The Alcester Railway - The Buried Birmingham Road Bridge
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- During recent construction works on Birmingham Road, creating a new entry into Alcester Park, Workmen discover a bridge. Little did any of them know that it was in fact the original bridge that the Alcester to Barely Steam train ran under, over 75 years ago.
1:35 I can see the arch of the bridge still peeping out of the surface
Fantastic video. Let's hope the builders preserve this in some form👍👍
Just goes to show how quick things are forgotten, 1 or maybe 2 generations .
Amazing. Lived next door to that for many years without realising ☺️
As usual, when a railway is closed in Britain, it has to be obliterated so that people will never know that it existed and to make it difficult to be reopened.
Awful how we treat our history sometimes
I used to live in the town,saddens me to see more beautiful green belt disappearing in front of our eyes. I remember the fields well, and followed the trail of the old railway on my dog walk . I hope they keep the old bridge,but probably think health and safety will win out. Alcester like a lot of other rural places is now bursting at the seems
2:53 - looks like an old carriageway manhole cover for telephone or electricity cables? Made of cast iron, with wooden inserts often sealed with pitch. I imagine most of the cables would have been recovered. Oh, you've not got the only council that loves to destroy everything!
Interesting video. With uncontrolled immigration I'm afraid more of our green and pleasant and some brown and not so pleasant land has to go for homes for people not for archaeology or rewinding. We have to choose.
Sad 😢
I agree with you all entirely about the relentless addition of new housing, the council’s greed for more houses and so more council tax seems unsatiable. As for the bridge, it was largely made from a red clay brick which in the 1860’s was not a remotely water-resistant product. As the bridge was buried for decades the condition of the brick was so poor, having been soaked for so long, that the structure would not have been able to support itself any longer. It is a great shame but at least they tried to save it before it was condemned.
Very interesting, they certainly do seem to be covering more green fields with building, i wonder how this squares with the environmental policy
Looks like the rule book has been thrown away.