Wiltshires Lost Railway - The Missing Link.

Order your Himiway E-Bike Here:
uk.himiwaybike...
Use Discount Code: WHITEWICK150 for £150.00 Off!!!
OR - For THREE DAYS ONLY USE: WHITEWICK200 (Valid for just 3 days!!!!).
Big thanks to www.swindonsoth... for use of their pictures and film within this video. Amazing resource.
Welcome to the Midlands and South Western Junction Railway, stretching from Andover to Cheltenham. I've been wanting to explore this properly for an age. Now I can.

[@pwhitewick]

Order you Himiway E-Bike Here: uk.himiwaybike.com/Paul&RebeccaWhitewick Use Discount Code: WHITEWICK150 for £150.00 Off!!! OR - For THREE DAYS ONLY USE: WHITEWICK200

[@pwhitewick]

@@Perthshire yeah a half then gives you a quick start from standing.

[@dave_h_8742]

1:00 😮 Wasn't there a Reeves and Mortimer bit called what's in the box. (Rebecca is 😀) Will look at the Himiway Zebra in a minute.

[@charlesachurch7265]

😅The Rebecca fan club is growing.

[@tonysegadelli9421]

Cycling is definitely the best way to explore disused railway lines We have some in Hertfordshire that are fun to ride and you randomly see sleepers, platforms and bridges that remind of a bygone era

[@larsstrombach1908]

Yes! Double Yesss!

[@CourtAboveTheCut]

The coate water lake you’d have passed by after the spiral bridge is the old feeder for the wilts and berks canal

[@pwhitewick]

I was too dizzy to notice!!

[@davidmam]

If you are ever heading up to Scotland then there are loads of old railways around Dundee (including a tunnel through the top of a hill, old roped inclines etc). Happy to show you around if diaries coincide.

[@Perthshire]

Where is the tunnel through the top of a hill? Are you referring to the Newtyle line?

[@thehermit407]

Current EDS completion estimate: 18/12/2080. That's 10 months added to the estimate following EDS 54, the "The Railway that Just STOPPED - AKA We visited 500 Abandoned Stations" video. Current EDS total: 509.

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you for the e-bike tour. A wonderful apparatus to have. In the US, I don’t know if they sell them here. When i recover from the stroke I had, will possibly look into one. Hello to Rebecca, and you both enjoy the week ahead! ❤❤😊😊

[@theonlywoody2shoes]

I’m assuming that the un-blurred content at 0:50 is reserved for your “only fans” channel 😂😂😂 Great integration of the usual content and the sponsor needs too. As always, entertaining and educational; I just hope the viewing figures are good so they send Rebecca her own bike soon!

[@pwhitewick]

🙏🙏

[@thewanderer360]

I think someone got in trouble there!

[@trevormiddleton]

Is it just me that's singing 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' now…?

[@sirensynapse5603]

Aren't you scared to ride through puddles on an electrified pushbike though? 🤔

[@hughmatthews3411]

Brought back memories of the old railway in Swindon when I was a child in the early 70s. Track still intact in the station and once walked over the old bridge across the GWR main line... There was even more old stuff to find back then. I recall the ruins of some ?water pumping apparatus not long after leaving the old station

[@coop_coop007]

Me too!

[@donsharpe5786]

In the early 70s, the line around Swindon was still intact because they used it to supply materials to build the M 4.

[@coop_coop007]

@@donsharpe5786 I remember this growing up in the area.

[@MalcolmCrabbe]

Nice bikes... but I paid less for an 8 year old Volvo V70 😲

[@jobbingactor]

You cycled past my place within, as the crow flys about 1/4 mile.

[@davidpalin1790]

I enjoy your videos, but I find it upsetting to see all the infrastructure that has been destroyed . People worked hard to build this and all their work was for nothing 😒

[@pwhitewick]

Completely agree

[@mikehartley2592]

Great to see you on a bike as I've often wondered why you haven't used bikes in the past. It's worth thinking about wild camping to to give you a bigger range, you can fit all the kit into panniers on the back and front then just find a good place to camp!

[@MrGreatplum]

The e-bike could be a game changer for your channel as you can see so much more of the old railways etc when you can go along the length of them and you also won’t be knackered! Looks like a great line to cycle down!

