Reports - Railway
Chesterton Junction Railway Yard
Where? Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Photos 50. Comments 4. Posted 12 August 2006.
This railway yard is on the outskirts of Cambridge. It was primarily used as a depot to assemble new track panels and concrete sleepers. In later years it was used for general freight.
Not much remains on site now - a few old buildings and a couple of wagons. A couple of aggregate trains visit every week - one area of the yard has been taken over by a huge pile of stones. The old control tower used to occupy this area 
Exmouth Junction Railway Depot
Where? Exeter, Devon. Photos 35. Comments 8. Posted 11 September 2006.
Exmouth Junction was built as a locomotive depot in 1885. The locomotive depot closed in 1967, but carriages and wagons continued to receive repairs there for a few more years.
Railway Coach Graveyard
Where? Warwickshire. Photos 20. Comments 4. Posted 7 December 2006.
I thought I should include something a little different. It's not a huge factory, asylum, or even a petrol station. It's a few railway coaches. "Dumped" in a quarry/old airfield.
The place is totally weird. A few of the coaches are on rails. And a few are just on the road.
There are also a billion old caravans, road coaches and tractors about, but I didn't have time to look around...
Railway Coach Graveyard - Mk2
Where? near the A1, Yorkshire. Photos 22. Comments 3. Posted 25 March 2007.
For those that remember, I visited a "graveyard" for railway coaches in Warwickshire a few months ago. I thought 8ish coaches dumped in the middle of nowhere was impressive. Well today, that was topped with 37 coaches and a loco! Apparently they were bought by some guy who was going to do them up. But hasn't, and has left them to rot.
Taunton Firepool Pumphouse
Where? Somerset. Comments 2. Posted 20 June 2008.
Sitting between the main railway line and one of the canals in Taunton is the Firepool Pumphouse. It was used to get water from the canals, and store it in the huge tank on top, ready for filling steam trains with. Obviously steam trains aren't used any more so this place closed.
It's currently waiting redevelopment into a posh restaurant complex.
(I'm ditching thumbnails, so this report is pic heavy...)
