A Saturday morning walk

The weather has been so awful lately, rain, rain and more rain, so we took advantage of  a spot of dry weather on Saturday and took an early morning walk along the railway. This is one of our favourite walks, mostly because its flat but also there are always interesting things to see.
We had not walked our local stretch for some time and were surprised at the muddy condition [not just from the rain] of the path.
A group of keen enthusiasts are working hard to extend the rail line from Brampton Halt into Northampton but a bridge was seen to be unsafe for a train to cross over it.[ Health and safety and all that!]. The fact for years trains had crossed the bridge did not seem to matter.
We discovered the bridge was the cause of the muddy path, vehicles had been driven over it to work on the bridge, which had been stripped of its rails down to the original arch supports.
A walkers ‘by pass’ had been created so it was interesting to see the structure from a different angle.

Such pretty countryside

Underneath the arches

Above the arches

A farrier busy shoeing a horse