Thanks for recording your visit. I walked the path this weekend from Prestatyn to Dyserth. It's amazing how overgrown it's become in just a couple of years. It was impossible to make out the facing siding at Meliden that used to serve the mine. Was it a lead mine? And has the lime processing site been built on now at the terminus (I know the station has).
Thanks for the comment. I've not been up on the walkway since doing this video so it's disappointing to hear it's become so overgrown. Yes it was a lead mine at Meliden. To be honest I'm not sure where the lime processing site was to be able to answer that question as I only looked at the station area. Apart from that being developed for housing, and the adjacent area has been turned into a car park for the walkway, I don't think there has been any other major redevelopment
@@RWHTrains I'm not intimately familiar with the layout at Dyserth, but I believe the spur to the lime processing site curved off to the right (as you surveyed the station area from the overbridge). I tried to follow this route but was confronted very shortly by a new small industrial estate, so I believe the processing site may have been developed. My wife's enthusiasm for exploring the past didn't extend any further, so I might have to go back myself to satisfy my curiosity. The walkway is perfectly passable on foot or cycle, it's just the views which have been obscured!
@@v2factoryman yes the station is definitely now housing and some industrial units between the houses and the main road. The old goods shed is in the middle of this. I think the area you mention with the spur maybe the car park area. Glad the footpath is still in good condition hopefully they will sort out the over growth, especially at Meliden. I think the refurbishment of the goods shed there cost about £1m. Shame if that area was allowed to deteriorate as they did a really good job here turning it into a little heritage centre
thank you for taking the time to film this
Thanks
Excellent video. I travelled the line to Dyserth on a special DMU organised by the Wirral Railway Circle during 1969. Great memories.
Thanks. Would have loved to have done that run. I think there is a video on You Tube of a DMU tour to Dyserth. Lots of relics left along there as well
@@RWHTrainsYes that's the tour I was on, 22nd March 1969 I believe. We went to Amlwch too. Dewi Davies posted it on RUclips.
@@levelcrossing150 that's the one. Amlwch branch is another line I would like to ride on. Maybe one day if it gets reopened
Great video
Thanks Madeline
Thanks for recording your visit. I walked the path this weekend from Prestatyn to Dyserth. It's amazing how overgrown it's become in just a couple of years. It was impossible to make out the facing siding at Meliden that used to serve the mine. Was it a lead mine? And has the lime processing site been built on now at the terminus (I know the station has).
Thanks for the comment. I've not been up on the walkway since doing this video so it's disappointing to hear it's become so overgrown. Yes it was a lead mine at Meliden. To be honest I'm not sure where the lime processing site was to be able to answer that question as I only looked at the station area. Apart from that being developed for housing, and the adjacent area has been turned into a car park for the walkway, I don't think there has been any other major redevelopment
@@RWHTrains I'm not intimately familiar with the layout at Dyserth, but I believe the spur to the lime processing site curved off to the right (as you surveyed the station area from the overbridge). I tried to follow this route but was confronted very shortly by a new small industrial estate, so I believe the processing site may have been developed. My wife's enthusiasm for exploring the past didn't extend any further, so I might have to go back myself to satisfy my curiosity. The walkway is perfectly passable on foot or cycle, it's just the views which have been obscured!
@@v2factoryman yes the station is definitely now housing and some industrial units between the houses and the main road. The old goods shed is in the middle of this. I think the area you mention with the spur maybe the car park area. Glad the footpath is still in good condition hopefully they will sort out the over growth, especially at Meliden. I think the refurbishment of the goods shed there cost about £1m. Shame if that area was allowed to deteriorate as they did a really good job here turning it into a little heritage centre