Didnt this line go over to bury and Accrington?

25:38 in to the video, the line went right passing the signal box and over 4 bridges, Turned left after the bridges along the docks and joining the Bidston to Seacombe ferry line. now removed to make way for the liverpool tunnel.

14:51 in to the video if you look up above the steel beam, the brick work was a public urinal toilet, it was open top. I remember going in that in the late 70`s. if you use google maps you can see the bricked up doorways on Argyle St and Dacre St.

One of the biggest crimes/frauds was perpetrated on the British people, was closing these railways. They could have been so useful today

It's difficult now to image the intense industrialization of West Yorkshire until you see it on old photos. The air and land were heavily polluted . Tar distillers, dye works, etc. But the building work on the railways was done with real pride by skilled craftsmen. I was born in Batley in 1948, I watched it all disappear.

Gateacre is Gat-acre and Childwall is Chil-wall

Ebike with the old skool tunes on? Living the dream buddy!

Crackin' footage.

I still have the foldout leaflet given out on Toton diesel shed opening day!

I live in Aintree, and use the old railway/ cycle paths regularly, i used to take the dog over what seemed a huge siding nr Wango lane nr the canal turn at Aintree racecourse

So many great trains ..thanks..

You were correct about the sidings for Jacob's biscuit factory on one side of the bridge, but on the other side were the sidings for Hartley's jam factory.

Great video, thank you for posting. An interesting point worth mentioning, the bridge steelwork you are admiring at Maudlands at about 3:10 is where the Preston - Lancaster canal ran under the line and towards the town. Its now filled in and the canal starts further north. Cheers!

Me and some work colleagues re-railed that line about 2 and half years ago and those clips were absolutely solid to get out. I'm led to believe that this line is the only one in the country to pass through a cemetery near to the concrete structure with the graffiti on.

the old railway should have been converted into a traffic free cycle path. perhaps you need to joghlight this line to Sustrans in Bristol. the make it their mission to vonvert Fidused Tsil lines into cycle paths It could getmore use than the tram ever would because they would pass below the Preston town centre with all the danger that cycling on the roads above would pose to cyclists

Never realised that Preston was such a sh**hole. What a disgrace that its been allowed to get like that. Still, nothing surprises me anymore with this country.

Amazing video 😊👍🏻👍🏻

I used to live locally to Low Moor. The tracks you saw embedded in the tarmac would have been part of the tram system from the ill fated Transperience museum that used to occupy that site.

Still owned by The Railway as mothballed operating

There is still some evidence of a railway high up on Longridge Fell to the south of Old Clitheroe Road. There is an old loading ramp or platform at SD 6651 3952 and some track in a gateway to the west of this platform.

Cycle lane ? Make a great railway in my book. All these old lines need to be reinstated where possible. Once the veins and arteries of our country, they'd reinvigourate the country again if reopened.

The line from Grimsargh to Whitingham mental hospital was provided with a free train service using brake vans powered by a steam loco originating from down south Brighton I think , somebody's cast offs. It even featured in a newspaper in the USA

Many thanks for another brilliant video 👍🏻

Great video. Why do people have to be pigs. That rubbish is shameful.

The tunnels under the town are rather like the Heckmondwike Cleckheaton line

love these .. just 1 thing why are all these rails not been moved for recycling . there must be some serious money there in steal . .. could a scrap collector remove them . are they left just in case of reopening .. eg easier to remove the weed then to re lay ..

They were looking at using the old track beds for trams, but as usual, they never got anywhere with it. I travel through Grimsargh regularly and they are building loads of new houses without thinking about all the traffic it will produce as there's only one road into Preston and they're already getting busier and busier - the railway from Preston to Longridge would be perfect with the population getting so high.

A fine walk into the past this day. Thank you for this day’s video. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

Amazing that Ravensthorpe had 3 stations back in the day. 😃👍🏻

Mirfield not Milfield.

The last train was in 1993 A coal train worked by a class 37 They use to bring coal into deepdale coal depot by rail upto 1993 Deepdale coal depot was in the area where you say the original station then depot now industrial unit was as far as i know.

How do you get over those fences at the level crossings?

I had not idea so much was left, great video mate

The rubbish is a disgrace as is the gormless graffiti.

Love you're lost railways exploring, keep It up man 😊

If you look very carefully you will see banners that proclaim coming soon Preston Guild Tramway 2012 ...that will supposedly run on the track you have been walking on ...however although the Tramway is still just a dream the company have bought sections of the line including Ribbleton Station ...so we wait to see what happens next ...A City deserves a Tramline..

