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@jondavies9347 Күн бұрын
It certainly looks like someone is keeping their options open regarding this line.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 Күн бұрын
It would be lovely to see a mixed use reopening like a tram or heritage line with a shared footpath 😊💙🚂
@davidfalconer8913 Күн бұрын
The northern end of March train storage area ( goods yard ? ) is now a top security Cat A prison ( HMP Whitemoor ) 😝.... the line to Spalding is totally demolished and various station houses and signal boxes are now private residences .... There would be no possibility of reopening this line ( ? ) .................... DAVE™🛑
@stephendaddysadventures7045 Күн бұрын
Here's to hoping the part to Wisbech is reinstated in some way, even if as a heritage line. Agreed there is no chance of the Spalding line being put back now 😊💙🚂
@angelsone-five7912 Күн бұрын
Currently the Dudley to Wednesbury line is being rebuilt as a Tram route. I don`t know if it will be going any further than Weds.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 Күн бұрын
It would be lovely to see the rest up to Walsall and beyond open 😊💙🚂
@waynestewart8740 3 күн бұрын
Great video loved it, great work
@stephendaddysadventures7045 2 күн бұрын
Thanks so much!☺️💙🚂
@dylancarter1831 3 күн бұрын
For a growing town like Wisbech, it's riddiculous no rail station exists anymore, considering much of the track bed does still exist. They need to reinstate it, asap. Good reporting and thank you for keeping the subject alive.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 3 күн бұрын
Thank you very much for your kind words! We would love to see the line back in some form one day! ☺️💙🚂
@nononsenseairguns 5 күн бұрын
Really enjoyed this video and one of the best I've seen on our local railway, hopefully it will be open again in a few years.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 5 күн бұрын
Thanks so much for your kind words! It's really appreciated and we love how people are enjoying finding out about this line. We would love to see trains run on it in the future 💙🚂☺️
@allanegleston4931 8 күн бұрын
isnt there a group of people who can buy these old lines and put them back into service ?
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 күн бұрын
The Bramley Line is a preservation group set up for this particular route but I don't think there is a general group that invests. It would be a lovely idea if there was ☺️🚂💙
@barnsproductions 8 күн бұрын
Myself, together with my friend Jerry Alderson, rode on the last train to Wisbech back in 2001 - a Hertfordshire Railtours charter, whose name I have forgotten. As my Mum lives in March, the reopening of the railway to Wisbech has been a subject dear to my heart. Hopefully, I will be giving a presentation on options for this line at the Railfuture East Anglian Branch AGM, to be held at the Friends Meeting House in Bury St. Edmunds on the last Saturday in February 2025.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 8 күн бұрын
Oh wow! That sounds like it would have been an amazing railtour to do! It would be lovely to see something done to reopen the line in some form 😊💙🚂
@marybradley7791 9 күн бұрын
Is this the line that they were proposing to re open that goes from Litchfield to Alrewas where the National Memorial is, they wanted to provide a route via public transport, also were they not planning before HS2 got cancelled to join this line up to Notttingham Parkway, its a pity that it did not go ahead, but i think it will be revived as it makes sense and there are plans to build Manchester to Birmingham as a conventional railway under the Mayors of Birmingham and Manchester.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 9 күн бұрын
I couldn't say for sure but this would be a much more direct link to Nottingham if reopened. Would be lovely to see it utilised again in some form 😊💙🚂
@cyberdonblue4413 2 күн бұрын
Yes, this was the line between Walsall and Burton on Trent via Lichfield and Alrewas. I worked over there in the very early 1980s with goods traffic, from up north, for Bescot (then home on the cushions.) We regularly worked a "Tripper" from Saltley that worked its way across the Sutton Park and up to Wednesbury before shunting up on to Wednesbury High Level with some rusty buffers (the old Snow Hill Great Western bit that was all that was left there after closure.) That was another one of our jobs that ended with leaving the engine at Bescot and coming home on the cushions. We also worked goods traffic back from Gloucester, via Stourbridge*, Dudley and Wednesbury, then into Bescot before going home on the cushions, yet again - *even shunting in the