Ansdell and Fairhaven

CRS Code	AFV
Collected date	09/09/14

Ansdell and Fairhaven station was the last station but one of the day's exploring and the low sun was starting to get in the way quite a bit, but it was still a pleasure to wander this station waiting for a train as it abounds with wildlife.

The entrance to the station is from the road bridge that crosses the line to the station's east. It actually has two entrances: a stepped entrance next to the information boards on the left, and a ramped one on the right near the BR logo station sign.

Looking down the steps to platform level:

Down on the station's single platform, looking at the waiting shelter:

On the platform, looking east towards the exit:

Looking east along the platform from its end:

Looking west beyond the end of the operational platform:

Old platform edging slabs are piled up on the disused platform:

The ramped entrance to the station meets the platform just west of the shelter:

Also to be seen in the previous photo is the now redundant second edge of the platform. A closer look down the disused paltform edge towards the road bridge:

The tracks next to the disused platform once continued under the road bridge, and the span is still there:

The ramp seen from the road bridge, snaking away from the rear of the platform. The shrubbery and plants around the ramp is full of birds and insect life:

Looking up the ramp towards the bridge:

Up on the bridge, looking west along the line:

Above the disused span of the bridge we can see that houses and gardens have been built over the old trackbed:

On the other side of the bridge, looking at the various bridge spans, used and disused:

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