The Lost Skye Marble Railway
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
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Did you visit the Lealt Valley Diatomite Railway whilst you were on Skye? - That's a remote and very obscure railway.
@@Nastyswimmer not on that occasion, but I did read up about it 🙂
I have a vague, vague recollection of a minute mention of this line in an old model railway magazine, so it's good to see more about it. Thank you. You might consider the lost lines of the Clee Hill quarries in Shropshire for a programme - there's a lot still visible up there. Also the areas at both the head and mouth of the Tanat Valley (near Welshpool) have a lot of quarry tram remains.
Yes, this is such an obscure line it is a no wonder it is little known. Thanks for the recommendations, too, which are always welcome 🙂
It's Boxing Day now, but I hope you had a good Christmas. I'd never heard of this line before. Thanks for an interesting and relaxing video.
Really pleased you enjoyed it, thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
Another very interesting video. I stayed at Broadford for a couple of nights last year and found the rails in the pier. I did wonder about the rest of the line so it was interesting to see this video.
Thank you and glad it helped fill in the blanks!
I was expecting a railway made of marble , built by some eccentric Victorian Industrial Baron with money to burn!!😂 Never mind, this post Christmas lockdowns' getting to me!! 🥴
😂 Brilliant!
A most satisfying stocking filler! Couple of other things to look out for on your next visit... At the works, there are several cutouts in the loading platform for the wagon turntables. Short sections of rail can be seen embedded in concrete where the line entered the works building. On the hillside there is a stone-built dam to supply the works. Finally, back at the main road there are the remains of the some workers cottages. One minor correction; at 6:10 the line ran in front of the houses, along the shoreline from the bridge to the pier. The route there is still visible and walkable. I hope you had a chance to explore some of the Skye's other railways.
Ah thanks for the heads up and corrections, much appreciated. Really glad you enjoyed the film nevertheless - such a beautiful part of the world, especially the road to Elgol!
A fascinating glimpse into our industrial past and the role of our narrow gauge railways.
Certainly a remote and obscure line this one!
A lovely short, thank you. The ruins and inclined track beds remind me of the similar industrial ruins that we saw this past summer on our most enjoyable short trip to Weardale in County Durham. Lead mining in that case. Walking the hills, piecing together what is remaining is so enjoyable.
Thank you - there must be hundreds of suchlike mining and Quarry lines to film - have you considered doing so? It's great fun!
@@RediscoveringLostRailways I leave that to the experts! There are several of you who do such a good job!
I'll stick to the walking and exploring. I have had a couple of stays recently in Lyme Regis and poked around the accessible track bed of the branch line from Axminster, which includes a viaduct.
Merry Christmas to you too 🎅 Jx
Have a splendid day and thank you for supporting my channel!
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Thank you very much indeed! My next film is about the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway... I wonder if there's inspiration to be had there?
An excellent video as always
As with most people on here who have commented, knew nothing about it before, so many thanks
Happy holidays. 🎄
Loom forward to many more in 2021, when hopefully we can all get around more
Cheers.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, much more to come in the new year - thank you for supporting my channel!
This little, single-purpose line brings to my mind the Granite Railway of Quincy, Massachusetts--also constructed for the transport of quarried stone to dockside on the Neponset River in Milton. The Granite Railway was the first chartered railroad in the United States.
Quite surprised after more than a century since closure that any structural trace of the mining operation and its associated railway remained to be found. Very interesting.
Many thanks - yes, quite a unique and remote railway - I'd love to have heard the sound of the whistle and the clank of the engine and truck in these windswept hills!
A bit late to wish you a Merry Christmas but I hope you had an enjoyable one. Many thanks for another excelleny video and nice to see another part of the country. My best wishes for the New Year.
And to you too! Many thanks for your kind words and for supporting my channel 🙂
Superb nugget of a upload ,excellent to see the old loading platforms still there !!!
Many thanks! Yes, this was a lovely little railway to explore, so glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Rediscovering Lost Railways.
What a great video. Was linked to this video by a friend and am very grateful he did! This is the first video of yours I've seen, and I love the film work as well as the delving and exploring skills too! Nice one 👍 👍
Stay safe mate, kind regards GWR
Thanks GWR! Really pleased that you enjoyed the film and that you have found my channel. Do have a good rummage around and let me know what you think of each film! Best wishes 🙂
Thats a great location....thanks.....must get some wild weather.
It is beautiful and wild - a very wet and windy day when I was there!
Happy Christmas mate love the videos.