[@pwhitewick]

Very true!

[@hairyairey]

Also wouldn't be knackered if fitness was worked on! 😂

[@brianmorgan1204]

Well, the ebike looks like it’s been a real success. And you don’t have to shout over the sound of a noisy petrol bike. Now Rebecca needs one too!

[@davie941]

hello Paul and Rebecca , very nice video as always , the E bike looks really good , enjoyed this one , really well done and thank you 😊

[@eds4wdcamping]

Well done, Paul and Rebecca, on this video. I don't usually dont comment on your videos, but I think you found your new love. It's called your Ebike. Keep up the good work. The only problem is £150 off. No good to me because I'm in Australia, but congratulations on your new ebike.

[@shaunmarsh7930]

Hi Paul/Rebecca I was looking forward to this video but ended up skipping it due the the running ad I much prefer the block add as it is your content and comments on your history/explorations that I'm here for I know adds bring in revenue. I have never bought anything from seeing an ad but on a number of occasions I have stopped buying things Ilike/ use because I've seen adds for it that I did not like. Please keep adds in blocks so as you say we can skip through them, other than that keep up the good work you put out for us Thanks

[@pwhitewick]

In hindsight I am positive that you are right, the block ad is much easier to skip if needed. As suggested though..... pays the bills. 👍

[@everestyeti]

I'm with you Paul, instructions are only there to make things more difficult. 😂🤣 So where's Rebecca's bike? 🤗

[@jamesfryer3598]

I couldn't watch this . Sorry felt like one long advert for the bike .. long time follower....

[@pwhitewick]

Back to normal next week.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

That van body was a standard BR 12 ton ventilsted van with plywood sides and doors. At least one batch was built like this at Faverdale Wagon Works, Darlington. But it might have been built with plank sides and doors or a combination of plank and plywood sides and doors and have had everything thing, save the corrugated ends with plywood sheets.

[@davidshackleton3971]

It's actually an ex br banana van. Built without vents and with steam heating.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

​@@davidshackleton3971you could be right, difficult to tell on my screen couldn't see clearly the outside door locking mechanism. It'll be one if them built to diagram 1/246 which external matched the Standard Ventilated Van but without steam heating which was abandoned in 1957 with lot number 3010 with the building of vans to diagram 1/243 which only had a through steam pipe. This one would have been build in 1959-1960.

[@bencarter2334]

We had 2 like that on our farm. They had both been done up in the 1950's in Swindon. They ended up on our farm sometime in the 60's. Unfortunately both cut up for scrap in the 90's. They would have made great garden buildings/camping pods. Both very well made sometime around 1913/14.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

@@bencarter2334 lots of redundent railway vans ended up on farms up and down the country from the 1960s onwards.

[@bencarter2334]

@@neiloflongbeck5705 yes there was plenty around on the farms round here. They made good stores and I suspect they were fairly cheap for the farmer. 60's farmers didn't like spending money🤣🤣.

[@madgardener5820]

Fascinating as always, surprised you bump onto Wiltshire man on his Xnito round Swindon.

[@pwhitewick]

That would be great, love him.

[@TheAntiChris77]

Great video and in my neck of the woods. I live in old town and have ridden the track to Marlborough countless times and it never gets old, especially all the hidden bits of the railway you come across along the way. Im sure the Himiway ebike came in handy on the hill back up to Chiseldon 😊

[@pwhitewick]

Oooh yes. Glided up it like no one's business.

[@vhoward1122]

Enjoyed the video. Unfortunately, your discount codes don't work on the US website for those of us across the pond. Have a great day and enjoy your ebike. I'm going to order one anyway.

[@pwhitewick]

Sorry to hear that

[@robertmaitland09]

Excellent, looking forward to seeing you do some wheelies and jumps on the next video.

[@gordonwerner]

so, that a neat bike, but where's Rebecca's? 🚲🚲

[@pwhitewick]

Sat at home enjoy Paul free time... lol

[@Lichfeldian--Suttonian]

One of my favourite dismantled lines I like to follow in the car from Andover to Swindon. Thanks again, Paul and Rebecca. I used to be a ling distance cyclist when I was a kid, an d I remember a lot of things that I saw.

