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These tracks at Ascot Station in Berkshire used to connect through to the line from Guildford, but when the Station track layout was re-modelled in the 1960s, they became sidings for the berthing of trains on race days at the nearby Royal Ascot Racecourse. The sidings in turn fell out of use in the mid 1980s and nature is well and truly taking over some 35 x years later.
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The Longmoor Military Railway was an extensive military railway system around the Bordon area of Hampshire until the late 1960s and early 1970s. Before the main railway was built, an old narrow gauge line used to exist for moving military equipment, but this was lifted over 120 x years ago. This is one of the old narrow gauge rails abandoned at that time which is shown by the tree has actually grown around the rail!
© Tim Penycate
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Wild Crab Apple Tree along the Axbridge By-pass A371
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From the album: Out and about in Somerset
Nature returns along the route of an old, long abandoned railway line. The A371 Axbridge By-pass follows the route of the long abandoned Strawberry Line Railway in Somerset, S.W. England. Here to the North of the town of Axbridge, several different fruit trees can be found growing wild alongside the main road, where the railway line was originally cut into the hillside. The photo shows some kind of wild apple, (Quince or Crab Apple?) There are also several other kinds of apple and pair trees growing right alongside the road - not to mention blackberries and all sorts of other goodies! But if you want to stop and pick them, you will need to be on a bicycle, not in a car. Or you could try walking! And, if you are on a bike, you will need to be going slowly - not racing around like the wind with your tight racing tights on - and your streamlined flashy helmet - trying to go just as fast as the flippin cars all the time?!!!- 2 comments
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From the album: The statues: Hogmoor Inclosure photos
An old tank track in the Hogmoor Inclosure, now rapidly being reclaimed by nature and turning into a quiet and peaceful path through the woods.-
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All quiet now! Nature rapidly reclaiming an old tank trackway
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From the album: The statues: Hogmoor Inclosure photos
One of the old trackways in the Hogmoor Inclosure, which the British Army once used to train military tank drivers - now a local nature reserve. These trackways used to be gloriously full of deep, water-filled ruts and the sound of the mighty army tanks rumbling by. It's only a few short years since the Army pulled out of the Inclosure but all of the old tank driver training routes are rapidly returning to nature. More information on the Hogmoor Inclosure can be found here: https://www.princephilippark.co.uk/community/spaces/hogmoor-inclosure/-
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