And to you too! Very kind of you to say so and thank you for supporting my channel 🎄
Thank you, I really enjoyed this video. Merry Christmas!
I'm so pleased! And to you too! Thanks for supporting my channel 🙂
Superb would never have known it existed
Nor I! Very obscure line indeed! Really glad you enjoyed the film and thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
Superb. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks - definitely one of the more obscure lines I've explored!
Short and excellent. Merry Christmas from the IoW. Finally got to ride the 1938 stock before its retirement...
Oh wonderful! I'm hoping to come to your fair isle in 2021 to make my film of your lost railways, covid permitting!
@@RediscoveringLostRailways yeah. Do come.. Though I live in Bristol, I've been here for a week now.. heard from a local that it's possible to walk the disused lines , like from shanklin to ventnor or wroxall..
I note from your back catalogue of films you don’t seem to have the Welwyn Garden City to Wheathampstead to Harpenden branch line... much of the old line is still there, cycle tracks etc. You can access the old line in WGC behind the Campus College and follow under the white bridge into sherrards wood and beyond.....just a thought👍🏻
You're absolutely right and what's worse is that all that is quite local to me so I've no excuse. My concern is that my film might end up being more of a journey along a cycle path, which is why I've been hesitant, but maybe I should just do it!
@@RediscoveringLostRailways I was WGC born and bred so I know that old line well, some interesting cuttings and old bridges , I live in Cornwall now but I would definitely watch that film if you made it👍🏻
This would make a great modeling project.
Yes, it would! I wonder if anyone's done it? 🤔
I had been vaguely aware of this line, but knew nothing about it. There was another island railway, on Raasay I think. I somehow have the impression the railway dated from WW1 and was for some type of rock that after processing was used in munitions.
Skye is huge. There's a good 40 miles from the bridge to Uig and still the majority of the island to go.
It is truly a wonderful place - I think the south and the coast around Elgol (not to mention the drive to it) is Skye at its most beautiful. M research indicated that this was not Skye's only railway and (as you say) there are more to be discovered on other islands!
The Raasay line carried ironstone from a mine inland down to the coast where it was calcined and shipped out. The other line that you're thinking of is the Leallt Valley Diatomite Railway that carried diatomite - a fine silica clay - dug from the bottom of Loch Cuithir, to the coast from where it was shipped to Ardeer in Ayrshire for making dynamite. Dynamite consists of nitro-glycerine absorbed into clay to make it more stable. The railway operated from 1889 until 1915.
Living in Australia ,I've never heard f this railway............................until now. Great video and Merry Christmas.
Me neither! Merry Christmas and thank you for supporting my channel!
Merry Christmas and happy New Year
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Where was the engine shed located?
You know what I read that somewhere in my research and I cannot remember! It seems likely that it would be Broadford, though I stand to be corrected!
Thank you enjoyed watching. I thin that was a turn table not a winch base intresting to ind the winch base? Would like to visit Sky and walk up there. Less remote but intresting history is our lost railways of Pembrokshire? Have you done any of the lost railways of Pembrokshire Wales? One of my favourite is Porthgain railway to quarry and Abereiddy quarry tram to Porthgain. thank you keep up the good work buzz #buzzofftoxic
Skye is a lovely place to wander about, so I hope you get the chance - the south of the island, the road to Elgol is spectacular. To my discredit I've not yet filmed in Wales (getting away from work makes that a challenge!), but I welcome the recommendation!
@@RediscoveringLostRailways thank great viewing during lock down😁 and we will one day make it to Sky. Keep up the good work looking forward when you make it to Wales. Where are you based in UK 🌍
@@buzzofftoxicblog791 East of England, so my films have something of a bias!
Most interesting. I presume this was the only railway ever to run on Skye, although ones from Kyleakin to Armadale and Dunvegan were mooted at one time.
I must confess I'm not sure...
Skye had a surprising number railways, all narrow gauge. The Marble Line covered in this excellent video. The quary tramway at Ord that may have used some of the wagons from the Marble Line after it closed. Plus the Lealt Valley Railway supporting the extraction of diatomite. One railway remains in operation, the modern-ish cable worked incline at the Storr Lochs Hydro-Electic Power Station. Finally, while not on Skye, the adjacent Isle of Raasay had a railway for the carriage of iron ore.
I forgot about the short tramway from the Talisker Distillery at Carbost down to the pier. Sections of track remained visible until the road was resurfaced about 10 years ago.
What a lovely film. I had no idea that this railway even exisited. Very interesting. Merry Christmas
Thank you! It was news to me too! Really glad you enjoyed the film and thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
Remains of stone crushers? I doubt that very much, mounts for a saw more likely iMHO.
