Barnstaple Town station once served both the L&SWR and the L&B narrow gauge railway. This roadside view was taken in 1990 when the buildings appear to be in use as a restaurant.

Barnstaple Town viewed in 1990 from the platform. It has tastefully decorated complete with authentic enamal and cast iron signage.

Bartlow Signalbox still survived at the time of this photo in the late 1990's. It is engulfed by the trees. The line towards Haverhill diverges left, whilst the branch to Audley End veers away to the right.

Bartlow Station platform is located to the south west of the village on the Essex/Cambridgeshire border.

Battersby looking towards the disused section which branched off out of view, to serve Rosedale and stations to Picton.

Blewbury, on the downs near Goring, was on the former Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway, which was later absorbed into the Great Western. A view of the trackbed looking south east from Blewbury Downs.

Boughton Level Crossing looking north towards Pitsford and Brampton, the first station upon departing from Northampton. A fully fledged preservation centre exists today at Pitsford.

Boughton Level Crossing on the former LNWR branchline from Northampton to Market Harborough. Rusted rails survived here in the early 90's, snaking their way southwards towards Northampton.

Boughton Level Crossing viewed from the then A50 trunk road. The rails had still been in situ across the road, on an earlier occasion when I had passed this way. However when I returned with my camera, road resurfacing work had been carried out, and the track removed.

Broad Street Finale 1: The penultimate arrival from Watford Junction stands at Broad Street.

Broad Street Finale 2: Much of the track layout has been rationalised. This view was taken from the signalbox viewing platform.

Broad Street Finale 3: 313001 was the first of its class to be decked out in Network South East livery. She waits with the penultimate departure to Watford Junction.

Broad Street Finale 4: 313001 heads towards Dalston Junction with a Watford Junction train.

Broad Street Finale 5: 313008 arrives at Broad Street with the last ever passenger arrival from Watford Junction.

Broad Street Finale 6: 313008 waits departure from Broad Street with the last passenger carrying train, destination Watford Junction.

Broad Street Finale 7. This is the former station site today, occupied by a City office block.

Buntingford lay at the end of a long branch line from St Margarets. This undated photo of the former station building, deep in rural Hertfordshire, was by Philip Lindhurst.

Comines (SNCB). Comines is divided by a river which also forms a natural boundary between the two countries. Comines SNCB station was a junction with lines to Poperinge, Lille and ???? This metalled path was once the line that served ???

Comines (SNCB). The line to Poperinge veers sharply away west of the Belgian station at Comines. The metalled path is what was once the trackbed of the line to ???

Comines (SNCF). Comines is a border town in Flanders. The town has two stations on the French and Belgian networks. At one time the two were rail connected. A BB67400 stands with a Lille train, the bufferstops mark the end of the SNCF line today.

Comines (SNCF). This view is looking along the course of the line that linked the French and Belgian stations, the French station is immediately behind the photographer. The cyclists are on the approximate location of the former level crossing.

Dalston Junction. The penultimate Watford Junction to Broad Street calls briefly allowing me enough time to take a photo.

Gare de Bassilly

Gare de Bassilly arret d'autobus.

Gare de Bassilly était situeé à la bifurcation des lignes 94 et 87. Les voies vers Ath continuez tout droite, les voies vers Lessines à droite.

Gare de Bassilly il y a vingt deux ans que les trains sont détournés par la nouvelle ligne 94.

Gare de Bassilly sur la site de la ancienne voies.

Gare de Bassilly, la ancienne gare de marchandise est toujours debout.

Haverhill in Essex was served by the Great Eastern, and the Colne Valley & Halstead Railway who each had separate stations. Both routes were linked by a line and this view shows the divergence away from the CV&H to the GE.

Haverhill: The last rays of sun set on the single track overbridge which crosses the A1017. This was the link between the two separate companies lines.

Lavant station seen from the weed infested approach road. Note the unusual engravings in the plaster on the upper level. The building survives today, albeit as part of a complex of flats.

Lavant was the first station on the Chichester to Midhurst branch of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. This view is from the old trackbed.

Lavant, with the station behind the photogprapher, the trackbed stretches away towards Chichester.

Low Gill. Branching away from the WCML, following the course of the light coloured track in the middle distance, was the former LNWR branch to Clapham.

Low Gill. The former LNWR branch is carried over Beck Foot just south of Low Gill on an impressive viaduct which survives today.

Lowesby station on the Great Northern line from Leicester Humberstone Road. This is an extremely remote and rural part of Leicestershire.

Malvern Junction saw the branching off of the Midland Railways line from Great Malvern to Tewkesbury and Ashchurch. The trackbed is seen here looking south towards the long gone Malvern Wells Station.

Meldon Viaduct is behind the photographer in this view of the former LSWR trackbed stretching away towards Halwill Junction.

Penistone. Looking along the once electrified Woodhead route towards Guide Bridge.

Penistone. A sad shadow of its former self, Penistone was a junction for lines to Huddersfield, Guide Bridge, Wath and Sheffield.

Penistone. The view from the Woodhead line platforms looking east towards Silkstone, the line from Huddersfield can just be viewed in the distance.

Penistone. This view of the eastern end of the station is looking towards the former junction site where the electrified Woodhead lines converged from the right and met the line from Huddersfield. It is hard to believe, seeing the remaining single line meandering into the distance, that this was once a major railway location that witnessed a daily procession of electrically hauled freight and passenger trains making their way across the Pennines.

Potton. Hopes to reopen this line will be thwarted by the encroaching industrialisation of the former trackbed. Bland modern constructions now straddle the trackbed beyond the station limits.

Potton. Situated on the LNWR branch from Bedford to Cambridge, the station buildings and platforms have survived intact since closure.

Potton. The graceful canopy survives intact next to the main station builiding.

Potton. The graceful station building has survived and is now in private ownership.

Quiévrain, Belgium. Looking towards the French border. Note the old signal on the right.

Quiévrain, Belgium. The SNCB station is in the distance, and a train can be seen waiting to depart. The disused section once crossed the frontier into France.