The Walk - EP 73 - The Original Island Railway - Cowes To Newport - Isle Of Wight
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2023
- I'm once again on the Isle of Wight, for my final walk of the year.
To locals, the Isle of Wight is simply called 'The Island', as if there was no other. In this episode, I am walking 'the Island's original railway. A 4.5 mile line from Cowes in the north, down the banks of the River Medina, to the county town of Newport, that was completed in 1862.
The Island became a railway Mecca by the late 1800s, but by 1966, there was very little remaining.
On this walk, I find plenty of remains, as well as enjoying a scenic walk up the river.
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Merry Christmas!
As I was watching this it brought back a dream when you mentioned the train numbers. In it I came across a no 8 train. I discovered it to be a shunting diesel/electric locomotive. Strange for sure.
Nice and interesting story !!
Thank you
Fantastic walk 👍
Intresting video Gareth as always.
Cheers mate
Another good IOW walk. Thank you x
Thank you.
Great walk. Great link for me about Nine Elms as my Grandad worked there (lost his arm in a shunting accident) and my Mum and Dad’s first maisonette in Cowthorpe Road backed onto one of the shunting yards.
Love all these walks. So interesting x
Oh wow. What a great piece of history. Horrible about your grandad though. They were made of tougher stuff.
I really enjoyed this video. Very informative. I only recently found your channel, as we both do similar things. That bit with the old steam boat was great, oh and the old cement mills. And don’t it do ya bloody sweed in when there are doors on tunnels, cheers.
The great outdoors ! Keep em coming !
Will do!
What an amazing little walk, enjoyed that one mate, the gravity shunt move is an eye opener for me, I was a shunter for a while on the big railway which meant uncoupling/coupling locos and rolling stock (basically the dirty/heavy work) watching that gravity shunt at Cowes was amazing to watch...ive seen gravity shunting using wagons, never seen gravity shunting using passenger stock, normally a train arrives at a station, the passenger stock is 'screwed' down by the gaurd in his Brake coach a run round crossover was normally near the buffer stops at a station so an uncoupled loco can be uncoupled, pull forward and run round its stock and be re-attached...nowadays this practice is not used, if indeed it is, locomotives run 'top and tail' (loco each end) so no shunter is required...amazing what practices were in place in the good old days...all the best mate, John
Aye I remember the story from when I was a kid. Remember thinking the guard best be on it!
Dead interesting Gareth thank you! hope your christmas is being kind to you .. Carol!
Thank you
Another great video, Gareth! I laughed at 13:43. Same for me when 'cleaning up' after a cat and dog, lol. Great drone footage. Newport looks huge and industrial. I enjoyed all the narration and the 'blag job'. Your enthusiasm is more interesting than the railways to me, but I like learning about it all from your perspective. Cheers.
Thanks mate.
Enjoyed that one mate , keep meaning to have a look around Rufford myself . Good guide to go by now . Hopefully stay on my feet though 😂
Haha. I'm always on my backside!
@@IckeWalks 😂😂
let's plant a thought
applicable to many places,
rebuilding heavy rail is pricey so as a cheap option why not use narrow gauge, or even into the miniature to hold or reestablish a route for later up-sizing......
long distance 7.25 could be entertainingly fun...... ;)
Like James May did to recreate the route of the Atlantic Coast Express between Barnstaple and Bideford?
needs to be passenger capable to be viable....... @@KempSimon
Those born and raised on the Isle of Wight apparently refer to England as either "The North Island" or as "Our lost colony". England didn't become independent of the Isle of Wight until the year 1890. If, as you say, the site of Newport railway station has been "decimated" by the construction of a dual carriageway road, where can I find the surviving 90% of what was still there in January, 1971?
It's always been called "the mainland" to me. Even though I've lived off the island for 11 years.
Got to see myself on the Drone Footage....
Really!?!
@@IckeWalks Yes, as you flew over Curries