Re: Early closure/Late opening
- From: Mark Annand <mark.annand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:08:23 +0100
WZR wrote:
What other significant sections of railway closed very early on? I am not talking about short curves and the like, but quite long chunks of route.
There's been a thread on this fairly recently, and it might be worth Googling for it. There was an odd line from the London to Cambridge route, missing out Cambridge and making for Newmarket via the picturesque place name of Six Mile Bottom, that closed at a truly unfeasably early date.
What other significant sections of railway opened very late on, excluding the obvious G.C. route to London?
A book that will help with this is 'Edwardian Enterprise' (can't remember the authors) - dealing with the GWR's attempts to shake off the rumour that its initials stood for Great Way Round (when everyone knew it stands for Gas Works Railway). They built a series of their cut off lines between 1900 and 1910, usually across clay :-(
Late built lines include Wimbledon to Sutton, which is well worth a visit ... I wonder if a steam loco has ever traversed that line ... and the Chessington Branch, a bold attempt to get to Leatherhead, which almost succeeded. Meanwhile, lurking in North Cornwall, the Torrington to Halwill Junction line probably deserves to win some sort of prize for late arrival, as well as a particularly honest station name.
Pride of place for late openings might go to the ecml section bypassing the Selby Coalfield as it's certainly more than a mere chord ...
Mark
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