Recycled Railways: feat Whitewick's Abandoned Railways
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Here's our end of season feature length documentary on recycling Britain's Railways!
Featuring interview with Paul & Rebecca Whitewick of Whitewick's Abandoned Railways.
Exploring Folkestone Harbour: • Folkestone Harbour Aba...
Paul & Rebecca's Channel: / @pwhitewick
Loch Skerrow • Loch Skerrow - Uk's mo...
Ingleton Branch Viaducts • The 4 Railway Viaducts...
Horspath Tunnel • The Story of Horspath ...
Site Credits:
www.RailMapOnli... & Google Maps.
Image Credits:
Lamberhurst [CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommon...)]
Muswell Hill
Ben Brooksbank / Bath (Green Park) Station, interiorBath Green Park
Ian Capper [CC BY-SA 2.0 (creativecommon...)]
Manchester Central
Lewis Collard lewiscollard.com/ [Attribution]
Folkestone Harbour
Watch Paul and Rebecca's exploration of Folkestone Harbour here: ruclips.net/video/9Nw-U2V8ibU/видео.html
Watched it as well Andy.
Me too..great video.
What an excellent documentary, really well thought out and executed. Thanks for having us, a complete pleasure to be part of the video. 👍👍
Petworth station in west Sussex is b&b and you can stay in the station buildings or carriages. Eastbourne goods shed is now called the enterprise centre which has shops cafes and restaurant, the cuckoo trail is an 11 mile former line with Hellingly station intact but it is a private dwelling the trail goes from Polegate to Heathfield.
How lucky we are to have so much quality content. Whether it's Andy and Victoria, Paul and Rebecca or Vicky and Geoff. the amount of output they produce is mind-blowing. Huge compliments to you all, and thank you,
I'm just three minutes in and I already gotta say: That is such a great video! Deserves an award.
Indeed it does.
Love the RUclips interaction. From Martin Zero to Paul & Rebecca, and on to yourselves. Excellent production and music.
Exactly what I was thinking and all different styles but all made with passion and great to watch. Another directly with Martin Zero are 'Foxes Afloat' who link with the Whitewicks (& Martin)via the Hardcastle tunnel.
@@TheAlfsterino Many thanks.
Neil Thomas Me too , I arrived here via Martins channel 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
I really enjoyed that thanks. Pressed link from Whitewicks. Have subscribed and thanks for taking me along. Look forward to more
Being a railway walker (and once a railway worker!) I agree with the sentiments regarding history and old abandoned lines. However, it is easy to forget, when trudging an old line, that so many should never have been closed in the first place. Without going into the "Beeching thing" once again, there were so many cases where the Authorities were well aware of large town expansions yet still went ahead with the closures. Yes, it's great fun walking the old tracks and quite sad too!
Series 2 has been a big leap forward in quality of production. Well done. Loved it.
Here from 'The Whitewicks'...helllooooo! A great well researched documentary. Thanks...new subscriber.
We have plenty of recycled railway tracks in Scotland, complete with stations and infrastructure. Some have even been rebuilt and working.
Paul & Rebecca Whitewick sent me and I'm glad I came!
Excellent video Andy! Very well presented, informative and entertaining. Nice to see some other familiar faces too! Looking forward to whenever your next video is out!
Excellent video, great structure & good to hear a positive alternative view of the benefits of disused infrastructure.
This is fantastic. Reminds me of the markets in the old tynemouth station.
Cracking video and a great idea to link up with the Whitewicks.
I was unaware of the converted Bath station, so will look at that at some point.
I remember going to Folkestone for work when the regeneration of the town was in its infancy. I am impressed with how it's progressed, and it looks like it's worth going to just to have a look around the old harbour station.
I have only just found this site and find it so informative. Great commentary and another subscription made.
As some one who lives in northern New Jersey, I'm fond of the High Line. A public park built on the infrastructure of an old elevated freight line on the lower West Side of Manhattan, the High Line offers a bit of nature in the middle of the city as well as wonderful views.
In Holland, the line from Delft to Schipluiden and Maasland is quite nice. Especially in summer, it's a nice cycle on the old track bed, across the old tram bridge!
Whoah, so I'm on RUclips looking up Folkestone Harbour after prompting from a thing I saw on Twitter, I'm watching your awesome video, then out of nowhere I see a photo I took years ago at 7:52! That's awesome!!! It's so good to see the stuff I put on Wikimedia Commons being put to use in ways I didn't expect. Thank you!
