Showing posts with label Disused Stations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disused Stations. Show all posts
Disused railway stations in Essex
A special word for Ashdon Halt too.
Six of the Best 591
Monroe Palmer outlines the improvement to the government's Housing Bill that Liberal Democrat peers have battled to make.
"The premise of Russian foreign policy to the West is that the rule of law is one big joke; the practice of Russian foreign policy is to find prominent people in the West who agree. Moscow has found such people throughout Europe; until the rise of Trump the idea of an American who would volunteer to be a Kremlin client would have seemed unlikely." Timothy Snyder dissects Donald Trump's admiration for Vladimir Putin.
It is good to see Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End getting a mention alongside the usual suspects in this Steve Rose survey of films about Britain from the 1960s.
Jessica Fielding brings us the Yorkshire Television schedule for Monday 19 April 1971 - Richard Beckinsale, Austin Mitchell and Ena Sharples in unexpected colour.
The defunct Glasgow Central Railway line left behind a trail of stations, tunnels, shafts, cuttings and bridges throughout the west of the city. Alex Cochrane explores its remains.
Two lost Glasgow termini: St Enoch and Buchanan Street stations
St Enoch station closed in 1966 and was demolished in 1977. Buchanan Street station was also closed in 1966 and was demolished the following year.
Disused Railway Stations in Caithness, Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty
A short and sweet selection. People who favour places that end in -ster will find it particularly enjoyable.
Disused stations in Nottinghamshire
The Nottingham London Road here is the vanished Higher Level station. The Lower Level one is still there, now occupied by a health club and spa.
There are lots more of these videos on this blog. Find them on the Disused Stations label.
Disused railway stations in Bradford, Calderdale and Wakefield
A varied selection from this part of West Yorksshire.
I can remember Altofts being open - it closed in 1990.
There are lots more of these videos on this blog. Find them on the Disused Stations label.
Disused railway stations in North Yorkshire
Recent videos in this series have covered Aberdeenshire and Lancashire.
You can find the earlier ones listed in the Lancashire post.
One day soon I will give them their own label.
Disused railways stations in Lancashire
A bumper selection, but if you want more there's Devon, Bedfordshire, North Lincolnshire, East Sussex, Leicestershire, Herefordshire, Hampshire, Cumbria, Cambridgeshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Cornwall, Rutland. Northumberland, Shropshire, Suffolk, East Riding of Yorkshire, Norfolk, Wiltshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Durham, Glasgow, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire.
Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire
Yes. I remember Adlestrop—It would also be possible to write poems about stations in Devon, Bedfordshire, North Lincolnshire, East Sussex, Leicestershire, Herefordshire, Hampshire, Cumbria, Cambridgeshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Cornwall, Rutland. Northumberland, Shropshire, Suffolk, East Riding of Yorkshire, Norfolk, Wiltshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Durham, Glasgow, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Edinburgh and Buckinghamshire.
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
