Elton John 1866, on 16 December 2015 - 10:40 PM, said:
What was the land round there used for? I remember dumper trucks (1980 ish) travelling along there from the works.
As a part time industrial archaeologist(since saunders arrived) to fill the bad days, I took a walk a few months ago and there were some brick building remains. I thonk passenger traffic stopped around 1957 ish on the central line too. There's practically no reminders apart from all the bridges from there back to Sainsburys.
I cannot remember any buildings on the GC line around that bridge
the signal box at the end of the up line platform at the old New Whittington station was the only building left there
the platforms themselves were removed when the inter city express trains started using the line when the traffic was diverted from the
main line onto the freight line
I also walk a lot down there now and sometimes never see any traffic on the freight line
A far cry from the days when you could hear the bells in the signal box clanging every few minutes with trains on the line and also
going into barrow hill sheds just passed the end of the platform
Trains also joined the freight line there from one of the colleries in the area. That line ran passed the bottom of Staveley Chemicals under Hall Lane and in fact up to a few months ago the lines were still present