Category: Remnants

Spotted Yesterday – In 35 minutes At Norbiton

… on the New Malden Junction-Shepperton line in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in London.

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2O37, 14.03 South Western Railway (SWR) service from London Waterloo to London Waterloo

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2K37, 14.27 SWR from London Waterloo to London Waterloo

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2H44, 14.41 SWR from Shepperton to London Waterloo

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2O39, 14.33 SWR from London Waterloo to London Waterloo

I was pleasantly surprised by the (albeit small) variety of EMU classes passing through the station… but even more surprised to find this relic of the Southern Railway!

'Notice Is Hereby Given'‘Notice Is Hereby Given’

From the Archives – Welford and Kilworth Platform Shelter

Last week I spent a couple of days chugging along the Grand Union Canal on a narrow boat, setting off from North Kilworth Marina in Leicestershire. Whilst looking at our route on the Ordnance Survey map I noticed a dismantled railway line immediately west of the marina and naturally (for me anyway) I did a little research and discovered there had been a station nearby…

Welford and Kilworth platform shelter (ERM)-20130525Welford and Kilworth platform shelter
Electric Railway Museum, 25 May 2013

Welford and Kilworth station, on the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) line from Rugby to Stamford, opened on 1 May 1950 and had an uneventful existence until closure on 6 June 1966 and although the main station buildings were demolished, the down (Stamford-bound) platform shelter (dating from 1878) survived and ended up on display at the Electric Railway Museum at Coventry (where the above photo was taken during an open day in 2013.)

Sadly the museum was forced to close in 2017 but most, if not all the exhibits were found new homes and I believe the shelter ended up at the Battlefield Line.

A relic of the LNER

'WARNING TO TRESPASSERS'‘WARNING TO TRESPASSERS’
August 2020

The London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) ceased to exist on 31 December 1947 when it became part of the newly nationalised ‘British Railways’ so I was surprised to find this sign still in use in Lincolnshire last week.

I’m not going to mention its exact location as I’d hate it to suddenly ‘go missing’.