Have a look at the link in the video description which was about the only source of information I could determine.
Thank you, R L R. Your film takes me back to 1958, when I was an eager seven-year-old, accompanied with my Aunties Betty and Mattie, on a beautiful wee holiday on the Isle of Skye (including a visit to the Fairy Flag, reposed in ethereal memories in Dunvegan Castle).
To you and yours Season's Greetings.
Rab
Skye is a place of such beauty it is no wonder those fine memories stick out. Thank you for sharing them and for supporting my channel 🙂
A pleasure to watch as ever and well off your normal beat! Merry Christmas (-tide)!
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@@RediscoveringLostRailways Another of my periodic cheeky suggestions: Could you please place the southern end of the GN & LNW Joint Railway from Melton Mowbray to Drayton Junction on your list? It runs through the Leicestershire Wolds (beautiful scenery) and contains with the John O'Gaunt Viaduct a very impressive heritage monument which they keep muttering about leaving to decay. It would be good to raise awareness here. It's a very beautiful line, mainly built to get coal from the Nottinghamshire fields to London. It finally closed in 1964.
@@1258-Eckhart delighted for recommendations, so thank you for this. Yes, that viaduct has a particular allure!
Glad you found my website useful :) Great video.
@@tomdauben I did, thank you very much indeed 🙏
Try the Snailbeach District Railways, unique gauge of 2ft 4"
Thanks for the tip!
@@RediscoveringLostRailways No worries. A couple of facts about it, the engine sheds were the inspiration for the Mid Sodor Railway shed in the Railway Series books. And for a short time, the GVT's loco Sir Theodore was loaned, but because the GVT was 2ft 4 1/2" gauge, it kept coming off and even damaged a house!
I keep wanting to go back to Skye and you've just given me another good reason!
Glad to be of service!
👏👏 another good one
Thank you - this was a stocking filler for my subscribers, Christmas just gone!
Merry Christmas!
And to you too! Thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
I live in Kent and never heard of this. Good catch in remembering what once was. Happy Christmas mate. Cheers.
It was a new one for me too! Really glad you enjoyed the film, thank you 🙂
thanks very much for this.. been stressing over finding details on the Skye mineral lines for twenty five years.. and I never did get a clear, detailed picture in my head.. you've really put a lot of care and work in to this.. thanks again. 😊
I do think the 'wagon turntable'' was actually the base of a fixed rotary yard crane tho'..
Glad I could help! As for the wagon turntable/crane thing, I'm open to correction as I really wasn't sure!
@@RediscoveringLostRailways oh.. don't take my oppy as fact.. merely an other guess.. but aye, you really did put a bit of love in to your research.. and it shows. You're cool ''mucker'' :)
Excellent little film that and just what I needed this morning. Music was excellent too which your channel excels at. Merry Christmas to you too
Really kind of you to say so, thank you and thank you for supporting my channel!
I'm Scottish and have been to Skye many times and stayed in Broadford, but I didn't know about the Railway!
The video was brilliant and informative as always, thanks for sharing your story about the railway.
Merry Christmas, and a happy new year.
Your homeland is the most be country on the planet. So glad you enjoyed the film and that it came as a surprise! Thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
Thank you!!
My absolute pleasure 🙂
I actually live in Broadford and in lockdown i made a video on the railway
You must have better inside knowledge than me - sorry for any mispronunciations! You live in a beautiful part of the world.
@@RediscoveringLostRailways I have friends who own bits of track on there land and have stories they were told from the Grandfathers but I feel it was a very good video and I will admit it there were a couple of mispronunciations 😂 But it was still a brilliant video
@@Scotrail-qz7gw thank you - you can tell I tried to avoid naming some places because I haven't the tongue for it! Thank you for your kind words about my film.
Wonderful but sad video. Beautiful country though. Merry Christmas to all from the States, across the pond. Stay safe.
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I came across the existence this railway when pootling around Kilchrist churchyard a few years ago, and seeing the same plaque you did. I've walked across that footbridge in Broadford several times over the years, but had never realised it was the route of an old railway until then!
It was all news to me too - we were going up to that part of the world and I though 'I wonder if there's a lost railway nearby?`... And so it came to pass!
happy xmas wonderful
Same to you! Best wishes
A lovely little 'extra' for Christmas - thanks. Never heard of this railway, but it was a pleasure to 'rediscover' it. Think what a tourist attraction a reconstructed line could be! Happy Christmas!
