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Sandwell Junction
Великобритания
Добавлен 27 ноя 2018
I am a complete beginner when it comes to creating a model railway layout, I've always had an interest ever since I was a child but only now have I decided to create one.
I aim to model a layout set between 1985 to 2000 and will be using locations across the West Midlands as inspiration to create the fictional Sandwell Junction.
So join me on this journey from sources of inspiration through to the complete layout.
Each step will be documented in as much detail as humanly possible, whether you're a seasoned modeller or a complete beginner like me, this channel will undoubtedly be of great interest.
I aim to model a layout set between 1985 to 2000 and will be using locations across the West Midlands as inspiration to create the fictional Sandwell Junction.
So join me on this journey from sources of inspiration through to the complete layout.
Each step will be documented in as much detail as humanly possible, whether you're a seasoned modeller or a complete beginner like me, this channel will undoubtedly be of great interest.
Exploring an Abandoned Railway Line - Part 1
Part 1 of the explore. from Blowers Green to Dudley Port Low Level
Please feel free to watch my previous explore via this link...
ruclips.net/video/s6xYTjuqC4I/видео.html
Please feel free to watch my previous explore via this link...
ruclips.net/video/s6xYTjuqC4I/видео.html
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Видео
Sandwell Junction - October 2019 Update
Просмотров 3834 года назад
Just a quick update after a 4 month absence!
New Purchases
Просмотров 2455 лет назад
A quick video detailing a few of my new purchases over at Sandwell Junction.
Sandwell Junction Visits - Derby Model Railway Exhibition
Просмотров 8475 лет назад
Derby Model Railway Exhibition - 11th of May 2019 at the Roundhouse
New Mini Layout
Просмотров 1535 лет назад
I've used up some scrap wood and built a 5ft x 3ft sized baseboard, I'm looking for your suggestions to what I should put on there!
How NOT To Ballast
Просмотров 1855 лет назад
In this video I show you, how NOT to ballast track... needless to say it went wrong!
Weathering an 0-4-0 Locomotive
Просмотров 2085 лет назад
I weather my first ever locomotive! Please check out the Scrap Line Model Railway via this link... ruclips.net/channel/UCrDqF6ToUPIvubkxazYkXtw
Sandwell Junction Visits - Severn Valley Railway
Просмотров 3865 лет назад
In this episode of Sandwell Junction Visits join me at the Severn Valley Railway.
New Project and a quick update!
Просмотров 1175 лет назад
In this video I detail a new project that I will be undertaking while I wait until I can finish the baseboards.
Sandwell Junction visits Warley Open Day
Просмотров 2025 лет назад
I take a trip to Warley Model Railway Club's open day, I am quite lucky that I only live a few miles away so I will be joining the club in due course. Please check out - Jamie Cattell Trains ruclips.net/channel/UCRC5T4-GZPxYM7ROMrEqV6w and Warley Model Railway Club - ruclips.net/channel/UCqGnOWEPuNEwOmFGwLV0Oqg
Recent Purchases!
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A quick video detailing some new purchases for Sandwell Junction
Q & A and Competition Winner
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I answer questions as part of my 100 subscriber giveaway competition, the lucky winner wins a Metcalfe Stone-Built Way Side Station.
Sandwell Junction visits - Stafford Model Railway Exhibition
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Sandwell Junction visits - Stafford Model Railway Exhibition
Sandwell Junction - Christmas Surprise!
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Sandwell Junction - Christmas Surprise!
Sandwell Junction Visits Stafford Station
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Sandwell Junction Visits Stafford Station
Sandwell Junction - The Search For Ideas Continues!
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Sandwell Junction - The Search For Ideas Continues!
Hi Sandwell Junction. Was directed here by yourself via a link you put into a FB comment on a post regards a disused train tunnel running parallel to Duncan Edwards Way. Another poster said this trainline is going to be part of the Midlands Metro connecting Brierly Hill to Wednesbury. Great to see such an historical line repurposed. great vid, really enjoyed. Thanks for posting 🙂
Hi - the five wooden sleepers between the concrete sleepers were to hold an expansion joint for the CWR - Continuous Welded Rail. Also, two short lengths of Bullhead rail would have been laid on their side and bolted to the five wooden sleepers to stop them moving during any expansion or contraction.
