The Uk's Highest Abandoned Station - Wanlockhead and the Leadhills. EDS 29.

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[@pwhitewick]

Cheers for watching, just a reminder of the Merch link: stores.clothes2order.com/dztzstore/rail/every-disused-station/

[@nigeltift6335]

Really enjoyable Video! Would not have wanted to go through the Tram tunnel! No Sugar!👍👍

[@Rutaguer]

If your answer is correct!

[@septic77]

No sugar! Clive in Kettering

[@TheTimTraveller]

Love this one! (Tbf, with a video title like that, how could I not?) Fascinating place, fab scenery, beautifully filmed. Great work Paul & Rebecca - looking forward to more Scotland :)

[@LukeAlfordUKsteam]

Oh wow hi tim traveller.

[@A_p_T53040]

Oh hi Tim!

[@timeflysintheshop]

Hey Tim, I think Paul and Rebecca were a little late with their highest mountain challenge entry, though I suspect they would have won with the best, most informative video!

[@brucenichols9153]

Thank you so much for this video, my grandmother lived near here a village called Thankerton, we visited her very often the mainline was just below her house the sound of double-banked steamers travelling north was a sound I will not forget. The station there was still open in those days I remember walking down during winter in deep snow to catch a train to Glasgow which was waiting in a siding. I was very young then and wish I had known then about the lead mines. I must return one day and explore.

[@keith4110]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. You will find some fantastic disused railways in Scotland amongst breathtaking scenery.

[@lucsmith19]

I may be 7 months late but as a Leadhills resident wanted to share some wee bits of info. Those boards you saw up the hillside by the old viaduct (Risping Cleugh Viaduct), on the Leadhills to Elvanfoot road, are used by the shooting parties and gamekeepers when shooting grouse. Leadhills is located on the Hopetoun Estate which is still a working grouse moor, and those boards are used by the shooters. The long tunnel located up by the Leadhills Station, which as you saw is now boarded on both ends, used to be open for the public to actually walk through. As kids we used to go up and play inside it. Obviously due to safety concerns, it was closed off a few years ago. Despite living here almost my entire life, I don't actually have much knowledge on the workings of lead mines. So unfortunately can't help there. It's great to see people enjoying the local area, and respectfully too. It is greatly appreciated!

[@ianjenkinson3585]

"no sugar" PS a great video and lead mines were deep because the lead, in geological times, the molton metals (and precipitating fumes) 'flowed' up to the surface through cracks in the existing rock. Hence the miners followed the veins of lead down. There are plenty of examples of deep lead mines in the Peak District en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecton_Mines.are definitely worth visiting

[@DestinationMayhem]

I’ve been up there before, once about a decade ago and from what I can recall; the Wilson mine/haul house (with its singular intact archway) has coal shoots for the furnaces and boilers along the former “rail dock”. There’s a large pedestal base near the archway that once supported a gantry. The unknown tunnel at 9:21 or there about is a remanent of the “tramway” with was a conveyor for the pig/raw ore to travel along from the mine portal to the closest mill. A lead washery was on either end of the system with the mines and mills in the centre. The finished product was shipped from the washery.

[@williammiller9606]

Another great viedo Rebecca takes no sugar with her tea glad u got good weather to see the lovely scenery u get lovely views at the top of Wanlockhead amazing that one time there was a railway there

[@JonathanThackray72]

Great video! Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. It's amazing those mine trucks are still there, and haven't completely rusted away.

[@Gaspode_]

I was waiting for the "Oi! Get off out of it!" to come up from the shaft when the rock hit bottom

[@pwhitewick]

hahahah.....

[@robertsulley]

Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. Great video! We went to Scotland last year, round the same time and it was lovely, quiet and so beautiful.

[@peterarmstrong3298]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar! Fascinating find thanks guys. Another bizarre tunnel on top of a hill!!!

