Just outside of Bournemouth, there’s a place called Ashley Heath. And this is an abandoned railway station. It’s actually called Ashley Heath Halt. And it closed in the mid60s with one final train service coming through on a steam train in 1994. And all that’s left now is this big platform. You see goes all the way down there. You can see people would have stood here. E although I don’t know how busy it would have been. But isn’t that amazing that they’ve left this on the Castleman Trailway? Come and check it out, guys. It’s definitely worth a visit and have got all the information that you need. There’s the line there. Come check it out.
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We have Woody Bay station on the Lynton line in Devon! It’s been recommissioned and is an active steam rail now.
You should visit Worthy Halt Down if you haven't already.
Closed by Dr Beeching in 1965 , I was at Junior School at the time .
There's loads all over the country Oxfordshire has a few
Only about 30% should have been closed under Beeching.
Coming froo?
I love old train lines for cycle routes. Beautifully flat and easy!
Worth a visit??!!
The tracks need to be put back. Would it make a good local rail line?
My Summer cycle route to work, but I cut off onto the Horton road before I get to this.
If you head south on the cycleway there is more evidence of the railway with sidings buffers and drain tanks
I had no clue it existed and that’s shocking because I live in Florida.
I would love to sit there "waiting" for the day with luggage looking all impatient.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐧𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.
Build another railway there…steam preferably
Wow great bike trail now
Dr Beeching gutted Britain's railway network. There's loads of abandoned railway tracks that have been integrated into the footpath network. Our nearest is called The Nicky Line. No idea where the name came from.
To be fair it looks more like a concrete platform close to a road than an old train station. But it does have a neat feel to it.
Architectural corpse . . .
Never Heard of that will have to Check out ,thanks ❤🎉😊
Feels like the kind of place me and my mates would've hung out at as teens, smoking and drinking.
1994 ?😅
Wouldn't exactly say it's amazing, but more like they left the platform there to save money (and labor+time) rather than to dismantle it.
I love coming across places like this. There's a really cool old bunker from the civil war and re-used in WW1 for munitions storage and transfer here in my home state of Illinois. I would love nothing more than to find things like this in another country while on holiday. IDK why, but I've always found things like this just fascinating. If walls and floors could talk, ya know?
Just outside of Bournemouth…. It's 10 miles away!
So similar to Toronto NSW Australia train station. I love places like this.
I know it very well, used to live in Ringwood and cycle to work in Wimborne on the old trackbed. (Now the Castleman Trail) – Lots of the old route is housing and roads now, so good things were made of its closure.
I waited 5 hours for a train then I put on my glasses.
But on a dark night, a ghost train still goes past Ashley Heath.
Staggering to think a train traversed it as late as 1994?
Must have been a bumpy ride…..track long gone by 1994….