Very interesting yet equally very sad at the drastic changes. Many happy memories of working over the Oxford-Cambridge and Ex GCR lines using LNER Jctn to Calvert with the brick trains and the Rubbish trains over the Marylebone-Aylesbury sections with passenger trains and freight too and from Didcot. Nicely video'd Ian.
Very enjoyable video!! 👍 (new subscriber, Virginia) It struck me- seeing all that tidy roadbed and new bridges without any track- how model railway enthusiasts follow the opposite approach: trains and track FIRST, and then the landscape will catch-up at another time.😉
Really good to see what happening from above - really spells out what is happening. Could you do a run from Calvert bridge to the incinerator- would love to see that part - all the pile driving they’ve done.
Sad in a way about Calvert station site. Have stopped off there quite a few times in the last 10 years or so. Bit like nearby Verney Junction & Swanbourne on EWR - going from sleepy old stations to also being swept away. Even saw a train moving one evening through Calvert station. Presume that bridge will be replaced by something "higher" as must be a bit of a detour for those that live there.
As an ex rail engineer my friends said the same about the GWR electrification there vandalising Sonning Cutting etc. My instant reply was this is not a museum railway like the Severn Valley (mind you they have automatic level crossing barriers & concrete sleepers not exactly historic) this is a modern system that needs to keep up with roads and air travel so we need the best technology and the passed sometimes has to go after all if Brunel was alive he would be using concrete everywhere and computers for communication and his 7 foot gauge trains would be going through the sound barrier (it’s only the brake systems that I used to work on stopping Shinkansen and ICE trains doing this)
Excellent stuff mate. Two of my favourite things: Beautiful Buckinghamshire, and a drone video. Great stuff, keep 'em coming buddy. 👍 It feels odd to realise that I used to drive buses over both of those bridges, almost every day, back in the 90sOne's gone, the other's not long for this world. Tempus fugit and all that!
Such a shame the Great Central wasn't simply re-opened. Would have given that link to Sheffield, and could have branched off it at Rugby for Birmingham if necessary. Could have been opened for a fraction of the cost of HS2, and a 140mph railway would have been more than adequate, particularly if some stretches were made 4 track. Oh well...
Subscribed. How's Finmere looking these days? I feel sorry for the guy that did all the work clearing the site, laying track, moving rolling stock up there etc only to have the land CPO'd by HS2. The last I saw was that the original GCR bridge had been replaced by a temporary platform for construction traffic. Keep up the good work.
Very interesting yet equally very sad at the drastic changes. Many happy memories of working over the Oxford-Cambridge and Ex GCR lines using LNER Jctn to Calvert with the brick trains and the Rubbish trains over the Marylebone-Aylesbury sections with passenger trains and freight too and from Didcot. Nicely video'd Ian.
Very enjoyable video!! 👍 (new subscriber, Virginia)
It struck me- seeing all that tidy roadbed and new bridges without any track- how model railway enthusiasts follow the opposite approach: trains and track FIRST, and then the landscape will catch-up at another time.😉
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Your coverage is great mate, keep it up 👍
Thanks for watching
Really good to see what happening from above - really spells out what is happening.
Could you do a run from Calvert bridge to the incinerator- would love to see that part - all the pile driving they’ve done.
Sad in a way about Calvert station site. Have stopped off there quite a few times in the last 10 years or so. Bit like nearby Verney Junction & Swanbourne on EWR - going from sleepy old stations to also being swept away. Even saw a train moving one evening through Calvert station. Presume that bridge will be replaced by something "higher" as must be a bit of a detour for those that live there.
Wonderful video again as always. Such appallingly extreme vandalism for a two track railway. Shame on HS2.
As an ex rail engineer my friends said the same about the GWR electrification there vandalising Sonning Cutting etc. My instant reply was this is not a museum railway like the Severn Valley (mind you they have automatic level crossing barriers & concrete sleepers not exactly historic) this is a modern system that needs to keep up with roads and air travel so we need the best technology and the passed sometimes has to go after all if Brunel was alive he would be using concrete everywhere and computers for communication and his 7 foot gauge trains would be going through the sound barrier (it’s only the brake systems that I used to work on stopping Shinkansen and ICE trains doing this)
Excellent stuff mate. Two of my favourite things: Beautiful Buckinghamshire, and a drone video. Great stuff, keep 'em coming buddy. 👍
It feels odd to realise that I used to drive buses over both of those bridges, almost every day, back in the 90sOne's gone, the other's not long for this world. Tempus fugit and all that!
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it’s a sad sight in that area, such good memories from my teens in the mid 90’s
@@NWP_EXPLORING Construction is always messy and muddy. But nature will colour it all in again when the job's done and the builders have gone.
Such a shame the Great Central wasn't simply re-opened. Would have given that link to Sheffield, and could have branched off it at Rugby for Birmingham if necessary.
Could have been opened for a fraction of the cost of HS2, and a 140mph railway would have been more than adequate, particularly if some stretches were made 4 track.
Oh well...
Totally agree
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How's Finmere looking these days? I feel sorry for the guy that did all the work clearing the site, laying track, moving rolling stock up there etc only to have the land CPO'd by HS2.
The last I saw was that the original GCR bridge had been replaced by a temporary platform for construction traffic.
Keep up the good work.
I will do a review on finmere by drone very soon . Pos tomorrow if not raining