[@hq76er]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugars. Looking forward to going to Scotland myself next year :)

[@mikenkatechandler5243]

OH OH OH We have been there 3 yrs ago too Absolutely loved the place. Funny how Paul is excited as was i when i got there What a great place we were lucky like u to go on a sunny day ,mind u being aussies's we didn't get sunburn lol We were lucky to see a train engine running but wasn't open for business either (so sad As im a train nut ) But didn't dampen the day It doesn't look like its changed much and was probably the same sheep bleating at us too It was also a shame that the museum next to the Beam engine was closed too Had a few ales in the pub too the publican was a great guy and plenty of memorabilia in there too Again thank you for your terrific video /vlogs Its such a shame there are so many lost stations Although we have heritage railways here in Western Australia nothing that's a patch over there We are off too Hotham Valley Railway this weekend in Dwellingup Oh TEA no Sugar Like Kate lol Mike and Kate Mandurah W.A P.s We just bought two items from your collection :)

[@colinshaw1330]

With no sugar. I retired to France nearly 6 years ago and I live in a very small hamlet in france at an altitude of 511 metres on the southwestern slopes of the Massif Central and here because of our southerly position there are trees and the farmers grow wheat, maize, barley and lots of Limousin cattle. There is also an abandoned narrow guage railway that used to fan out from the mainline stations to give access to the very rural interior of the department of Correze. Additionally there is an old tram route that ran from Limoges to Châteauneuf de Foret and most of the old stations are still there some have been reused whist others are just resting. France suffered the same railway cuts that the UK did so there is lots to see here. Possibly worth a visit and several vids!

[@andyhill242]

Rebecca's tea white without sugar. I once went to the Leadhills mining museum, you walk into an old lead mine along a horizontal shaft, there are also some workers cottages and various bits of machinery.

[@pwhitewick]

We could have spent hours/days here exploring the landscape. Sadly the museum was closed.

[@andycruickshank1671]

Wanlock Edge where the narrow gauge line ran a bus replacement rail service when the road was closed. The answer as previously mentioned Tea no sugar.

[@rupertprice5508]

funny how things stick in your mind . I was amused as I also take my tea the same way . loved the video but way out in darkest Mozambique so won't enter the give away. Thanks again for interesting video.

[@maureenberls1281]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.Been following your site since 1000k.Went to England,Wales and Scotland a few years back.Yearn to return and see more of the off the beaten paths you have taken.Cheers from British Columbia.

[@neilthehermit4655]

Rebecca takes tea with no sugars. - Love the videos, mainly because you enjoy the subjects so much, the enthusiasm shines through(even when cold and wet and windy). Keep on making them please.

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Neil.

[@1Ringsmith]

Great scenery, love the channel, Rebecca takes her tea with no sugars

[@bobparsons77]

Lovely scenery, well done. Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar like me.

[@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.

[@kenrees7324]

With no sugar! Really liked this video Narrow gage RR, different scenery, no trees! Ken in USA

[@alanhunter2051]

Rebecca's tea milk no sugar. The tunnel is there for one reason. Snow spindrift. The wind can make the gully impossible to get through in the snow. Love the channel

[@marksmith334]

Rebecca takes her tea shaken but not stirred

[@fintytin5771]

Rebbecca takes her tea as it should be taken - without sugar

[@malcolmford7378]

Tea No sugar! She's sweet enough!

[@neilvlacic_crorail-heritage]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. Thanks for making another great video. We really enjoy watching them here in Croatia. 😀 It looks really beautiful in that part of Scotland.

[@gordonnicol7587]

When the Mining Museum in Wanlockhead once again can open, well worth visiting, mine tour is a must. Many artifacts to explore, including tramways, and the Library, second oldest subscription in Europe, Leadhills Village was first by a few years in the early 1700,s.

[@COASTER1921]

As for the question, “no sugar”. Beautiful music, it accompanies the scenery very well.

[@69waveydavey]

Highest? reminds me of "Snowdrift at Bleath Ghyll" worth a watch, I've driven past on the A66 a lot. Don't know if there was a station but Stainmore summit was/is 1370 feet.

[@nyrongristwood]

Dent was the highest station on the Settle Carlisle and I think it was the highest mainline station in UK

[@Ibis117]

@@nyrongristwood it's the highest in England. Corrour is the highest in the UK.

