GCR - The Great Central Walk - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Join me as I complete my walk through Rugby along the former Great Central Railway as we see the site of the famous 'birdcage' bridge and all the way onto the remains of Rugby Central Station.
Love the superposition of the old photos. Great work, it brings the past to life.
Thank you and thanks for watching. There are more new videos on the works right now! Your comments really help to keep up my motivation! Thanks again 👍
Great, thanks, you started very near us, our stomping ground.
Thank you for watching. I am back in rugby soon exploring other lines and possibly revisiting the GCR.
These are great videos . Keep them coming.
Thank you and thanks for watching. There are loads more videos coming up both on the GCR and the surrounding lines. Thanks for your support 👍
It was good to come across this by chance. We left Rugby in 1999, but lived very close to the old Great Central station! Favourite dog walk. Regards Stephen.
Thank you for watching. Its a great walk and lovely to see it put to some use rather than just building on it.
Great video we have the old Great Central line through where we live in South Northamptonshire
Thank you for watching and your kind comments. It really is a lovely old line and a great walk! When I go further south I will probably be filming near you!
The Concrete Box at 21:08 is something called a Ballast Box they are used to hold ballast for gangers (Permanent Way staff) who used to walk the track and tighten the fishplate bolts at rail ends and also pack ballast under sleepers where required (for instance if there was a slight divot in the track they would use the ballast from the nearest ballast box to pack the sleepers in the area affected to smooth out the divot therefore making the track level) hope this helps I love your work
Thank you for watching. Thanks again good to know for the future
I've absolutely loved this series, thanks for the hard yards and some great ideas for my own photography hobby🛤🚂.
A brilliant video, the remaining architecture from the bygone era sure have stood the test of time , those navvies and brickies who built them would be so proud they are still around nearly 125 years on.
Thank you. I am forever in awe of the workmanship and the durability of the infrastructure that survives. It is a testament to how good they were.
The section of the Great Central Way between Hillmorton Road and Abbey Street/South Street has been the subject of management by the Rotary Club of Rugby over the last five years to celebrate their centenary in June 2022. The club has removed self seeded sycamore and other invasive vegetation from the banks (which were devoid of all vegetation when the railway was operating), created glades on the banks to allow native flowers to grow, built dead hedges with brash to benefit wildlife, installed three new bespoke benches, the eight sections of old track, a signal and commissioned the murals at Hillmorton Road bridge.
Thanks for the information and thank you for watching. It is refreshing to see a town embrace their history and make use of these old lines rather than just building over them. This is a lovely walk and I plan an update soon so will make sure I include this information 👍
Another superb explore of what was once a superb railway! Just for clarity, that little concrete box that you found was in fact a ballast bin..this would have been filled with fine chippings that would have been used for manual track adjustment by the permanent way gang.
Thank you for watching and thanks for the information. I saw something similar on the midland line near leire but wasn't sure as this is a lot smaller. Was once a great railway such a shame.
Truly fantastic video love the engineering of bridges and tunnels many thanks 👍
Thanks for watching. That walk is absolutely loaded up with old bridges and architecture. I am going back soon to film some of the bits I missed! Thanks again
21:20 Is a chipping bunker. The last couple of waggons of a ballast train would carry small 1/4" chippings for P-Way staff to lift and pack voiding sleepers. The train would stop and fill these bunkers which were placed every quarter of a mile.
This all ended at privatisation. All chippings are now moved to a worksite by road vehicles as required.
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@@MiddyExplores Thank you for the video!
You’ve really surpassed yourself with this video. Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining as always, and going the extra mile to get those extra shots. 10/10
Thank you was the best fun to make even if I aches a bit the next day. Back towards Leicester now!
Absolutely loving your videos. A bit of history given also. Loads better than whiwicks. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you for watching. There are plenty more videos coming up from the Great Central Railway and some other lines plus some great local history! Thanks again 👍
Hey Middy. Loving the videos man. Great work. You said you hadnt seen Jack arches before when you seen them on Rugby central bride. There was some on one of the bridges a few back along the walk. I see them a bit in london. Gorgeous they are.
