Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:40 pm
Is that a footpath or cart track heading diagonally across?
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Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:15 pm
Good find Karen and it is interesting to see just how little Stickledown has changed over the last 100+ years.
Is that a footpath or cart track heading diagonally across?
Is that a footpath or cart track heading diagonally across?
Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:36 pm
Dunno I'm not quite that old 
Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:12 pm
Who knows, but you can still see it if you look at Google maps!ovenpaa wrote:Good find Karen and it is interesting to see just how little Stickledown has changed over the last 100+ years.
Is that a footpath or cart track heading diagonally across?
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=gu240p ... ngdom&z=17
Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:13 pm
No, the other way. I believe that the cutting was an extension towards Pirbright camp.Gaz wrote:Bit of idle speculation in the dying light of a damp Sunday afternoon - could the old Bisley Bullet branch line ever be reopened?
I had a squint at Google Maps trying to trace the old route of the railway from Bisley to the main line at Brookwood but lost it in the dense tree cover at the border of the camp - assuming it runs west from Lloyds RC down the sunken cutting.
Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:15 pm
Possibly the original path down to the butts before the road to the left was put in?andrewh wrote:Who knows, but you can still see it if you look at Google maps!
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=gu240p ... ngdom&z=17
Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:36 pm
If it wasn't for the couple in the foreground with obviously outdated clothes, that could easily be a modern day view of Sticks. Surprising the cart track's lasted until today.ovenpaa wrote:Good find Karen and it is interesting to see just how little Stickledown has changed over the last 100+ years.
Is that a footpath or cart track heading diagonally across?
Looks like a railway track - just for moving stuff into the butts or part of the "main" line?
Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:03 pm
Just for shifting from target shed to butts and back.
Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:15 pm
I don't think you could quite run the 'Bullet' on those tracks.Gaz wrote:Looks like a railway track - just for moving stuff into the butts or part of the "main" line?
So the tracks to the target sheds in Century butts have gone? When did that happen? Bring back competitor marking, dammit!
Re: The Bisley Bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:17 pm
Naah, look at what good order the firing-points are kept in.Gaz wrote:If it wasn't for the couple in the foreground with obviously outdated clothes, that could easily be a modern day view of Sticks.ovenpaa wrote:Good find Karen and it is interesting to see just how little Stickledown has changed over the last 100+ years.
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