ABANDONED UK TRAIN STATION - Stood still in time!!

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[@VacantHaven]

If you want to see the Victorian tunnel that was also along this old line, check out this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmWmhH-voNxkY7M

[@tonyc360]

Cwt is hundred weight ! Y

[@normandunford5747]

The line needs to be re - opened. Roads have altered dramatically since 1953, we need more rail lines . Road congestion is a pain.

[@TheRip72]

The passenger service was withdrawn in 1935, not 1953. It was withdrawn because travellers preferred a more useful station nearby, not because they had switched to using the road. It took a weird route from Chichester to Midhurst, making it as useless today as it was then.

[@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf]

​​@@TheRip72Thats what he said at 7:51!!

[@dave13dc]

Do you really see a Tory government running a railway properly?

[@mitter81]

Its amazing how rail infrastructure in some places has been totally decimated, the abandoned buildings with their original decoration detail is fascinating to me, where I grew up the Station when I was a kid had 4 platforms and single line running Aberdeen - Inverness, with a goods spur to Dufftown, before that there were many more links.. Anyway I've always found the old and abandoned interesting, so when I was teen they proposed to demolish the 'Victorian station' and modernise it, remove the unused platforms and so on, within the Victorian station, platform side it had a disused newsagents, all was painted over in blue and white, (the colour scheme throughout the station) it was instantly obvious as a boarded up shop with beautiful carved wooden, signage above saying it was a John Menzies. I pondered then would they save it, and doubted it - of course the whole place was pretty much bulldozed and removed (1988). Today the station is nothing more than a small ticket stand and waiting room, the line isn't heavily used. Ironically I believe this more down to bad marketing, in that part of rural Scotland, buses still do well connecting the same points, the rail routes in some cases were shorter we used to bike along as much of the disused track and embankments as possible, exploring the abandoned bits like turntable at Keith Junction, signal box and station at Keith Town, that part of track was in use (so seldom it was often rusted over), it had been lifted from Dufftown and beyond and your explore reminded me of that; If anyone interested to see some of the early photos etc, of course can look at image searches "Keith Junction Station" add the keyword gnsra search 'keith junction station gnsra' and you should get some decent results from historical society. Thanks Great explore.

[@alanlittle4589]

​@richardharrold9736I certainly have better rolling stock on my local line run by the Dutch state [but named Greater Anglia] otherwise the service is pretty similar.. except for the above inflation ticket prices year after year which bite the hardest. I love trains, but sometimes it would be cheaper to hire a limo! (Probably actually true if you can share the cost with a few others) the strikes that the Tories won't back down on, the closure of ticket offices (I know it's only a consultation, but money wins. You can knock me down with a feather if they stay).

[@McKlunkers]

Seeing this station makes me glad that my local town is rebuilding it's old train station that closed in '64 in a rare case of positive town planning. Good news considering the town is just a traffic jam with a few pubs and hairdressers.

[@jsmith498]

Very interesting. I grew up in Rugby in the early 80s. As a big railway junction town, it was strewn with abandoned buildings like these. I loved exploring them.

[@Sparky-ov1ot]

3:48 not old buffers they are actually old hot plates off industrial cookers, the spring handles lift the covers on the hot plate. Great place by the looks of it!

[@The_Modern_Buddhist]

Yep this is what I thought, aga style cooker plates

[@1966myke]

Correct it’s an old aga range coal or wood fired

[@bobthebinbag5949]

The “ buffers “ are the top of an AGA stove I think 👍🐾🥰🐾🥰

[@VacantHaven]

Cheers Bob

[@David-m1y6f]

Definitely. I have one.

[@wyvernmodelrailway]

I think that shed had all the components to make an AGA

[@michaelclarkson2218]

I visited this site several years ago in the late '80's early '90's and the platforms had some very old trucks on top of them as this area was used as a small commercial vehicle scrapyard. There was an old AEC truck there which interested me. So I would imagine the engine air cleaner was from one of the vehicles. Also there used to be vineyards and a small wine making company there from what I remember. Nice to see everything looking tidier up by the platforms now. Excellent video by the way. I love water tower architecture.

[@TheLeedsAppreciationSociety]

I remember that. It was called Potters. I went up there one day and they had some old Bedford CF vans, in southern electricity board livery. They were electric vehicles and had been scrapped because replacement batteries would have cost more than a new van. There was a vineyard based in and around the old station house, but I don't know if it's still used for that now.

