Inspired by the amazing photographs of London tube stations by resident Tube Mapper Luke Agbaimoni (in particular his book Symmetry on the London Underground), I took this photograph yesterday as I emerged from the tram stop at Hucknall in Nottinghamshire. After a five mile walk along the site of an old disused railway railway I always do the last stretch on the tram. It's just a short hop ticket and although I could easily walk it, it's become something of a tradition to sit out the final mile before disgorging into The Station Hotel for a well earned dust-cutter. Or two.
You can also see from the pic below that despite the absence of trains, and indeed track, there's still a couple of old semaphore signals in situ at the start of the walk. I swear sometimes when I walk this path I can hear the distant echoes...
If you're ever out East again, there's a walk I've often thought of having a bash at between Halesworth and Southwold, along the old railway track-bed. The whole shebang, at around 10 miles, is perhaps too much of a a stretch, though taking on the concluding 6 mile Wenhaston to Southwold leg, pausing of course for a dust-cutter at the Blythburgh White Hart, would make for a delightful afternoon.
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