Prototypical Space-saving for compact layouts

[Osgood]

Had to do a double take when I came across this!
(Some great shots for modellers in this album of photographs taken by the late Peter Shoesmith).

https://flic.kr/p/mynEXu

 

[michael mott]

Quite a deep rabbit hole though!

Michael

 

[Eastsidepilot]

....and you try re-painting the gable off a ladder mate !

Col.

 

[michael080]

The house seems to be still there.

Colwall

It appears that one track has been removed since then. Guess which one

Michael

 

[AJC]

That’s an odd one - a house in that position would normally have gone with the land purchase but evidently not in this case. It’s listed, incidentally, but obviously that postdates the railway by probably about a century!

BRIDGE COTTAGE, Colwall - 1082125 | Historic England

List entry 1082125. Grade II Listed Building: Bridge Cottage. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

Adam

 

[Osgood]

There does not appear to be a geographical hinderance to shifting the alignment of the railway by a few feet so guess it was a stubborn refusal to abandon the property at the time the line was built (1860 according to HE above).

 

[AJC]

There does not appear to be a geographical hinderance to shifting the alignment of the railway by a few feet so guess it was a stubborn refusal to abandon the property at the time the line was built (1860 according to HE above).

The line was still being built (or, at least, was unfinished) come the 1861 census - I've edited a book on the history of Colwall - but as I recall, the railway, and especially the big tunnels at Colwall and Ledbury, along with the large viaduct at the latter, was really quite civils intensive and costly, so they probably lacked the extra budget to argue the case. It's not easy to see on Google Streetview, but the realignment seems to have been in the middle of the formation!




Adam