[@michaelclarkson2218]

@@TheLeedsAppreciationSociety I believe the vineyard has gone as I was reading that the building is now a private residence.

[@rogerburrows2429]

I remember it as Potter’s,as l used to go there to buy parts for my Bedford TK.

[@michaelBoxall-y6o]

I remember the station from the 1970s and early 80s when I worked in the forestry department of West Dean Estate. The estate bought its Land-Rovers from the Potter family who were ex military vehicle dealers at that time and rented the station and hundreds of yards of the old line to store and work on L-Rs and other vehicles which they had many of, and trucks full of parts for them: it was a Land-Rover enthusiast's heaven which we knew as Potter's Yard. They used the hand operated crane in the main building (their workshop) for lifting heavy items like engines and the SWL 30 CWT on it means its safe working load was 30 hundredweight (1.5 imperial tons). The Potters kept two alsatian guard dogs at the top of the entrance slope (against which I once saw propped half an aircraft wing), one of which had the hair raising habit of running up soundlessly from behind and grabbing a hand as it passed - we always walked to the workshop with our hands firmly in our pockets unless we could see the dogs. I enjoyed the video: it brought back a lot of memories. Thanks

[@greenbunnyinabongo7299]

Thankyou for that bit of history. Very interesting

[@ianrankin5686]

A lot of the brickwork looks to be in great! Condition, especially the old water tower and goods shed. Hopefully a trust is formed to possibly restore the buildings and platforms and reinstall some tracks .

[@railmaster.7752]

The "buffer" or "signals" at 3.50 are actually an AGA stove!

[@geoffsullivan4063]

@ 4:45 those two steel discs are the top of an old aga cooker. In fact as you panned in and around that area I could see a few aga cooker parts all over the place and perhaps several other bits and pieces.

[@Duranie9]

The MGB GT is 1979 reg. My dad had two during the 70's. So sad to see it in that condition, though it was new 43 years ago. Great nostalgic railway video guys. Thank you.

[@simonabbott7323]

Just looked it up. It was registered 1 October 1978. It has a 1798cc engine. Last V5 was issued 9/1/1992 and the tax expired end June 1992.

[@brianfearn4246]

At 16:23 it's not a boat .. it looks like old remains of a carriage gangway door.

[@martinwingfield7739]

A bit of history about where you are exploring makes the video so much more pertinent . . .

[@John-L-1961]

Great video again chaps, i love seeing stuff about old railways. The writing on the old crain is the max working load, CWT stands for hundred weight C is Roman for 100.

[@VacantHaven]

Thanks for the info, glad you enjoyed the explore

[@neilgodwin6531]

I think there were 20 cwt to a ton. People used to order coal by the hundredweight or the ton. One ton =0.9 tonne or 900 kg. Metric is SO much easier, I'm glad Imperial has mostly disappeared. I'm 67, and learned both systems

[@151CHAVIN]

Use to be a car breakers along time ago now privately owned! Shame you can't get though singleton tunnel as its blocked both ends! The old engine shed is nice to see still standing. The sub way is a nice added extra to a incredible station. Use to run the old freight trains though to cocking lime works! Singleton was primarily used for Goodwood.

[@Deck1ngUK]

The buffers you mentioned are infact an old AGA cooker. Steelwork on floor was body of cooker less insulation 🙂

[@Deck1ngUK]

CWT = hundred weight, 20 cwt = 1 ton. A short ton was 2000 lbs A long ton was 2240 lbs 😊

[@nbhanburydawn]

Thank god someone else knew what they were looking at. Buffers indeed. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DadgeCity]

Fabulous place. Strange to see a station frozen in time like this, and unusual the way the platforms and station buildings are on different levels. I hope the recent upsurge in exploration of abandoned places doesn't destroy it.

[@noelmatthews7777]

Not quite frozen in time. It's decaying and rotting away

[@michaelgamble296]

You are standing on the end of a Platform. The brick-lined hole with various pipe and iron work was the base of a water column used to fill the tender or water tanks of the engines. This is, of course, why the brick water tower was so tall! Those floral motifs and wood motifs can be seen at the Bluebell Railway. Typical L.B.S.C.R. decoration. What a wonderful place to explore and rebuild in one’s imagination! Michael Gamble.