yard at Kidderminster on that one on the odd occasion, long before the Severn Valley Railway got their hands on it of course. There was also still a connection back then from Wednesbury to the Stour Lines that joined up between Coseley and Tipton. I'm not sure if the Tipton end was still connected but the Coseley end certainly was and light engines from Oxley for Bescot sometimes got sent round there, depending on the driver's route knowledge (mostly Bescot men worked round there.) The name of the old steel works over there, around Princes End, escapes me at the moment but it was a huge place in its time. I went past it a couple of times as a young secondman but never worked into or out of there. An awful lot of railway has disappeared just in the last forty years or so. Very sad. Sorry for the long winded interjection too.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 2 күн бұрын
Some amazing memories and insight there! Thank you so much for sharing! 😊💙🚂
@whyyoulidl 10 күн бұрын
What a lovely video from the both of you! Great images, tasteful soundtrack and looked a lovely day you spent together. Thanks for sharing. Stay blessed 🤗
@stephendaddysadventures7045 9 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for your kind words! It is really appreciated. Glad to hear you enjoyed the video! 😊💙🚂
@user-tr3wv7wk4m 10 күн бұрын
The line at Hammerwich was still mostly in situ into the 2010's. However most of it was stolen by scrap metal thieves. I can remember crossing the bridge with a police officer and talking about the missing sections of track. Sad to see it's nearly all gone now.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 9 күн бұрын
It's a shame parts of the track were stolen. It would be lovely if they could reopen it as a shared footpath and heritage railway - Like the Northampton and Lamport railway 😊💙🚂
@jackmartinleith 10 күн бұрын
I'm playing a game of "Where the F*ck Are They?" I've got OpenStreetMap open here, Rail Map Online also, but it's pretty much impossible to follow the trail. Thanks though, guys. 🐒
@stephendaddysadventures7045 10 күн бұрын
They aren't that easy to spot! I was following the line along using Google maps. The only walkable part appears to be the McLean way in Walsall that runs to Brownhills where we saw the aqueduct. The other parts were waypoints along the route to Lichfield that we studied on street view 😊💙🚂
@trevorhollyoak712 10 күн бұрын
The line from wednesbury to walsall closed 1994
@trevorhollyoak712 10 күн бұрын
As i say the footbridge is listed i hope the line can reopen but highly unlikely, it may reopen between wednesbury and walsall ,i really love this line and hope it reopne in full
@stephendaddysadventures7045 10 күн бұрын
Really excellent detail and knowledge there! Thanks so much for sharing! We would love to see the line reopen someday 😊💙🚂
@trevorhollyoak712 10 күн бұрын
Fossway is name of railway signal box and crossing
@trevorhollyoak712 10 күн бұрын
The oil terminal was left of the Watlington street bridge
@trevorhollyoak712 10 күн бұрын
The line was doubled tracked until 1984 it ran Al the way from ryecroft junction it was closed between ryecroft and the A5 on March 1984 from then it was single track to lichfield kept open to serve Charringtons oil terminal ,the footbridge is listed at hammerwich
@waynestewart8740 10 күн бұрын
Just stumbled across your channel and I absolutely love it, very knowledgeable very interesting, just subscribed and liked keep up the great work
@stephendaddysadventures7045 10 күн бұрын
Thanks very much and we are really glad to hear you're enjoying the channel! 😊💙🚂
@ABTrainsYT 11 күн бұрын
I pass that practically every time I head to the A1, there’s another disused line near here btw…it’s the old M&GNJ railway which went from Bourne to Saxby. It was part of a wider line which would’ve taken you from Leicester and Nottingham to the likes of Holbeach and Kings Lynn. Stations included: Bourne Castle Bytham South Witham Edmondthorpe & Wymondham Saxby & Melton Mowbray Traced it last year and there’s a video specifically on that on my page 👍
@stephendaddysadventures7045 10 күн бұрын
Oh excellent! Thanks, we will take a look at the video and maybe even visit ourselves 😊💙🚂
@RaggyAl1971 24 күн бұрын
I've always thought about trying to find if there's any remains of where Colwick North signal box once was.It stood where the North end of Colwick yards and the link line from Netherfield station met.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 22 күн бұрын
That sounds like a good idea! We loved that the tracks were still visible at the Netherfield level crossing either side of the road ☺️💙🚂
@lostpilgrimmedia_uk Ай бұрын
Great Little Adventure...
