Ongar Railway Station | Thames News
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Thames News footage of Ongar Railway Station.
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Thames News was the flagship regional news programme of Thames Television, serving the Thames ITV region and broadcast on weekdays from 12 September 1977 to 31 December 1992.
So many great memories as a kid spending time on that line at the weekend. We would as a group just travel about that end of the central line just killing time. Still go on walks around the Epping Ongar preserved line now when I can. Lovely part of the world..
Love footage showing these ol' rickety 'Turbies' ploughing the lines with their clanky doors!
I was lucky enough to ride the branch from Epping to Ongar. Once in 1990 when I first moved to London,bans then in 1993 before I moved back to Toronto Canada. Nobody back home believed that there was a (mostly) single line, rural in nature. All in NE London (or SW Essex). I'll bet it well missed now!
also made it to the Chesham spur from downstream @ Isle o' Dr-Seuss here ;)
It reopened as s heritage line
Must have been weird for the drivers. Oxford Circus to the open fields and pig farms of the Great Eastern railway, on the same route.
But no ATO at all.
Trains only shuttled epping - north weald - ongar
There were no through services to central London in the lines latter years
@@Keithbarber Yes, Epping - Ongar only, with the first and last journeys in each peak running to and from Loughton, as that was where the unit was normally stabled.
blimey, my mum looks soooo young!
AlFred6606 your mum is in this?
@@tobeytransport2802 Yup! Briefly ...
AlFred6606 wow! 😮 that’s so cool, I wasn’t born when this was filmed and my mum was probably about 12-15
Wow remember all this, the train “farting” at Epping. Who remembers as a kid swinging on the dangly hand grips? Remember the wooden grooved floors with smouldering cigarette butts in the grooves. Perfectly safe in those days.
even the ugly D stock had been manufactured with such flooring...after neverending squealing from taxicab brakes overhead, returning home for the day via a smoking car always fuckingly lumped me my (adolescent's) migraine
The first half was videotape and latter half was film. Looks to be 59 Stock. I love the sad face front windows.
James French what u mean u loved the sad face of the windows, u mean the way the face of the tube train??
Wouldn't it have been the 62 stock, considering it's the Central line?
its the '62 stock, since its the central line..
its cabfront here had even made me momentarily suppose it constituting either one of those trial-Cravens-slash-'20s/'30s-trailers rakes that must've been extracted from the Roding Valley loop 👀
our sightseeing overground was the system that hailed the advent of robo shuttles to the world's travelling public, even beating out Vicky's line there...and probably air-cleaving wedge cabfronts as well:
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I know this station today and EOR, I have relatives in Ongar and stay there when in the UK.
I just wish this line as part of the central line. Ongar’s bus services just do not make it easily accessible.
It can take nearly as long with waiting for bus connections in Epping, to get from Epping to Ongar as it does from central London to Epping.
I think the pig scratching its ass on the fence was a nice touch
loving these cameos...incredible how contrived a feel even the BI there seem to have drippily taken on since the Seventies 💡💡💡
They let it run down as they wanted to close it before more homes were built at North Weald and Ongar.
Houses now built and many more planned but line now gone.
Another Transport/Housing Mismatch and they wonder why the roads are jammed.....
I agree. It could still with investment been running today similar to how the Chesham shuttle not only survived but thrived with a through service to central. Dispensed with the guards and ticket office staff and costs would have dropped considerably.
I remember it all. It was run down very badly.
because nobody used it
The problem was (in my view) that the way it was electrified was actually bad news for the section from Epping to Ongar. Because of the line being fed current from Epping, rather than having its own substation at Blake Hall, there wasn't enough power to have two trains using the both platforms at North Weald simultaneously. With this and the closure of Blake Hall Station in 1981, the removal of the passing loop at North Weald happened in the 1970's. By the 1990's, it looked very sad indeed, rusting rails, empty car parks and unkempt look at North Weald and Ongar only having one track, with the goods yard being deserted
@TheGooners11 another factor in the drawn out decline of the line at the time was the decision not to make Ongar a new town, Harlow was selected instead. It was almost like they wanted to electrify it as cheaply as possible, hence what I said about the lack of power for the trains. If it was to become a part of the Central line again, the whole route would have to be fully integrated, have a new substation built, be doubled with additional platform(s) being built at Ongar. If it was reinstated as it was circa 1994, it wouldn't have as much incentive for investment as it would be. It's an irony to me that the minister that approved the closure in 1994, Stephen Norris, was also a local MP and he did not stand for re-election in 1997
@@SiVlog1989 .....instead he was nominated as the Conservative candidate for London Mayor in 2000 - but lost to Ken Livingstone ....and again four years later! The irony being that Livingstone happened to be the leader of the GLC (GLA's predecessor) which the Tories abolished in 1986. The rest as they say is history....
