silverfoxcc
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When was this removed as i recall using it going to an Airshow there in the mid 60s, or is my memory all askew!!
The old footbridge had a padlocked gate going to nowhere, where the steps to an island platform would have been.A diagram at https://signalbox.org/~SBdiagram.php?id= 271 showing the station layout in 1944 has no island platform shown on it. But there is a large gap between the up and down through lines as though there had once been an island platform. Regret I've no other information available.
Yes - a quick search produced a photo of a Brighton Atlantic on a special, which shows the bank. Must be before 1959 therefore.I'm sure it was a grass bank until the 70's, unless I'm thinking of Winchfield.
I just checked old OS maps, and it is shown as a line of trees in 1931. Older maps are either unclear, or don’t show anything. No footbridge connection is ever shown either.I have a vague recollection of reading that the centre platform was never constructed after the quadrupling at the beginning of the last century.
I just checked old OS maps, and it is shown as a line of trees in 1931. Older maps are either unclear, or don’t show anything. No footbridge connection is ever shown either.
In older maps still showing the three track layout it is the site of the up platform with an up loop round the back. I’m tending towards never used and partially demolished soon after four tracking.
The loop around the back of the up platform was shortened and became a London facing bay platform. It was removed about 1965 when platforms were extended for 12car electric trains.
From memory there is a reference to a partly constructed spur (called Farnborough curve) from Frimley Junction on some maps early 20th century, don’t know if it opened, but the bay would have been useful for shuttle service (if it ever happened)
It's surprising this wasn't reinstated and connected both ends in WWII. Both routes must have counted as strategic.There was also an East to North Curve joining the LSWR Woking-Basingstoke line to the SER Ash-Reading line, but this was never connected at the LSWR end.
Probably because there were adequate diversionary routes already for both the LSW main line and the ex SER.It's surprising this wasn't reinstated and connected both ends in WWII. Both routes must have counted as strategic.
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When was this removed as i recall using it going to an Airshow there in the mid 60s, or is my memory all askew!!