Hi David and Shell 👋 !! Thanks for this most pleasant and informative line walk👍 !! Always interesting to see the historic photographs 👀 ! Good to learn about the viaduct - support blocks for the construction frame, and the provision to widen it for twin tracks 🚂🚂 ✅ ! Best wishes, Don 🙋♂️
Hi Don 👋 glad you enjoyed the video, it's a nice walk, we always like to find the before and after photos to see what it was once like. Thanks for watching 😁 have a good week David & Shell
Hi David and Shell. Interesting history with first electrification, and then for it to go back to steam must be pretty much unique? Very little trace left at all until you got up near Tottington, but seemed a good few relics once you got there👍😁
Hi Des , Yes i think your right it was ahead of its time , its good to see the bits of it still there , I wonder how many people walk past and wonder what they are . The line has been more of less cleared like you say until Tottington ,but after if you look you can find one or two little traces . Hope you are well . David & Shell
Fascinating!! What a beautiful walk for a Spring day! Great to hear and see the birds. And yikes, a terrapin. Some wonderful bridges, viaducts and old stations and yards on this trail. Amazing that there was so much engineering walk for such a short section of line. The Victorians were incredible! Super editing and use of old photos too - as always. Great to wander with you guys on this one Really interesting. Enjoyed.
Hi 👋 it's a lovely walk, bit busy sometimes . There was plenty of history to still be found even though it has now been made into a trail. Glad you liked the old photos we dropped in . The terrapin has been there some years now, someone must have dumped it in the lodge, poor thing. Have a good weekend David & Shell
I remember the Knowles Crossing siding still having sleepers in place. I also remember Greenmount station platform being mostly intact, and the bridge under Brandlesholme Road had been partially infilled, but was still very much in evidence in the 70s. I was born in 1972. My earliest rememberings of this line where when I was still in a buggy, and it was all dirt tracked, and most of the line was devoid of trees and it was mostly grass banks. They also had a three phase electric line which went the full lengh of the line (it was removed some time in the late 90s, early 2000s). It was sparse and bear in the 70s and 80s. BAIRY Cine Society has a video of the very last train on this line up on youtube.
Hi ,glad you liked the video and it brought back some memories ,shell lived in Tottington before we got married and she remembers walking the old disused track bed . There are one or two little gems left on the line but you have to look for them . We watched the old film you mentioned its great when you can see what it used to be like . Thanks again David & Shell
What a lovely, lovely video of one of my favourite footpaths.
Thanks glad you enjoyed it .
Hi David and Shell 👋 !! Thanks for this most pleasant and informative line walk👍 !! Always interesting to see the historic photographs 👀 ! Good to learn about the viaduct - support blocks for the construction frame, and the provision to widen it for twin tracks 🚂🚂 ✅ ! Best wishes, Don 🙋♂️
Hi Don 👋 glad you enjoyed the video, it's a nice walk, we always like to find the before and after photos to see what it was once like. Thanks for watching 😁 have a good week
David & Shell
Hi David and Shell. Interesting history with first electrification, and then for it to go back to steam must be pretty much unique? Very little trace left at all until you got up near Tottington, but seemed a good few relics once you got there👍😁
Hi Des ,
Yes i think your right it was ahead of its time , its good to see the bits of it still there , I wonder how many people walk past and wonder what they are .
The line has been more of less cleared like you say until Tottington ,but after if you look you can find one or two little traces .
Hope you are well .
David & Shell
Fascinating!!
What a beautiful walk for a Spring day! Great to hear and see the birds. And yikes, a terrapin.
Some wonderful bridges, viaducts and old stations and yards on this trail.
Amazing that there was so much engineering walk for such a short section of line. The Victorians were incredible!
Super editing and use of old photos too - as always.
Great to wander with you guys on this one
Really interesting. Enjoyed.
Hi 👋 it's a lovely walk, bit busy sometimes . There was plenty of history to still be found even though it has now been made into a trail. Glad you liked the old photos we dropped in . The terrapin has been there some years now, someone must have dumped it in the lodge, poor thing. Have a good weekend
David & Shell
@@walkinglosthistory you too guys. 👍👍
I remember the Knowles Crossing siding still having sleepers in place. I also remember Greenmount station platform being mostly intact, and the bridge under Brandlesholme Road had been partially infilled, but was still very much in evidence in the 70s. I was born in 1972. My earliest rememberings of this line where when I was still in a buggy, and it was all dirt tracked, and most of the line was devoid of trees and it was mostly grass banks. They also had a three phase electric line which went the full lengh of the line (it was removed some time in the late 90s, early 2000s). It was sparse and bear in the 70s and 80s. BAIRY Cine Society has a video of the very last train on this line up on youtube.
Hi ,glad you liked the video and it brought back some memories ,shell lived in Tottington before we got married and she remembers walking the old disused track bed .
There are one or two little gems left on the line but you have to look for them .
We watched the old film you mentioned its great when you can see what it used to be like .
Thanks again
David & Shell
That terrapin has been there for at least 10 years or more. Probably a lot longer.
it looked like it had been there a while some locals thought we were pulling there leg when we told them what we had been filming .