's I can remember going in, the by then derelict houses. The staircases were still in them and the lathe and plaster ceilings, very unsafe though and even we little brats did'nt dare try and climb up them. Paul. |
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