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eport suggested that weddings could be held in any safe and dignified location including family homes forests and village halls given the rising cost of hiring premium venues such as country houses this risks driving them back into the more gilded edges of society the sharply rising cost of maintenance and operating such a house either as a venue or as a home increases the risk of benign or malign neglect the former from the family who don t wish to leave but struggle to afford to stay or the latter those who only see the opportunities to replace an existing house with something more modern whilst enjoying the benefits of a location which has been carefully crafted by previous generations however the concept of the country house remains surprisingly endurable as an aspirational token of success it has rarely been bettered ultimately the destruction of the country house exhibition continued the evolution of the country house further democratising the concept and ultimately helping to build the political and social framework which underpins their survival and success the fortunes which provides the funding are continually made and lost with the country house and estate hopefully continuing to stand proud of such vicissitudes for future generations to enjoy acknowledgements i am indebted and very grateful to dr oliver cox head of academic partnerships at the v a south kensington who very kindly shared the materials from his lecture in may 2024 on the genesis and impact of the exhibition and gave his permission to use them his research was facilitated by the excellent v a archives team and i echo his gratitude to them further reading if you are interested in finding out more then my amazon bookshop as well as a range of non fiction and fiction books on country houses has a specifically selected list of books on lost country houses share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest print opens in new window print like loading architectural history news architecture art countryhouses heritage history museum halt who goes there the arrival and departure of landowners private and privileged railway stations december 20 2022 december 20 2022 matthew beckett the country seat 8 comments station platform with queen victoria and prince albert about to board royal train possibly en route to scotland at maiden lane temporary terminus before the opening of kings cross station c1850 image science museum group collection online in september 1872 queen victoria was invited to stay at dunrobin castle in scotland seat of the dukes of sutherland she naturally travelled by train having used them for long distance journeys since 1842 after being met by crowds at inverness her train left on the final leg in the late afternoon just after passing the head of the cromartie firth her afternoon tea was unexpectedly interrupted as the train stopped at bonar bridge station here she records in her diary the duke of sutherland came to the door in such a curious get up that i did not at first recognize him he had been driving the engine since inverness but only appeared now on account of this being the boundary of the sutherland railway the sutherland being a private railway line which the duke had conceived financed and now enjoyed the privilege of running across his lands such power and enthusiasm stoked by immense wealth were often the hallmarks of the development of the victorian railway network with it came the curious demands of landowners and aristocracy for the network to accommodate their personal needs with the provision of not only private waiting rooms platforms and stations but also entire railway lines dunrobin station for the duke of sutherland at dunrobin castle image private collection map showing position of private dunrobin station just to the north of dunrobin castle seat of the duke of sutherland map os six inch 1888 1913 sutherland cv surveyed 1904 published 1907 from the national library of scotland across the network private train stations served royalty aristocracy industry and the military the control and influence of the landowners had an immense effect on the overall development of the railways arguably more so than any other interest group in the 1830s the aristocracy were almost all opposed to the railways but attitudes changed as opportunities arose resulting in the widespread granting of privileged access and rights to the railways this foundation for this article is based on research by others but focuses on the landowners and significantly expands the list of known instances importantly it goes beyond just the better known private stations and identifies where landowners secured their own prerogatives regarding the use of the network in some way the full list pdf linked at the end of the article runs to 114 examples 72 in england 33 in scotland 4 in wales and 5 in ireland across 57 different railway lines definitions and caveats one of the challenges of cataloguing is ensuring that there is consistency and clarity so below are the definitions i have used private station a place on a railway line with one or more buildings restricted to a specific group of people to enable them to get on or off a train private halt or platform an unstaffed location on a railway line with either no buildings or only temporary structures but with a platform restricted to a specific group of people to enable them to get on or off a train private waiting room a purpose built waiting facility restricted to a specific group of people within a station which otherwise remains open to use by the general public station of convenience an otherwise publicly accessible facility on the network but where the location is known or there is convincing circumstantial evidence to have been determined by a local landowner based on these definitions my research shows where there is evidence that the siting service or facilities of the stations were influenced by the proximity or power of the local landowner this research was just for my own interest so there are methodological challenges i have not checked every station though i did review all 16 000 entries in butt s the directory of railway stations 1995 for references to the names of country houses or locations where i know one exists or did exist and other related books i have also spend hours traversing the railway lines on the ordnance survey 1888 1913 maps via the brilliant national library of scotland website my knowledge of welsh and irish geography and houses is not as extensive as for england and scotland so other examples have almost certainly been overlooked i am also definitely not a railway historian but i do love railways map showing position of eynsford station kent which is positioned a significant distance from the village of that name note also the route skirts the eastern edge of the lullingstone estate map os six inch 1842 1952 kent sheet xvii sw revised 1895 published 1897 from the national library of scotland also there are the possibles this is where although there s no evidence of privilege a station just appears to be closer to an estate than its urban namesake for example eynsford station which is noticeably south of the village it s named after but close to the lodge entrance for the lullingstone estate there is almost a gravitational distortion where the power of a