[@willsgetoff1157]

She takes it without sugar, as do you with your coffee. Almost too much to see in this one, what an fascinating landscape thanks for sharing it.

[@stegotron]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. You'll have to visit some of the old stations in Cumbria, we have plenty and one near me is on a pretty hard climb that I can't imagine a steam train attempting.

[@pwhitewick]

We almost stopped by on the way up.

[@stegotron]

Hope you do at some point

[@dieselbushcraft1299]

Rebecca takes her tea with “no sugar”. It’s another beautiful area with a fascinating history. Those holes in the building look like remains of furnaces, maybe flues rather than openings to furnaces. Question is did the old lead miners smelt the lead up there?

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Daniel. Would a "wash" just down the hill be anything to do with that?

[@bishwatntl]

Slight snag - if I give the answer in the comments, others can copy it without watching the video.... :)

[@pilpelet100]

Who would want to avoid watching the video? Isn't that why we're here? 😉

[@nyrongristwood]

Be a bit more trusting and it's only a bit of fun 😇

[@DB34IPS]

Hi Rebecca you like your tea like me. Unsweetened. X

[@michael.strosche]

Rebecca takes here tea with no sugar! Thank you for all of your fantastic videos!!!

[@timeflysintheshop]

Rebecca likes her tea with no sugar. Never! That has to be in your top ten best videos. It had a little bit of everything, even a noisy sheep! I have enjoyed your canal related videos, and I suspect that's why KZbin recommended a channel called "cruising the cut". I have been fascinated (shocked really) by how much of your canals are still open and in use. We have nothing akin to it here in the states. Just a few small sections of canal and locks preserved or restored for historic purposes.

[@hiparthparth]

8:07 . It's actually 200m deeper. Distance=0.5*acceleration*time^2=0.5*9.8*10^2=490m Edit: It's crazy wondering how long it would've taken to dig that far down Edit 2: I forgot that the real world works differently. The actual calculation gives me 255m with drag.

[@pwhitewick]

Ok, this is good!.... 490m is mad! Would that be below Sea level!?

[@kwarts]

You might need to take drag in consideration. Our school physics always neglected real life situations with resistance and such things. I think 300 m is a fair estimate. Kind regards Christiaan

[@hiparthparth]

@@pwhitewick Yes, 490m would've been below mean sea level. However, as the gentleman below has pointed out, I left out drag in my calculations. I'm going to reply to their comment with more info. Spoiler alert: Reality is often disappointing

[@hairyairey]

@@hiparthparth drag will be minimal for a stone, maybe make a metre difference? Quarter of a mile down though, extraordinary.

[@hiparthparth]

@@kwarts Yes. You're right. I did some more calculation and this is what I got: Terminal velocity 30m/s Distance covered while attaining terminal velocity=45m Distance covered in the remaining 7s=210m Total distance=255m

[@keithsbitsandpieces]

No sugar with tea , shes sweet enough already ;) Great vid again guys 👍

[@topumpire1]

Great to see that the Beam engine & rusting trucks are sill there over 7 years after I came across them, only pity is they are still not proteced in some way for eternity

[@malcolmsmith6615]

Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. Another great video about a place I knew nothing about. I also no nothing about lead mining I’m afraid. Great music too!

[@stephensaines7100]

How does Rebecca take her tea? She drinks it, sitting.

[@andrewhill8213]

tea, no sugar she didnt say if it was white. bet this is the furthest comment its from Namibia. oilyandrew @yahoo

[@englishmonteria5117]

The mysterious tunnel is a horizontal flue for taking poisonous lead fumes away from the works. It slopes slightly uphill and would have had a chimney at the far end.

[@davidsturmer3646]

No suger is how Rebecca takes her tea. Another great video! All the best from Argentina.

[@egpx]

No sugar in Rebecca’s tea. The Lead Mining Museum at Wanlockhead is really good. I’m guessing it’s closed at the moment due to Covid but when it reopens it is well worth a visit. Not only do you get to go down the mine, you can visit a number of buildings in the village such as the miner’s library. Hopefully it won’t be long before we can combine a trip there with the Leadhills and Wanlockhead heritage railway.

