Cinder Lane and railway lands, 2004 and now
A wander down Cinder Lane, past old rusty things and a new building on the Engineers’ Triangle. Photos from August 2004 and August 2014 compared.
More …Currently browsing the category: Railways
Hearts and flowers
‘The engineering industry’, York and elsewhere, 1979
Rediscovered in an old schoolbook from 1979, an illustration of ‘The engineering industry’, as it was then.
More …After Beeching: railway remains /2
Some years ago, the now old-fashioned OS paper maps made me realise the extent of our railway network before ‘Beeching’s Axe’. Those orange-covered Explorer maps, with their beautiful detail. Including, all over, bits of ‘Dismantled Railway’. Curving lines broken in places but still traceable across the landscape.
More …After Beeching: railway remains /1
It’s 50 years since the Beeching report was published. Seems a good time to steam through my collection of photos from walks in Yorkshire which included parts of those abandoned routes, and their surviving railway architecture.
More …Leeman Road demolitions: sentimental version
[a more factual piece to follow, if I can find the energy/time. It’s December, everything’s grim, I’m not being paid for this and frankly I can’t be bothered. But this was from the heart, so do read on … ]
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One of the nicest things … More …
Seeing the roundhouse, 1973
Some months ago I included a page about the recently uncovered roundhouses. Tony Finn remembers the site before it was covered: “I saw this from a passing train … when the remains of the floor of the Holgate Roundhouses were still visible, but the age … More …
York, by haiku
Slow sliding into
gentle curve of roof. Alight.
Four letters spell home.
‘York Station’ – an attempt … More …