Comments on: Evocative Railway Remains

By: Kevin Prince

Kevin Prince — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:04:44 +0000

So many, but some highlights would be the whole Croesor/PBSSR/WHR remains. I walked much of them in a short holiday before heading to the Falklands in 92. Never thought I’d see them restored back then.

I was always fascinated by the odd remnants of mainline connection you see when travelling on the tube.

rugby Central and the Rugby Leamington line were regular run routes when posted to the TA centre there too.

Possibly the most poignant was the SudHarz and Halberstadt Blankenberger station at Tanne and Drei Annen Hohne alongside the still active Harz metre gauge within the former grenade gebeit

By: Chuk

Chuk — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:22:08 +0000

I really like the Kettle Valley Railway — looking it up now, I found that about a dozen trestles actually burned down about 12 years ago. I haven’t been to the canyons for probably 30 years. Wonderful scenery, cool canyon trestle bridges and mountain tunnels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_Valley_Railway

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:19:27 +0000

You take me back to Blaenau Ffestiniog in the late 1970s. All those abandoned inclines are still there today, but back then a lot of the track was still in place, with rusting narrow-gauge tramways running everywhere.

By: Ade

Ade — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:48:12 +0000

All of them! It’s a terrible weakness for any stretch of flattened earth or crumbling stonework. Even passing Manchester G-Mex on the tram can trigger a bout of faux-nostalgia. But if I had to choose, probably some Welsh narrow gauge remains, such as the short spur from Dduallt that leads to the old Moelwyn Tunnel portal, or the remaining trackbed of the Croesor Tramway. (And yes, I do own way too many of those ‘Past & Present’ books.)