What's hiding in the undergrowth at Fairfield Station? Every station on the Hope Valley Line

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

JenOnTheAbandonedRailways - always love that. What a gem you found there this time though!

[@PamelaBane]

Thanks Jen for another light hearted view of stations on this line.

[@garybroadhurst3548]

Ah good old Hyde North! For many years that was my closest station but I rarely used it as there was almost no service - pretty much rush hour only. I used to walk up from the main road, take the second of your obscure entrances and it is 5 or 6 minutes further to Flowery Field on the Hadfield line. The service seems to be better now, but it's still kinda nowhere...

[@Sim0nTrains]

The alleyway on platform 1 at Hyde North heads to a housing estate but roughly a 6 to 10 minute walk is Flowery Field Station. Really enjoyed the video and cannot wait to see the rest

[@ReubenAshwell]

Brilliant video Jen, the Sainsbury's joke you made at Ashbury's really made me laugh lol.

[@Thornaby37]

Absolutely fascinating to see how much abandoned infrastructure survives at Fairfield (although I guess Fairfield and Hyde North won't be winning a best kept station award any time soon) Congratulations on 10k subs

[@MrGreatplum]

Fairfield felt very “whitewicky” 😜 Love that the old overhead gantries still go over the old tracks

[@ianr]

Great video Jen! Fairfield, like Guide Bridge, is a shadow of it's former self.👍🙂

[@londonandy9913]

Congratulations on 10,000 Subscribers!

[@NekoNekoQuatorze]

Thank you for sharing your train adventures and discoveries with us, as always!

[@SteamboatWilley]

The Woodhead route was electrified at 1500v DC, as opposed to the 25kV AC used on the West Coast MainLine. The Netherlands railways are electrified at 1500v DC, so some of the Woodhead locomotives were exported for re-use in the Netherlands after the Woodhead route closed. There are a handful of videos elsewhere on KZbin with archive footage of the Woodhead route before it closed.

[@stephenbagwell8275]

They used the existing wires & gantries when converting the Manchester to Hadfield & Glossop line from 1500 volts DC to 25,000 volts AC

[@deangoddard2939]

This cheered me up on a cold,wet Thursday afternoon😊

[@MichaelSebastianTodd]

i like Ashburys its a great station i went there to do some trainspotting in 2021 when i was trying out the Northern 323s on the Glossop line id love to do Ashburys again in the future anyway im loving Gorton Fairfield & Hyde North brilliant vlog

[@stephenbagwell8275]

I used to watch trains at Ashburys too. Highlights were the Manchester to Sheffield & beyond Class 31s going through at speed and then heading towards Bredbury. Also there were the “European” trains from Harwich to Glasgow/Edinburgh via the freight & empty carriage line to Manchester Victoria

[@dashcamexplorationuk1692]

I love finding old remains of abandoned infrastructure it sparks curiosity, amazing video like always Jen

[@torspedia]

That Gorton ticket office looks more like an entrance to a football ground, minus the turnstiles.

[@lapiswake6583]

Very interesting about the lines at Fairfield. Wish I could see one of the EM1s (like 26020 at the NRM) in operation. Love your dungaree dress thingy btw, I want one. The more I watch videos from you and GLovesTrains, the more I realise how few stations I've actually visited. I've done all but 4 in County Durham, Teesside, Tyne and Wear, and Northumberland (Berwick, and the 3 west of Hexham), and a total of 734 out of 2579 (28.5%) mainline stations in the UK, all of the TfL Overground and Trams and DLR, all but 7 on the Underground, and all 60 on the Tyne and Wear Metro. But, there are so many in the northwest I just haven't even heard of.

[@RobinPalmerTV]

I love that the announcements are in a regional accent. It wasn't like that when I lived in the NW.

[@fussyboy2000]

When they were rewiring the Hadfield Line back in the 80s there was a temporary platform at Hyde North for te DMU shuttle to Hadfield.

[@LKBRICKS1993]

Excellent video Jen enjoyed eating.

[@SteamboatWilley]

I guess Ashburys is like Singer station in Clydebank; named after, and built to serve, a factory that no longer exists. In Singer's case it was a sewing machine factory.

[@MichaelCampin]

You should try getting off at West Malling and walking into the village. Good Luck

[@airfoxtrot2006]

Great video Jen 👍

[@Andrewjg_89]

I do think that Network Rail should replace the gantries and overhead wires since they were installed when the former Woodhead Line was electrified to Sheffield Victoria and now it only goes as far as Hadfield and Gosslop. Plus with Northern inheriting extra Class 323s from West Midlands Railway that would add more additional capacity. Also I can see some new electrification taking place towards Stalybridge.

[@Anonymoususer_8823]

This is what Network Rail must do to prevent vegetation from overgrowing near or close to the railway tracks. But I do like some of the stations on the Hope Valley Line and the overhead wires that could do with a massive upgrade.

[@ricoblade1]

Didn't Ashburys used to be "Ashburys for Belle Vue"?

[@highpath4776]

So left over trackbeds ? Tram use ? or Build apartment blocks ?

[@TheFrogfather1]

Services to Hadfield are local services for local people...

[@AndrewJohnson-ur3lw]

Gorton has plenty of railway history as there were 2 loco works there plus support industries

[@leona_devon]

Fairfield, is close to Droylsden, Which due to my partner I'm getting to know quite well lol Does make me sad when I see what the railways used to be, before the short-sighted politicians decided to rip them all out :( From what I understand, the hope valley line used to go all the way to Macclesfield, the line now from Marple to Macclesfield is a walking, cycling, riding route which I've walked part of, to get to the Anson engine museum

[@TheCcponyboy]

Sad the number of Steam locomotives built in Gorton

[@MichaelCampin]

The Class 76s aka Tommies used to be on that line. Before they were all sold to the Netherlands Railways or scrapped.

[@AddieDirectsTV]

Are they running diesel trains on what looks like a line that has overhead wire?

[@petershillito]

I believe the electrification is only between Manchester and Hyde North as far as the Hope Valley Line is concerned, with the branch off to Glossop/Hadfield electric for the whole thing. So for the first few stops it's diesel under the wires before it's diesel only anyway.

[@50doctorwho]

I suppose all the signs at Hyde North are hyde-ing...

[@johncrwarner]

Perhaps to explore Fairfield Station you need to get @MartinZero or @AdventureMe involved They like doing old infrastructure. I was intrigued that electrified lines were chopped? Was it a Beaching cut?

[@SteveW139]

It was primarily a route for coal traffic from the Sheffield and Rotherham area to industrial Lancashire, and with roughly equal gradients on either side of the summit the descending locos were able to run their traction motors as generators, providing regenerative braking whilst returning current to the overhead wire. When the Lancashire cotton mills changed from steam power to electric motors, and the large new coal fired power stations being built, the demand for coal ceased. There wasn’t enough passenger traffic to justify maintaining two routes between Manchester and Sheffield, and the 1500 volt DC electrification was life expired and incompatible with the more modern 25KV AC system adopted as the new standard.

[@JoeTW67]

what do you use to edit? love the videos!!

[@KevinMEconomyClassandBeyond]

If you are anywhere, it could be rottterdam, Liverpool or Rome…

[@lizb7271]

2:23 That explains why the Tories like it, it's a place in the North which doesn't have rail service anymore.

[@dblyth5098]

In summary, it looks very Summery!!!! (can you see what I did there?😂😂😂😂)

[@harryelliott4310]

Trains Station 🚉