[@michaelgamble296]

Typical LBSCR Station buildings. Very similar to the Bluebell Railway Station at 😮Horsted Keynes which has three platforms with connecting subways. Michael Gamble

[@michaelgamble296]

This was the Goods Shed with its hand-crane.

[@michaelgamble296]

Cwt = Hundred Weight - just the sort of notice one would expect to see attached to a hand-crane.

[@Tullian100]

Great video. It has to be the ultimate disused station in Sussex for exploring. Fascinating to see pipe work from the water tower still intact under the platforms. The deep cavity below the platform surface which was fenced off, was probably a cellar beneath the old refreshment room (buffet).

[@grahamhall8249]

Hiya, CWT stands for hundredweight. What a great explore that was!

[@VacantHaven]

Cheers for the info Graham glad you liked that explore 😀

[@daffyduk77]

a hundredweight is 8 stones, that is 8 x 14 = 112 lb (pounds weight)

[@metalmicky]

I seem to remember that a yard of main line ( heavier than sidings line ) weighed one hundred weight CWT, The ‘chairs’ bolted to the wood sleepers to carry the rails also weighed 1 cwt.

[@grahamebelton9832]

Beat me to it. The younger generation wouldn't know this

[@brianprice3193]

And 1 cwt = 112 lbs

[@Richardsrailway]

That rectangle hole in the platform with the old section of pipe would have connected up to a water crane for the steam loco’s and been fed from the water tower . Excellent video .Inside the goods shed you have the loading dock complete with crane , this would of transferred the heavy items from road to rail or vice versa .

[@VacantHaven]

Thank you for the info, much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed the explore 👍

[@mrbigbadtrev]

Nice to see the correct tern 'loco' (or locomotive) rather than 'train' 😃

[@jayne53ellen]

Great explore, I explored there in 2020. We also found and explored all the tunnels. Apparently they are extending the centurion way railway foot path, poss though singleton tunnel (depends on bat survey) and through the old station to cocking

[@VacantHaven]

Nice, it's a lovely part of the world! We did the Midhurst tunnel as well, really cool. And would love to see the Cocking tunnel but you're right, it's protected for bats.

[@leeadams.1971]

The concrete block with the hexagon shaped pattern by the water tower,is a base for the angle cranks for the point rodding to the signal box,these are also used for signal pulley wheels which are round,to carry signal cables to the signal box also.

[@davidmurray682]

Used to visit the station in the 1980s when it was the Chilsdown Vineyard. The slopes above the platforms were covered in grapevines and they made the wine in the station buildings. They had an information board describing King Edward VII using the station to go to the races. Was a nice place, shut in 2011. The station is now a private house according to Wikipedia. Thanks for bringing back those memories.

[@ClotEastwood]

Dude. . . . 3.:00 into the vid . . . . . that was an Aga "Type" Cooker top. Those where the lift up covers on the hot plates. The rest of it was there stripped and scattered on the ground. One part clearly shows the oven "top & bottom" slots for the doors and to the left of that part are the actual oven castings themselves. Vehicle Details Vehicle make MG Date of first registration October 1978 Year of manufacture 1978 Cylinder capacity 1798 cc CO₂ emissions Not available Fuel type PETROL Euro status Not available Real Driving Emissions (RDE) Not available Export marker No Vehicle status Untaxed Vehicle colour BLACK Vehicle type approval Not available Wheelplan 2 AXLE RIGID BODY Revenue weight Not available Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 9 January 1992 Great explore lads. . Thank you

[@aCivilServant]

Really nice video. The goods crane was a gem. 30cwt is 30 hundredweight, so with 20 hundredweight in a ton the maximum load is 1½ tons.

[@turquoisecat761]

Why hasn't the description got the info? I'm not watching 44 mins to find out.

[@paulgraham1999]

Great video. I checked the DVLA website. The MG was first registered in 1978 and last registered in 1992.

[@VacantHaven]

Thanks for watching Paul, and cheers for the info 👍

[@surreygirl2075]

I found a old cottage with pink roses over it it was nice inside it was empty and a over grown garden I wonder if it still there

[@karenm3822]

This was an awesome explore, our old house used to back on to an old railway cutting & until vegetation took over we could see the tunnel entrance. We now live not far from the other end of the tunnel & there's an air shaft that people used to throw their rubbish down, the second shaft was demolished to build housing. Railway lines are so fascinating, thanks for the explore.

