Like all good blogs, this post starts with a pub. That's the good news, but less welcome is the fact that this Bass Charrington house is no longer with us. It's the Halfway House, on Spring Bank West. I believe it's been replaced by a new pub.
Now to a suburban railway station in Hull, Botanic Gardens. Served by trains to Hornsea and Withernsea, it was built by the NER and closed in 1964.
The railway was crossed on the level by Hull's trams beside Botanic Gardens station. Two photos here showing trams and the semaphore signals that controlled them - look closely.
A more modern Hull tram negotiates the level crossing.
Botanic Gardens was also the location of one of Hull's loco sheds. A couple of photos here from LNER days.
In BR times, Botanic Gardens was converted to house diesels, mainly DMUs, but a few locos were based there too.
Not far away, Boothferry Park, once the home of Hull FC (until they moved to the new stadium). It's 1980 and a bus rally is being held there. Here are a couple of attendees, both from East Yorkshire MS.
Now we have a pair of West Riding buses arriving. The former H&BR crosses above.
A short distance to the north was the hub of the Hull & Barnsley Railway, Springhead, with its marshalling yards, loco sheds and workshops. Here's two photos from H&BR days.
Moving forward in time into the LNER period, a pair of rebuilt ex H&BR 4-4-0 passenger locos, seen at Springhead.
More locos at Springhead, LNER.
Inside the workshop.
An ex GNR 4-4-2T on the stopping service to South Howden passes Springhead.
A road called Spring Bank is nearby and we see a pair of trams here forming special services.
We started this post in a pub, let's end it with one. The Spring Bank Tavern. I'm not sure what the future holds for this former Hull Brewery pub.
The next post will find us visiting Cottingham, then heading further inland.
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