When the claw got to work I was expecting it to be pulled down bit by bit but when the whole window panel came away in one piece, fell and shattered, that was just heartbreaking.
Very sad to see it go. I worked on that patch as a S&T technician before all the signal box's where pulled down 30 years ago. A much more interesting job back then before SSI.
Having worked there in the early eighties I was mortified to come across this sad news, and couldn't watch this. I have a fondness for a place that no longer exists. Though I do agree with outwood1's comment below.
It's all very well trying to save these buildings, but what use would you put them to given their proximity to a live railway line? Network Rail is a infrastructure provider, not museum curators. Leave the structure abandoned, then expect the structure to deteriorate rapidly through the effects of weather and vandalism and then become a liability for the railway industry generally.
When the claw got to work I was expecting it to be pulled down bit by bit but when the whole window panel came away in one piece, fell and shattered, that was just heartbreaking.
Very sad to see it go. I worked on that patch as a S&T technician before all the signal box's where pulled down 30 years ago. A much more interesting job back then before SSI.
Having worked there in the early eighties I was mortified to come across this sad news, and couldn't watch this. I have a fondness for a place that no longer exists. Though I do agree with outwood1's comment below.
It's all very well trying to save these buildings, but what use would you put them to given their proximity to a live railway line? Network Rail is a infrastructure provider, not museum curators. Leave the structure abandoned, then expect the structure to deteriorate rapidly through the effects of weather and vandalism and then become a liability for the railway industry generally.