Cole Green Way photo gallery

Part of the Lost Rails project

You can view the pictures using the photo gallery below, or click here to launch a slideshow.

Photo:Train at Welwyn Station, the southern terminus, probably before the First World War.
Photo:N7 tank locomotive and a new Diesel Multiple Unit on adjacent platforms at Welwyn Garden City Station 1959.
Photo:N7 tank locomotive on siding at Welwyn Garden City Station 1960.
Photo:N2 tank locomotive, brake van, and eight large wagons of London rubbish bound for the landfill site at Cole Green, around 1960.
Photo:On the LNER mainline looking north at Hunters Bridge in Welwyn Garden City, with the curve to the branch line signed; 1937.
Photo:The trackbed near Cole Green, March 2010.
Photo:Farm crossing and posts for warning signs east of Cole Green Station, March 2010.
Photo:Cole Green Station, looking east, in March 1963.
Photo:Long passenger train with GNR Class K 0-4-4T locomotive at Cole Green Station, before November 1911.
Photo:Rail enthusiasts visit Cole Green Station on a 'special' in September 1961.
Photo:Cole Green Station looking east, with the track overgrown, c.mid-1960s.
Photo:Cole Green Station looking east, in March 2010. The track is part of the Lea Valley chain walk, with parking on the platform.
Photo:The line crosses a local road at Letty Green, March 2010.
Photo:The trackbed looking east between Cole Green and Hertingfordbury Stations, March 2010.
Photo:Farm crossing gate and tension device for the railway's wire fences, March 2010.
Photo:The trackbed west of Hertingfordbury, with ivy-covered footbridge, March 2010.
Photo:The points of a siding west of Hertingfordbury Station, March 1963.
Photo:Hertingfordbury Station, looking west, in March 1963.
Photo:Old Station House, Hertingfordbury, looking west, March 2010.
Photo:The track looking west from the Hertford Loop viaduct south-west of Hertford, 1965 or 1966.
Photo:Salvaged railway water tank blocking a farm crossing, and providing animal shelter, south of Hertford, March 2010.
Photo:Low bridge over crossing built for Victorian farmer and his livestock, south of Hertford, March 2010.
Photo:The line crossed by the Hertford Loop viaduct (built 1924), ½ mile south of Hertford, March 2010.
Photo:Train from Welwyn arriving at the Hertford Loop mainline, and Hertford North Station; possibly a 'special', late 1950s.
Photo:Hertford North Station 1965 or 66. The cut-off branch to Hertford Cowbridge and Hertford East curves away behind the right-hand trees.
Photo:The abandoned Station at Hertford Cowbridge, 1951, with the rails still used as a goods siding.
Photo:Special train (the 'Lea Flyer' saddletank) arriving at Hertford Cowbridge in September 1961.
Photo:Train at Cole Green
This gallery was added by N White on 03/03/2011.

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