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@christopherhulse8385 20 күн бұрын
Is the route still there to walk?
@johnanthonyguest3622 23 күн бұрын
I was lucky enough as a 17 year old to travel on the last day. Some friends had a younger son who wanted to travel, so they bought tickets from Bath for me to take him - a great DMU fest! The last day trains were made up of a 3 car set with the single cat attached!
@Beatlefan67 26 күн бұрын
I believe the line was deliberately murdered. Looking at earlier photos one can see that it was possible to run full trains in and off the branch, which thanks to the change in the pointwork and signalling ceased to be possible. Prove me wrong, please...
@quadtraxxx Ай бұрын
Beautiful memories. Great Britain, not so ‘Great’ any more. 😢
@MartinYarde-kq6xx Ай бұрын
Just discovered this film. Amazingly clear colour. I am from Bridport and lived there until my 20s. My happiest childhood memories are of this line, which closed when I was 6.
@alanborrell100 Ай бұрын
In August 1963 I was on a cycling trainspotting trip from Towcester to Plymouth and back with my mate. I got a puncture in Bridport and I repaired the puncture on the curve of Bridport station and was helped by the Driver of the single Railcar and I was invited to sit behind him on the trip up to Maiden Newton. I wish I could remember the cost of the ticket for myself and my bicycle.
@christophernewman5027 2 ай бұрын
I enjoyed this very much, especially as we have just returned home from a week spent just outside Bridport. A reminder of what has been lost... Subbed. 😊
@MikesMovies 2 ай бұрын
What a lovely video, we have visited Bridport often and a rail link would have been most welcome
@davidsheriff8989 2 ай бұрын
Best county in UK - Dorset
@DavidUKesb 3 ай бұрын
An absolute tragedy these lines have been lost. Such short sighted thinking.
@QQ_241 3 ай бұрын
beautiful music
@Mounhas 3 ай бұрын
Beautiful county is Dorset. All those jobs gone and people losing the convenience of a train service. As mentioned previously the vandalism of destroying what was appreciated by many has been replicated through E&W. Thank you for your video.
@scottdyke7853 3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for going to the trouble of Telecining the film and uploading it. A wonderful history of the Dorset villages and a celebration of the bygone days of rural railways.
@stephensaines7100 3 ай бұрын
The colour is remarkable.
@Goldenoldie49 4 ай бұрын
Very nostalgic. Well done.
@derekharvey9707 4 ай бұрын
An interesting piece of film; spoiled for me by that awful noisy piano music which practically drowns out the commentary.
@SandraGalloway-ue7ro 4 ай бұрын
I lived as a child of 4 years old in 1953/4 in Bradpole, and the train passed at the bottom of our garden. Being a typical naughty boy, I put pennies on the rails, which fortunately did not cause a major derailment!! Happy days, enjoying the steam engines going by. Raymond Peto
@jonb4020 4 ай бұрын
Phenomenal! How prescient to make this film. What an absolute gem of historical significance, let alone an insight into English rural beauty. Thannk you so much to all involved.
@davidtaylor8548 5 ай бұрын
Wonderful film, and one I've never seen before, despite an almost lifelong interest in Bridport and it's railway. And I'm still sad I just missed out on a trip over the line.
@adrianwild2094 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind comment .
@patricknoveski6409 5 ай бұрын
It appears that , just like in America, the bean counters were ruthless & thorough with cutting out many ways of life to all the folks who needed the railroads. Bastards 😢
@roboaten6931 6 ай бұрын
You can visit the Toller station building as it was moved and has been beautifully restored on the South Devon Railway at Totnes Riverside. Fabulous video.
@jeremyjudd5236 6 ай бұрын
As a kid at school we took one of the last journeys on the train before it was closed as a school outing great memories ❤
@TheVw73 6 ай бұрын
I have some un seen footage of the last train that my dad took.
@Fuzzbrain61 6 ай бұрын
Very well shot and edited. Super 8mm looks great!
