Rails in the Road - not tramways

[BS56]

How very interesting all four tracks in the goods yard each cross the river rom separately with their own bridge and along with the brewery branch this would make a fine model to build most people would say it could not exist but this shows it all . Apart from the river what else still exist there ?

 

[Dr_Paul]

How very interesting all four tracks in the goods yard each cross the river rom separately with their own bridge and along with the brewery branch this would make a fine model to build most people would say it could not exist but this shows it all . Apart from the river what else still exist there ?

Looking at Streetview and aerial photography, very little if anything remains of the brewery and the railway yard. The whole area around Romford station has been redeveloped.

 

[Ken H]

I am sure I remember as a kid walking over rail tracks set in a road. Think is was coastal. Whitby, Scarborough or Folkestone. Sure they were set in concrete. the flangeways were full of gravel so I dont think they had seem a train for years. For port traffic maybe? Fish?
This would have been 1960's or very early 70's

 

[edwin_m]

I am sure I remember as a kid walking over rail tracks set in a road. Think is was coastal. Whitby, Scarborough or Folkestone. Sure they were set in concrete. the flangeways were full of gravel so I dont think they had seem a train for years. For port traffic maybe? Fish?
This would have been 1960's or very early 70's

Back in the day nearly every harbour was rail connected, as rail was pretty much the only way of moving goods around. Some harbours have been mentioned on here but there would be dozens or possibly hundreds more. There were fast overnight fish trains from the fishing ports direct to London and other cities.

 

[Ken H]

Back in the day nearly every harbour was rail connected, as rail was pretty much the only way of moving goods around. Some harbours have been mentioned on here but there would be dozens or possibly hundreds more. There were fast overnight fish trains from the fishing ports direct to London and other cities.

got one!
round Bristol floating harbour
pic...
https://n7.alamy.com/zooms/4ac05559...-old-bristol-docks-bristol-england-fdw96w.jpg

maybe not a public road....

 

[Dr_Paul]

Back in the day nearly every harbour was rail connected, as rail was pretty much the only way of moving goods around. Some harbours have been mentioned on here but there would be dozens or possibly hundreds more.

That's where the National Library of Scotland's marvellous on-line map collection is so valuable, especially the 25" maps which show individual lines and other minute details. The 1:1250 series of postwar London and South-East England maps are even more detailed, and show all the lines in and around the London docks and Thameside wharves, as well as all the various goods depots. The only things omitted are the Navy dockyards, as the Navy was exceedingly secretive about its installations.