@stephendaddysadventures7045 Ай бұрын
Really glad you enjoyed it, thank you! 😌
@DanielGlover Ай бұрын
Really 1st. Nice bridge. I did one August time. I like the old railway lines and bridges. See what is left. Done some old stations, bits and pieces left. So much gone from 1960 onwards. So what is the surprise. not there yet I guess.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 Ай бұрын
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video! 👍😀 We like to trace disused railways on Google Maps and then street view to see if there is anything interesting to look at 💙🚂
@quotagious Ай бұрын
The Village I live in . we had to get permission to walk the line from Colsterworth to the ECML at stoke tunnel it has now been taken over by somebody else so who the old track bed belongs to now I don't know thats going east going west is the nature trail. Where you first get to the top along the track bed there is some brick work down the bank that was the old signal box for the sidings to the south and north of the main branch which was knocked down and pushed down the bank where it widens out is where the siding began to the south . The bridge you come to is a occupation bridge with the wooden fence it wasn't the main road bridge . the road you crossed from one track to the other track was the original road . The machinery is a fence post . The gate you went down steps to was North Pit . the last thing you was puzzled on is a holder for a guy wire which was connected to a telegraph pole . Hope I haven't been painful ? www.tracksthroughgrantham.uk/recording-the-railway/railways-rediscovered/the-highdyke-branch-rediscovered-part-1/
@stephendaddysadventures7045 Ай бұрын
Not at all and thank you very much! It's great to have the extra insight and information on the branchline, really appreciate it ☺️💙🚂
@quotagious Ай бұрын
@@stephendaddysadventures7045 Your Welcome If you look at the link i've sent on this and the Woolsthorpe branch you will find them interesting as well . Unfortunately I was only 6 when the Colsterworth branch closed so I didn't see much except one shunter at the crossing in the village and the Flying Scotsman go up the branch from a distance .
@stephendaddysadventures7045 Ай бұрын
We will certainly have a look! ☺️
@grandaddyoe1434 2 ай бұрын
A couple of decades ago, or more, there was a superb model railway on the exhibition circuit under the name of "High Dyke". It was quite something to watch . . .
@stephendaddysadventures7045 2 ай бұрын
Oh that's great! We'll have a look for videos on it, thanks! 👍
@johnfrancis2215 2 ай бұрын
I love Lincolnshire. We always went to Skegness for our hols as kids, it's rural England at its best
@neilfoster814 2 ай бұрын
Many years ago when I was working as a delivery driver, I had several deliveries of mechanical parts to the engineering workshop at the McCain's cold store and chip factory. The workshop was round the back, a few yards away there were 2 mine shafts side by side that were gated off. The portals were about 20ft across, semi circular, heading eastwards, and sloped down at maybe a 30 degree angle. I asked one of the engineers about them, he said there were used to dump rubbish etc down. I asked him how deep they were, and he said "Effing deep"! They were part of the ironstone workings at Easton and had their own little tramway going westwards towards the A1.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 2 ай бұрын
Wow! That's amazing info! We had no idea about there being shafts near McCain's. Thanks very much for sharing ☺️
@neilfoster814 2 ай бұрын
@@stephendaddysadventures7045 Cool. They were definitely there around 1988/89. The whole cold store site was a huge rail yard and sidings with workshops and loco sheds etc. The iron ore came up the adits on a conveyor to a gantry before dropping into rail cars. I saw the gantry, it was massive.
