A railway slumbers....add your pics!

This is how Weybourne used t look when I first started building the railway.

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The station building was an old concrete capping stone on 2 bricks! I could just about lift it on my own.

Then I won a Jackson's Building on the old GSM site, by sending in the picture above.

Weybourne then developed to be like this.

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Now the station building has been resited further back so the sidings were closer to the lawn for marshalling trains....
 
Pic from a clear day last winter, there are no passengers waiting at the station, and no cars in the car park as there were no trains due.
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Mainly because i'm not as mad as some of you lot and rarely run/test in the winter months.
 
Re:A railway slumbers....

Slumber indeed...Dickie has seen off the last fish gravel train and it's time for bed (in reality just testing lights)
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Excellent thread. I have no pictures of the railway without trains except a few overgrown shots. I now have some ideas for "trainless shots" and will endevour to take more when the light is right. Here are a few overgrown shots.

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Nice thread this - inspired me to go outside (as the sky divests itself of excess moisture) and take some pictures. Nothing overgrown (its only four days since there was anything running) but nature is trying to regain lost land.

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i will post my picture this afternppn and posted ere tonite tht i avent ran my trains for 3 months.....due of repairing in the garden......
 
Hey all, this thread has been fantastic and enjoyable. I feel my original efforts where actually quite neat tidy and sterile! netty I have to say I love those overgrown ones of yours...
 
Although the EG&SNNR is still growing some of the earlier parts of the trackbed are taking on that pre-abandonment look.....

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Plans are afoot to sever the link with the main line in order to improve the alignment of the main line....
 
Overgrown track?
I took these today on a 12" to the foot scale railway.........

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Rik
 
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The SBLR has been slumbering a lot recently!
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The log cribbing
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The signal box in mid afternoon slow period
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What happens when you don't trim stuff for two weeks.....
 
Doug said:
Love those overgrown pics!

Here's some of mine

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Doug, What is the stuff that looks like miniature ferns in the third photo?
 
Madman said:
Doug said:
Love those overgrown pics!

Here's some of mine

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Doug, What is the stuff that looks like miniature ferns in the third photo?
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Its called lepintella squalida 'platts black'. Found in the Alpine section of your local garden centre. It comes in a green version as well as the black. The black version seems to be fairly easy to find, just found the green version this year, at the local garden centre after looking for 4 years!

It spreads quite easily but can be easily dug up if needed, and is pretty hardy. Alot of the other plants in that photo died this winter, i think the freezing rain in december killed alot of them, as they survived the previous winter that was colder for longer.

Some of the replacement alpines that i put in this spring have given up as well, its just been too wet for them!
 
Living next door to the real railway, we have a real problem with Bindweed. With the weather being as it has we have been inundated with the stuff. It needs a concerted effort to restore the running line. A shot taken on my phone below.

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