Lost_In_Normandy
Well-known member
Hi All,
My first derelict report! Hope you all enjoy a little bit of my work!
Following on from Munchh excellent report on this part of the GWR:
[ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=17320"]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=17320[/ame]
I decided to go a bit further a field and find the tracks meeting place with the main line at Frome, then with my intrepid exploring children make my way back toward Radstock.
it was quiet poignant for me as 30 years ago I trended these tracks with my mother, so bringing my children along was heart warming.
The track itself was still in use up to 1988 feeding the Marcroft Wagon Works, based on the GWR at Radstock. The GWR itself through Radstock was disconnected in the 60's with the decline in the local Pitts and the Beeching Report.
There are some concerted efforts to re-establish the track towards Frome as both a commuter/freight and leisure line. Most of the trackbed is still in place although nature is working her way through metal and stone.
I tend to shoot in B&W from scratch and don't post edit, sorry about this!!
The track bed leading off from the main line
DSC_0393 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0406 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0419 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
One of the few remaining Engineer's sheds
DSC_0423 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
The abandoned brake van
DSC_0417 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0414 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0413 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0412 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0431 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0432 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0434 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
Hope you've enjoyed!
My first derelict report! Hope you all enjoy a little bit of my work!
Following on from Munchh excellent report on this part of the GWR:
[ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=17320"]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=17320[/ame]
I decided to go a bit further a field and find the tracks meeting place with the main line at Frome, then with my intrepid exploring children make my way back toward Radstock.
it was quiet poignant for me as 30 years ago I trended these tracks with my mother, so bringing my children along was heart warming.
The track itself was still in use up to 1988 feeding the Marcroft Wagon Works, based on the GWR at Radstock. The GWR itself through Radstock was disconnected in the 60's with the decline in the local Pitts and the Beeching Report.
There are some concerted efforts to re-establish the track towards Frome as both a commuter/freight and leisure line. Most of the trackbed is still in place although nature is working her way through metal and stone.
I tend to shoot in B&W from scratch and don't post edit, sorry about this!!
The track bed leading off from the main line
DSC_0393 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0406 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0419 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
One of the few remaining Engineer's sheds
DSC_0423 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
The abandoned brake van
DSC_0417 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0414 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0413 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0412 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0431 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0432 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
DSC_0434 by Lost_In_Normandy, on Flickr
Hope you've enjoyed!