Hull and Hereabouts

I mentioned at the start of this month how Henry Le Strange built a very successful railway to get folk from King's Lynn to Hunstan...

We always go for a short walk down Snuff Mill Lane towards sunset on Christmas Day  just to play on the rails and take silly pictures ...

I had a few minutes to sit and ponder on the 169 year old Driffield station and what's left of its glory. Above is the old stationma...

The track to Hull at Snuff Mill Lane There's nothing quite like the old conundrum of parallel lines never meeting or only meeting ...

There are still bits of the old narrow gauge rail that used to run around the old Humber dock that is now the Marina. (I've been to...

Wellington Street runs from Queen Street parallel to the Humber all the way down to the Albert Dock. It would at one time have had many ...

The junction of Spring Bank and Princes Avenue is a fairly busy place at the best of time.The traffic flow is now improved by a new li...

The park that Park Street once led to is long gone or possibly never existed; it's just a dreary cut-through from Anlaby Road to Spr...

The immature gull on the right has just been given a hard lesson that the free lunch is no longer available, I expect he'll surviv...

Run out of interesting pictures so here's a boring blue bridge to be going on with. It's Cottingham station and that's the Hul...

This is the Wilmington bridge originally built to carry the railway across the river but now it's just for pedestrians and cyclists...

The near train will take you to Bridlington; the far train goes to London, the others to all points in between.

This is the footbridge over the tracks at Beverley station. This is a posh bridge, it's covered, usually you're open to the elements...

I took this on Sunday when, for some reason, there were no trains running, which is just as well if you're going to play about on the tr...

This Grade2 listed station was built in 1846. It's not the busiest place on the rail network with only two trains an hour going north an...

A spell of wintry weather is always an opportunity for a photo.