[@VespaT5]

Nottingham?

[@ledovv]

@@VespaT5 me

[@DB2hull]

Thanks for the tour, love seeing old stuff from the past!

[@VacantHaven]

You're welcome 😁👍

[@jasinere35]

the water tower the bottom floor was where the pumps were the tank sat on the top of tower the system was gravity ran & used to supply steam engines with water aswell as the station facillities you didnt notice the doorway in from top directly below the external arch& where bike is

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Alex & Ed, I was wondering when Pompeye would show up lol, Hi Ed. That "Water tower" looks more like a signal box ???. The MG was first registered in 1978 and it was taken off the road in 1992. A very cool explore, a shame Ray wasn't with you as he would have loved that. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 🥰

[@Marilyn195]

So interesting the finds you were both discovering at the old train station area,one thing I really enjoy about your discovery videos is you and your friends discuss what things are or could possibly be along with the history lesson,it just makes it more like I’m there on your discoveries🇨🇦

[@greywebs1944]

That's the beauty of exploring, you just never know what you may unearth. I live near a disused railway and someone did discover the remains of the water tower with bricks and the piping that is still there. I might have to revisit and see if I can unearth some more then film it afterwards 🤞

[@Janus-fn2uz]

With respect. Here in my country, England, they are "railway" stations, not train stations. As that would be in America. Accuracy is key.

[@johnalborough3074]

The "buffers" were actually old Aga hotplates. The CWT is not counterweight but hundredweight

[@X-GamerPro-HD]

I lived near an abandoned station. Meant to open in 3 years. I doubt that. It’s been left for 20 years doubt it will reopen.

[@BuffaloNYSkyWatcher]

Looks older than 1800s. We have the same thing here, same structures so weird! Nice video Thank you, God Bless 🙏❤️

[@VacantHaven]

Thanks for the kind words, glad you liked that, 😁👍

[@maverickflint1991]

Found another one and have listened and heard both of them over the years. Thanks guys.😊👍

[@maverickflint1991]

That 1 record you pulled from the MG engine I found it on KZbin and saved it.😊👍 I tried to see the other cool records but some were covered up too much. Those are all collector LP's 👍

[@ianturrell4525]

your buffers were the top of a Aga cooker and CWT stands for a hundred weight with 8 stone to a a cwt and 20 cwt to a ton so 30cwt was a ton and a half.

[@doomybear7389]

The round things with spring handles is probably off a range/cooker and might have all the parts there to rebuild it,

[@Annabelle66633]

I’m glad the buildings haven’t been demolished, but It’s still sad🏚🚂😔🥺

[@VacantHaven]

It is a shame as they could easily make a little museum here. Thanks for watching MrKittles 😁 👍

[@markparamore2978]

The black things you thought were buffers are actually the top of an old Aga! If you have a good look! Cheers!

[@daffyduk77]

cwt is hundredweight, ie 112 lb, 20 cwt to the imperial ton which is approx. 1 metric tonne

[@julianbettney9816]

That fabric covered fragment looks like the end of a railway carriage where you walk through between carriages

[@sarahstrong7174]

Good thinking! I was trying to work that out.

[@gingertompuss2653]

I can recall visiting here years ago and the tunnel was being used as both a mushroom farm and also to store some old military vehicles. Carefully protected by a chap who didn't always take kindly to unexpected visitors. Also just up the road from here is West Dean Woods Nature Reserve. Run by the Sussex Wildlife Trust it's not open to the public most of the year, but if you ever get a rare chance to visit during wild daffodil season, it's gorgeous. Sometimes the Trust will also pick you up, which means a break neck ride around nearby countryside in a rattly landover :) It was also during such a late summer, we where lucky enough to have the naturalist Richard Williamson as our guide. He was the son of Henry Williamson (author of Tarka the Otter). During our visit Richard explained how he was friends with Edward James and Salvador Dali. The 3 men would often knock around the area on old motorbikes before ending up at the pub at West Dean. Dali being a regular visitor to James's house at West Dean, which is now home to an art college and gardens. While there Dali created his famous Mae West sofa and did give James some pieces including a White Lobster Telephone. Between them an idea was hatched to create a huge wind powered musical sculpture. Something that would be so large and cost so much it would probably bankrupt the Jame's estate, so it never happened. But if it had then it might have overlooked Singleton Station!