So good to be able to attribute a photo to more than just a user name, so thanks for commenting and most importantly thanks for use of and of course taking the photo!!
Another belter. Thanks guys.
HI what a nice video.Have you ever been to Alnwick Station?It was closed in the late 1960s by Beeching.It is now a massive bookshop and cafe.It is called Barter Books,and its the best place to go for a coffee,and a meal!also it has a toy railway line running across the top of the building
Great collab guys! More Whitewick's Abandoned Railways x Calling All Stations please!
A big thank you. I really had lots of UK boyhood memories running through my head.
Incidentally, that old parcels office at Kings X. I use to visit that in the 1960s and very early 1970s to fix the Telex machine. It was then BR Parcels Sundries Division. A wonderful old dump of a place, looks marvelous now and a visit next time I am in the UK.
Great video there, i am new to your channel. It is great to see old infrastructure repurposed and given a new lease of life. I am on the side of returning this back into railways where it it is needed. For an example, the Monsal trail in the Peak District, its a fantastic cycle route, but i would like to see the railway return along here. We need the railway more than ever before, and it is time to roll back most of Dr Beechings closures.
Brilliant video, I did go to Bath Green Park on a quiet day and really enjoy how it was preserved, I had a interest in disused Stations and Lines but once Paul and Rebbeca came along, my interest for disused Railways and Stations really grew to the point that if there some nearby, I take a look while travelling up and down the country by Rail. But it was a great way to end 'Season 2'
I really really enjoyed this video. Absolutely superb.
Great documentary, excellently presented, really enjoyable, bags of information and historial interest, and a great interview with Paul and Rebecca Whitewick. The whole thing makes you wanna get up and go...and discover a bit of local railway and community history!
That's spooky. My local station building has been turned into an Indian restaurant as well, but I live in Yorkshire. Best repurposed railway building is Petworth station B&B. You can sleep in the (wooden) station building or old Pullman carriages. Pub up the entrance lane. Heaven.
There used to be a line running over the top of the Queen Alexandra Bridge in Sunderland. They've kept a small section of viaduct to the north of the river, which i like to see every time I go over the bridge, despite the whole line being long gone.
Excellent video Andy, I really enjoyed it thank you. You would like The Holmseley Branch aka The Castleman's corkscrew in the New Forest it is a wonderful abandoned railway.
Very, very interesting! Thanks for that 🤗
Great video guys. Speaking of recycled, I consider myself a recycled teenager (71 in a couple of weeks). My mind knows how old I am but the body is taking it badly.
I turn 70 in March, I hope I remember this line!
@@bullettube9863 70 farenheit is 21 celcius. So you'll only be 21.
@@RichardFelstead1949 21? That was a very good year, married a year and a ride on my Honda CL450 to visit steam trains in Pennsylvania! It rained cats and dogs and my wife said no more bike, use car next time. We still laugh about it to this day! Lucky the man whose love of trains is equaled by his wife!
Fine documentary, very well done. I think reopening disused railways is a good idea when there is a plan as to how to get sufficient passenger numbers. In the near future, when more people will wake up to the enormous costs of car use, this will entail closing down entire highways and cities to private cars. Now unthinkable, just like smoking bans once were.
Wonderful video :)
folkstone harbour station as a lovely place to visit i visited when i was on holiday in Kent 2018 def recomend it
Will def be popping back in the summer!
Love it! Great guests, by the way.... 😉
And another great find to help with Lockdown! Being new to the NE ( from Dorset) the only two bits of recycled train infrastructure are (a) the real ale pub in Whitby station and (b) another pretty big real ale pub in a station..in Yorkshire. But...have forgotten it.Duh..
I actually use a disused railway line every day on the way to and from work.
I love the Ebury Way. It was a railway line joining Watford to Rickmansworth. It was interesting seeing it on a map of Watford from the 1930s. However now it is a popular cycle path. Only issues is that it has no lighting.
well presented.
Nicely researched and paced vid with a theme - use after (railway) death!
Great vlog Andy. How about visiting the Flitch way in Essex, disused part of the Braintree to Bishops Stortford line. Great cafe at Rayne Station with a museum in an old Mk2 carriage..
