ROWLANDS CASTLE
(All pics 6.7.1977 copyright Steve Sainsbury/Rail Thing)
Four lovely shots I managed to take back in 1977 at the neat station at Rowlands Castle in Hampshire. I took the motorbike up from Littlehampton on a hot summer's day, the roads round Rowlands Castle weaving in and out of Hampshire before I got there.
Back in 1977 the Portsmouth Direct Line wasn't that busy, one express and one stopper per hour I think, but I snapped one train passing through. The station looked in pretty much original condition with few if any passengers. I suspect it's a lot busier now, hopefully all the buildings survive.
A piece of luck was the elderly car in the exterior shot making the picture look like it was taken about ten years earlier!
