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Brilliant video but it's Aston Cantlow matey

Brilliant - followed on google earth to see old track bed. Absolutely excellent. Wasn't the line called The Stratford Midland Junction - SMJ - known as Slow Moldy & Jolting? Your trip was none of these. Many thanks - Edmund Bootle

I used to live in Alcester and not far from the old station. The wall as you approach the station in Alcester at the start ,used to be in my back garden and was part of the house on the corner. I cycled/walked the old line many times and always thought it was a waste not to be running, as the roads between Alcester and Stratford are heavy with traffic. I always wanted to see what it would have been like to have travelled on it , so thank you for sharing this excellent depiction.

Loved it and the animation, but what we call the Sandy Banks bridge is missing. This is a deep cutting just on the edge of what is now the industrial estate and a huge bridge over the track. The bridge exists today but is buried.

Very impressive work 👌

The Bridgnorth tunnel is regularly inspected to make sure it's safe, it may not be suitable for running trains anymore but structurally it's sound. The tunnel is still owned by Network Rail so they carry out the inspections because a tunnel collapse would be a nightmare for the town above.

I grew up in Bridgnorth. From the mid 1950s until the line closed, this was a regular journey to Shrewsbury, where my mother was from. Early train from Bridgnorth,first stop was the children’s play area in the Quarry. Then onto the market building, fresh produce and maybe cakes. Then onto Auntie Gin and Uncle Bill who my mother stayed with during the war. Your video journey brought it all back to life, thank you. PS you were right to get rid of the bird song, much better without.

Hi Anthony, terrific piece of work and very interesting; from another inmate at GAP

The stations don't look like the original

I have known of this branch line for some time now..and I have seen the station buijding at Great Alne. after closure I beleive It served as the village post office for a while. I once played the organ at Great Alne church this was for my brothers wedding in the late 1980s

Awesome representation … hadn’t realised you’re based here - when did you move from Middlesex?

Love your work Anthony :) Great train ride! Cheers mate.

Great video as always! Looking forward to the opportunity to ride this route )

Very enjoyable. Its great to relive these old lines.

Brilliant 👏

Hi, I wanted to ask, did you get those lineside Telephone pole assets from the Steam Workshop, or somewhere else?, i'd love to know where I can get them

Very nicely done. We live just over the border in South Staffs.

A fascinating recreation of a lost railway. One correction. The Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway referred to at 19:30 opened in 1866 but was a financial disaster and was closed in 1880. It then lay derelict until 1911 when it was reopened as the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway which operated out of Shrewsbury Abbey Railway Station.

It would be great to see a recreation of the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light railway 🙂

Hi, love the work you do, would you be able to share with me the mod list you used for this video?

Superb video. I grew up in the area in the1950’s and I was a frequent visitor to Buildwas as my father worked at Ironbridge A Power Station. By then the coal sidings and associated plant had, as you say, dominated the station area.

Great idios but the Stations don't match the original

Fantastic video! Subscribed! I hope to do something of this scale some day myself! Where should I start learning how to do so?

I must get around to playing with this game, had it for ages but not had time to look at it. From a film point of view I would like to do something similar but using cab shots, running along side and passing shots from location as the one think lacking is the engine/train as such it could almost be a drone running down the track. Don’t know if this is possible but I will give it a try.

I lived on the outskirts of Kidderminster in the early 1990s, and visited SVR at Bridgenorth a couple of times. The tunnel north must be behind the sheds as I didn't see it. A pity the tunnel can't be reopened, it would be amazing to easily travel through a countryside with no roads.

As a fan of the Brill tramway (A friend and I tried to walk along it in the early 1960s) I thank you for this representation. I notice, however, one error. Platform edges were not painted white until 1939, as part of the WWII blackout regulations. My impression is that the road was much nearer to the railway than you have shown, but that may be because the road had been widened between the time of your depiction and the 1960s, when I saw the remains of it.

That was very interesting, thank you 🙂. I love the idea of taking information from historical maps, photos and documentation and creating a working simulation from them and it looks like you did very good job of it 👍

Anthorny. This lot must of taken hours to produce. Well done for sticking with it. It has been a facinating journey along the line. At the same time, you can see why it never lasted. There was nothing there. Once the Industrial Revolution moved away from the valley and the coal mines shut, there is no revenue to keep it alive. Atleast you efforts have made it worth while.

What happened to the Wrekin? It domiates the area with views over the Severn and surrounding area?

Brilliant!! Gives us a chance to see how it was, many have never seen it for real, and we never will again. Thank you.

In 1910 the countryside was close to the town and folk could easily walk out there. The 1930s saw a massive expansion of suburbia.

Enjoyed your video, while as a fireman at Stourbridge 84F we had a job, that went tender first to Dudley with a 28XX, wait for Midland men to bring train in from Cardington in Bedfordshire, worked train with RAF personnel to Bridgnorth, empty stock to Shrewsbury, and back light engine via Wombourne branch, great little job.

Nice video and really interesting and well made. I didn't skip any part of. Have only just come across your channel so will be catching up on other videos

Just to point out it’s not Cross Hands, it’s Cross Houses. Apart from that it’s great.

If you feel inclined I would love to see either the Cromford & High Peak or the Matlock to Buxton lines recreated like this.

What a fabulous set of videos. This line reminds me of the Derby to Stoke line.

These are lovely and I am addicted to TF2! Any possibility of putting this/these maps on the Steam Workshop for others to enjoy? Thanks.

How do you get passengers to use stations made if assets?

There are a number of anomalies within this simulation. Stencilled speed restriction signs were not used at this time. And if they were, they did not look anything like the ones we know today. The fence appears to run alongside the track on one side only. Each telegraph pole has a curious grey box clamped to it .- what is it? The wires suspended between each pole do not match up with the insulators, which themselves are badly designed.

Great to see the correct rolling stock in use.

11:10 today ironbridge station no longer stands the station yard car park have taken over much of the site and the station hotel is still there opposite to where the station was

6:01 Coalport west station is still here as of today and so are the platforms the bridge and the GWR coaches are here but are mainly holiday homes and the station house But not so the goods yard that’s all gone And this is where you get off here for Coalport east station which is on silkin way on the line to wellington And Coalport east station no longer stands as of today

3:15 today the bridge that crosses over this road in Bridgnorth is now gone completely and the entrance to Bridgnorth tunnel has been overgrown and it’s not accessible to get up there because the residential homes have taken up that section

22:13 today West Midlands railway and transport for wales trains all use that station

19:49 this area is now housing estate which covers most of the trackbed

20:02 today the signal box still stands and still sees trains coming in and out of Shrewsbury and the Welshpool line and the Hereford line Also the arch bridge is still standing

10:05 berrington station is still here as of today but it’s now private residence and the platform and the station building are still there

14:15 today the station building of cressage is still there as of today and it’s now private residence as for the bridge that’s gone completely

4:43 today buildwas station which is a junction station used for services to wellington and the Severn valley railway is now disappeared altogether and the power station that used to be there has been closed for 9 years now

There’s a small halt station of jackfield which the platform is still here but it’s mostly overgrown and so is jackfield sidings that’s all still there