Railway allotments....did any survive into the 90s?

[pheaton]

Quick question....does anyone know if any railway allotments suvived into the 90s?

 

ive got some areas of my baseboard which im struggling to put things in and it looks a little barren.....

[Oldddudders]

I think it might depend upon locale, i.e. land values and opprtunities to realise cash, and whether the land was accessible or rail-locked. And there are still quite a number of Local Authority allotments which happen to border railway lines.

 

Hard to imagine such a depiction would look anachronistic.

[JohnR]

Technically, our allotment was originally right next to the railway line, but when a new link road was built in the 80s, it was cut off from the line. 

[neilkirby]

There still are allotments along side the Shepperton branch in Hampton.

 

Regards,

 

Neil

[JohnR]

Technically, our allotment was originally right next to the railway line, but when a new link road was built in the 80s, it was cut off from the line. 

 

I've just realised on the other side of the allotment was the former branchline.... I think its often a case of the allotments are still there, the railway isnt!

[Graham456]

Crowcombe Heathfield still has allotments inside the fence in the late 2010's (i.e. Now) and had them in the 90's

Their you go prototype for everything is out there

 

(You didn't say not on a preserved railway!)

Edited November 9, 2018 by Graham456

[johnofwessex]

Its been a while since I went that way but for a long time someone was cultivating = officially or otherwise land between the boundary wall & the top of the cutting between Redland & Clifton Down Stations

[TheSignalEngineer]

There were several in the triangle at Dinting station until as recently as 2010, and some between Dinting Road and the Glossop line near Dinting Lane Crossing. I don't know if any are still in use, they look a bit overgrown on Google now.

[uax6]

Up until about ten years ago there was still a lineside one in the up cess between Shepreth and Royston, next to a level crossing keepers house.....

 

Andy G

[Roddy Angus]

There are still 2 sets of active allotments between Haymarket and Edinburgh Park stations on the Edinburgh Glasgow main line.

 

Roddy

[JZ]

On 09/11/2018 at 17:46, johnofwessex said:

Its been a while since I went that way but for a long time someone was cultivating = officially or otherwise land between the boundary wall & the top of the cutting between Redland & Clifton Down Stations

Still there, as of yesterday. Access is only by ladder from a property in Cowper Rd, Whether it was a railway allotment, I don't now, but the owner/tenant probably has grandfather rights.

[phil_sutters]

Not really an allotment, but how many other stations have broad bean plants?

 

[JZ]

46 minutes ago, phil_sutters said:

Not really an allotment, but how many other stations have broad bean plants?

 

Taunton used to have tomatoes growing in the four foot. Can't imagine how they got there.😉

[2750Papyrus]

Knebworth used to have a grape vine.

[Michael Hodgson]

Last time I was at Quorn & Woodhouse I chatted briefly to a volunteer who was tending the "Dig for Victory" plot adjacent to the Up line.

[shipbadger]

On 30/07/2022 at 19:15, JZ said:

Taunton used to have tomatoes growing in the four foot. Can't imagine how they got there.😉

I strongly suspect somebody flushed the toilet whilst the train was standing in the station.  Tomato seeds can pass through the human gut.  The best tasting tomatoes I've ever eaten used to grow at the local 'sewage farm'.