Langton Railway arch clearance

[Matthew Arnold]

Not entirely tree related but stilll. We did a clearance job on some old railway Arches known as Langton Arches on Monday and Tuesday. Here are the pictures my boss took with my camera. Im not too good for heights so he went up with another colleague to help clear it. Here is the associated link to the press release that went out this week too.

 

FIRST steps were taken this week on securing a long-term future for the flood arches on Langton Meadows which used to form part of the Somerset & Dorset railway line.

[geoff]

Nice place,I bet it was busy there a good few years back!

[Treewolf]

That's round the back of the Somerfield store, isn't it?

 

If it's where I think it is, it's just by the place where the shortlived branch to Blandford Camp used to join the main Somerset and Dorset line - there are very few traces of the branch left.

 

Looks like another good job by the Ranger team, well done!

[Matthew Arnold]

That's round the back of the Somerfield store, isn't it?

 

If it's where I think it is, it's just by the place where the shortlived branch to Blandford Camp used to join the main Somerset and Dorset line - there are very few traces of the branch left.

 

Looks like another good job by the Ranger team, well done!

 

Yep its behind the Somerfield (now Co-op). I'm not 100% certain but judging by the embankment that extends into the council housing estate there must have been some form of brnach line to the camp. There is a very small section of branch line in Langton long. We cant do anything with that section though as it is full of compacted steel and contaminated waste.

[tommer9]

Aah the S&DJR.....one of the most famous and loved of the pre Beeching lines.

 

During 1918, the camp changed from being the depot for the Royal Naval Division to being an 'Intake Camp' for the Royal Flying Corps which was at that time being reformed as the Royal Air Force, and a branch railway line was built to bring materials and personnel to the camp. The railway was linked with the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway line immediately south of Blandford Forum railway station and there was a daily passenger service to bring civilian staff to the camp from Bournemouth and the villages in between. At the end of 1919, however, the camp was closed and both the wooden huts built for the RN Division and the camp's railway line were removed.

[Mark Bolam]

Good work.

 

Your chipper is smoking a bit though Matt....

[VEG]

Sorry but I cant see no arch

[Matthew Arnold]

Good work.

 

Your chipper is smoking a bit though Matt....

 

LOL. We had the chipper on the Tuesday after the heavy rain overnight. The pics were taken on the monday. We had a biggish bonfire to get the stuff gone. Trouble is ivy is a pain to get rid of as it is so smoky. So we stacked it and chipped it on tuesday.

[Matthew Arnold]

Sorry but I cant see no arch

 

Here ya go. Some images of the arches. All of the ivy that is on the wall was removed by truck and winch.

 

The Somerset and Dorset Railway - Midford Midsomer Norton Gartell Shillingstone Washford: blandford arches

[geoff]

Cool link Matt!