| Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by grahame at 17:03, 16th September 2023 |     |
http://www.rinbad.free-online.co.uk/bypass.pdf mirrored (here)
Where was Adolphus Street Station and when did it close?
16th September 1863 - 160 years ago today - Truro (Newham) station was bypassed ...
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by Mark A at 18:59, 16th September 2023 | |
Quite a walk from Bradford's city centre, but still only closed as a passenger station in the 1860s - after which it had a long life handling goods traffic. The gradient into the terminus caused the occasional entertainment. At least, I hope no one was hurt.
Mark
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by Mark A at 15:38, 17th September 2023 | |
Closer to GWR-land, 'Sutton Harbour Railway Station' on a 1:500 map listed as surveyed in 1893.
Presumably this was never for passengers, as, outside the station throat, the trackwork has a surprise.
Mark
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19.6&lat=50.36776&lon=-4.12797&layers=117746211&b=1
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by stuving at 17:01, 17th September 2023 | |
Closer to GWR-land, 'Sutton Harbour Railway Station' on a 1:500 map listed as surveyed in 1893.
Presumably this was never for passengers, as, outside the station throat, the trackwork has a surprise.
Mark
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19.6&lat=50.36776&lon=-4.12797&layers=117746211&b=1
Presumably this was never for passengers, as, outside the station throat, the trackwork has a surprise.
Mark
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19.6&lat=50.36776&lon=-4.12797&layers=117746211&b=1
That map's the 1853 one, which perhaps explains some "primitive" features of the track. The 1894 town plan, and most other maps, do mark that station as "(goods)".
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by grahame at 05:07, 16th September 2026 | |
Quite a walk from Bradford's city centre ...
Has me straying off topic
Llanbister ROAD ... about 10kms from Llanbister
London ROAD ... but how far from London?
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by Electric train at 07:02, 16th September 2026 | |
Maidenhead Boyne Hill station opened 1 Aug 1854 closed 1 Nov1871
Maidenhead Riverside station opened June 4, 1838, renamed Maidenhead and Taplow in 1854 closed 1 Nov 1871
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by Mark A at 08:35, 16th September 2026 | |
Ah... off-topic... a puzzling one from last week: the terminus station called "Port Douglas" - not particularly near the village of Douglas in Lanarkshire, and in no way a port (or particularly near what was for a short term, a canal) but very much a railhead for extractive industries that have now moved on.
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by grahame at 09:13, 16th September 2026 | |
Ah... off-topic... a puzzling one from last week: the terminus station called "Port Douglas" - not particularly near the village of Douglas in Lanarkshire, and in no way a port (or particularly near what was for a short term, a canal) but very much a railhead for extractive industries that have now moved on.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/port has no fewer that 10 definitions of "port". Does this place produce a fortified wine? Is there a business there that translates software between languages and operating systems? Is there a place called Starboard Douglas on the other side of the village?
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by PrestburyRoad at 09:26, 16th September 2026 | |
While we're on off-topic, another Port that is a long way from the town after which it was named is Ellesmere Port, some 30 miles from Ellesmere. Though to be fair they did have a direct link, namely the Ellesmere Canal.
| Re: Stations closed a very long time ago Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 11:57, 16th September 2026 | |
Ellesmere Port was built, but not the Ellesmere Canal as originally envisaged. It was going to be a more or less north-south route via Chester, Wrexham and Ruabon, then on to Trevor, Ellesmere and on to Shrewsbury. But the Chester-Trevor section was never built, nor the Ellesmere-Shrewsbury section. Eventually a rather indirect route was provided via what we now call the Shropshire Union main line and the Llangollen Canal, joining up some of the bits of the Ellesmere that had been constructed.