@EGAVgames 2 ай бұрын
Errrm it's actually ex greater anglia 🤓🤓🤓
@stephendaddysadventures7045 2 ай бұрын
Oops! We stand corrected! Thanks! 😊
@uktv05 Ай бұрын
it's actually ex TFW. It was originally ex GA that was transferred to TFW but now transferred to EMR so EGA is stupid
@EGAVgames Ай бұрын
@@uktv05 Oh I didn't know but thanks
@robertwilloughby8050 2 ай бұрын
Ah the High Dyke ironstone complex. Famous for Class 31's with single line tablet catchers in its last days, including the unfortunate Class 31 150. Oh, and first.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 2 ай бұрын
Ahh, lovely to hear of those memories! ☺️
@joevarnigaming 3 ай бұрын
Great video 😊
@stephendaddysadventures7045 3 ай бұрын
Thanks! Glad to hear you liked it! 😊👍
@paularnold4440 3 ай бұрын
Very interesting thank you. I know that area a bit
@stephendaddysadventures7045 3 ай бұрын
Really glad to hear you found it interesting, thank you! 😊💙
@62tdf 3 ай бұрын
Very relaxing is the sound of running water
@stephendaddysadventures7045 3 ай бұрын
There nothing quite as relaxing 😌
@KawaiiRuby7 4 ай бұрын
Thanks. Was trying to figure out before my trip where the third platform is. Appreciate it
@stephendaddysadventures7045 4 ай бұрын
Glad we could assist! 😊💙
@Sir-Bobby-Brown 4 ай бұрын
Interesting video. i love exploring disused railways and this i one i need to visit.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 4 ай бұрын
Thanks very much! Really glad to hear you liked it! 👍😊💙
@lostpilgrimmedia_uk 5 ай бұрын
Nice video going down soon. Subscribed to your channel (been here in past)
@stephendaddysadventures7045 5 ай бұрын
Thanks! Really glad to hear you enjoyed the video and appreciate the sub, welcome! 💙😊🚂
@lindahawes3725 5 ай бұрын
Went to the grand for years with my daughter love lt 😅
@stephendaddysadventures7045 5 ай бұрын
This was our first visit! ☺️
@annamagowan390 5 ай бұрын
I have a group on Facebook called we loved the grand hotel scarborough
@stephendaddysadventures7045 5 ай бұрын
We'll give it a look! The hotel is iconic and just needs some more tlc 💙
@annamagowan390 5 ай бұрын
@@stephendaddysadventures7045 on the outside yes maybe a bit
@stephendaddysadventures7045 5 ай бұрын
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@truckerfromreno 7 ай бұрын
Fantastic video.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 ай бұрын
Thanks very much! We're glad you liked it 😊💙
@lindasimons691 7 ай бұрын
Where is the source?
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 ай бұрын
The source is a deep cistern that bubbles up through the well itself 💙
@Liamtrainspotter40 7 ай бұрын
Just had a quick sneak peek of it today when i was out in birmigham
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 ай бұрын
Excellent stuff! Hope you enjoyed seeing it! ☺️💙
@Liamtrainspotter40 7 ай бұрын
@@stephendaddysadventures7045 it's sad to see it rot away as it was my childhood
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 ай бұрын
It would be lovely if they could restore it and create a mini museum. Even put a static tram on display ☺️💙
@Liamtrainspotter40 7 ай бұрын
Imagine if a T69 was abandoned at one of the platforms aswell
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 ай бұрын
That would be a lovely idea!👍💙
@DerekCox-c5u 7 ай бұрын
I actually went there a day ago.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 ай бұрын
Excellent stuff! Hope you enjoyed it there! ☺️💙
@someone7648 8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info, and a non stop tram catch, nice I have never seen that
@stephendaddysadventures7045 8 ай бұрын
A friendly conductor told us the history of the siding as we went by. We wouldn't have spotted it otherwise 😊
@MandeepKaur-du1ce 8 ай бұрын
Hello sir, can you please confirm when the tram service will start ???? I live in blacklack side .
