Smithy Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 (edited) Whilst in Dorset, Wool to be precise, I spotted this different kind of living accommodation. Looks like two old railway carriage's side by side. Certainly something different to live in! Edited May 28, 2010 by Smithy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 My Uncle used to live in one pre-war, and a carriage was the basis of a bungalow just along the road from me until it was demolished by developers, too quick for me to take a picture though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trustmeimamechanic Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 That looks like a new building ..... post war it seems old railway carriage's were commonly used for housing for bombed out family's. Little remains now but I grew up on a farm next to whats now the Bluebell railway station at Horsted Keynes , along side a wood was a row of 8 ? old carriages that were lived in during and just after the war , as kids we were probably largely responsable for the decline of them , many a raft and camp was made from timber "salvaged " from them ... if time hasn't played tricks on my memory ( it was 35 ish years ago ) some still had curtains at the windows and even odd personal items from the residents were still around , some holes in field on the farm were also used to get rid of rubble from blitzed houses , certainly if you dug around there was loads of bricks in places . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 theres one across the road from my parents ( the guy is storing it for a group of enthusiasts, he collects trains himself)..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c101 comando Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 not far from me at hayley green there was a nissen hut used as a bungalow it was in good nick and lived in i think untill the last five years but now has been demolished for development there was also a railway carriage house very near to hamton lode not far from the station used i think at least in to the 80s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonsfotos Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Many many (plus a few more many's!) I remember staying in a converted railway carriage down on Hayling Island sea front for a family holiday as a child. I think they've all gone now. I also remember reading and seeing some photos of some others that used to be used for the same purpose down at Penzance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowtracdave Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 A couple of years ago a site was cleared for redevelopment next to the Crossways garage at Frating just outside Colchester and as the house came down a carriage appeared , was never able to get any pics but I suspect it may have been saved . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 This one has been respectfully repainted in original LSWR livery if I'm not mistaken? I've been looking for one to put in the garden for quite a while now, so if anyone has a lead on one in a not-too-appalling state, I'd be pleased to hear :-) If I was to be picky I'd say 4 or 6 wheel, and not too far away from East Anglia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosrec Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Hi went to a wedding reception at Shipton by Benningbourgh nr York. It was a Hotel called the Sidings. it is between a railway line and the A19 the restaurant is two railway carridges. Also there is a restaurant right on the pavement on beverly rd hull alled the Cannon this is a railway carridge http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Hull_And_Barnsley_Beverley_Road_Bridge.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 There is a similar restaurant in Newcastle at the old Jesmond Station on a dead section of track isolated in the 1970s-80s when the Metro system and Motorway were built and the goods station complex bombed out in WW2 was finally demolished (imagine quality British Rail -your first sight of Newcastle from the North was a burnt out WW2 warehouse:D). The carriages are still on bogies and parked at the platform with an old signal box nearbye which may be part of the complex. I remember as a small child in the late 1950s many families in rural areas still living in old carriages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonsfotos Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 The Sidings has been in existence for many years. I well remember the ads for it in the railway monthlies back in the early 90s offering holidays for dedicated railway buffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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