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[Lizzie_Zoom]

I love stuff like this.

I try to avoid the following site because I end up wasting half my life looking at pictures like yours:

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/

 

Kevin

Was it you that posted this site up the other week? I clicked the link & i too spent a while reading & looking at the pix

No but I'd prevously come across it.

I'm with Nickbat in that history used to bore me silly. In fact, the stuff that's all nicely laid out in museums still does. There's an old railway near us (used to run practically through my back garden in the old house). It closed in the 1920's but I saw it on the deeds to the house and have been looking for evidence of it ever since.

You can clearly see where the old track used to lie from the air, and on foot you can tell by the style of the fence posts, buildings, etc. that a railway was once there.

Too little of our engineering heritage gets preserved and opened up to the public, IMHO. It has shaped our lives, IMHO, to a greater extent then art, for example, but art gets preserved without question whereas most engineering relics just get demolished.

Kevin

This is all what I love of course and right down my historian / railway historian street!!

The railway you talk of Kevin I think (I assume it is an old line near you now??) would be the LSWR Alton to Basingstoke line closed after the Great War, reopened, then finally closed in 1932. It was used (after closure) in the film Oh! Mr Porter(Gainsborough 1937) with the famous Will Hay playing the lead part as the station master of Buggleskelly, but in reality was Cliddesden, which was still visible in the 1980s when I last looked.

The other old lines near you, apart from the Mid-Hants, is the ex double track LSWR Alton to Fareham Meon Valley line closed in c.1957, and the continuation of the Alton to Winchester line, from Alyresford to Winchester which closed c.1976. You then have the old GWR line from Newbury to Winchester 

Then there is the old line to Andover from Romsey.........the great Somerset & Dorset line from Bournemouth to Bath...........oh yes Kevin you live in a great area for old lines and I have walked them all!!!

[Kevin Wood]

Yep, that's right. it was the Basingstoke to Alton line. It's amazing how clear the route of the line is when you consider how many times those fields must have been ploughed since.

Kevin

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Yep, that's right. it was the Basingstoke to Alton line. It's amazing how clear the route of the line is when you consider how many times those fields must have been ploughed since.

Kevin

Yes it is amazing Kevin how after 70 years the scares are still evident and you can follow a lot of the old route whilst driving from Alton to Basingstoke.  It was only built as a 'light railway' single track line, so the earthworks were not of large and significant construction, but still it is visible despite as you say of agriculture taking the land back.

[redelitev6]

  i love dark wet tunnels 

[waspy]

i love dark wet tunnels 

 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Explored that a few years ago Pete, very interesting, runs parralel to the new tunnel from memory.

Also worth a visit is here:

http://www.multimap.com/s/RB1ydgxL

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=55554