Stevie1970
Buffer
A better picture now the vegetation has died back (and a drier day!) of the buffers at Fen Drayton.Looks like the contractors have sprayed the entire area with systematic weedkiller because all the bramble has died off and everything is crispy.
The only clue that this used to be a major rail route is the telegraph post beside the buffer.The track originally used to go on for another 1.5 miles to St-Ives station (demolished in 1978),but that was lifted sometime in the 1970's and made into a road so ARC (Amalgamated roadstone corporation) could use it as an access road for their sand & gravel quarrying works which was done extensivley in the area.ARC used the old line to deliver sand down to Kings Cross London until 1992.
Buffer
A better picture now the vegetation has died back (and a drier day!) of the buffers at Fen Drayton.Looks like the contractors have sprayed the entire area with systematic weedkiller because all the bramble has died off and everything is crispy.
The only clue that this used to be a major rail route is the telegraph post beside the buffer.The track originally used to go on for another 1.5 miles to St-Ives station (demolished in 1978),but that was lifted sometime in the 1970's and made into a road so ARC (Amalgamated roadstone corporation) could use it as an access road for their sand & gravel quarrying works which was done extensivley in the area.ARC used the old line to deliver sand down to Kings Cross London until 1992.