On line rail map for UK and Ireland
My mother lived near there for a while so I used to walk some of the
walks and there's still some, err, junk in my, ummmm, junk piles. Old OS maps show it as a tramway running to a Hasting Corporation Water Works' Combe Haven pumping station from Adam's Farm (which I think was the nearest road - using the term loosely). -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
On line rail map for UK and Ireland
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:49:15AM +0100, Robin wrote:
My mother lived near there for a while so I used to walk some of the walks and there's still some, err, junk in my, ummmm, junk piles. Old OS maps show it as a tramway running to a Hasting Corporation Water Works' Combe Haven pumping station from Adam's Farm (which I think was the nearest road - using the term loosely). There *are* some pumping stations in the area - more for drainage of the farm land than drinking water I think - but they're quite a way down stream. Using google maps satellite view I can't see anything that looks like even the site of an old pumping station at the end of that line. I suppose it must be hidden in the trees. And I can see "pumping stations" (but no tramway) he http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#574,110,1 Thanks! Do you have a link to (or a scan of) any better maps? -- David Cantrell Professor of Unvironmental Science University of Human Progress |
On line rail map for UK and Ireland
There *are* some pumping stations in the area - more for drainage of
the farm land than drinking water I think - but they're quite a way down stream. Using google maps satellite view I can't see anything that looks like even the site of an old pumping station at the end of that line. I suppose it must be hidden in the trees. And I can see "pumping stations" (but no tramway) he http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#574,110,1 Thanks! Do you have a link to (or a scan of) any better maps? try http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html at coordinates 576000 110572 and select the 1930 OS 2500. That show's it as a tramway to the Hasting Corporation Water Works' Crowhurst Pumping Station. (Apologies for my wrongly attaching the Combe Haven label.) I'd guess (and it is a pure guess) the tramway might have been used to move coal to fuel steam engines for the pumps from the road - or possibly dropped from the railway at the farm? PS Apologies for taking this ever further OT for UTL -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
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