@lesigh1749 7 ай бұрын
What a beautiful country we used to have. I'd give anything to be able to climb into this film and live back then.
@stephensaines7100 3 ай бұрын
Ditto, albeit I have to stop myself from falling into nostalgia. I have brother and his wife who lived in Crewkerne, and I've sent them this link.
@RobertGott-c3f 7 ай бұрын
An outstanding film Thank to everyone involved in the making and restoration of this video😊😊😊😮
@dodgydruid 8 ай бұрын
Useless factoid, the Dorset word for "pit props" is "slags" bet not many folks knew that lol
@Lathamhipsurgery 8 ай бұрын
I’m so pleased to see this pop up. What a wonderfully poignant film.
@geoffpartington1527 8 ай бұрын
Come on new video
@TrinityCourtStudios 8 ай бұрын
Greetings from an American railroader. This is an absolutely beautiful homage and tribute to the branchlines of the UK that used to service the rural communities that needed the train as a lifeline to the rest of the world. Excellent footage. Perfect narration. Somber yet well placed music. This is perfection. ❤️❤️ Deepest sympathies and love from your neighbors across the pond who have been equally heartbroken by abandoned rail lines.
@adrianwild2094 8 ай бұрын
Hi American Railroader - thank you for wonderful critique . Sorry to hear that your country has also lost so much of it's heritage in the name of progress .
@blairmacewancrosbie8646 9 ай бұрын
My goodness, what a wonderful video. I am sure I am not the only one to feel a deep nostalgia and melancholy for what we have lost. We must be so grateful to the people who went to the trouble to make these old railway films. What a priceless record of vanished times.
@adrianwild2094 9 ай бұрын
Thank you for you kind comment-
@westcountrywanderings 10 ай бұрын
Truly superb - in all respects. Sad that even 8mm Kodachrome film (and 35mm stills) is no more. I was particularly impressed with the audio - everything, script, narration, acoustic audio, music, sound mix - so brilliantly done. The locations of the camera locations and film editing was fantastic as well. I have copied a link to this video into the description of my little recent video about West Bay Station. Thank you so much! Paul
@adrianwild2094 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comments .Fortunately I lived in the area so was able to visit the line on many occasions . The soundtrack was quite complex and took some time as the footage was silent , adding all the train fx ( int & ext ), closing carriage doors and countryside sounds such as birdsong and sheep !!!
@philderrick3207 10 ай бұрын
Great informative video my parents have juts found this .. Roger Poole the crossing keeper at bradpole village was my late grandfather on my mums side .
@muckybobbies 10 ай бұрын
What an absolute gem of a film! Thank you so much for posting. I have ridden my motorcycle around the lanes to follow the route of this old line, and it is a lovely part of my home county.
@adrianwild2094 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comments - it is certainly a wonderful part of Dorset .
@nigelcraven 10 ай бұрын
Wonderful film. Thank you
@benandsophiepatterson-butc4374 10 ай бұрын
Just a beautiful video this, such a shame so many lines were lost. Bow before the god of the motor car, such a shame, we are worse off as a result
@GreatBarrWolf 10 ай бұрын
The drivers would be dismissed today for eating their lunch in the carriages......
@AussiePom 10 ай бұрын
Maiden Newton Station was also used in the BBC sitcom To The Manor Born. The now defunct Railscene videos did a feature on the signal box a few days before it closed.
@Tauraco00 11 ай бұрын
Lovely, amazing history🎉
@Gregg-eo2le 11 ай бұрын
Love the old footage 👍
@AndyChilton234 11 ай бұрын
That beautiful scenery makes me wanna live there
@DansModelBench Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video. I especially enjoyed the commentary to put some context to what we are watching. Thanks for sharing this.
