On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:50:08 -0000, "Ronnie Clark"
rve.co.uk wrote:


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!

Both LNWR platforms are still in place at Verney - if you can finsd
them! Also a nice sign at the footcrossing 'Look and listen....'.
Patience needed, I think.

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...

That would be interesting. I was out and about the GCR this summer to
get some pictures of various stretches to include in a slide show I
put together entitled "Watkin to Prescott" which sketched the history
of the MSLR and the GCR but focussed on the Joint Line from Grendon
Underwood as far as Gerrards Cross, Tesco and all that.
At Quainton I tried to find the exact point where the GCR joined the
Met (formerly A&B) just west of Quainton Road but failed. Lots of
other bits of the A&B to be found but that interesting spot seems to
have been thoroughly obliterated - or have you found it?


Guy Gorton