Few pictures I took of Rayne station which was on the Bishops Stortford, Dunmow & Braintree Branchline.

The Flitch Way now follows some of the course of the railway, although some parts like Dunmow Station have been completely built over.

Flitch Way - Friends of the Flitch Way (friends-of-the-flitch-way.org.uk)

Typical Great Eastern Railway station building.

The coach has information about the line and a model, but unfortunately it was shut when I visited.




Level Crossing with the only surviving bits of rail.




Looking down the road bed.

Further down the track.



Site of the signal box, now a flower bed (could do with weeding   )





The information board is a little odd as it has the line map west to east, with Braintree on the left and Bishops Stortford on the right. More a Flitch Way map I suppose.



Bishop's Stortford–Braintree branch line - Wikipedia




Ed

Good to see you out and about Ed and enjoying some railway heritage in such good weather. Great photos BTW!

Small world, as my wife is staying s few days in Dunmow next month.

Bill

Hi Bill

I was born in south London and my late Mum often used to tell me her grandfather had walked from Bishops Stortford to London when a young man.

By coincidence we moved just down the road to Harlow in the early 1970s with my Dad's firm and when I researched the family tree it turned out Mum's grandfather was born in Felsted, the next station along from Dunmow.

So yes, it certainly is a small world.