[@stephenpegum9776]

In this video Paul is just like a kid with a new toy - oh wait a minute ..........!! 😅😅

[@anthonybreakspear-jones5443]

There is a possibility that gentleman stood in the doorway of the signal box was my late father in law Les Breakspear 😊

[@davekirwin]

7:51 - BR 12ton vented van 👍

[@smallsleepyrascalcat]

YAWIMIH!!!! You embedded the sponsorship like a real Outdoor&Survial-KZbinr. And the tour was very interesting.

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks Kai. Wanted to make if feel like a normal video. It was a normal day... so all added up nicely

[@trevorkent7916]

Always enjoy your videos. Perhaps one day you could come to Stoke On Trent as we do have some disused railway stations and lines etc

[@pwhitewick]

Lots planned for up north soon

[@trevorkent7916]

Fantastic

[@dave_h_8742]

​@@pwhitewickStoke, That's not up north etc.😂

[@pwhitewick]

@@dave_h_8742 above the M4 = far north!!

[@richmiller7834]

I've had a Himiway cruiser bike since April. 40-50 miles range. I've done several 40 mile trips with battery charge to spare. Get yourself a hi-viz vest and some padded pants and have fun....!

[@TodmordenTourism]

That was a good one!

[@freelancebush]

Love ya channel. New subscriber from downunder, but originally Chard in Somerset👍👍 Would you be interested in doing a vid on the ww2 Taunton Stop-line that goes along the old Chard railway line?

[@spookerd]

My neighbor has a nice e-bike and he rides it all around a decent sized metro area with no issues. They're tempting but way to much cost for me.

[@TrainDriverRob]

Nice one Paul, I do a lot of cycling (on a real bike 😂), I have a perfect route for you, Bristol TM to Swindon via old railways and canals, virtually no cars involved, 80 miles in total. Interesting your comment about the tunnel in Swindon, have you covered this in the past? Keep up the great work 🤙

[@SharpblueCreative]

I have walked Swindon to Marlborough a few times along that old line. In fact the old town railway track is well known in Swindon. Paul, here is a film of the last train to travel from Swindon central through Rushy Platt ton Old Town Station: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqWcpoppoMSne7c

[@cjg1970]

The ' Downs Link' would be great for your e-bike. Park at Christ's Hospital and do two disused railways in one day.

[@3wheeler1000]

Great video as always, but could future ones not be such an 'advertorial' please? :)

[@pwhitewick]

296 videos made to date. This is the 2nd one that's been advertorial. I'm sure you will forgive us, as we now own a shiny new bike. 🙂

[@3wheeler1000]

@@pwhitewick They do look good. Are they made in the UK?

[@Dave1976.]

Like the corny joke when you left the industrial estate and got back on track. Excellent vlog as always, Paul. It's great to see team work with your e bike.

[@Sim0nTrains]

Very interesting video Paul, never ridden on a bike lol But seeing a Disused Railway line from a bike is lovely to watch.

[@pwhitewick]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@fv7765]

The width of tyres is ridiculous, too big! I would have thought if it was narrow, it would have been taking it a bit further on battery range.

[@pwhitewick]

I discuss this very thing in the video. If they are too thin, offroad is impossible. This will do 80 miles on electric. Who cares what the tyre size is when you are watching the world go by 🤪😉

[@dave_h_8742]

​​@@pwhitewicko long as it stops bumps in the bum like my old leather Brooks seat on my racer used to convey up my spine via my groins nerve, than I'm all for balloon tyers 😀

[@ericprice3225]

You needed a bike like that for your videos, and now I want one too.

[@stevefairbanks835]

Chiseldon camp was WWI and II. They had trenches for practice

[@edenviews]

I used to do that route, picking up at the edge of Swindon and going to Marlborough. Ideal cycleway, shame not to still be a railway.

[@johnjephcote7636]

A most important line during WWII.

[@johnjephcote7636]

Signal boxes etc. had wartime brickwork.

[@andycooke6231]

Instructions are for whimps.

[@pwhitewick]

🤪👊👊👊

[@paulwhitehouse3690]

One could pronounce the bike name as - Hi (high) Mi (my) way? Looks good.🙂

[@JNSGLN]

I would love to see a video on the Bishops Castle railway. Awesome work as always!

[@caminojohn3240]

When is Rebecca going to get one?

