Its Lockdown 2 , there is no volunteer work until December ( hopefully ) It had been raining for days and I needed a walk .
The weather looked okayish for Monday and the call of Broadway and the Honeybourne line pulled me.
I have walked most of the route in bits and bobs , so lets go from Broadway to the Main line railway bridge at Honeybourne in one go and make a video, looking at the condition of the track bed and see what's left .
This is my short video of the route starting at Springfield lane , the quality is what you would get after 2 days of learning how to use video editing software so don't moan please.
The distance is approx 4.2 miles ( and 4.2 miles back , plus walking from the station ) and I was joined ( as per government guidelines ) for part of the route by Pat .
Below are some of the more interesting finds from our walk .
A small brick hut , not far from the West loop sidings , it had redundant electrical boxes , scatted outside.
Remains of the signal box lay not far away
Plenty of old electrical boxes hidden in the undergrowth
About a mile from Broadway station , what I thought was a trig point turned out to be a marker for Water !
Wow so there is hope that if things really improved, a few of us win the lottery then we could extend to a main line connection!
ReplyDeleteSeriously though a great little treck through the back garden to Honeybourne. Thank you for this, it also shows what the conditions were like when the railway first took over from BR.
Regards
Paul & Marion
Not a moan, but how about putting the slideshow to the sound of steam with the duration extended to approx 8 seconds per slide. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteThere's now talk of spending money to regenerate transport infrastructure, & one of the mooted projects is the re-opening of the line from Stratford-Upon-Avon to Honeybourne. This would serve the proposed housing development at Long Marston, as well as relink the midlands to the Oxford-Worcester line. I'll believe it when it happens, but meantime, would it have any implications for a future GWSR push to Honeybourne. It'd be just like the BRB to cut the preserved line off a few hundred yards short of its target!
ReplyDeleteA brilliant little stills collection put together with skill. Don't sell yourself short, it is an excellent piece and certainly left me wondering, what if. Thank you for your efforts.
ReplyDeleteWalked the route from the Honeybourne end to Broadway yesterday, happy to share my photos. It is a bit of a walk from Honeybourne station through the village but access to the line from the Mickleton Lane bridge is very easy.One thing puzzled me the point where a cutting had been filled in near Willersey I can't identify a missing overbridge so presumably it was done to make footpath access easier? I walked Stratford upon Avon to Long Marston with the Railway Ramblers on Saturday.That completes as far as practical the whole route from Stratford to Cheltenham on foot or by rail where possible. It would have been much easier to do on the pre closure tour my late father and I booked on which got cancelled when the train came off the tracks at Chicken curve but such is life! Mick Bond Member and shareholder
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