Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
As suggested by @bluenotebob, in response to a posting of mine, in the Your ride Today' thread (see the one above his, for the reason he suggested it)
I'll suggest 'we' feature;
Old roads that have been superceded by new routes/cut-off by road realignments
Railway lines, that are still not surfaced, or taken on by Sustrans/local Councils
Canal towpaths/river sides (same guidelines as above?)
Any others that are thought applicable
If it considered to overlap with the 'Your Ride Today' & the 'Trig- Bagger' thread, I apologise
I'll answer for my mistake later, as we're away from dinnertime to Sunday evening
(just waiting for wife to come home, so we can go)
For this opening post, I'll feature an 'orphaned' section of The Great North Road, as it was called (& still is, in some locations)
By that, I mean the days when it passed through towns/villages, in the pre-bypass/motorway days
I'll go to my ride to/along the old stretch at 'Red House'
That's where the A1 intersects the A638 (Wakefield- Doncaster road)
This is part of the pre-bypass 'GNR'
It's still complete with white-lines & cats-eyes!
It was bypassed when the junction was upgraded
If you look at the amp under the Geograph photo, it's the white road above the 'Red Ho' text
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SE5209
The Red House itself is now a farm, but was a coaching inn
Looking back towards the junction ('north)
The gate that blocks off the GNR, now field access
I'll suggest 'we' feature;
Old roads that have been superceded by new routes/cut-off by road realignments
Railway lines, that are still not surfaced, or taken on by Sustrans/local Councils
Canal towpaths/river sides (same guidelines as above?)
Any others that are thought applicable
If it considered to overlap with the 'Your Ride Today' & the 'Trig- Bagger' thread, I apologise
I'll answer for my mistake later, as we're away from dinnertime to Sunday evening
(just waiting for wife to come home, so we can go)
For this opening post, I'll feature an 'orphaned' section of The Great North Road, as it was called (& still is, in some locations)
By that, I mean the days when it passed through towns/villages, in the pre-bypass/motorway days
I'll go to my ride to/along the old stretch at 'Red House'
That's where the A1 intersects the A638 (Wakefield- Doncaster road)
This is part of the pre-bypass 'GNR'
It's still complete with white-lines & cats-eyes!
It was bypassed when the junction was upgraded
If you look at the amp under the Geograph photo, it's the white road above the 'Red Ho' text
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SE5209
The Red House itself is now a farm, but was a coaching inn
Looking back towards the junction ('north)
The gate that blocks off the GNR, now field access
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