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« on: March 26, 2025, 16:38:22 »

In December I posted about a light-controlled foot crossing near Calcot.  Today I found something similar half-a-mile east of Midgham Station.(My photos are not good - I blame the sun in my eyes.)

Earlier on my walk I'd looked into Aldermaston Station, which has introduced fees for car-parking since my last visit, though the first dozen arrivals can leave their cars for free on the road outside. On the south side of the station there are the remains of a siding; I guess that the connection may have been taken out at the time that the road bridge was rebuilt to allow overhead cables - and that the scrap value of the rails and the resale value of the wooden sleepers was insufficient to justify their removal.

(Near me a guy built a new house on the edge of a chalk pit using horizontally-laid sleepers supported by uprights. Over the years the uprights moved out at an increasingly-alarming angle, necessitating a proper stone wall being built last summer. Undeterred,  someone 50 yards up the road has also used sleepers to support the side of a garden of a house that's being restored.)
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