Railway gardens and little trains

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 26 Jan, 2009 12:54 pm

I finally got to take a look at a place i've wondered about for 2 years now.It really is a unique relic of British railways in years gone by.It's the garden nursey for the Yorkshire region were all the station floral displays and fruit and veg were grown for the buffet cars.It's near to York at Poppleton. The place was closed in 1995 and is now overgrown and derelict.The place even had it's own narrow gauge railway for transporting the materials around the site.My picture collection is here if anyone would like a look http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn ... 73/detail/

Brunel · Post by **Brunel** » Tue 27 Jan, 2009 11:42 pm

Did you notice the level crossing at the station?Hand operated gates, as is the next two along the line to Knaresborough.Another relic, still in use.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 28 Jan, 2009 12:09 am

Brunel wrote: Did you notice the level crossing at the station?Hand operated gates, as is the next two along the line to Knaresborough.Another relic, still in use. I didn' thave a right good look at it.I have caught it on camera here though.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn ... 2/sizes/l/

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 28 Jan, 2009 12:54 am

Brunel wrote: Did you notice the level crossing at the station?Hand operated gates, as is the next two along the line to Knaresborough.Another relic, still in use. There is certainly a (wo)manned hand operated crossing at Moor Monkton

Post by **cnosni** » Wed 28 Jan, 2009 10:28 am

Trojan wrote: Brunel wrote: Did you notice the level crossing at the station?Hand operated gates, as is the next two along the line to Knaresborough.Another relic, still in use. There is certainly a (wo)manned hand operated crossing at Moor Monkton Believe it or not tere is still such a crossing on the ECML,at Grassthorpe,which is between Newark and Retford.Its ok as the line speed is only 125 at this point

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Wed 28 Jan, 2009 1:52 pm

Reminds me of Saville Brothers garden centre at Garforth Cliff and it's little Rio Gande train. Loved going on that as a kid and my kids live it too.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 28 Jan, 2009 2:08 pm

[quotenick="cnosni"]I've got a set of pics may interest you Chris.My night in the train grave yard/The twilight of Healey mills set herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/sets/7 ... 71/detail/

Brunel · Post by **Brunel** » Wed 28 Jan, 2009 9:34 pm

Well OT ..........Poppleton Crossing Gates.http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/ikbrunel/ ... ssingGates#

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 28 Jan, 2009 9:41 pm

Brunel wrote: Well OT ..........Poppleton Crossing Gates.http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/ikbrunel/ ... ssingGates# Well found there

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 28 Jan, 2009 9:52 pm

When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about model railways. There is (was) a scale model railway which is (was) steam operated behind the Unison building on Bradford Road at Tingley. I wonder if it's still there?