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‘The engineering industry’, York and elsewhere, 1979
I’ve been reorganising boxes of things again, and it’s inevitable, you end up opening them and leafing through, in a nostalgic moment, and while I was, I found this school exercise book, geography as taught to first years at Mill Mount Grammar School in 1979. It illustrates perhaps more than … 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 …
More (very early) railway heritage
Railway enthusiasts will know about this significant structure already, but perhaps the significance of it isn’t generally appreciated. A reminder of our very first, temporary, railway station.
And photos of similar, smaller ones at other stations in Yorkshire.
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