Posted by Jock on November 04, 2007 at 10:55:47 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Grange Station wins European Award posted by Rob Boden on November 03, 2007 at 22:53:46:
I had wondered if it was possible to change at Plumpton Junction for the Greenodd/Lakeside service...
I don't think that there were ever any facilities for passengers at Plumpton Junction, certainly there are none on this 1933 map.
I visited the area in June/July 1968 to take photographs of the last regular steam workings on British Railways. I was particularly pleased of photograph taken at dusk of a steam passenger train at Grange.
It was totally daft that the Plumpton Junction-Haverthwaite section of the Lakeside branch line was ripped up, particularly as there was a commercially viable plan to run the whole branch as heritage/tourist railway. In the 1970's, voices urging a balanced approach to road/rail transport were few and far between. The southern section of the railway formation was wanted for road improvements and the promoters of the new Lakeside Railway were offered a deal - an easy path through all the legal formalities in return for them abandoning all thoughts of running south of Haverthwaite.