Are you referring to the Chesterton Lane halt? I thought it to be a
wonderful example in how to build a station in 2 hours using nothing
more than a shovel!
Regards
Taking these together, and referring to "The Tetbury Branch" by Stephen
Randolph,
pub Wild Swan Publications 1985 ISBN 0 906867 35 5
The map on page 84 shows Beer Crate Halt and Troublehouse Halt to be at two
different locations.
I cannot locate the picture which I have seen of Beercrate Halt, but the map
shows
it to be at the end of a lane which might well be Chesterton Lane. (There is
no
Chesterton Lane Halt shown on the map)
The narrative refers to the farm cottages at Little Larkhill
Farm and the residents who left a metal beer crate at this unofficial stop
to save
the walk into Tetbury.
OTOH GWR Country Stations:2" by Chris Leigh, pub Ian Allan 1984
ISBN 0 7110 1438 8 shows a picture of Troublehouse Halt on page 75
and claims it also to be Beer Crate Halt. Perhaps a popular misquotation
of, "Absinthe makes the Tart grow fonder"? :-)
Following on from my other post to you, and from my knowledge of the
area, Chesterton Lane is in Cirencester, and might well have been a halt
on the OTHER branch from Kemble!
And, from the map on page 4 of "The Cirencester Branch" by Nigel Bray,
pub The Oakwood Press, 1998, ISBN 0 85361 504 7, there is
Chesterton Lane Halt!
There are two photos of the halt on page 104 and a description on page 105.
Odd, but his book seems to brand new that I cannot have even opened
it before!
: Surely must be to model the Beer Crate Halt on the
: Kemble - Tetbury branch line!
:
Just the job for the (announced) AC Cars 4-wheel railbus from
Heljan...
Especially as the Tetbury book has a picture of one with the steps
folded down for those places where there is no platform (or maybe
just a beer-crate)!
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