Yes it would be such a lovely route to ride! Glad to hear you enjoyed the film and thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
I’ve found something worth watching today! Great video, I didn’t know anything about this. Happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year.
No, it was news to me too! So glad you enjoyed the film, thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
What a gift! Thank you and Happy Christmas, all the best for 2021.
Thank you ever so much for your kind words and for supporting my channel 🙂
Good work as always. A welcome few minutes viewing on Christmas day. This line reminds me of my local disused granite track quarry line on Dartmoor. Now a walking trail, the Templar Way runs from high on Dartmoor to a wharf and on to Teignmouth. Well worth your filming and narration skills in the future, but for now well done and another great film.
I'd be delighted to explore this, thanks for the recommendation! Merry Christmas and thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
Merry Christmas and a prosperous New year to you sir 🎅
Thankyou for all your video's as well.
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And to you too, thank you for supporting my channel 🎄🎄🙂
Thank you for a wonderful short. This place is now on my list to visit once this lockdown nightmare's over. All the best :-)
🎄 🍻 😎 Stay free, w.
My pleasure - and you won't be disappointed even on a wet and windy day such as when I filmed!
¡Hola buenos días! As ever, a very comprehensive video, examining what remains of a bygone industry. Always informative and, agreed, a timely pick-me-up from the current, chaotic health environment we find ourselves in at this time. Season’s greetings to you and yours and, I look forward to your further adventures in the New Year. Un saludo. Gary
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i can just imagine on a quiet and moonlit night you could.. e=if you listened hard enough... the echo's of a train trundling along the tracks never reaching it's end and this once abandoned and forgotten line.
In such a wild and ancient place, I think anything is possible! 🎄
What a wonderful wee video as i never knew this line existed and it just goes to show just how important railways were in those days and thats what I love about them,no matter what the terrain they always found a way to build on them.. Will need to visit this the next time I am on Skye.. Thank you Edward for you excellent videos and may you and your family have a wonderful Christmas..😊
That's what strikes me also - the drive to build these things! Thank you for your kind words and for supporting my channel - here's to 2021!
Loved your show. It is fascinating to learn about these industrial railways.
Many thanks indeed! 🙂
Merry Christmas
Love the videos of Scotland
Scotland is the most be country! Glad you enjoyed the film and thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
Merry Christmas mate, thanks for yet another great video! This must of been a brilliant place to explore. I plan to travel upto Scotland this coming year and do some cycle touring.
For me, the West Coast of Scotland is among the most beautiful of places, so I wish you safe and happy travels. Thank you for supporting my channel 🙂
Excellent as always! Thank you for uploading, have a great new year.
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Thank you, I enjoy your videos very much! Merry Christmas to you!
My pleasure, thank you for supporting my channel!
Merry Christmas and a wonderful video.
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Merry Christmas and thank you.
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Had no idea about this line. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
I'm not surprised it is so unknown, so isolated and existing for only a few years - it would make a fine tourist line today!
Another Christmas treat happy Christmas and keep up the good work
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Interesting story of a small and local industry railway, but once were they very important
Yes - many small scale industrial lines all across the British Isles
The rails on the pier was quite a find. Wow! :)
Thank you! I knew they would be there, but it was still good to see them!
Merry Christmas my buddy!!!
Thank you, you too. And thanks for supporting my channel 🙂
Thank you and Happy Christmas
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@@RediscoveringLostRailways it comes across as a pleasure. I wouldn't know where start doing a RUclips video. You have a professional touch which suggests you have a background in these things. So, what is your background?
This question suggests I have a right to know something that isn't mine to know. Curiosity gets the better of me, so feel free to tell me to mind my own business. Thanks
@@robertperring4194 that's OK - I'm a secondary school teacher, so a world away from this hobby of mine! No background experience to speak of, I just try to improve each time and (without wishing to be arrogant) just try to make the sort of film that I would be inclined to watch 🙂
@@RediscoveringLostRailways where did the passion to do this come from? Does your pupils know you do this?
@@robertperring4194 I did a radio interview with a community station back in the summer - the fellow who conducted it has given me permission to put it on RUclips, wherein I explain how I got started. I should put it up, but I feel a bit self conscious as I feel my subscribers rightly want films about list railways. But perhaps I will at some point. Anyway, in short, a combination of a lifelong interest in the railway and an enthusiasm for filming! My pupils think I live in the school - suggesting I have a life outside of the place might blow their minds! 😁
My house is in this video 😂
Nice part of the world!
@@RediscoveringLostRailways brilliant video man helps me with my metal detecting 😄😎