local estate has pulled the station towards or pushed it away from it by varying degrees these types have been added to a separate list as too circumstantial but if someone has the gis skills they may be able to identify other anomalies also i have not examined primary documents such as railway company or landowner correspondence for the landscape historian it would also be interesting to compare maps of the estate drives before and after the arrival of the railways to determine if an owner took advantage of the new connections to change the introduction to the estate and house and the subsequent impact on the development of the parkland and the impact on landscape design approaches from stations hiding lines or making a feature of them an examination of appropriate sales particulars may also indicate the relative importance given to these facilities especially compared to other attributes if someone has a list of railway company directors cross referencing their country houses may highlight others as it seems to have been a relatively common perk also it s hard to show where there was a negative influence the landowner who did not want the railway near them and so forced the line away from what perhaps might have been the optimum route anyway if someone did want to take it further these are all good branch lines to explore making tracks the earliest history of railways can be traced to landowners though not for the carriage of themselves the first wagonways were created to assist with the extraction of mineral resources from their estates and transportation to shipping hubs there is some dispute as to the earliest but one of the best developed was the wollaton wagonway constructed in 1603 04 by huntington beaumont in partnership with sir percival willoughby it hauled coal from the strelley mines on the latter s wollaton hall estate first class carriages second class carriages northumberland engine planet engine science museum group collection online 1943 343 engraving the very first fare paying passenger service in the uk though using horses rather than steam power was the oystermouth railway at mumbles south wales in 1807 the first railways in the modern incarnation to carry passengers and freight were the stockton darlington which opened in 1825 and the liverpool manchester which opened in 1830 the stockton darlington was proposed as a challenge to the earl of strathmore s proposal in 1818 for a canal from his evenwood colliery to the river near stockton using the statutory powers of compulsory purchase to acquire the necessary land commercial interests in the places bypassed by the earl s canal considered building their own canal but were persuaded to consider the then revolutionary idea of a public tramway or railway they hadn t decided which even when the stockton darlington railway bill was put before parliament in early 1819 in an early sign of the influence of landowners lord eldon opposed the bill due to the loss of substantial wayleaves income paid by canals to cross his land until they agreed substantial compensation the earl of darlington opposed the idea due to the potential negative impact on his foxhunting and so the route was duly altered to avoid his favoured coverts the bill finally received royal assent on 19 april 1821 duly authorising a line with a total distance of 36 75 miles which included a main line of 26 75 miles from the witton park colliery to stockton on tees from this foundation what s particularly remarkable about the development of the railway is the scale and pace by 1852 there were over 7 000 miles of rail track in england and scotland and by 1875 over 70 percent of the ultimate total route mileage had been laid to emphasise the value of the rail industry the gross revenue in the period 1870 75 was 254 1m just slightly ahead of the equivalent revenue for the coal industry at 248 7m from the start of the idea of transportation using fixed routes whether roads canal or rail the power of the owner or occupier of the land has been paramount this has had a profound impact on the pattern of land use across the country initiating or accelerating urban growth or stifling it the routes ultimately took the path of least resistance be it geographic political legal or financial it s hard to underestimate the profound effects that these decisions have had in the shaping of the country as it is today the towns which became cities those which missed out and the patterns of land usage which affects every aspect of our lives railways friend or foe with any revolution the outcome is often simultaneously reviled and glorified the sinuous spread of the railways across britain and ireland from the 1820s was both of these and more at first it was a dirty noisy dangerous contraption loathed by the poet william wordsworth he lamented in an 1845 sonnet its rash assault on thou beautiful romance of nature three decades later john ruskin s contemptuous descriptions of his fellow travellers in letter 69 of fors clavigera did little to add any glamour describing how the rest of the crowd was a mere dismal fermentation of the ignominious by contrast no lesser figure than the artist j m w turner looked at these same engines and painted a projection of power and grace joseph mallord william turner rain steam and speed the great western railway 1844 oil on canvas turner bequest 1856 ng538 the national gallery as the prestige of the railway grew anyway not least through the patronage of queen victoria so too did the opportunities especially for well connected landowners certainly there was the chance for investment and profit beyond that perhaps one of the most attractive was to bring convenience and pre eminence to those who could bend the tracks to their will it was the opportunity to appropriate a public good for private benefit through their influence on the infrastructure of the burgeoning rail network the manipulation of the power of the network took various forms from the heights of entirely private stations endowed with powerful legal rights to halt trains to the creation of exclusive facilities at otherwise public stations the power also manifested in the overt influence of siting stations to create new approaches to their country estates obstruction and opportunity in the early days the main concern for the landowner was how to avoid the dreaded statutory powers of compulsory purchase which had forced the canals through their lands this meant that the railway surveying parties were often met with outright hostility and occasional violence see the battle of saxby aka lord harborough s curve where physical methods were unsatisfactory landowners often deployed their greatest weapons their wealth and the law stapleford park leicestershire image stapleford park george stephenson and his son robert were two of the most successful and prolific railway engineers of the era they stated that the ideal railway should follow the most level route which could be constructed the most economically but which should avoid the park and gardens of country estates in reality it was rarely possible to satisfy the first two requirements given the resources employed in the protection of the third each proposed railway required two key components an act of parliament to authorise the development and operation and substantial capital 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