Possibly the foundations of the hut seen in this image.
Such an enigmatic photo. On the left, the telegraph pole or its successor is still to be found, thrown down the embankment. Of the half dozen or so surviving members of the run of poles in Lyncombe Vale, one has recently fallen (at Ketley's bridge) and from the tangle of ivy that brought it down, a damaged insulator menaces passers by (photo below).
To be able to find timber relics of the line brings this very close in history - it's a material that has vanished from the majority of archaeological sites. A couple of years before work on the Two Tunnels route started, two railway historians visited to record the trackbed as it was, one, an ex
S&T▸ man from the north east, was quite moved at the sight of these relics.
These carried the wires that allowed the workforce to regulate the traffic, six days of the week but particularly on those summer saturdays when long distance trains would present themselves to use the single line section there, occasionally bringing wayward timekeeping to the table.
Now, there was a book that journalled the summer Saturday trains over an entire day. Does anyone know its title please?
Mark
