Disused Railway Walks 2009

Managed to fit quite a few in this year and in the process of uploading the last few walks to my disued railways website. If anyone is intrested the latest collections are...

Matlock to Buxton: Walk from Headstone Viaduct through Monsal Dale to Millers Dale (minus the diversion where two tunnels are shut)...

http://disusedrailwayphotosbyashleysmith.fotopic.net/c1796376.html

Weymouth Harbour Tramway...

http://disusedrailwayphotosbyashleysmith.fotopic.net/c1774033.html

Weymouth and Portland Railway: From Weymouth through to Sandsfoot Castle Halt...

http://disusedrailwayphotosbyashleysmith.fotopic.net/c1262169.html

East Grinstead to Grange Road...

http://disusedrailwayphotosbyashleysmith.fotopic.net/c1720089.html

Also updates on that site of the Bluebell and Spa Valley Railway extensions and a further walk from Cranleigh into Bramley & Wonersh will be updated in the next few days here...

http://disusedrailwayphotosbyashleysmith.fotopic.net/

 

Some interesting stuff there Ashley, thanks for posting, prob mentioned it before but the tunnels on the Buxton line are opened up on certain days of the year for a guided walk, well worth doing.

 

Thank you. I didn't know that actually, I had heard of the plan to open them all up for walkers next year though. Hopefully I will get to complete my walk of the line sometime and be able to walk the tunnels at the same time.

 

Have a look here

http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/index/visiting/ranger-walks/rangerdisplay.htm?ID=18514

they normaly do 5 or 6 dates a year and when I did it charged £2 for the minibus back to Bakewell. Nice and leisurely walk with plenty of time to take photos and lunch taken between Cressbrook and litton tunnels. http://crjennings.com/Railway Struc...k/main images/main images 2/SS Images 28.html

 

Thanks for the link, I will have to do that one day next year. Just had a look through your pictures for that stretch of the line, really facinating to see the old ones of what it was like before. I did a quick google search of Millers Dale before I went (as I used it for my starting point and a place to park) and hardly found any pictures. Thanks for sharing!

 

There are a few books published about the line and this is an interesting site.

http://www.rowsleyassociation.org.uk/

I always thought the Midland line through the Peak was preservations biggest near miss, today it would compete for being the premier preserved line, when you think the Midland Railway centre is only a few miles away, yet Rowsley was the l heart of the Midland Railway second only to Derby!

 

Thank you for that one. Yes for sure, it would be an amazing heritage railway if it could of been saved.

 

A walk from a mile or so north of Cranleigh through to Bramley & Wonersh, including the remains of the station is now on my website...

http://disusedrailwayphotosbyashleysmith.fotopic.net/c1599666_161.html