The forgotten Morpeth Railway
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- This is a preview of the branch line that once linked the Main Northern Line and East Maitland to the riverside village at Morpeth. The video features the current condition of the formation including the station at Morpeth as were as other remnants including bridge abutments etc. Please enjoy!
Oh, damn. I was expecting a different Morpeth!
I love your videos.
Some of the introduction titles are hard to read, they go so fast.
Also, some of the geography isn’t distinct enough to make out previous rail line.. maybe some text to indicate may help?
Overall, great videos. For the history fans
I use to live in Morpeth don't know if this things are still there
2:29 around where your standing there are rail tracks still in the ground crossing the road between the school and the dog park that use to go into Bakers Brick Works
3:28 Where the house is to the left is where Raworth Train Station was the platform was buried under landfilled in the late 1990's when the house was built you can still see end part of platform when you turn to go onto Morpeth RD
3:39 Queens Wharf Station Platform use to be on the other of those hay bails there was a stairway to the station ticket box that is now a garden or tool shed to the house to the far right you can see it from Morpeth RD
5:18 The tracks continued pass the Loco sheds and the old Oak Butter Factory to another Station called Edward Street Station.
Near Morpeth Station was the Flower Mill it was pulled down in the early 80's after a fire the sand stone blocks used for mills walls are stored near East Maitland Station at the oval in a fence off yard
That video is my first and it is very rudimentary compared to what to videos I'm producing now. I'm hoping to reproduce that video soon, and I hope to provide more information. Thanks for that info, I appreciate it.
Thanks for showing this I often wondered what that building was at East Maitland, I had no idea that it was the station to Morpeth, I never knew there was a railway line going to Morpeth!
Thank you so much for showing it and it is so much appreciated. it is very interesting.
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0:13 The old East Maitland station and platform for Morpeth. I've used that platform a few times to do my *piece-to-camera* shots when I travel to East Maitland to do my Steamfest videos. I park at East Maitland as I'm assured of a parking spot, I shoot some sequences there then tap my Opal card to ride into Maitland itself to shoot the rest of my content. Maitland City at Steamfest time is a bloody nightmare to drive around. That's why I park at East Maitland now.
@Neil Forbes just like surfers to roma Street station 😆
from maitland station it would be a long walk to high street
@@top40researcher31 It's about 2 Kilometres(at a rough guess).
There were actually 2 Stations at Morpeth a bit of an historical note - from its opening in 1864 until 1895, the line was operated by steam trains, then from 1895 to 1915 was operated by steam trams and from then until the end it was steam trains.
0:33 If you stand on the old platform and look down, the rail lines are *still there,* embedded into the ground!
Closed in 1953
@@travelingman6511 Some years ago, I worked a bit at East Maitland, with a view from the hill down to the station. I'd sometimes wander down there at lunch and could see the track. I don't know if the rest of the line to Morpeth still has track. A pity it was closed, but there had been very little freight or passenger traffic for quite a few years. There's a great and humorous recitation called the Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet. Sorry, but I can't remember who wrote it
Nice video, interesting to see the remains of the Mopreth line
I appreciate that
Some scenes of the line in operation can be found at: ruclips.net/video/e7DT7MAl9nU/видео.html
A very valuable piece of film. Thank you for that - it could have been 40 years earlier!