Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

Where's that signal box Neil and what lime was it on?

Quite similar to this one I posted up a couple of weeks ago. Alnwick to Cornhill line at Roseden near Wooler. A697 follows the line up to Wooler and beyond.

This is the wiki on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhill_Branch but I have a little booklet with better stories!

Alnwick to Cornhill LIne signal box nr Akeld

page from "Memories of the LNER Rural Northumberland" Allan W Stubbs

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

This is one of the few posters of the Alnwick and Cornhill Line from 100 years or so ago. Today the viaduct is still standing as you might expect, but inaccessible. While the routes of the railways make fantastic walking and cycling trails it is disappointing how these days many of the through routes are blocked off by "Private" encroachment and fencing off. While some of the old station buildings have been acquired and probably saved from decay and ruin by private acquisitions, some redevelopments are awful.

I absolutely love the artwork of old Railway and Travel Posters, and what a fantastic creation this is. The eye to generate the composition which isnt photographic reality of course, and the use of colour is nothing short of brilliant in my view.



Regards Neil

[Peter.N.]

Just taken a few pictures in the woods at the top of our garden. Charmouth Forest. Wootton Hill.

[bobins]

A couple from Stedham Common late this afternoon.

Stedham Common - own work

Stedham Common getting late - own work

[CitroJim]

Neil, thanks... Just opened the Wiki link Always interested in disused railways and the remains of them...

Peter and Bobins, loving your latest pictures

[NewcastleFalcon]

Neil, thanks... Just opened the Wiki link Always interested in disused railways and the remains of them...

Peter and Bobins, loving your latest pictures

There is an interesting piece on the page I photographed from my book about the LNER camping coaches at Akeld near Wooler on the line. The line was closed to passengers, but the camping coaches remained, and the LNER were obliged to put on special third class passenger coach onto the goods trains which were still running as a condition of use of the camping cars was that you had to have a rail ticket.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

LNER Camping Coach Poster
London & North Eastern Railway, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Things got a little posher down Chichester way when they converted Petworth Station into a hotel no less!! Using old pullman coaches converted to rooms it was definitely a bit up market on the L.N.E.R.'s camping coaches:

Petworth Station Hotel

Hotel room

Inside the room

[NewcastleFalcon]

The signal cabins and crossings on the line in their working days would be like this one between Akeld and Kirknewton

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/i/ilderton/index67.shtml

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

The signal cabins and crossings on the line in their working days would be like this one between Akeld and Kirknewton

That's a really quite magical picture

Full of atmosphere and all the better for being in monochrome...

[CitroJim]

On the subject of camping coaches, I well remember these at Blue Anchor in Somerset from my childhood holidays...

Wikimedia Commons

They were at the station, now a part of the preserved but deeply troubled West Somerset Railway...

My parents owned a static caravan at Blue Anchor right up until the mid-80s and that part of the world became my second home...

[Peter.N.]

They have some rather posher B&B ones at Rogart station near lairg, Michael Portillo stayed in one when he did his 'Great railway journeys' in Scotland a little while back. The station is nearly opposite the pub that we used to eat in for many years when we stayed at Rogart.

http://www.cyclingscot.co.uk/blog/stay- ... sutherland

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

They have some rather posher B&B ones at Rogart station near lairg, Michael Portillo stayed in one when he did his 'Great railway journeys' in Scotland a little while back. The station is nearly opposite the pub that we used to eat in for many years when we stayed at Rogart.

http://www.cyclingscot.co.uk/blog/stay- ... sutherland

Peter

Excellent site that Peter very interesting and more to find from it. Back in 1979 I had my one and only trip so far on the far North Line, going from Inverness up to Thurso and thence to Scrabster to get on board the Smyril and head off for a holiday in the Faroe Islands.

It did take ages. Wondered when I saw the location at Rogart whether there was a branch line heading inland, but no the line does a large loop inland.


Smyril IV struggling with the sea
Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons


REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nice stamp of the Smyril (merlin) too...havent thought about it for a while.



REgards Neil

[Peter.N.]

That line has two terminuses - termini? one at Wick and the other at Thurso, I think it goes to Thurso first then back down the line and branches off to Wick.

Peter