British Rail 1947 - 1997

The Branch Line Then and Now (Cont)

Grovebury Crossing

Grovebury Sidings looking towards Leighton Buzzard Station. This where the Branch Line would have crossed Grovebury Road.

Grovebury Crossing now

Billington Crossing

An aerial view of Billington crossing house and track

The Crossing house today. It still has the window (X) on the side where the Crossing keeper used to watch for trains coming down the line.

This shows the house from the other side. Note the window (X) on this side too.

Stanbridge Mead Crossing

This picture shows Stanbridge mead as it was. There is no up to date picture as this crossing house was unfortunatly knocked down to make way for the Leighton Buzzard By-Pass.