This must count as one of the longest lines, disused in its entirety 
since ... I don't know, but well over a century ... if I have the right 
line*, it's the one from 'Somewhere south of Cambridge' to 'Somewhere 
west of Newmarket' and I can't recall its history, only that I can 
recall exploring a road under rail bridge somewhere, in the nineteen 
seventies, all crumbling red brick and eroded mortar ...

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.080357,0.193087&spn=0.004397,0.010131&t=k&hl=en

* That part of the country possesses several defensive ditches for good 
measure - some look not unlike old railways from the air.

This sounds like the line from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom,
which opened in 1848 as the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway and
closed in 1851 when the line from Six Mile Bottom to Cambridge (still
used by trains from Cambridge to Newmarket and Ipswich) opened. The
tracks were removed some time after 1858.

(Source: "Lost Lines - Eastern" by Nigel Welbourn published by Ian
Allan)

billetelic_ferroequinologist@hotmail.com wrote:

> This sounds like the line from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom,
> which opened in 1848 as the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway and
> closed in 1851 when the line from Six Mile Bottom to Cambridge (still
> used by trains from Cambridge to Newmarket and Ipswich) opened. The
> tracks were removed some time after 1858.
> 
> (Source: "Lost Lines - Eastern" by Nigel Welbourn published by Ian
> Allan)
> 


Thanks. That's why I had '1851' floating around at the back of my mind.

Interesting, one line along which no living person has travelled, let 
alone anyone in a position to read this newsgroup, for once.

- And on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:45:09 +0100, it was spake thus <430cce2d$0$32464$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net> said in message Mark Annand :


> This must count as one of the longest lines, disused in its entirety 
> since ... I don't know, but well over a century ... if I have the right 
> line*, it's the one from 'Somewhere south of Cambridge' to 'Somewhere 
> west of Newmarket' and I can't recall its history, only that I can 
> recall exploring a road under rail bridge somewhere, in the nineteen 
> seventies, all crumbling red brick and eroded mortar ...
> 
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.080357,0.193087&spn=0.004397,0.010131&t=k&hl=en
> 
> * That part of the country possesses several defensive ditches for good 
> measure - some look not unlike old railways from the air.


That is interesting - I do like the click & drag facility of maps.google ;)
I see that it runs to here on the Cambridge to Newmarket line
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.080357,0.193087&spn=0.004397,0.010131&t=k&hl=en
but can't quite make my mind up if the other end of it has been obliterated
by the M11 Jcn here
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.069483,0.188227&spn=0.010801,0.030088&t=h&hl=en
-- 
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Nick wrote:


> but can't quite make my mind up if the other end of it has been obliterated
> by the M11 Jcn here
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.069483,0.188227&spn=0.010801,0.030088&t=h&hl=en


I'd hope not :-)

Remove the 'Hybrid' and choose 'Satellite' and you'll lose the motorway 
graphic which allows you to see one railway under road bridge.

In message , at 09:15:41 on 
Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick <n_rw-7@no-go.ya_ho.o.aw_ay.con.invalid> 
remarked:

>but can't quite make my mind up if the other end of it has been obliterated
>by the M11 Jcn here
>http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.069483,0.188227&spn=0.010801,0.030088&t=h&hl=en


 From comparing the site to a pre-motorway 1" paper map, I think the 
motorway is entirely to the east of the old railway, but only just!
-- 
Roland Perry

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:23:00 +0100, Roland Perry 
wrote:


>In message , at 09:15:41 on 
>Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick <n_rw-7@no-go.ya_ho.o.aw_ay.con.invalid> 
>remarked:
>>but can't quite make my mind up if the other end of it has been obliterated
>>by the M11 Jcn here
>>http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.069483,0.188227&spn=0.010801,0.030088&t=h&hl=en
>
> From comparing the site to a pre-motorway 1" paper map, I think the 
>motorway is entirely to the east of the old railway, but only just!


Interesting. I get a map of most of North America.
-- 
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org

The message 
from Terry Harper  contains these words:


> Interesting. I get a map of most of North America.


Try copy and paste.  Not all browsers respond to a "click on the link"
when there's commas in the URL...

-- 
Dave,                                     
Frodsham

In message , at 21:25:57 on 
Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Terry Harper  remarked:

>>>http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.069483,0.188227&spn=0.010801,0.030088&t=h&hl=en
>>
>> From comparing the site to a pre-motorway 1" paper map, I think the
>>motorway is entirely to the east of the old railway, but only just!
>
>Interesting. I get a map of most of North America.


I didn't, and still don't.
-- 
Roland Perry

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:47:39 +0100, Roland Perry 
wrote:


>In message , at 21:25:57 on 
>Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Terry Harper  remarked:
>>>>http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.069483,0.188227&spn=0.010801,0.030088&t=h&hl=en
>>>
>>> From comparing the site to a pre-motorway 1" paper map, I think the
>>>motorway is entirely to the east of the old railway, but only just!
>>
>>Interesting. I get a map of most of North America.
>
>I didn't, and still don't.


I now get a mixture of map, satellite photographs and grey squares.
"Refresh" gave me the North American map.
-- 
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org

Terry Harper  wrote in
news:tcp1h15aac5f54lt608ach71cbmiis6rge@4ax.com: 


> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:47:39 +0100, Roland Perry 
> wrote:
> 
>>In message , at 21:25:57
>>on Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Terry Harper 
>>remarked: 
>>>>>http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.069483,0.188227&spn=0.010801,0.030
>>>>>088&t=h&hl=en 
>>>>
>>>> From comparing the site to a pre-motorway 1" paper map, I think the
>>>>motorway is entirely to the east of the old railway, but only just!
>>>
>>>Interesting. I get a map of most of North America.
>>
>>I didn't, and still don't.
> 
> I now get a mixture of map, satellite photographs and grey squares.
> "Refresh" gave me the North American map.


Me too, but if you substitute .co.uk for .com it works a whole lot better.

OK, I thought it was better. The screen just refreshed itself and now shows 
the whole of the UK.

On 28 Aug 2005 01:17:01 GMT, Peter Wright <Overground> wrote:


>Terry Harper  wrote in
>news:tcp1h15aac5f54lt608ach71cbmiis6rge@4ax.com: 
>
>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:47:39 +0100, Roland Perry 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>In message , at 21:25:57
>>>on Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Terry Harper 
>>>remarked: 
>>>>>>http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.069483,0.188227&spn=0.010801,0.030
>>>>>>088&t=h&hl=en 
>>>>>
>>>>> From comparing the site to a pre-motorway 1" paper map, I think the
>>>>>motorway is entirely to the east of the old railway, but only just!
>>>>
>>>>Interesting. I get a map of most of North America.
>>>
>>>I didn't, and still don't.
>> 
>> I now get a mixture of map, satellite photographs and grey squares.
>> "Refresh" gave me the North American map.
>
>Me too, but if you substitute .co.uk for .com it works a whole lot better.
>
>OK, I thought it was better. The screen just refreshed itself and now shows 
>the whole of the UK.


I've just tried it by using "launch URL" in Free Agent. This led to a
map with a bit of railway by the M11 which persisted, "Refresh"
re-loaded it but a few seconds later it then changed to a map of North
America as if something in their software (which provides follow-up/
additional text?) is assuming that requested locations are in North
America and gets the hump when a foreign lat/long location is
supplied. Going back/forward in IE didn't get away from the North
America map but repetition of "launch URL" from FA again gave a
persisting map with the M11.
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