| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 12:12 - Sep 8 with 2309 views | DWQPR |
The first map in the first link shows the whereabouts of the 'Queen's Park Rangers Football Ground' which looks to be located in Park Royal. |  |
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| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 13:13 - Sep 8 with 2216 views | LythamR |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 12:12 - Sep 8 by DWQPR |
The first map in the first link shows the whereabouts of the 'Queen's Park Rangers Football Ground' which looks to be located in Park Royal. |
Yes that looks spot on
Copied from QPR Report
https://qprreport.proboards.com/thread/29786/park-royal-stadium-1907
Built by The Great Western Railway Company. Opened in November 1907, Park Royal Stadium held 60,000 including 9,000 under cover 4,000 seated.
Whilst there, Ranger's won the Southern League Championship in 1907/08 and 1911/12.
The Army commandeered Park Royal in February 1915 and Rangers finished the season back at Kensal Rise before moving to Loftus Rd in 1919 where the original Main Stand came from the Park Royal Stadium. |  | | |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 19:39 - Sep 9 with 2022 views | M40R |
This one is also good on the original Wood Lane station and its replacement when White City opened. Ever wondered why the trains use the "wrong" platforms at White City?
https://underground-history.co.uk/woodlane.php | | | |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 00:52 - Sep 10 with 1917 views | Boston |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 19:39 - Sep 9 by M40R |
This one is also good on the original Wood Lane station and its replacement when White City opened. Ever wondered why the trains use the "wrong" platforms at White City?
https://underground-history.co.uk/woodlane.php |
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| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 08:45 - Sep 10 with 1764 views | A40Bosh |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 19:39 - Sep 9 by M40R |
This one is also good on the original Wood Lane station and its replacement when White City opened. Ever wondered why the trains use the "wrong" platforms at White City?
https://underground-history.co.uk/woodlane.php |
I have gone up and down that line nearly every day for the last 40 years. Know where every screech is going to pierce people's eardrums especially as the westbound hits the Caxton Curve just before exiting the tunnel approaching White City.
More useless info is that the reason the noise level is so horrendous between Holland Park and Notting Hill Gate is that due to residents in the posh houses above constant complaining about the noise coming from below they changed the tracks on that section to help suppress the sound and keep it in the tunnel. Still sets my teeth on edge unless I have the noise cancelling headphones on high volume  |  |
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| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 09:22 - Sep 10 with 1729 views | GloryHunter |
Thanks for the links Metallica. Very interesting to find the piece about the old Southwold Railway, which is a now a footpath that I have used a few times.
A good read while I was lying in bed yesterday feeling sorry for myself after a tooth extraction. |  | | |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 09:42 - Sep 10 with 1708 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 09:22 - Sep 10 by GloryHunter |
Thanks for the links Metallica. Very interesting to find the piece about the old Southwold Railway, which is a now a footpath that I have used a few times.
A good read while I was lying in bed yesterday feeling sorry for myself after a tooth extraction. |
It's a great site. I'm still finding gems. I loved the Ludgate bridge one as I work about 600 yeards away.
Its the most in-depth piece on it I've ever read. |  |
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| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 10:35 - Sep 10 with 1629 views | BerkoRanger |
As I'm also a bit of a railway nerd, I really appreciated the links. Ta, muchly. | | | |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 11:12 - Sep 10 with 1585 views | eastside_r |
Yeah. Thanks for posting Metallica, especially the first link. I love this kind of stuff too.
How the underground developed the social history of London over the last century and a half is immeasurable. I wonder will the new ways of working we are all getting used to will similarly shape our great city? |  | | |
| Interesting railway site I happened upon. on 13:37 - Sep 10 with 1484 views | slmrstid |
Hands up to being a railway nerd here too!
I live on a former goods yard for the Great Central Railway, right next to the former mainline, about half a mile south of the former Leicester Central Station. About another quarter of a mile south is an active freight line, which one upon a time linked the GCR to the modern day Midland Mainline.
Looking at old maps, once upon a time a siding ran right through the middle of my house. The GCR from my house runs about 3.5 miles south as part of National Cycle Network Route 6 before it then peels off and the former railway disappears a bit.
There's loads of bits of the GCR left over in Leicester if you know where to look, and of course 12 miles of it is preserved as the current GCR Steam Railway from Leicester North to Loughborough.
At the weekend just gone I took two friends on a themed run where we ran to the former Belgrave & Birstall station, now just a bricked up archway on a bridge with platforms long gone, just 600m north of the current Leicester North station, then followed the line as best as possible back into Leicester Central station, where after decades of lying derelict is now being transformed into a bowling alley, and the parcel yard is being made into a street food market. Look forward to it opening, the building looks lovely.
The old platforms/trackbed at Leicester Central has been an industrial estate for years, as the railway was elevated above street level through the city, and there are bits of platform left on one part, again a bit hidden away.
Love it, and love reading all the old stuff elsewhere! Am a bit of a history geek so I always love seeing echoes of the past that are left in the modern world. Just a couple of weeks ago another friend pointed out to me where bricked up turnstile entrances for one of the stands at Filbert Street are still visible. [Post edited 10 Sep 2020 13:39]
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