robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
I tracked down, via a bike ride on forestry logging roads, the location of Riccarton Junction station on the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle (and once with onward trains via the Midland route to London St Pancras). It ceased to be a junction in 1956 when the Kielder line closed, and the Waverley line was shut for good in 1969. At one time it had a small village for railway workers around the station, accessible only by rail, but of all this very little remains and the site is being enveloped by the forest.
(I gather a small section of track was relaid by a heritage group in the 90s, but among all the trees I must have missed it)
(I gather a small section of track was relaid by a heritage group in the 90s, but among all the trees I must have missed it)