@@robtyman4281 A sad day. 1986 was a devastating year for me in Sydney.
First starting high school with a Maori bully in my class and general assortment of scum from higher grades, then my local bus company pulling out from my local route. We went from AEC Swifts, a Volvo and and odd appearance of a Leyland National to awful front engine Bedfords only, until Leyland Tigers appeared the next year at least. The third was NSW premier of 10 years Neville Wran quitting, having a mediocre stand in before we copped a conservative in 88 who had to change everything and make cuts to trains. He subscribed to Tory ways.
It's a shame it didn't survive a bit longer as savings could have been made by newer trains not needing a guard and the ticket offices at both Ongar and North Weald could have closed or even shut up the station buildings altogether and make the two stations halts with no staff like on the Sutton Loop and Tramlink. The Chesham shuttle had money spent on it in the 80s and now look at it. A direct 30 mins service to Central London.
The Tories starved the system of money and it was easier to let it go. House prices and Ongar have flat lined when it was lost. Reopen it!
Nice
what about BLAKE HALL
Motorman dave townly walking down the platform at the end...the little old bloke might be group manager bill amiss..
Would there be more call for a tube station there now?
Yes, lot of development there recently. It's now part of a heritage railway.
Cheers. I had a look on Wikipedia and note that the reason for the closure was because there wasn't sufficient development on nearby land to increase the population. Evidently no longer an issue with changes in building regulation?
+EricG Don't know about building regulations. There have been calls to reopen the line for commuter use, but it would not be cheap to do so; the current EOR would not be able to do it as they are a volunteer organisation.
If There Could be a Highway to Ongar So there could be a bus service to run there
i hate to say this but, Great britain screwed that up as F**k
Konstal105NRocks they’re probably is a bus service but busses are much less reliable than tubes
Jesus Christ look at the state of that train!!!
Well it was the 90s no new stock trains than .
That's nothing compared to the state of one or two of the 1938 Stock that have just come out of service on the Isle of Wight!!
The London Underground was under invested throughout the 1980s and not until the 90s much needed investment came in. A lot of the Stations were dilapidated and a lot of old rickety Turbies were running like this one. Some of the Turbies were 30 plus years old and were never refurbished. The system was still a bit antiquated until major investment started in the 90s
Ongar is an anagram of organ.
What zone were North Weald and Ongar in?
Aidan6496 zone 6
HaiderComputorGuy 06 wow that’s good considering how far out they were, even Epping is far enough out to be 7
Tobey Transport yeah I wish it was the same to this day
HaiderComputorGuy 06 Epping is still in zone 6 because it is subsidised by Epping council to be in zone 6 but if it wasn’t subsidised then it would probably be in 7
@@haiderszn No they weren't in 6. Everything beyond Loughton was shown as being "outside the zones." (Zones 7 and upwards didn't exist then). Debden, Theydon Bois and Epping stations, despite being in Essex, were subsequently moved into Zone 6 after the Ongar Branch had closed as part of the Underground system.
Love it! I don’t remember any of it, I’m to young but. I travel on Epping sometimes and I go to the Epping and Ongar railway. Really interesting, It’s changed a bit.
This was filmed about 2 weeks ago.
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Oblock Gang
I would say that they should reopen this line but am cautious as it'd be yet more parkway stations serving cars rather than communities.Pseudo public transport.
It's now the Epping Ongar Railway. A heritage railway running between Ongar-North Weald-Epping Forest with aims to return trains to Epping Station or create a new station just a short walk away from the current one. It's a very popular line using British Rail carriages, steam and diesel locomotives, diesel multiple units and on some days have been known to run London underground heritage stock.
Rip the farting train 1990-1994.