What a criminal waste. (Flat bottomed rail was often laid on wooden sleepers, btw. And bull head rail laid on concrete sleepers with chairs)
Nice job!:)
Will u do a video on smethwick Rolfe street and Galton bridge
Very interesting as I remember touring industrial archeology and looking over great brick walls and seeing deep empty holes. The Black County is a bit alarming when one sees so much abandoned industrial sites and railways previously so extensive. There ought to be a law so when such industrial sites are put into cleanliness and attractive viewing. I hope the use of the old railways you showed around does get used for transport. One suggestion for your video tour is a good map over the Dudley area to make it easier to visualise an overall sense and locations. Thanks
Its right next to the black Country Museum, always baffled me that they never extended their grounds and opened up part of the line to run short trips using steam locomotives, kind of like what they do with the barges on the canal taking people on trips through the tunnels and back.
If you like trains your like my RUclips channel feel free to give it a look
Hi, a bit late perhaps, but I have just found this video. The wooden sleepers in the flat bottom section is where a breathing switch would have been. The rail end where chamfered similarly to point blades, but laid o that the slid along their length to allow expansion and contraction. I'm not certain as to why wooden sleepers though
Very interesting video. The whole line from Stourbridge to Dudley has been a great point of interest to me since I moved to Brierley Hill about 10 years ago. I used to pass the site of Dudley station on the bus once a week when I volunteered at the canal trust and I must admit it was quite exciting to see that huge forest suddenly gone and the whole area cleared again.
Nice one and waiting for new videos.
Are you still looking to model Bescot in OO? happy to part some knowledge of the area if so
Seems an awful lot of foliage
Awesome video!!! Im really into photography, is there a 'good' place to access the line Dudley end?
Thanks. Unfortunately the site is now under construction for the Midland Metro extension and has heavy security.
Did I read somewhere that Beeching's aim was to mothball, not destroy, many of the structures? Ernest Marples, the Minister for Transport in the ConservativeGovernment, took the latter decision. Apparently, he owned a road construction firm and was "best mates" with Eddie Stobart. This is why working-class people vote Tory.
It's not Sandwell station it's Dudley station before Sandwell was formed
I don't believe that I referred to it as Sandwell Station even once.
nice video !
2:37 : "both the bridge and the original station were demolished"....Boom! go the cannons in the 1812 overture! Nice touch!
Coincidental I think, it wasn't planned 😂
Great vlog love the old photos what a fantastic station and as y7ou say all the work and effort that went into the buildings and structures. Where will the trams and freight line go to and from?
Boston mi mon
That's the line I saw in the first lockdown and it used to go to Lower Wolverhampton station and it used to go along by the housing estate Springfield.
Brilliant video.
I have to tell you that flat bottom rail also gets used on wooden sleepers, using Pan11 chairs. That small section of 5 sleepers between the NTF’s (concrete sleepers) was most likely used for a scarf switch or breather as it’s more commonly known. There are not any NTF’s that can accommodate a scarf switch yet. Good video, just please refer to wooden sleepers as wooden sleepers and the same for concrete please. As this can be irritating to anyone who works on the railway watching your videos. Keep up the good work 👍
why do people use the term "train" it is a RAILWAY (line,station,bridge,) the same goes for locomotives (or engines if you like) please keep our wonderful names for things as they should be thank you .PS great piece of history.
Autodidactic channel 👀💸
Used to walk out to Wednesbury along there Sunday afternoons when I lived there. A lot of the track was fenced off by the end of my time . I think the trams now use part of the same trackbed. Also walked the other way through the tunnel and decided to turn back after meeting a junction which had a live signal working on it. Happy days.
Interesting footage but an odd choice of music.
It is me are the tracks still down
did you decide not to proceed with your layout in the end?
Excellent commentary from you mate
I think this line was set for Midland Metro Expansion from Wednesbury to Merry Hill I don't know if it still is
Sure is
great video really well put together music went very well and very well narrated really enjoyed the video great stuff cheers all the best al 😁👍👍👍👍
Thanks, glad you enjoyed.
A classic example of BR corporate vandalism. The old GWR invested huge effort and capital in developing an intensive railway network around the Birmingham area only for it to be destroyed in the 1960s. What a waste !
How do you get to the blowers green tunnel? I've been trying so hard but to no avail , could really use some help lol
Now? With a fair amount of difficulty. The Midland metro has begun construction and vast swathes of the area are now covered by K2 Security.
@@sandwelljunction6337 thanks for the reply, if I got down to blowers green for example and was intercepted by K2, do you reckon I'd be in trouble or just asked to leave?
Brilliant and strong video, love the 1812 overture music in the background. Looking forward to part 2. There's a good collection of shopping trolleys on that railway. I do think that this railway will will re open again, looked like that it was a beautiful railway, it's a shame that it's been left abandoned.