[@daveattrill2712]

Good explore here lads, especially like that brick water tower you found. Not a part of the country I've ever got round to visiting but now pretty much inclined

[@tracyworthington1520]

Alex love how passionate u r on Ur explores. Lvly man ❤. The information u give 1st is so interesting. Keep up Ur good work ❤

[@spicethecat6207]

Very nice video and just to fill in some blanks….those two circular things @ 3.48 look like the covers for some oven or cooker the car is a MG B first registered October 1978 and the wooden crane…a great find ….has a max load of half a ton.

[@DaiElsan]

The 'buffers' on the shed looks like the top of a solid fuel cook.

[@martinsims1273]

Thank you for doing this video, very interesting. This place (and so many others) needs to have a working railway back in place there. Those things you thought might have been boats, just after you came away from the top of the water tower; I reckon they are coach gangways (the end connectors/passageways) which allow people to walk from one coach to another along the train. Also, in the bottom of the water tower, the girderwork inside looks to me as if it was the base for a horizontal steam engine (hence the chimney for a boiler), which would have been used for pumping the water. And regarding the crane in the goods shed (amazing, and brilliant that it still works), it is made to pivot around the main upright pillar, and the marking "CWT" on the side of the jib, stands for "Hundredweight", of which there were 20 in a ton (a proper, imperial ton, not the smaller metric tonne), so that means that crane (30 CWT) has a maximum lifting capacity of 1.5 (imperial) tons. That whole lot there seriously needs restoring (even the car!).

[@Janus-fn2uz]

A pity this person describes it as a "train" station and not a "railway" station as they are known in England. Accuracy is key.

[@andrewwelford4646]

The old mg is a 1978 model B last purchased in Jan 1992 and mot'd for 6 months after which is was never renewed.

[@royjennison3916]

The abbreviation "CWT" stands for centum or cental weight, meaning one hundredweight.not counter weight .

[@grahamshedd5409]

Hi - very interesting - just a friendly comment chaps but I think I am right in mentioninng your reference to the markings on the Hook and Pulley markings in the engine shedd - I mean the -CWT - when I was at school the pre decimal terms and imperial weights and measures meant that 10 CWT would mean 1/2 a ton a full ton was a full 1CWT - check out the old weight tables or google it - google is a great asset these days -

[@cannadineboxill-harris2983]

I needed to know why don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they could extend the unused abandoned underground stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into six cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on that six cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo D10M, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it bigger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Train tunnel into a High-Speed train? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 37 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project that is OK for London Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street and also make another brand new tunnel train station in Chingford could they extend the DLR. All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo D10M, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Six carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the developed 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and they can order Every 17 Octagon and Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.10 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 117MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 117MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 16 Tonnes for all of the 117MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are Told!! And please do something about these very important Professional ideas Please Prime Minister of England, the Prime Minister of Sweden, the Prime Minister of Germany, the Prime Minister of Italy, the Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

[@majorpygge-phartt2643]

That's the remains of an old AGA cooker at 3:45, I know 'cos my parents had two of them, proper old ones like they were before they went daft with computers and software and so on like they have now.

[@ChangesOneTim]

Wow! Looks a lucky survivor. Must be very few old station sites, especially in the Home Counties that haven't become housing estates, supermarkets, relief roads or business parks.

[@tishalaubach4626]

Thank you for another interesting video. I love that you give a lot of history of the things that you share with everyone. . I just love watching your videos. Great job again guys 👍❤

[@VacantHaven]

Thanks for the kind comment Tisha, glad you're enjoying the different explores 😁👍

[@teckiepete]

Gutted places are left to ruin like that.. The round lids were nothing to do with trains! its the lid of an old AGA cooker!

[@psychoaftershok]

CWT = Hundredweight The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system.

[@stuartfletcher2378]

When you said the next station down the line was Chester I got quite a shock . My dad and Mum lived in Prestatyn and they took me to see the walled city when I came over to see them on a trip . Seeing that old station reminded me , as it was laid out like all British Railway depots . Thanks for bringing back some old memories that was a terrific explore , Stuart in Canada ..

[@stephenforrest464]

the next station was Chichester in southern England not north wales buddy.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

@@stephenforrest464 North Americans routinely imagine that the UK is about the size of the Isle of Wight.