[@pwhitewick]

Working on it!

[@calebwright6151]

Well done Paul nifty bike very tempted to get on of those. Brilliant video as always

[@timballam3675]

Remember seeing a lot of the old infrastructure back in the 90s arround swindon on wy way to Bristol and Gloucester from Guildford.

[@chrisb012]

Been wondering whether to get an e-bike for the trails, and keep the road bike for you know, roads. Now I’m convinced.

[@edenviews]

I briefly lived in a house almost above the Queen's Park collapsed tunnel. Also lived close to the Rushey Platt area and the canal. The path up to Swindon Town was great and the 12/13 miles to Marlborough too.

[@andrewlamb8055]

Wow Paul! Your smile was from ear to ear …. You need to buy one for the missus or there will be hell to pay! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, the e-bike will expand your range and open up new videos to show … well done all 👍👍👏👏⚔️🌎

[@boriss.861]

HimiWayBike where's Rebecca''s E-Bike??

[@pwhitewick]

Hopefully on order... 🙂

[@cyrildhy8993]

The Ridgeway crosses the line at the farm shop south of Chisildon next to Bush House cross roads. Used to play on the embankment at Marlborough throwing stones down into the sewage works drying beds.

[@stevefairbanks835]

I had a long chat with an engine driver in Fishguard years ago, he used to run ammo training from Fishguard through Swindon on that line to dumps just past Andover and to Southampton, really interesting stories

[@shirleylynch7529]

Fabulous video. Amazing bike. No stopping you now. Exciting explore today with your bike. Thank you taking us with you.

[@dodgydruid]

I always think of you being a Lambretta sort of chap...

[@Jimyjames73]

Very good Paul - very good Paul - Now your making vids like I do when out & about - on my Mountain Bike!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂

[@horsenuts1831]

e-bikes are definitely the future, and definitely right up your alley. However, they bluddy terrify me because of the fire risk (but only for second-hand ones where people haven't matched the charger to the replacement battery that they have bought online. I think this will become a big problem over the next few years). That bike is bluddy cool though! Apart from the fact that it doesn't have a front mudguard - I mean, why the f*** not - it's the United Kingdom where it rains - A LOT).

[@pwhitewick]

Cheers. Does have a front mudguard.... I just haven't got around to it yet

[@RobEJC]

Just started e-biking after total knee replacement surgery and wow do I love it - working my miles upward every day and enjoying each mile. Cheers.

[@brianwillson9567]

Did Rebecca have the turbo charged version of the bike. Going so fast as to be invisible.

[@bewster7]

Being my hometown I've cycled and ran along those routes many times. Bearing in mind the traffic these days, Beeching was very short sighted - but then as his boss ran a tarmac company what do you expect? 😢

[@expat0149]

We have a similar toof path/cycle route where i live , Route 71 follows the path of the old Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway , i ride along it or walk it with my dog ,found the remnats of 2 stations so far ,Yeathouse station where the platforms are still there and at Winder the old station house is there plus the platform , i think it's a great way to reuse and old railway line :)

[@johnhorner12]

I used to live in Pewsey went to school in Swindon & used to go by bus but the railway was still there, & all the stations you mentioned I remember

[@knownothing5518]

3:11 I didn't realise Paul was operatically gifted!

[@hainanbob6144]

Impressed! One of the reasons I don't cycle is that we live surrounded by mountains, maybe an e-bike is the answer. Nice video, reminded me of when we used to have railways.

[@malcolmsmith6615]

I’m sure you saw it, but there is a fantastic red brick skew bridge over the Wilts and Berks canal at Rushy Platt. An impressive structure, plus the canal is fully in water at that point (unlike the majority of the canal at the moment).

[@pwhitewick]

Totally missed this.... I'm such a wally.

[@malcolmsmith6615]

@@pwhitewick So easy to miss things that you’re not looking for (I thought you might be keeping it for another canal video). Never mind, at least you know about it now.

[@bobsrailrelics]

Want one but a lot of money. Great to see an old railway being covered, last one I did I walked and it almost did me in. One of those bikes would have made it a lot easier 😂

[@Alan_Watkin]

I've got an E'bike i converted myself, i don't drive so its totally changed my life its fantastic,,, enjoy paul

[@bobwatson2531]

Hi ,How did the line get from Chisledon down to Swindon town,as I remember that is one steep hill? Enjoyed the trip.

