Ropley was originally opened by the Mid-Hants Railway in 1865 and later leased and then owned by the LSWR and the Southern Railway. It was closed by British Rail in 1973.
It was re-opened 4 years later by the preserved Mid-Hants Railway (also known as the Watercress Line) and is one of the intermediate stops on their re-opened line between Alton and Alresford. Ropley is the engineering centre of the preserved railway with the line's main locomotive shed and workshops next to the station. Ropley has footbridges at either end of the station, one of the bridges allows access to the workshop area.
The line is home to preserved steam and diesels like 33 053
Main station building, the workshops can be seen behind
View of the station from one of the footbridges
Ropley signalbox
British Railways 9F 92212 brings an Alton bound train in
Harrogate, on the Harrogate Line between Leeds and York, was opened by the North Eastern Railway in 1862. However it isn't the town's first station, Brunswick was opened by the York & North Midland Railway in 1848 though was less central than the new Harrogate station. Brunswick was closed when Harrogate opened.
The current station buildings date from a complete rebuild in the mid-1960s with the footbridge and the station frontage being replaced in the 2000s. Although Harrogate has a platform 1 and 3. Platform 2, a bay platform, is no longer used.
Northern 142 021 stands at Harrogate on a service from York
Footbridge with another bridge part of an adjoining complex now above it
Transport for London (Metropolitan
Line) & National Rail
Station code:
AMR/ZAM
Opened:
1892
Platforms:
3
Amersham is at the top left edge of the London Underground tube map and is the second furthest station from the centre of London after Chesham. Amersham is a terminus of the Metropolitan Line though also is host to National Rail services from Aylesbury to London Marylebone operated by Chiltern Railways.
Amersham was opened by the Metropolitan Railway in 1892, later becoming joint owned with the Great Central Railway (later LNER and finally BR). Although Amersham and the Metropolitan Railway became part of the London Underground in 1933 the line was not electrified until 1960. The new EMU stock for the Metropolitan Line at the time was called the A60 Stock, the A after Amersham.
The station has 3 platforms with buildings and canopies over both. There is a footbridge linking the platforms. Metropolitan Line trains terminate here, after checks the train moves forward just outside the station before switching over to the other track and beginning the long journey back to the big city.
One of the furthest (official) LU station roundels you'll see from London!
Chiltern 168 001 departs heading for Marylebone
Main station building
S Stock train begins the long journey back to London
Hall Green was opened in 1908 by the Great Western Railway on the North Warwickshire Line (nowadays known as the Shakespeare Line), serving the Hall Green area of South-East Birmingham and is located in between Spring Road and Yardley Wood.
The station once had a goods yard though this was closed in the late 1960s. Much of the station is as built, and in the standard GWR style of the early 20th century. The station is still in good condition though most facilities and buildings are concentrated on the Birmingham platform.
Hall Green still has a staffed ticket office though staffing is a bit less than the station's heyday in the late 1920s when the station had a staff of 15! [1]
LM 172 336 at Hall Green
Main station building
Looking down the line towards Stratford
Footbridge
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham (Moor Street) (Middleton Press, 2006) Img. 83