@stephendaddysadventures7045 8 ай бұрын
The tram Service to Wolverhampton Station is now fully open 😊
@A-Trainspotter-From-Berkshire 9 ай бұрын
That unit is now with GWR at Reading Train Care Depot.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 9 ай бұрын
It's good to see they are still in use. We heard one is going to operate on the Greenford branch 😊
@bobulousgaming5353 7 ай бұрын
@@stephendaddysadventures7045hopefully they bring them down to cornwall, we need a replacement for the 150's were still using
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 ай бұрын
@bobulousgaming5353 it would great to see that happen! ☺️
@A-Trainspotter-From-Berkshire 7 ай бұрын
@@bobulousgaming5353 The plan is not to move any to Cornwall, if the trial is a success then it will see the 230s replace 165s on the other short Thames Valley Branches. The 165s are not permitted in Cornwall. The 165s will displace a few more 150s in Devon to allow more 150s to work in Cornwall. The plan is to use the 175s to replace 158s, 165s and 166s on long-distance services. Also, the range on the 230 and the step grades in Cornwall isn't great for the class 230s as they will be battery-only.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 7 ай бұрын
@a-trainspotter-from-berkshire Excellent information, and I'll let Stephen know! Thank you! ☺️
@gordondyne9856 9 ай бұрын
You choose about the wetteset winter in 20 odd years to visit (leaving aside 2012/13 and the "Great Flood"). The mega puddle you retreated back from is up to 3 inches deep and I have been wearing wellies since Nov/Dec time. You could have gone the other way round and walked along the high level path running besides the fenced upper meadow, that path drops down to the railway track at the far end, but it is also pretty muddy at the moment. The site is a SSSI for it`s wet neutral grassland But by April it should be pretty dry again and in fact for 6-7 months of the year, there is usualy no standing water in evidence on the site. There are a few fragments of railway infrastructure left and at the southern end of the reserve you will find the brick supports of an iron girder bridge that was in situ when the railway was active.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 9 ай бұрын
We're hoping to go back in the next few months time. It felt like a bit of a Vicar Of Dibley moment for us. It'll be great to get the full walk done ☺️
@Satscape 10 ай бұрын
Nice to find videos like yours. I walk down the greenway almost daily and walked the original train line in the 1980s. They had holes in the bridge that you could easily fall down, before health & safety was invented 😁 Roughill wood, after the old line crossed colwick road is also a nice 'greenway' walk if you are in the area again.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 10 ай бұрын
Thanks very much! We will certainly give it a go in the future! Bet it was a great line to walk along 😊
@NTSCuser 10 ай бұрын
The level-crossing and wooden signal box are still viewable on Google Earth by using the Historical Imagery feature.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 10 ай бұрын
It's crazy to see how much it has changed! 👍
@zosser7273 10 ай бұрын
great vid' in the early 90's i and a few friends climbed up the park side entrance and into that side cave entrance on the upper left as you look up towards derby road' it goes back around around 20 feet into a small sized room. also i believe it was actually never used as a horse an cart route' as the gradient back in the day was too steep. The architect Thomas Hind created many of the mansions in the park estate' and i think is the creater of this tunnel too' i think etc, anyhow great to see it again. cheers.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 10 ай бұрын
Thanks very much! We did wonder what that cave was for!
@zosser7273 10 ай бұрын
its difficult to to place the creation of that cave' i reckon it was there before the tunnel was built' even possibly medieval etc. cheers.
@lorisarvendu 11 ай бұрын
Were you aware that you can walk down the old trackbed of the brewery sidings and get under that bridge? If you're feeling really adventurous you can walk along the flooded cutting towards the portal of Watnall Tunnel.
@stephendaddysadventures7045 11 ай бұрын
I was not aware of that, thanks for the tip! We've heard there is part of the disused line that goes as far as the M1 Motorway