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Happy New year from New Zealand 🎉 be safe out there brother. ✌️

Those wooden attachments were for carrying the cables for the catenary, hidden away in wharncliffe woods is a disused substation that brought the power down from national grid 33kv to 1500v dc

Merry Christmas ‘Dav’

Merry Christmas Dave. All the best to 2025. Look forward to see what you're upto. Good luck on the bank loan for your train ticket to Scotland ;)

Can't wait for more great content to come from you I never get board of your videos they are so fun to watch

You've got a wicked sense of humour Dave 😂 I love that bridge that was extended with the blue brick section. The lighting in there always looks incredible

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sad to see that i had birds for years but had to bin them though illness

Thanks for your comment Peter. The near absence of barges is probably due to the fact that this five mile portion is separated from the more major part of the canal, which is where more blbarges can travel and also connect with other waterways but hopefully in a few years this ugly 10 mile gap will no longer exist. The plan as mentioned at the end of the video is to rebuild the closed segment as far north as Renishaw throughout 2025, then further beyond that, as funding permits.

Lovely walk with the autumn leaves! Surprised there are so few boats on the canal though. The water looks almost stagnant in places!

Sad to see those former lofts in that state 😢. I was a pigeon fancier my self packed up in 2001 after keeping them for 16 years . Only 2 people left flying them now where I live was upwards of 40+ till the mid 90's.

Just to comment on the suggestion that just a few trains travelled along the single line from Green Ayre up to Lancaster Castle Station (as it then was). Actually all the electric trains from Morecambe reversed in Green Ayre and then travelled up the steeply curving line to Castle Station, usually terminating in platform 5 as it is now still in use. The short platform 6 was still there with overhead electric wires but was only quite rarely used - it now has no track though you still look across to platform 6 from 5 (that still in use). When the electric line through Green Ayre was closed all the overhead was torn down but when the West Coast main line was electrified new overhead had to be erected on all parts of Lancaster Castle, though platform 6 was left abandoned.

NOT HAY-sham

Pretty interesting

The mesh is deliberately taken off . The things on floor are for water troughs to sit on

Love all your videos Dave and this one is no exception its is very informative

The four pulley wheels were once part of a gasholder of the former York gasworks

Hats off to all those who cleared the vegetation from the old turntable! 👍

We used to live alongside the then electrified railway on Christie Ave Morecambe . It was vandalism in the 1960s to close it , and would be very useful today . Of course the road lobby wanted the Lune Greyhound bridge for the road ! The direct inter city Lancaster to Leeds was lost and the freight route from Heysham harbour was lost . Progress ……I’m not sure . Time will tell . Dave H Carnforth

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I lived at Scale Hall in the 1960s and used to be taken on the railway to Morecambe or Lancaster very often by my parents. The line was well used but BR were determined to close it. As far as I know all the trains between Morecambe and Lancaster went over the bridge to Green Ayre then reversed into Lancaster Castle station - maybe a reason for the early electrification of the line. There were steam hauled trains that went to Green Ayre then on to Yorkshire. I can remember being in bed listening to the trains shunting at Green Ayre

Closing this was one of the most absurd decisions in BR's history. I mean however strongly you felt it should close, once it had been electrified, wouldn't you try to make it work?

Nerve Centre. Love that analagy Dave. Enjoyed watching that. Great work at finding your way into those platforms.

Back in the day there were upwards of 40 lofts on the bank ranging the full length of about a mile

Excellent video dave , thank you.

well done mr brittas

Well done Dave, that video took me back for sure. As a lad in the late 50s early 60s I rode that line on several occasions. We used to get railway runabout tickets during the school holidays alowing us travel all over parts of Lancashire, and Morecambe was one of the favourite destinations. Getting off at the promenade station and heading straight for the funfair! Happy days. Keep up the good work lad!

Great video and history. Subbed.

Wonderful commentary glad you mentioned the wonderful original cobbles. Great to hear the history.

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