On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:18:46 -0000, "Yokel"
wrote:

|"Jamie Thompson" wrote in message
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|On Mar 6, 1:10 am, Charles Ellson wrote:
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:11:04 -0800 (PST), Jamie Thompson


I would've imagined that running
between Buckingham and Quainton road would've been a good line length
to operate, with little operational railway concerns.

There would be several level crossings. :-(
|
|Whilst I'm well aware that 80-odd years have passed since it was
|closed, I was of the impression that one of the first thing to Met did
|when they bought the line was to replace the level crossings with
|bridges - something NR can't even manage on it's mainlines to this
|day?
*All* the level crossings?

Every last one?

Even the footpath and accommodation (provided for access to property cut off
by the railway construction) crossings?

There are an incredible number of these - I live a few hundred yards the
"London" side of Ashurst New Forest station
which has been replaced by two bridges (the "new" [c1985] A326 to the west
and a footbridge in the "new" estates to the east - two road crossings if
you include the one in Ashurst itself which was replaced in the 1930s by the
current A35 bridge. I believe there was also a footpath crossing within 100
yards of my house which was closed about 40 years ago when the "new" part of
Peterscroft Avenue was built.

Would that have extended from the short road between what was the BP
garage and the big house opposite which I think is now a Childrens
home? It used to be just a private boarding house and I stayed there
for a year or two in the early 70's It looked as if there had been a
recently closed path down the end but I was never sure. The Landlady
had been there a while and could remember when the A35 crossed on the
Level and the Angry cheese was still functioning.

G.Harman