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Great episode, of a great series. Thanks for posting. Yeah, lets have a cheer, for the much maligned and under-funded British Rail; and Train travel in general. Bias I hear? As a BR Signalman of course. 😁

Brian Redhead, adopted Mancunian. Rip Brian, proud northerner. 👏

I was 16 in 1981, and just started work in the piggeries mentioned in this program, and I can vouch the area was an industrial waste land full of pollution and the weather denotes how the cold held on to the smog, that’s not winter weather is both ! Thanks to those who drove the improvements we enjoy now - cleaner air and fish, trees and birds….. all along the rails, cannels and river we have much more to put back in order ......

Brilliant 👏

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condolences for your mom david, great tune

Excellent

I took this line when travelling from Leamington Spa to Huddersfield in the early 1980s when I was studying at Huddersfield Poly.

Brilliant, I lived in Stockport for many years and I am fascinated by industrial architecture and beer! What a great archive record.

The best way to see the Reddish South / Denton line nowadays is from Don Coffey's cab-view videos: ruclips.net/video/cEPXMmjtvPs/видео.html(goes from Guide Bridge to Stockport) or ruclips.net/video/ZSr0EXGxpdE/видео.html (goes from Stockport towards Guide Bridge but turns left by Audenshawe Reservoir onto the line towards Brewery Junction north of Man Vic). Guide Bridge to Stalybridge is the easy bit: all the Man Picc to Huddersfield to Leeds trains do it. This video ruclips.net/video/99EijmRp_eg/видео.html follows the complete route (Stalybridge to Stockport direction).

Don’t know how I have never seen this video before. I remember as a kid going to Stockport to my Nan’s. Sat behind the driver, and it felt like we were also driving.

One thing they don't mention when they go past the Craven's factory !! One of the rains cars in a Craven's class 105 so was most probably built there !

The biggest brick built bridge in the world is the Göltzsch Viaduct, Stockport railway bridge is the largest in the UK...

had many a pint in the buffet a pint of Moorhouse please ...

the signaling at Guide bridge was worked off vacuum /or maybe Air

13:28 the line on left you can get to Manchester Victoria

i,v done this line many times...

This line appeared on a radio 4 documentary about 'parliamentary trains' a few years ago: There are about 4 such trains across England and it would take an act of Parliament to scrap the them. P.S. Staleybridge Station buffet bar is enough to turn a man to drink!

18m42s oh Dr David Owen voice was a surprise 😮

Great content keep it up!! The number one spot for online marketing 'Promo SM'!!!

I was a second man at guide bridge depot I remember the old guys now sadly deceased in the sidings and their collection of mucky books ! Happy days

That service was reduced from one per hour to one per week. In one direction only! Although there was talk of having a return journey but that would return to Stockport about 20 minutes after it arrived. Wonderful service.

l bet the industrial landscape has totally changed now !! l bet there 's no industry !! l remember going through Rotherham about 85 /86 on a train and it was like a war zone - the dereliction had to been seen to be believed !! Many many factories and small metal works closed down with the rooves ripped off to avoid paying the loco tax - piles of rubbish everywhere !

Wonderful. I was 4 yrs old when this first aired, but watching this now brings back fond memories of Guide Bridge station. Why this line cannot be rejuvenated by Metrolink I do not know?

Genius

I' have some of those original Anglophone singles., I bought at our local record shop in 1963 for 6s 6d, wonder what they're worth?

Lot of throwing down vinyl..???

You didn't say anything about the glow in the dark sticker.🤯

Nice video. Thank u. Getting it too!. Done subscribed

4.07 to 09 passes my house I sold in 1985. There used to be a huge sidings there called Jubilee Sidings. Can clearly see Ash Garage on Manchester Road, Heaton Norris too. My school, St Anne's RC, the other side of track. Yes, did this run I'd guess about 1963 to Stalybridge trainspotting.

Great to see. I remember this fascinating railway backwater from my student days, travelling weekly from Leeds to Crewe. This would be 1985-1989. In the early days it was a single car class 121 DMU in blue/grey livery. As there was standing room only at peak times they reverted to a 2-car unit in 1987 I think. I can recall seeing all the 'fish name' departmental wagons at Guide Bridge. Happy memories of a simpler and in many ways better time.

I like this song man. Thumbs up

Sheer delight.

The guy shouting all change at Stalybridge station sounds like a guy called John he was the station porter he retired about 2002 he was there 30 plus years! I heard they're going to reinstate the Stockport to Stalybridge service in 2022 so let's wait and see as its a nice journey to see the countryside in this local area of the Cheshire Lancashire borders.

Thanks so much for a fascinating picture of life 40 years ago. Brian Redhead's invitation at the end is sadly impossible to fulfill these days as the one train a week only runs one way. I once lived in the area and my first job was in Stockport, but I emigrated to Australia in 1973, although nostalgia for my homeland is a strong as ever.

The best review! Thanks.

is the book different from the documentaries or it is just a retranscription ?

Glimpsed in this clip at 2.35 is the 2-car "105/100" hybrid d.m.u. that was once a fixture on the Rose Hill-Piccadilly service through Hyde. It was scheduled for preservation but was left exposed in sidings to be vandalised and inevitably scrapped. I travelled on it several times. The Reddish Vale Mill at 8.19 is no more: the site is currently being 'redeveloped' So much else of what's in the clip has disappeared following the closure of the Woodhead route and its associated lines. There was no need for the Stockport-Stalybridge link once the trains from Leeds had been diverted via Guide Bridge into Piccadilly in the late '80s.

@Bikini Test Failure What Version is with the poster?

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It's worth for the Glyn Johns mixes

Once an hour sercice then, now once a week and only in one direcection. D'oh!

That really is a gem. Thank you!

Lovely to see that. Travelled that line many times from Stockport to catch a mainline train up to Newcastle to college, 60's. And the reverse journey. Frozen on Stalybridge Station many times!! Great view of the beautiful Viaduct. Thank you.

Bravo!!! Lots of reactions but I especially love the chihuahua ;) Just sayin'

I've never seen a badger in my life!

Denton station had the queen's Hotel a great pub for under age drinkers

What a wonderful programme from the happy days when the BBC has sufficient funds to make local programmes. Brilliant introduction music and video. And the great Brian Redhead, a national figure who was quite happy to cover a small regional subject. Thanks for posting.

Fantastic. I live in Stalybridge, what a historical tour of the line. It would be good if it was back to 1 train per hour, instead of now 1 or 2 per week. Even go as far as part of a tram circle line that could be built keeping the old stations and adding new one's. Stalybridge-Stockport-Manchester-Ashton under Lyne-Stalybridge to put some new life back into the line, intersecting with a stop at Guide Bridge, to change trams that could run between Glossop and Manchester and maybe the Marple line via Hyde.