[@peterbevan2770]

Tea with no sugar. Really fancy cycling around Wanlockhead and Leadhills - some great climbs!

[@peterbevan2770]

Made it over there last week and had an epic cycle up Mennock Pass and right up Lowther Hill - fabulous!

[@paulbaldwin5848]

She takes her tea without sugar I love your videos

[@joeryan1153]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugars! Great video, What a scenic place!

[@vanessab6612]

Rebecca takes her tea in her right hand, as long as it has no sugar.

[@jennyreddaway2666]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. Great video of a fascinating area. Locals are going for a community buyout from the Buccleugh Estate. It also has the highest Post Office or did, as the lovely lady who runs it is retiring.

[@flatslide3250]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. I wonder if the tramway tunnel was built as a snow shed.

[@jonathanbell9661]

Another grand video as usual, never get board of watching. And Rebecca takes her tea without sugar.

[@bosburyhillrail]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. Enjoy your videos.

[@Vimby233]

Rebecca takes her tea without sugar so she can taste the tea! Thanks for all the great videos - always interesting.

[@peterwood7960]

Another fascinating video. I think the boarding at 4.25 is shooting butts. Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.

[@simonsmith2901]

No Sugar, great video. Lead and tin mining processes are very interesting, I visited a working tin mine in Cornwall when I was very young, probably around 1970.

[@BdManus]

Tea No Sugar. What a scenic little village. Great video.

[@peterhilarius9048]

Tea NO sugar , of wel tee zonder suiker. Vanuit Holland, top video’s kijk er graag naar en ben een echte fan! Kijk al weer uit naar jullie volgende avontuur. Groetjes Peter

[@leec2317]

Yet another great video. Beautiful Scotland!!! and Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.

[@deborahingles9392]

Hi this is Deborah from Melbourne, Australia.....luv your vlogs and the history behind all we get to see...I have enjoyed 'binge' watching the vlogs....Ps Rebecca has her tea with no sugars........Keep up the great work cheers

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Deborah

[@stevenclark6295]

Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. Thanks for a great video.

[@johnbennett1970]

No sugar for Rebecca. When I was posted in the UK, my work drink was black coffee. But I lived over a pub with the landlord’s family and I learned to enjoy tea with milk and sugar. Haven’t had a cuppa since leaving the UK. Posted to abandoned RAF Chelveston and explored every bit of the old airfield. Most of the base was remaining then. Wish I had been able to video the explore.

[@BoomerTheLoud]

She takes her tea like my grandmother use to, just tea, no sugar.

[@t.vanoosterhout233]

Without sweet carbohydrates. Dunno about milk. Btw another wonderful adventure, I love your enthusiasm for traces of human activity in the landscape, what we call "cultuurlandschap".

[@welshboyoo715]

Rebecca takes her tea, in a lady like fashion, without sugar. When you come to see the abandoned Ynyslas station in Wales, I will make you tea!

[@mikehardwick352]

If I watched your lovely video four months earlier my answer to your question is black no sugar in her tea.

[@hattyburrow716]

No sugar for Rebecca. That was such beautiful country, I hope you didn’t burn and thank you for taking us there. Now I’m off to research the Scottish lead mines x

[@EandEFC]

Fantastic one of your best videos, great line, amazing find and walk, oh and Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar All the best Spence

[@paulraynor9990]

She takes her tea IN A CUP lol,,,,,,, great videos you both do and you homework on the history of the places u visit, stay safe

[@gilhooley28]

Cool to see you guys up here in Scotland. Plenty of abandoned railways in the Glasgow area.

[@dugitk2817]

Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. Lovely video!

[@beacht]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugars. You should check out the swede & swimmers line in Norfolk.

[@a11csc]

nice adventure north and no sugar stay safe

[@TheClockwise770]

A truly historic line and worthy of your exploration. Thank you both and BTW the answer ,Rebecca takes her tea without sugar :

[@cdl0]

A popular answer to the question is "no sugars" but I suspect Mrs Whitewick uses a pretty cup for her tea because that would be in keeping with her style. :-)

[@benholgate6114]

Tea no sugar. Great video once again very much looking forward to the next one.

