Trivia: Redundant railway infrastructure built post WW2

[Ianno87]

How about Workington North. The station opened in November 2009 and closed in May the next year, - just 180 days. It took 6 days to build and apart from the bare rectangle of land that was the gravel car park, to a casual visitor there is no trace of its previous existence. Arguably it wasn't a 'significant' investment in pure financial terms, but it was presumably greatly appreciated by the residents and businesses of the area.

It was built from scaffolding, so is stretching the definition of "infrastructure" a little!

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Was the (temporary) airport construction siding that significant a piece of infrastructure?

Well it ran for half a mile alongside the new runway.
If you are trying to connect the airport line to the CLC route through Mobberley it went a good proportion of the way to make the connection.

 

[MadMac]

Newton (Lanarkshire) Signal Box. Opened around 1962, became a satellite of Motherwell around 1973, decommissioned 1991 and still standing although serving, to my knowledge, no operational purpose. Apparently, demolition was looked at some years ago and determined to be too difficult.

 

[Journeyman]

British Steel Redcar and IBM stations were both built in the seventies to serve industrial facilities that have now closed, and both have recently seen services cease (although neither have gone through full closure procedures). Teesside Airport station can't be far behind.

Tyne and Wear Metro test track.

 

[matt_world2004]

Was this connection not built during WW2? There were plans to divert the West Drayton service into Staines Central after DMUs were introduced, but the line was closed instead.

The west Drayton tracks to staines has been partially severed but was used to shift construction spoil and bring in materials for the building of terminal 5.

 

[Class 170101]

The west Drayton tracks to staines has been partially severed but was used to shift construction spoil and bring in materials for the building of terminal 5.

Might that be used again for the 3rd Runway construction if that happens? (Coronavirus and environmental reason permitting).

 

[Journeyman]

Are there still intact main line platforms at Greenford?

(Sorry, wrong thread!)

 

[matt_world2004]

Might that be used again for the 3rd Runway construction if that happens? (Coronavirus and environmental reason permitting).

According to the Wikipedia page it's still used for cement and some other aggregates movements. Google satellite view shows a loco parked on it too

 

[matacaster]

Coal has already been mentioned but with the decommissioning of nuclear power stations are there not some spent fuel rail facilities that are now disused?

Elland?

 

[matacaster]

Elland?

Also oil sidings somewhere near batley?

 

[matacaster]

Also oil sidings somewhere near batley?

Oops no Morley I think.

 

[AM9]

It was built from scaffolding, so is stretching the definition of "infrastructure" a little!

Yes, I know, but it was a bit tongue in cheek.
It was certified for full services, and I believe, did the railway well in terms of future customer support.

 

[Ken H]

Coal has already been mentioned but with the decommissioning of nuclear power stations are there not some spent fuel rail facilities that are now disused?

Trawsfynydd certainly. it doesnt look like anything has been beyond B Ffestiniog for some time. Would be a nice passenger reopening project. if only to Ffestiniog.

 

[Ken H]

Scunthorpe West Marshalling Yard. ( behind Scunthorpe Station )

It was built and equipped with Dowty Retarders and a hump for shunting wagons. Its been closed down and lifted a good few years ago and is now reverting back to a new forest with the amount of trees etc growing on the land. When opened and fitted with Dowty Retarders it was visited by railway companies from across the world for Dowtys to try and sell retarders to them.
Now as usual all gone and heading back to nature.

I was a young kid in Scunny. Mum used to push me in my pram over the long concrete bridge over the marshalling yard, and wave to my sister in the playground of Frodingham Infants School. Later, I went to that same school for a few months before my family moved to Yorkshire. I remember the Dowty retarders.

 

[Penmorfa]

Bidston dock iron ore terminal and junction. Opened 1953, closed 1979 on cessation of steel making at John Summers, Shotton. The dock itself has also been filled in.

Trawsfynyddd branch from Blaenau Ffestiniog, reopened in 1964 to serve the nuclear power station and closed in 1998. Although track is still in situ.

 

[Greetlander]

Oil sidings at Greetland Junction. Opened after the station closed in 1962. Seems as if some of the sidings are still rusting away but the rail connection is gone.

 

[65477]

How some very temporary installation s

Norwich Trowse used in 1986 while Thorpe was closed for electrification

Temporary stations built after the Brittania bridge fire

station built for airshow at RAF Finningley

 

[Stephen1001]

The 1986 station at Bathgate and 1989 station at Drumgelloch, both single-platform termintating stations, were demolished and replaced by two-platform through stations when the line between the two reopened in 2010.

Ramsline Halt opened in 1990 to serve the Baseball Ground, then home of Derby County FC... who promptly moved to Pride Park in 1997 leaving it redundant. The station was apparently only served by four trains in its existence.

 

[Leyther]

Many freight sidings that were opened up with Section 8 Grant's from the 1968 Transport Act.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Elland?

Pretty sure that power station wasn't nuclear... (though that would explain the strange goings-on in the town!)

 

[Leyther]

Various freightliner terminals
Eg Trafford park (by theTrafford centre. Longsight freightliner terminal).

Ormskirk emergency connection (when the station was split into merseyrail 3rd rail and preston terminating on the same platform an avoiding connection was put in place.

 

[androdas]

Close to me, Trackwork for Blyth Power Station opened in the 50's closed in 1998 and the nearby Cambois TMD 1968-1994.

 

[Merle Haggard]

The (admittedly short) spur to the linkspan at Dover Western Docks. This was required when the Nord Pas de Calais replaced the smaller St Germain & St Eloi on the Dunkerque train ferry, and made redundant when the tunnel opened.

 

[Quakers Yard]

Watford Stadium Halt

 

[Helvellyn]

Big chunks of Euston station are disappearing having lasted less than sixty years.

 

[JKF]

All the coal handling stuff at Portbury and Avonmouth including the conveyor tunnel under the river. Some pretty heavy investment for little over a decade’s use (Included double tracking the Henbury line with a new bridge over the M5). Suppose some might be justified should the container port plan go ahead.

also various sidings/spurs serving the GPSS fuel storage sites, most disused/disconnected since the 80s but some track/infrastructure still there on the sites - one still has the loading gantry and electric winches for moving the trucks.

 

[matacaster]

Pretty sure that power station wasn't nuclear... (though that would explain the strange goings-on in the town!)

Err, mixed it up with greetland!

 

[Old Yard Dog]

The east facing bay at Ellesmere Port. Its never even had track, let alone a train.

 

[DB]

Elland?

What was at Elland?

 

[DB]

Leeds Whitehall station (think that was what it was called?) - built on the far side of the triangle of lines in Holbeck in the late 1990s - was only there for a few years while the main station was rebuilt. The single platform and waiting room have gone - not sure whether any traces remain since they extended the adjacent freight yard over much of the site a few years ago,