Thanks for watching. Yes that's why I sometimes go back and really certain lines as I always miss stuff! Loads more videos coming up including some revisits👍
Hi Middy, Great idea of yours to use the "Just three words" mapping reference. 👍
I think it's a great app and if anyone wants to see these for themselves they can find them easily! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching 👍
@@MiddyExplores Middy my friend, I am a Wigston & Blaby ex-pat now living in Toronto Canada. Your posts are special to me, great reminders of home. Thanks Middy. 👍
Love the Great Central walks as a GC fan. The concrete trough like structure you found on the Rugby walk were used as small stone chipping containers for the mobile track gangs to pack under sleepers to bring the rail up to level using the old pick and shovel method.
Keep up the fab videos. Absolutely love them. Interesting to see HS2 work now reusing the old GC line between Calvert and Brackley work is in covering lots of bridges the old station at Finmere, telegraph poles and even some semaphore signal posts still standing. Amazing stuff.
Thank you for watching and your kind comments. Thanks for the information. There are loads more GCR videos coming up👍
The tracks were donated from Network Railway. So the tracks weren't there originally. Volunteer's during COVID and afterwards have been helping out clearing hedgerows graffiti and putting new benches in that area. Hopefully it will be extended right along towards Rainsbrook Valley which has stunning views. I'll keep you updated as I live in Rugby have done for almost 50 years. I wasn't around when Beaching axed the GCR. But I use to take neighbours dogs for a walk along the route as a child. I still walk it today to visit my mother who lives near Ashlawn Bridge. Now that is a beauty of engineering. Always been my favourite bridge 🚂
Thanks for watching and for the information. I am hoping to come back to rugby soon for an update video (as I know more now) and visit other bits as well. Please do keep me updated as this is invaluable to all the viewers. Thank you again.
@@MiddyExplores Yes by all means it's a lovely walk along the stretch I find peaceful throughout. Volunteer's have done remarkable work all way along the route. And nature is wonderful to see aswell. Ashlawn Bridge has a parking area and it's free to park up ok. Could very well meet up when the time comes. You won't be disappointed 👍
@@greywebs1944 That would be good. I will let you know when I am in the area!
Me and my partner walk these often, you should go down by the cement works where there is still 2 long stretches of track that originate I beleive from the GWR to Lemington Spa, still equipped with a level crossing and leads back onto the mainline where rugby train station is situated.
I am planning more trips to rugby in the near future, really great place for exploring. Thanks for the tips👍
The houses to the right of the station are recent. For many years the goods shed stood there with the fading signage 'Great Central Railway' painted on the end wall! On the other side there is an old farmhouse which the GCR bought and used for the station master's house.
Thank you for watching and the information I intend to walk it again soon so will bear this in mind 👍
Some of the "Cast Iron" underbridges that you mention are in fact "Wrought Iron bridges" with brick "Jack Arches" between the main girders.
Thank you for watching. Thanks for that as I always add I am learning all the time so I will make sure I add that on future videos 👍
They should reopen it as a freight traffic, route.
They complain that the West Coast mainline is too over crowded, and that's why they are building HS2, it would be ideal for a mainline freight operation, especially if it was connected to the channel tunnel, with continental freight trains aswell as UK freight trains, all you need then is to make larger freight terminals to allow longer hauled freight trains.
The only downside is that they need to re build a new line between Leicester and Nottingham which could serve Toton as a big marshalling yard.
Before distributing freight to different locations across the UK, I've seen plans about HS2 joining the channel tunnel via Heathrow and Gatwick the freight line could follow such route as 4 tracks two for High speed services and two freight traffic to the continent, connecting to HS1.
Edit that viaduct you saw was the old LNWR Branch to Harborough and Peterborough line via the Nene valley.
Thank you for watching and thank you for your comments. It's a real shame that the line ever closed but I think they were more interested in building roads and selling cars than running railways and ensuring the future had adequate transport. Your absolutely right about the whole of Leicester and the Nottingham section as it's mostly gone, built on or a heritage line!! HS2 is another subject altogether!!! I am not sure one way or the other!!!
The tracks on the Marylebone platform are in correct position this was the up loop line built in 1941. Before that it was single line and a siding when the line opened. All the the other tracks are not in the right position as you said. The tracks were put down last year as an art project
Those modern houses you see next to the old station at 28:15 are built where the old goods yard used to be. Until circa 1996 the area was used by a timber company, and there was an old goods shed with the words Great Central Railway painted on it. All gone now sadly.