[@BigA1]

Rebecca being sweet enough, takes her tea without sugar. I do like the drone shots, I think they make the video.

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Alan

[@anthony2806]

Tea no sugar for her. You guys are really lucky the heather is in bloom it looks lovely. Thinking about the lead mine i think the holes are to unload coal for the mine i think.

[@WardyLion]

Way too late to the party to enter the competition but I have to say what an utterly gorgeous place that is - wonderful scenery.

[@QALibrary]

Rebecca takes her tea without sugar - hope you did not too sunburnt

[@anthonydefreitas6006]

I'm glad I just watched this video. It's reminded me summers on the way!

[@pwhitewick]

Oooooh yes

[@markblackford7271]

Rebecca takes her tea with no suger

[@mczrx]

You really need to come and do a video of the Glenfarg Tunnels - only another hour or so north of here. Plus Edinburgh is full of Suburban railways all turned into lovely paths around the city - fantastic walking or cycling (cycling is easier due to the distance!)

[@pwhitewick]

Already done and filmed. Just need to edit the video! 👍👍

[@christophernorman9540]

Well worth watching till the end Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar

[@richardhooper845]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. Thanks for the video.

[@ianthomas8743]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar thanks for another great video

[@mikeholdaway2412]

Rebecca has tea with no sugar . Thanks again for your vlogs. 🛤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇳🇿

[@Mayfleet08]

Tea no sugar. Found y'all through the Tim Traveller and y'all are amazing. Thanks for this.

[@pwhitewick]

Welcome to the Channel!

[@stashedawayman1521]

Rebecca takes tea without sugar(s) and sitting down. The video brought back memories of a cycling holiday in Scotland including an overnight stay at Wanlockhead youth hostel (SYHA) in Aug' 1973. The following day at Thornhill, a member of our party left to return to Watford and then to cycle to Istanbul and beyond (Australia?). Where are you now Dave Perryman?

[@Skyeskimmer]

Tea no sugar... This place is only 30 minutes from where I live,was there a few years ago and everything seems to be as I saw it,stunning location and so peaceful,I bet it wasnt so in its hey day.. Corrour Station on the Glasgow to Fort William line is the highest operational station in the UK and Drumochter Summit on the Perth to Inverness line is the highest point at 452m but the funicular Cairngorm Railway at 3500ft is the highest railway per say in the UK,that will take some beating unless they put one on Ben Nevis.. Fine video as always as it sparked a few memories,TYVM

[@Mitch-Hendren]

I lived in Leadhills for a few years . brilliant village

[@jasonkinikin7733]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar, love the video

[@shaunwest3612]

Great video Paul and Rebecca, beautiful area,and beautiful dry stone work in that tunnel, Rebecca takes her tea black no sugar 👍😀👌

[@stephenchild2310]

Hi Paul, Hi Rebecca, Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. Thanks for another great video. I thoroughly enjoy seeing the beautiful countryside and forgotten railway and canal infrastructure. I don't live in the UK mainland and your videos are the closest I can get to seeing those places. You should put them in a book. I'd certainly buy it. Stephen

[@pwhitewick]

We are definitely considering it. Cheers Stephen .

[@TonyFisher1]

Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. Great episode, really enjoy the enthusiasm you folks have. Keep up the great work.

[@bakertam]

Oar shutes the wagons would roll up under them to be filled. Above the the wall would have been a large wooden oar bins full of oar the track level would have been much lower a door would have been opend to allow the oar to fall down a wooden shutes through the holes into the wagons once full door could be closed train pulls away

[@chroniclesofanewlife3737]

Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. It’s a relief because Alan is on tv too much for me already;-))

[@davidhenshaw3509]

Another great video, and Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar which is why she looks so good😊

[@clifforddavies2908]

great scenery and video. Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.

[@paulhollyer8181]

Tea, no sugar and many thanks for another great entertaining and informative exploration of our industrial heritage!