@cannadineboxill-harris2983 Жыл бұрын
Hello There Again it is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris, I have another interesting idea for most of you Class 313, Class 314 and that also is including those interesting Class 315 Fans out there, rather than scrapping most of those Class 313's Class 314's including the Class 315's maybe you guys can convert them and including the refurbishment into those Leyland 680 Engine, Volvo B10M Engine, Cummins M11 Engine, Gardner 6LXC Engine, Gardner 6LXB, Engine, Gardner 8LXB Engine, Class 313's, Class 314's and the Class 315's and convert all of them into a 2 Carriages and Three Carriages of the Class 313's, Class 314's and that is including those Class 315's for most of us Class 314's and the Class 315's Diesel Train Fans Pretty Please Are you still going to do this interesting type of Project for all of us out there Please?
@andrewoverton5170 Жыл бұрын
The item described as a deadman's handle is, in fact, the vacuum brake handle. This is not the deadmans handle on a DMU. There must be some dubbing on the soundtrack, as when the loco hauled train departs, hauled by a Class 31 with an English Electric engine, we hear a Class 47 with a Sulzer engine. Unfortunately I had to turn the commentary off half way through as the totally unnecessary music plinking away was getting on my wick. I enjoyed the footage - on silent.
@jefwisse1957 Жыл бұрын
How nice is it to see something from the past. We have traveled a Lott by train in Britain during our holiday visits. Unfortunately this line was already closed before we could travel it. Cheers Jef
@rev3826 Жыл бұрын
You will never know how much i appreciate this video. It’s rare to get videos of these old lines, but you done better and recorded it with such a high standard and commitment. 26 years old Dorset lad who loves these old line and hates beeching 🥹
@marionbloom1218 Жыл бұрын
Don't blame Beeching, he was just the fall guy set up by the crooked Transport Minister Ernest Marples. He set Beeching up with a very narrow brief that made the outcome inevitable. He then made sure his family firm Marples Ridgway got all the contracts to build the new motorways needed to carry the many new cars that people had to buy because their local train connections disappeared. Marples also spent a lot of taxpayers' money knocking down the redundant infrastructure (bridges, stations etc) to make doubly sure the railways could not be put back. This not being enough to satisfy his greed, he squirrelled the fortune away offshore and did a midnight flit to Monaco to avoid paying the tax that was due! Marples' scheme was one of the most crooked and brazen political swindles of the 20th century, which still has continuing negative impact on the transport infrastructure and social fabric of British society today. We should burn an effigy of Marples on every bonfire each November, because he succeeded in doing far more damage than Guy Fawkes ever did!
@ScrappyMilo Жыл бұрын
What an amazing mini-documentary this is, so evocative of a recent past that is fast receding.
@breezester Жыл бұрын
If i had a time machine...
@mikedavis9272 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic quality from 8mm cine, truly a wonderful look back in time. The sharpness and colour is outstanding, thank you so much for putting this here for our enjoyment. Dad was a driver all his working life, there was some wonderful rivalry between Salisbury and Fratton drivers. I had wondered what depot covered the route. I have some of my dad's old 8mm cine which l am now tempted to try and transfer to video. Once again many thanks.
@adrianwild2094 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for you comments and sharing your stories . It took a professional transfer with colour grading and steadying of the image to get the most from the ageing film .
@paulgrice8273 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing video. Could sit and watch railway history like this all the time. Great production, music and narration.
@Mark-u8f Жыл бұрын
It's not the dead man's handle (that is incorporated into the throttle l. It is actually the brake handle, one of two 'tools' that are transferred between cabs when changing ends. The other tool is known as the 'spoon' and allows you to select forward and reverse directions. It is interesting to see the driver lock the cab door when changing ends at Maiden Newton.
@adrianwild2094 Жыл бұрын
Thank you pointing that out .
@Mark-u8f Жыл бұрын
It's an amazing film,, thank you so much for recording the sad passing of the Bridport Branch.
@Mark-u8f Жыл бұрын
Even more amazingly, 'blue square' DMU 121034, which enters the bay at the end of the film, was the last first generation DMU I ever drove, on the 1st March 2017, 42 years later!