Used to be Travis & Arnold before Perkins. And my late father worked at Jolly & Barbers (Printers) just up the road. Which again is all bleeding houses 😏
Hi Middy, The metal work of the bridges is not cast iron, but is riveted steel. The brick between the riveted steel beams that you feature at Rugby Station is termed a vault. It is just a simple arched shaped brick structure that is used to support whatever is above.
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Fantastic!
Thank you 👍😃
That little concrete box on the track bed is one of the lines original drainage holders
Thank you for watching and thanks for that. I think the drainage in that section was quite important as it was still flooded when I walked it. 👍
It would've been there when trains passed by because when the line was open they had drainage problems in bad weathers so they put that in place
Heritage Rail mentions some track being placed by the Rugby Rotary Club as part of a Railway Art Heritage Trail, some double track.
Yes they sent me a message! Really good idea to spur people's interest. Thank you for watching 👍
Great video. Had been exploring around the area by the canal and look forward to your video of that (there’s another old line nearby too). The track was laid the other year by the rotary club. There’s bits by all the bridges. Shame you didn’t carry on a little bit more as it only goes on another mile and a bit.
Thank you for watching. It's a lovely walk and I have been told there is more to see so have been talked into part 3!!!
@@MiddyExplores fantastic, look forward to it. Live just down from the old station and there’s more even after the end of the walk. Message if you wanted, as have been exploring the areas old tracks.
Great video was looking for inspiration and this did it for me. How do you keep camera so still? My vids never this smooth
Hi and thank you for watching. to keep the camera still it depends what I am filming on. If i use my SLR then I use a tripod although this is bulky, i also use a gimbal head for my smartphone from DJI and I now use the DJI Pocket camera which has a built in gimbal to ensure the picture doesnt shake. Hope that helps
Many congratulations on another fine video! As a local I have not ventured down the embankment on the north end of the viaduct so that was really nice to see and I look forward to some more Leicestershire videos - but if you do come back for more of the Rugby walk you will want to see the Ashlawn Road bridge south from the old station area.
The rails you saw were placed as part of the centenary project from the Rugby Rotary club to tidy up the walk a bit (it usually isn't as well cut back as it is at the moment) - www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=819103&ClubID=382&Mp=801977. When I first saw them I was hoping they were looking at bringing part of the route back - oh well not to be for now.
Also if you (or anyone else!) wants to view a train pulling out of Rugby Central and set off down this part of the walk in the Hillmorton area, watch from 9:24-9:45 on this RUclips video - ruclips.net/video/3Pk5jOuZlP4/видео.html
Thanks again for your efforts.
Thank you for watching and your kind comments. It was a lovely surprise to find some rails, it is a shame the old railway isn't still here. I am planning to film again that way later in the year as I have so many projects lined up in Leicester!!! Really lovely walk and I look forward to watching that video to see what it looked like when it was live. Once again thank you 👍
What3words. What a good idea. Just
Downloaded the app 👍. Great part 2
I use it to show people where to look themselves either on the app or in person! Thank you for watching and once this pesky pandemic is done with we will have to organise an explore somewhere 👍😃
@@MiddyExplores yes defo! If you did fancy coming a little more south from Rugby we have the splendid Catesby viaduct on the GC which you’ll love! That’s then hitting my neck of the woods. 👍
@@NWP_EXPLORING I would love to film that ! Would be a great experience and would be great to meet👍
7:26 Is that bridge 4 tracks wide? It certainly looks far too wide for just double tracks.
No it's just two tracks. Absolutely enormous bridge. I think the span is so wide due to it crossing the river Avon which floods quite heavily.
Good to end with old photo of Rugby station in its former life, ah to be back there again, gas lamps, pipe tobacco, coal soot and grime and the clanking rattling sounds of the trains, warm beer, real fish and chips in a newspaper
Thank you for watching and yes it would be lovely to experience the old station, I am sure it was a wonderful place. More videos coming up on the GCR in the near future 👍
Hi Middy can you walk to Leicester?
The series of videos over the next few weeks will be from Whetstone all the way into Leicester and beyond! So keep watching!! Thanks👍😃
@@MiddyExplores ...studied in Leicester in 2016 and used to hang around Leicester Central..sadly neglected but I believe it has been renovated. Nothing left of the terminus that went to John O' Gaunt. Can one walk that line?
@@christinaburton9297 yes Leicester central has been renovated and after the great Central I will be walking all the lines around Leicester.👍