Totnes signal box. Large signal boxes are nearly all redundant. Shrewsbury is the major exception. Totnes has been preserved and used as a cafe.
well, the disused section of railway I'm most familiar with is the branch from Wolverton to Newport Pagnell, which has since become a path for walking and cycling
off the rails, isle of white the old yarmouth station has been turned into a very good resturant
Nice history video
Interesting take on the railway scene. I think this could be the start of a new sub-series?
A missed opportunity whilst in Bath would have been to visit the "Two Tunnels Greenway"? Far from being 'unique' as a dual use cycleway/footpath has the distinction of being the longest cycleway/footpath underground... And features speakers playing music.
This video is great
The line from Woodside to Addiscombe in the Croydon Area. That has become a public footpath.
How have I not seen this one before
I like the walk from Johnstone to Neyland Pembrokeshire 4 miles for one end to the other now is nature reserve
If Dr. Beeching hadn't closed half of Britain's railways, towns and villages like ours would not have been cut off from the rest of the country. People lost their jobs, their homes and their way of life, and had to rely more heavily on using roads. Which was Beeching's goal, because using roads and buying vehicles creates more revenue in taxes than trains. The knock-on effect was the loss of most of the country's industries. The reality is, Britiain has been worse off for it and has still not recovered. Talking of repurposing old railway stations; a friend of mine bought one and turned it into a private residence, while the local station where I grew up was used as a concerthall, dancehall, working mens' club and community centre before some of that was moved to my old school. The railway station is now a fire station.
Beeching only did what he was told. Minister of Transport was Ernest Marple. Part owner of Ridgeway Marples who made a lot of money from motorway construction. Look him up on Wikipedia.
@@sr6424 He could have refused. Either way, it was all to make money, with little to no regard for the people whoes lives were destroyed.
@@sr6424 He could have refused. Either way, it was all to make money with little to no regard for the people whoes lives and livelihoods were destroyed.
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Great video Their is hope! I thought big shopping concerns and Supermarkets bought up railway land cheap and destroyed the infrastructure. Poor Glasgow lost St enoch station and hotel completely to a shopping centre. High st is now Stalinist student accomodation (Go Glasgow plannners) They also destroyed part of a nice direct cycle route near the clyde on an old railway which was recently repurposed as a megga car show room. Tesco sits on railway land in Maryhill There is another another Tesco superstore on the old locomotive works & lines in Springburn. It was an act of vandalism destroying ways & routes through citys & towns that should have remained in public hands for repurposing as cycle routes or to use as new technology light weight transport systems.
More than objects to explore, closing marginal services was and is vital to the continuance of lines that served more people.
G-Mex was badly named. Many people still think it means the former Manchester Exchange station, also Beechingised in the 60s.
Poole to Wimborne via Broadstone (Dorset), now a cycle/footpath.
Love that sculpture. Where is it, exactly.?
Assuming you mean the sculpture at the start of the video, it's right in the middle of the running lines in the centre of the station.
This from the internet -
"Varga Weisz’s five-headed sculpture, it's body wrapped in blankets and cardboard, appears stranded and forlorn. Arrived as if by magic, the group huddles together on a carpet, which covers the disused railway tracks of the old harbour station. This station, with its history of bringing First World War soldiers to the harbour to embark to France, as well as being the terminus for the Orient Express until 2008, provided the major inspiration for Varga Weisz’s work."
I have come from whitewick abandoned railways
Some of the old disused station should be turned into the Elizabeth line cross rail
the best recycled line i have walked was the middlewood way in cheshire
Have you tried walking/cycling the Cromford and High Peak Rly? Built on canal lines in 1825 (yes, 5 years before the Liverpool and Manchester) with inclines instead of locks.
@@UTubeThePatient i have all of the walked/cycled in and around greater manchester either canal or railway line in the 1980,s/1990,s
What is the music used in the video please.
Can't agree with you about rail closures, the justification for many of them was dubious especially when you see how much we spend on road building. Some areas of the country like Lincolnshire were left with virtually no trains.
I pass through Green Park everyday
Government should try and connect every town back into the main network even if it's by a tram.
Completely off topic, two of the prettiest three ladies on RUclips
I enjoyed your video today but you should take care when walking through fields and along footpaths with bare legs since lymes disease can be caught by bites from infected animal ticks which can be found in grassy areas
All this channel hopping is getting crazy, next time Andy is taking apart lightbulbs with Big Clive and Visiting Old Malls with Dan Bell
I am a massive fan of lightbulbs to be fair....
I am a massive fan of lightbulbs to be fair....
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