35mm: Takumar Trek Pt2

For those of you who have a long memory, you may remember that I decided to walk the “Castleman Trailway”. I wrote an intro and the first part, which you can read here. Here I continue exactly where I left off. A path runs under this old railway bridge to Hincheslea Bog, but this is a walk along a disused railway line, so I went up onto old route via the path to the left of the image above, and continued across the New Forest.

I’m calling these posts a “Takumar Trek” as I’m taking along my old Spotmatic SP, to record the bits of railway remnants and things of interest as I walk. Before too long I walk over another very similar bridge, at Longslade Bottom, so I had to record that too!

Then the land comes up to meet the old track bed, and into a cutting. Very soon the route goes under a bridge that carries the Wilverly Road over the old trackbed. Curiously I can’t seem to find out the B number of this road – even on google!

Shortly after this the land drops away again, and one can look down into a well hidden camp site. I’m not sure if this is “Pine Top Caravan Site” or “High Tops Caravan Site!

The old trackbed continues on south of “Hag Hill”, on route I made a couple of photo’s of a tree that I liked..

.. and then rather abruptly the route is crossed by the Wotton Bridge Road, and stops. The path makes a very small diversion off the trackbed, where it’s possible to cross the road, and opposite a white horse was waiting in the perfect spot for it’s portrait!

What would have been the track bed is now under the appropriately named Station Road, for the next 1.2 miles, so I retraced my steps back to the car and called it a day. For completeness sake, I made a quick pic as I drove the little stretch, to The Old Station Tea Rooms, at Holmsley, but that as they say is another story!

Chatter: Pentax Spotmatic SP, with the 50mm and mostly 35mm Takumar’s, on the old movie Ilford FP4 stock, I’m bulk loading my way through. Processed in Ilfosol 3.