Thanks for your comment Jamie, glad that enjoyed. I've no idea why a shopping trolley would be in the middle of a tunnel, very odd! The talk so far is the Midland Metro, however I have also heard talk of opening it up to freight too, whether that'll happen I don't know.
Sandwell Junction I think it will, I think it will be better for the midland metro as, in Wednesbury the depot for the trams near by.
i know this like the back of my hands,when the freight finally stopped it was a playground for me growing up , the giant caterpillars that grew on and in between the blackberry bushes on the embankment of this line i havent witnessed once since, the old reservoir the back of conygree foundry which had some impressive pike in long gone as well , thanks for refreshing the memories
Glad you enjoyed
Well put together that. Right up my street, disused railways have always been a big interest of mine. Strange that there's So much railway odds and ends still in place. I thought they would of fully cleared the area. Just a little tip, keep your text and picture references up a little longer on the screen. That's always a good thing to see. Look forward to seeing the next one!
Thanks Tim, glad you enjoyed. It's something that interests me greatly. It's remained fairly untouched for 25 or so years, the whole area used to be exceptionally overgrown with bushes and trees so it's nice to be able to explore the area before it becomes inaccessible once again.
Interesting video on your local area looking forward to the next installment .
Thanks Dave
Really enjoyed that. Paul
Thanks Paul
Great video. Love looking at all the local abandoned tracks, and especially the ‘then and now’ photos. I work at the Metro so it’s interesting to see where it will be going.
It's certainly fascinating and I look forward to seeing what it looks like in the years to come
Brilliant, look forward to part 2
Thanks Jason, glad you enjoyed, part 2 is half filmed just need a spare day to get back out and explore some more.
WoW. Amazing video. Obviously alot of time and effort has gone into this including the editing. How long did this 16 minute video take to produce? Amazing area, full of history. Let's hope the Dudley and Sandwell councils pull their fingers out and rebuild these lines and make use of them once more. Reopening them would certainly take more cars off the roads. Really enjoyed watching this video. I'm local to this area so nice to see someone like yourself exploring and documenting what was and what hopefully will be😀
Thanks, I actually filmed it back in May of this year, but about a month's worth of work has gone into it all with all the research, filming and extensive editing. I'm actually creating a new channel soon just for local history, of the black country and Birmingham etc. So on that channel there'll be more of this kind of thing.
Apparently the Midland Metro was susspossed to go here from Wednesbury to Merry Hill Idk if it still Is as the project might have been abandoned
Although the one tunnel goes to Wednesbury can anyone explain what the purpose was of the tunnel next to it please?
Not entirely sure myself, perhaps the line split off into a siding. But I've no concrete information.
Hi, new to your channel but looking forward to the layout progress!! Cheers Sam
Thanks Sam
Cool buildings 👍
Yes they'll certainly add some detail
2nd November Wednesbury Art gallery. West Bromwich model railway club.
Awesome, I may have to pop along
There is a model railway exhibition this Saturday in Wednesbury.
Is there? What's the details?
Nice to have you back 👍
Thanks, it's great to be back. Stay tuned for upcoming videos
Great to see you back mate! Look forward to the video about the abandoned line, I really enjoyed the first one you did.
Thanks mate, the abandoned Dudley station video is my most watched video, so it makes sense to have a more in depth explore of the line. I've managed to get some pictures from the 1980's from a guy who used to sneak on the line and into the tunnel back in the freightliner days which are fascinating pictures. I hope to have the video up by next weekend
Last time I walked through that tunnel and into the depot area was 1993, Right after it had closed. We absolutely loved it as all the infrastructure was still in place and it felt naughty to do so. We had walked all the way from Walsall along the canal, through the Netherton tunnel and back into Dudley along that very track. That’s bought back some memories.
some nice kits. always wanted to see a wash bay on a layout.
I may get a few more of those as in the real world you seldom see just one
Those models are great, very modern. Good to hear back from you. Can't wait for the video on the abandoned line between Dudley and Walsall.😀
They'll certainly add a level of detail to the layout. Even though I've not made any progress on the layout or uploaded I've still gone and brought things. I'll be at Warley where I'll mostly be on the lookout for lighting. Yes the abandoned line video is one to watch out for, unfortunately I can't get all the way along the line, only to Wednesbury as the rest isn't navigable.
Sandwell Junction lighting is going to look really nice on these buildings, but can be fiddly.
@@jamiecattell5580 Oh I can imagine, I'm considering buying the Just Plug system because it looks fairly easy as I've never done any soldering etc. I've plans for lighting in the inspection pits, on the front of the loco shed, some flood lighting around the tmd tard and perhaps one of those little welder guys you can get and pop that in the back of the loco shed!