Opening old lines of communication
My son and I have been trying to work out where the station between Bottisham and Lode in Cambridgeshire was located. It's obviously hidden away in fen farmland somewhere and we plan to walk over there next weekend to try and find out.
When the children were younger, our holidays and weekends often took in old or disused railway lines or windmills, as well as recreating the scenes through the model railway in the loft room. Those happy days always took me back to my own youth, watching the trains on the main line at Woodcroft or from the apple tree at the bottom of the garden, just managing to glimpse the trains away to the south-west where only houses can now be viewed.
I saw a story suggesting old lines of communication might be restored. I'm not a subscriber so can't get the full detail but the links that trains offer me with the past will always be there, however hazy.
When the children were younger, our holidays and weekends often took in old or disused railway lines or windmills, as well as recreating the scenes through the model railway in the loft room. Those happy days always took me back to my own youth, watching the trains on the main line at Woodcroft or from the apple tree at the bottom of the garden, just managing to glimpse the trains away to the south-west where only houses can now be viewed.
I saw a story suggesting old lines of communication might be restored. I'm not a subscriber so can't get the full detail but the links that trains offer me with the past will always be there, however hazy.
Labels: Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Lode, railway lines, The Fens, trains, Woodcroft
posted by Fencreative | 7:24 AM
1 Comments:
I don't know if you had any luck finding it, but the line of the old Cambridge - Mildenhall railway is fairly clear if you know where to look. The Lode station is actually on the opposite side of the village from Bottisham:
http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#552,263,1
...though the line can't really reopen (the housing estate where the old Burwell station once was makes it difficult, at the very least), there's been a campaign in Soham to get their station rebuilt for some years I believe.
Oh, and the big hill just before the county border when you leave Burwell heading towards Newmarket is of course an old railway bridge.
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