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What a wonderful post.

Lee | 20.10.12 - 1:12 a.m. | #

Watford and Rickmansworth Railway - the Dangleway of its day. Nothing new under the sun.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 20.10.12 - 7:15 a.m. | #

Camelot's offices aren't the location of 'Lottery HQ' when they do the draw on the telly. That's in the similarity incongruous location of Chalfont St Giles.

martin | 20.10.12 - 8:32 a.m. | #

I used to fish in the canal by Lot Mead lock in the early 1960s.

Michael in the Netherlands | 20.10.12 - 8:37 a.m. | #

I'm pretty sure that is technically trespassing, in that the land is still owned by the railway (not sure if it's Network Rail or still BRB (Residuary) - it depends when it was officially 'closed') and they take a dim view of people walking on tracks. Yes, you probably think it's madness, but there are a lot of the particularly sad and petty variety of jobsworth which railway companies seem to specialise in breeding who'd be happy to back me up.

swirlythingy | Homepage | 20.10.12 - 3:46 p.m. | #

I remember this as a working train line. You really did have to look both ways when using the unmanned level crossing on the edge of Croxley Common Moor.
Last time I used the footpath to Rickmansworth there were very few real walkers. There were a few joggers and cyclists but those walking were just taking the dog out for a little exercise.

popartist | 20.10.12 - 11:02 p.m. | #

Surely the Croxley Green branch escaped the Beeching axe because it was run by London Transport, not BR?

Alan Burkitt-Gray | 21.10.12 - 12:32 a.m. | #

Of course it is trespassing! Whether it is protected by a fence on not is irrelevant. Probably civil not criminal in this case. However trespassing on its own is not actually an offence that you can be punished for. All that can happen is the landowner can require you to leave by the shortest practical route. There is also theoretically the danger of being accused of criminal damage but in this case I would think you are safe.

I use the word "trespassing" in its modern sense and not in its medieval context as in "forgive us our trespassers". In its modern form with certain exceptions, one noted by swirly-thingy, it is nonsense to say that "trespassers will be prosecuted". If both "trespassers" and "prosecuted" are used in their medieval sense then it makes sense but simply means something like "we will pursue action against those who do wrong against us".

Pedantic of Purley | 21.10.12 - 2:51 a.m. | #

The Croxley Green branch was never part of London Transport - built by the LNWR and remained LMS and BR until it closed - it even got network South east colours in its last days.

Apossible reason it stayed open as long as it did was because the main depot for the Class 501 rolling stock operating the Broad Street-Richmond and Euston-Watford Junction services was on the branch. (A few bakerloo trains also stabled there when the lione ran to Wat junc)

timbo | 28.10.12 - 6:10 p.m. | #

Trespassing on the railway - and a few other places like MoD property is prosecutable without proof of any damage

timbo | 28.10.12 - 6:12 p.m. | #











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