The last day of services between Cheltenham Malvern Road and Kingham
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- On the 13th October 1962 BR ran the last passenger service between Cheltenham Malvern Road and Kingham. At the end of the film there a few more scenes of steam on the long gone Cotswold lines.
Superb! I’ve been filming the lines all around Bourton, Notgrove and Andoversford. Interesting to see them in operation.👍
Amazing! Thank you.
only footage i have seen of this line ,many thanks.
Brilliant, never seen film of this long lost line before.
The opening shot looks like Cheltenham St James terminus, now a supermarket.
yes it is cheltenham st james now waitrose.
Lovely video of the line.
I attended Kingham Hill School from 1953-59 & travelled this line at start & finish of each term.We had a station below the school on the line to "Chippy"called Sarsden Halt & I recall a few of us walking along the the line to go to the cinema in Chippy(!) on one occasion(very naughty).Shame that Notgrove has been all grubbed in;at the time it was the highest station on the GWR.Stow station is now a private residence but I think the platforms remain?
There was a hotel directly above Kingham station called The Langston Arms,the building remains but no longer a hotel.
Steam was before my time, but I remember going on the train to Kingham when I was at Kingham Hill School.
We destroyed so many decent lines (and great infrastructure) that connected places; places which though may be near each other are a pain to get to by train because it involves changing. .......thereby making it easier to drive between the two places instead. Beeching cuts equate to: Train 0 Car 1. Or should that be '5'.
Great video clip btw 👍
Railway closures were happening long before Beeching. See my other reply. I agree with your comment about infrastructure though keeping them open and writing off the losses was not a realistic option. Even retaining all the trackbeds is part of the solution. Reinstating lines is a very expensive business as can be seen from reopening east-west line.
Fabulous.
I really enjoyed this video.
I travelled from Chipping Norton to Kingham and back in 1961, to go trainspotting.
Beeching wrote a report probably based on cost savings and not on National and future value. The Transport Minister Earnest Marples instigated closure of Beeching nominated lines. Marples had interests in roadbuilding construction companies.
These lines were closed prior to the Beeching Report. The Ironstone Quarries along the line had closed and they did not even clear the landslip at Hook Norton.
The Branch Lines were good alternative routes during the Wars.
In my opinion the line that they should not of closed was the Great Central, its HS2 replacement will probably never be built.
Rail is currently examining Beeching at 60. The debate as to whether he overdid it is still on today.
The line between Chipping Norton and Kings Sutton closed to passengers in 1951. Line between Kingham and Chipping Norton was December 1962. So if you attribute closures to Beeching and his report both pre-date them. Railway closures started in WW1 and happened on and off from then on. Beeching speeded up an existing closure programme. It DID NOT start with him.
Starts at Cheltenham St James
Brilliant Iv not seen this before after years of looking. Last shot must be around July 1964 ish during track removal, with a mogul at Notgrove on a demolition train.
That is the first time i have seen film looking from the viaduct down to the reservoir, i remember when they blew the reservoir up.
Wow, that must have flooded a fair bit of Cheltenham...🙄
The folly of Beeching. What a waste.
Beeching seems to get the blame for everything but this line closed long before his time. Most of the eastern section closed in the early 50s.
Often true but not for the subject of this video. The line from Kingham to Lansdown Junction, Cheltenham was closed 15th October 1962 and the last section between Kingham and Chipping Norton closed 3rd December 1962.