"Guy Gorton" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:02:21 -0000, "Ronnie Clark"
rve.co.uk wrote:


A map showing the approximate layout of the region before
rationalization:
http://www.blugman.freeserve.co.uk/calvertmap.jpg
(Note for pedants, whilst lines are colour coded by original builders,
the
spur between Claydon LNE and Calvert Junctions was a WWII innovation, and
not built by any of the original companies!)

What an invitation for pedantry! The stretch from Verney Jct to
Aylesbury was not 'originally' Metropolitan but was the Aylesbury and
Buckingham Railway (worked by the GWR). Stayed that way from 1868
until 1892 when the Met reached Aylesbury and took over the A&B.

So much for a 2 minute sketch I think I knew what I meant, and it does at
least work for illustration purposes, if not being entirely accurate

Nice pictures, BTW - if I can find some slides I took at Calvert quite
recently of the detail of a binliner being discharged, I will scan and
put them on the web..

Yours are good too - nice to see that the theoretically open line from
Claydon to Bletchley is at least as overgrown as the section of GC that is
now the GCR(N) was when it was still "open". I've heard at least one story
that a man doing a GCR(N) trackwalk in the early 90s was trudging through
the undergrowth and spotted a wagon to one side. As he made his way over to
it he was rather surprised to bump into Rushcliffe Halt's platform edge!

If I have time, I'll find the a couple of photos I took in and around
Quainton Road. I feel a small webpage is in order (having photographed most
of the GC from Quainton Road (Bucks) to Annesley (Notts) in the last couple
of years, I should probably do a whole site sometime...


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Ronnie
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