FOOTBRIDGE

Just follow this long mystery trail . . .
. . . one of the fantastic things I find when Blipping is that, very often, one thing leads to another. On a day when no ideas come to mind, a Blip can !

On the way back home after a coffee with New Blipper sumeg, the traffic into Filey was trailed back nearly a mile. On further investigation it transpired that the railway crossing was broken and no traffic could move through the town. I had the idea of taking a shortcut through the station !

Located between Scarborough and Bridlington, Filey station first received a train on 5 October 1846.
It is a grand preserved example of George Townsend Andrews design - stations that have an overall roof and a single storey station building. Rail stations in Scarborough and Beverley are the only other overall roofs still in place today.

Of interest to me is this footbridge linking the two platforms. It is of standard size and so is longer than the width of the overall roof - hence the hole made in the side wall of the station building.

Apparently the footbridge superseded a sleeper crossing in the middle of the station and is to a North Eastern Railway 1883 design and made up from standard cast-iron components.

Have a grand weekend all !