[@ChangesOneTim]

@@stephenforrest464 er...Chester is and always has been an English city, albeit right next to the border with Wales. The city's always had close ties with Prestatyn and other North Wales towns/ villages. But yeh, England does have a lot of [something]chesters; derived from the Latin 'castrum' (fort/ castle). One of the things the Romans did for us.😃

[@stevemerrick102]

the cast iron bit you looked at ar a pre 74 2 oven aga cooker in bits 3.45 in

[@Mandalorian_Goblinslayer]

That is a beautiful station, it should be built as a cafe, keep the platforms and use the building as a cafe in and out.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Why is there such a big chimney on a water tower? Was there once a steam engine for pumping? The water might have needed to be pumped to get it up into the tanks they had up on a framework next to the tracks so they could swing out the hose over the steam locomotives to supply them with water.

[@sarahstrong7174]

I am intrigued by that sort of framework with canvas attached to it that you found. My ideas for what it could have been range from some sort of cover for goods wagons, or possibly the cover for the charabank that ferried the public to Goodwood, or an awning, or a massive bellows, (if there was a steam engine,) or possibly part of a mechanism that conveyed water from a tank over to the feed for the steam engines. I think a cover for a goods wagon or charabank is probably the most likely, what do you think? Surely one of your friends who are interested in the railway will probably know?

[@sueneilen4526]

Another great video thanks very much very interesting

[@timothysmith8300]

Well done guys brill video keep up the good work iam from Northampton and there are several old disused railways in the area ie old Bedford line /Wellingborough/Blisworth /smj mkt harborough line which is partly preserved .take care when exploring.yours tim smith.

[@VacantHaven]

Thank you Timothy, glad you enjoyed that explore, and I will have to into those suggestions. Thanks for the info 👍

[@helentucker6407]

My auntie lived in an old station house and the outside toilet had a metal toilet roll holder on the wall with GWR on it. That was back in the 1960s. Enjoyed the video 👍

[@RickL_was_here]

Cool to see that this was your first published vid with Ed as a co-conspirator. I like those old water towers and have seen some really nice conversions of them into homes.

[@VacantHaven]

It was! Time flies..... Really interesting old place this, glad you enjoyed Rick 👍

[@DaiElsan]

The water tower. The water tank would have sat on top of the girders. The concrete object looks like the bottom of maybe a signal post. Langspiel/longplay.

[@maverickflint1991]

Another cool video guy!!! 😊👍

[@sarahstrong7174]

Thankyou for showing us the old structures. I love the old railways.

[@tobyhuitson4326]

The MG was made in Oct ‘78 and untaxed since Jul ‘92.

[@vickielawless]

Fascinating video lads. By the way, that chrome door handle looks like it came off a classic Mini, not surprising if the closed station later became a breakers yard..

[@philipgardner7360]

The building that you first approached is the old goods shed...the main building is occupied and it is that which is listed...

[@wendymcfadyen-allerby6142]

Great explore, seeing the old track beds and buildings. :)

[@sarahstrong7174]

A lot of the old track beds are being turned into walking & cycling paths.

[@zippy8422]

Old briefcases?, they are called shipping trunks. Interested video. thanks

[@thurzieoneillpenfold9992]

I lived in singleton from 77 to 82 never heard of this place , but sounds and looks fascinating!! 😊

[@chrisperyagh]

Part of the old Midhurst line from the Fishbourne junction that ran behind Bishop Luffa and towards Brandy Hole Lane was still in use by freight trains transporting ballast well into the '80s.

[@22pcirish]

I started my footplate career on the freight trains up this little branch to Lavant.

[@simov8chevy]

30cwt is 30 hundredweight which is 1.5 imperial tons = 1.524 metric tonnes = 1.68 US tons.

[@grahamlane1313]

7:33 hi just as you where turning round from the bird where all the soil is piled with tree thats fallen down on i could just make out the top of a arch so that may be a tunnel they trying to fill in to stop people going in it

[@felixwaterman4448]

I haven't looked at the comments but am I the only person left who refers to a railway station? Train stations are in America, not GB. Forgive the gripe. I fear that English is fast disappearing.

[@thewhiteroom23]

You are right. I hate the term train station.