As always an absolutely amazing video well done and surprised you managed to find so many jems still left

(5:55), Very nice stone and brick work.

stoke station, its so busy because its the fastest way out of stoke

Gateacre is pronounced as "Gataca" I lived next to this line (The Childwall Valley Estate) up to 1992, I remember freight trains running on the line up to 1980. Childwall is pronounced as childwall useing the small i as aposed to the Capital I ... "childwall many people who do not live around here, make the same mistakes.

15:47 is fluon, back of the stills, high boilers and control gallery.

Great video, Wirral Council have plans to make a lot of that old line as a walkpath into Birkenhead town centre.. On a personal note, I use that cycle path on my daily commute, but I agree it's sad when history is destroyed. If you'd have walked towards the bridge over the estuary, there is another railway line heading to Bidston/Wallasey, which has long since forgotten.

Canopy almost as magnificent as the one at Kettering!❤

On my channel I have the gbrf freight train that run along the live railway at the beginning of the video. I live in royston and I know what everything is. So the brick square was a junction box for the coal mine. The bricks on the in bankment were part of the main royston junction boxes. The mines junction box wasn't manned by a railway engineer. It was ran by a mining engineer who had to radio the main junction boxes. 1 south in cudworth the other just a few hundred metres up the line were the line diverged the first stone bride you come across on the dewsbury line carries the royston to Sandle wakefield main road( Road name Station Road. Befor turning into Walton lane

Anoraky advice, Allan - from another Anorak: In case you've not yet reached for 'side-by-side' old O.S. Maps, from NLS, BEFORE you "get on yer bike" and venture forth - - DO THAT and see the various tell-tale signs that will leave you 'wondering' LESS as you traverse any given route. In other words, you'd already be "armed with more knowledge" during your trip. MAPS SHOW: Two areas here actually were 4-tracked/3-tracked; the ENTIRE formation was built for 4-tracking and the land-acquisition boundaries are convenient indicators. . Brush-up on your map-reading skills - incl. the old abbrevations used back then - so you can easily differentiate cuttings from embankments and the like, spot signal-gantries, signal-posts, signal-boxes, weighing machines and other structures, as well as station and/or yard "furniture." An EXAMPLE is maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.3&lat=53.38318&lon=-2.85806&layers=225&right=BingHyb . LATE ADDENDUM: Nearly a MILE directly EAST of Aintree Sta., just off the S.E. corner of the race-course, lies the site of the former "Railway Signal Co." works, a surprisingly busy and fairly major designer/manufacturer of signalling/safety equipt - particularly for the Lancs & Yorks Rly. Though now just a thickly-wooded area, the factory & facilities were located on the South side of the (now-LIFTED) 'link-line' between south of Aintree (coming off the 'connector line,' which goes up into Aintree Sta.) and the (still extant) local line towards Kirkby. This innovative manufacturer started off in 1881, focussing on high-quality mechanical equipment but, by the late 1960s, DIDN'T switch over to more modern electrical & electronic alternatives, therefore, its new owner (Westinghouse Signals) folded this business finally in 1974. www.polunnio.co.uk/research-resources/constituent-companies/the-railway-signal-co

My grandfather use to work at Gilmores brewery on t' Wicker as a drayman between the wars. The horses used where stabled under the Victoria approach ramps. I worked near Tinsley yard (Lets be Avenue) in the 2000 to 2015 and the only regular service you could see was to the now Outokumpu steel works (Usually a 66 to take away rolled products).

A lot of hard work went into making this excellent video, great channel, subbed!

There are two books called ‘Great Northern Outpost’ by Alan Whitaker & Jan Rapacz. Part 1 covers the Bradford - Thornton Railway & Part 2 the Halifax - Thornton - Keighley line. Well worth getting, as they are both packed with photos during & after the lines operational life.

Would love you to do a vid of the old line from Wigan to Manchester that ran through platt bridge, hindley green, Howe bridge, tyldesley, roe green, monton and then connected to the existing line at Eccles through to the old Manchester exchange station

It’s sad to see the remains of railway lines being erased. I personally feel that it was very short sight of the likes of Dr Beeching and others of that era especially given today’s circumstances. Great to see your videos exploring what remains. Do you have a video of the Leeds New Line?