[@pwhitewick]

Great question, I think it just used the hill and went down along it. Its really difficult to tell as it stands today.

[@stephendavies6949]

Great to see you back on the Abandoned Stations quest. Great viewing.

[@williamhart6273]

Hi Paul, another great video… you parked just up the road from the back of my house.

[@pwhitewick]

Very cool!

[@WS102]

Awesome to see the increased access and coverage the new bike gives you in making videos. Thanks to Himiway. Very cool.

[@pwhitewick]

Thank you!

[@WS102]

@@pwhitewick Now...just find a way to put a kiddie seat or a trailer on it so you can take Rebecca with you....She can be the tail gunner with a camera.

[@terryengland1880]

One thing i dislike is the hydraulic brakes go wrong can be a bit of a problem ,always disconnect them easily

[@leonardjackman354]

Great way of getting out and about on that e bike making your very interesting videos thank you Paul and Rebecca .

[@pwhitewick]

Our pleasure!

[@hedleythorne]

Next time full Rapha gear, shaved guns and coffee stops?

[@pwhitewick]

On it

[@robertcoleman4861]

Thanks Paul, Love the bike.🚴‍♂☕🍩🤠

[@vincebagusauskas278]

You have a good price for that Himi. 50% more in price in Oz

[@zeb3144]

Love the modesty blurring. 😁

[@pwhitewick]

😁

[@DanLoudShirts]

By cycling and doing the panoramic shots you could get a sense of what it was like to go along the route by train. Nice vid!

[@DrivermanO]

That railway route is very obvious from Chiseldon south to the Ogbournes to the right of the road as you travel south.

[@jennythescouser]

Does that mean Rebecca is going to get a HERIWAY? 😉

[@MorrisTart]

You've made it quite a challenge to avoid all the advertising for something I've no interest in buying. Now, if it were a large wheeled folding electric bike you'd have my interest.

[@pwhitewick]

Panic ye not. Back to normal next week

[@jeffricks2640]

aww I used to take my kids along the old town path to rushy platt ...we used to stop at that secret spot to have a bite to eat and all this time I never knew it was the remains of an old platform ! thanks Paul for that great little piece of knowledge ...its a beautiful stretch of old line that one

[@ROBERTSCOIN]

Have you got enough sheds in your back garden.

[@pwhitewick]

Nope... need one more

[@alexfalconer7551]

Great to see you on two wheels, hope Rebecca gets one also. But please please buy a really good chain lock for them.

[@pwhitewick]

Chain lock?... oh as in security?

[@alexfalconer7551]

@@pwhitewick Yes, theft is a big problem with these valuable bikes. Take care be safe. Love your videos. 😊

[@geoffwysham1731]

Looked like some nice weather this week. We’ll be in Cheltenham in about a week and a half, and I’m not looking for any of that 30 degree weather of yours!

[@pwhitewick]

Apparently it's coming back!

[@Alan_UK]

We've just come back from a holiday in the Peak District staying in a cottage in the shadow of 2 great viaducts on the old Midland railway line, now the Monsdale Trail. Lots of walkers and cyclists. Many viaducts, long lit tunnels, old lime kilns, old quarries now nature reserves, and former stations offering refreshments. A rail group wants to reopen the line but this would deprive thousands of people each year from using it for walking and cycling.

[@pwhitewick]

Ever the question indeed

[@settleforshadows8510]

Nicely placed product placement incorporated into the video, didn't feel intrusive at all, looks fast and all.

[@robinclayton8284]

20 miles, even for a fat sack o...... like me thats just two hour rough terrain on a £15 facebook marketplace special.. put in the pedals , no need for electric.

[@pwhitewick]

Sure but I did 42 miles on that day and filmed it. Could never do that on a pedal only bike

[@lorriebuxton2041]

Like your videos except this one it's is an infomercial I know you need to make money but not watching rest of video

[@pwhitewick]

Thanks for the support Lorrie.

[@robinwatling6538]

excellent thank you

[@pwhitewick]

Thank you.

[@malcolmstead272]

Just love your little dog.

[@paulb4uk]

There is video online of the swindon railway line in use .