[@myotherchannel2729]

My fellow-students in Britain back in the 1980s called them train stations. They are not part of the daily experience of a large part of the population. From their point of view you have a bus station and therefore also a train station. It never occurred to me that their (to me ignorant) usage might be based on American media. However nearly 40 years later I expect that the usage "train station" will be well entrenched amongst the part of the population who are not railway enthusiasts.

[@rob11rr]

Re the crane towards the end of the vid, CWT = Hundredweight = 112 Lbs = 1/20th of an Imperial Ton. Great vid an interesting place to explore.

[@X-GamerPro-HD]

Where I used to live there was an abandoned train station. Roomers that it was gonna re open. But it was closed for 20+ years.

[@Craig-wp3pz]

Our station closed in the late '50s, though the line remains and is not only active, is now part of Cheiltern Mainline

[@sandersson2813]

Those weren't buffers or signals. It was the top of an Aga or Raeburn oven.

[@maverickflint1991]

That train station is so cool and has a lot of history!!!😊👍

[@nbrandart5094]

Don't forget that it's 'railway station' in Great Britain and 'train station' in the USA.

[@michaelward2082]

its a railway station

[@myotherchannel2729]

@@nbrandart5094Unfortunately young people were calling them train stations here in the UK as long ago as the 1980s, so you (and I) may have lost the battle on that one. Apart from city stations, weren't they "railroad dee-pohs" in America?

[@nannyfairy]

Interesting video. Victorian station, ghosts of big roaring trains, breathing steam. So much excitement and sweet nostalgia, for my inner child A few big penny's in the pockets of her red duffle coat. Nanny shouting at her to get away from the edge or she would get would get sucked under the train.😄 Thank you Hampshire Lad, for making an old lady happy. 👵💖💖

[@VacantHaven]

Thanks Jackie! I'm glad you enjoyed the explore and it evoked those feelings in you, sounds like good times!

[@nannyfairy]

@@VacantHaven what you really have to do when you go in tunnels with your friends is run up and down screaming. 😱

[@andrewkiwi1]

CWT is an english measurement of weight for freight.. aka "A hundred weight " 112lbs or 45.5 kgs. so load not to exceed 30cwt = 3360lbs or 1365kgs.

[@Elmantukas]

What a cool video, couldnt help but look up that reg plate, seems like someone bought it in Jan 1992, and tax ran out in July, definitely didnt enjoy it for too long.

[@ARROWS00]

I’ll turn that station into a home if I brought it

[@andrewfoote322]

Has this been mentioned before? CWT is a measure of weight known a 'hundredweight' 'C' is the Roman numeral for one hundred, and WG is an abreviation of weight, hence 'one hundred weight' To put it in context, 16 ounces = 1 pound, 14 pound - 1 stone, 2 stone = 1 quarter, 4 quarters = 1 hundredweight, and 20 hundredweight = 1 ton.

[@LuciousDeMorte]

That black MG was last Taxed in 1992. Been there a while!

[@brianfretwell3886]

seems typical of the time. the station built between Singleton and West dean, so not really convenient for either.

[@jayarajjohnson2476]

Hope they could renovate & restore it to its old Glory....it could be made into a museum.

[@andrewcowling5804]

i had to laugh when you described an old aga as buffers or signals,

[@daywalkingvampire1521]

the cwt on the metal bar means cental weight. it's a weight measure thats been used in Europe since medieval times

[@Hushey]

Looked up the car with the DLVA - MG manufactured in October 1978, 1798 cc, Untaxed Vehicle Tax due: 1 July 1992, last MOT January 1992

[@sarahstrong7174]

Brief cases are the cases city gents used to carry their papers into the office. I guess they use lap-top cases now. Those are trunks. Passenger Luggage in Advance was a fantastic service that enabled passengers to get a big piece of luggage such as a trunk to their destination, so it would be there when they arrived, at an economic price. It was a really good service for people who did not have their own transport. Very sad when that service ended.

[@philiptownsend4026]

I think brief cases may have been named for the documents that legal professionals carry. Their folders of case papers are called briefs, as in instructions or advices eg "I will brief you on that matter"

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@philiptownsend4026 Yes, that is what I think too.

[@karstenluecking]

33:33min. Goethestrasse 10 is very close to me... No longer a “Radio Bank” but a “Chanel Boutique” and a posh shopping mile...greetings from Frankfurt

[@VacantHaven]

Danke! Very interesting and such a small world! Cheers for the information 👍