THE MESSIAH!!! PRAISE BE TO BRIAN!! I've always been fascinated by this lost line and It would be an important line for Today's Summer Holiday makers and Holiday Parks! THANKS BEECHING!! Thanks for another fab video Sarah!
@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico Thanks Tico! Glad you liked the video! Yes God damn Beeching! Given how many holiday parks there are along that relatively short stretch of coast I'm sure it would still be well used!
I regularly walk up and down Gunton disused railway on my walks as i live nearby, there are at least 4 pillboxes in that area and the big concrete tank traps by the bridge too. There are a lot of old railway fence posts still amongst the undergrowth, some with very rust wire attached. I like your hat - I was in the same year at school as Millie!
My one and only visit to Yarmouth was my first holiday away from the family (1961). After an overnight journey from Scotland, I used one of those Liverpool Street to Yarmouth South Town expresses. This was the last year they operated to South Town. My first outlay of that holiday was the taxi from the station to my guest-house for the next two weeks. It cost me all of 2/-. At the end it was that journey in reverse. I have no memory of the journey itself, except that it was a long one. British Railways, back then, couldn't afford to leave valuable assets around. If it couldd be sold - it was, otherwise it was done away with.
Excellent video, amazing that you covered so many miles. Do you count your steps on trips? If so, must have run into many thousands! Sad to see fully functioning infrastructure being demolished. Bad as Beeching was, buses seemed to be the alternative, until Mrs Thatcher came along, privatised those, and now most of those don't exist either. That's progress! (But glad you did find one bus, to save your poor feet!)
That was some dedication walking all the way from Lowestoft to Yarmouth South along muddy overgrown footpaths It's always interesting exploring disused railways, but such a shame that so little survives
Yer went past the end of me road!!! An interesting walk. Such a shame it closed... and all the housing. Sign of the times I suppose. :( Can't wait for the next one. :)
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we used to go on holiday to Great Yarmouth (and Corton and Hopton) and would travel on the line between Lowestoft and Yarmouth Southtown before my Dad bought a car. We used to joke when we reversed at Lowestoft that they were taking us home again. Sadly, there is very little archive footage of the line so your video brings back happy memories to me. Thank You.
Something fascinating about abandoned railways, I did part of the Great Central last year through Leicestershire and there was still some artefacts to be found. Great video too by the way
It's very fuzzy in my mind now but back in the early 70's we stayed in the caravan park in Hopton. The caravan adjoined the hedge row of the old line. In the evening we would go to that pub you walked past, the station was a builders yard or something like that in 1973.
Hi Sarah ! Great video. Having grown up in Gorleston in the '70s & '80s and being a bit of a railway nerd, I know much of where you videoed like the back of my hand and can recall how it was back in the day before the Gorleston bypass (A47 / A12) was built. I've cycled much of the route you covered (except the Lowestoft - Corton bit); I'm surprised that you walked it instead of taking a bike. It's quite a distance ! I can just remember cycing along the Lowestoft linear park in the early-mid '90s before it had been turned into a path and much of it was flooded, which seems strange. Some of the path now slightly diverts away from the trackbed and you can still see that it is in water. A small section did take you onto the old track bed (at about 3:34 in your video) but that has since been fenced off. 5:13 Up until the 1990s, the bridge top was still visible from this road (behind where you sttod) as the bridge had just been filled in. I guess that since then the enture structure was removed and it's all been filled in now. 10:18 If you had looked over that bridge (not sure if you did) on the RHS you would have looked down onto Corton station. 15:42 Using side-by-side maps, I'm quite certain that Gorleston Links Halt was exactly where that small car park is where the red & yellow van is sitting. The bungalow, which is just infront of the van and in your video at 15:30 was there when the station and line still existed and can be seen in a number of photos when the line was there. Steps from the platform ran down close to it. 16:14 In the early-mid '80s the gardens hadn't been extended onto the old track bed by then, so there was a very wide path that ran from that bridge to where you were at Gorleston Links. I guess at some point in the '80s the council sold off the land to the home owners in order to give them the opportunity to extend their gardens. 16:50 Before the bypass road was built, the park was much bigger and was a great place for walking, playing football etc. I can _just_ remember the site when the dereluct station was there but I would have only been about 6-8 years old or so. 20:37 On the other side of the road there is a fence with concrete poles that was there back when the station still existed. You forgot to say "Squishy Babies !" at the end ! 😉
Played golf at Gorleston which is the most easterly golf club in Britain narrowly beating Yarmouth and Caistor just up the road. One of my hobbies is Golf by Rail and this would have certainly been a good one!
Hats off to your research and tenacity. It seems you are experiencing similar frustrations as Paul & Rebecca Whitwick with regards to visiting former stations. They eventually abandoned their quest to visit "Every Abandoned Station" due to the proliferation of housing estates on the erstwhile station locations. Nevertheless, as both an incomer to this part of the world and a history of the railways fan, I found your video both informative and entertaining.
What a refreshing change from 'plastic flappy bins' et al! A great video, Sarah, thanks for doing it. PS - I love the maps in particular. Best regards, Eric
Stumbled across this video and can see you have a passion for the railways. Very well crafted and researched. There is never a bad wrong turn when on an adventure ☺️🚂💙
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Get yerself a bike, lass! There's a lot of disused lines in East Anglia you can ride along. You can take it nice and slow to take in all the sights, but it's just that bit quicker that you can get a bit more covered, explore a few more little pathways that lead off.
Excellent video Sarah. I was in Hopton on Sea over Christmas. My wife grew up there and my in laws still live there. I was there until 2nd of Jan. My in laws live on Old Church Road. My father in law purchased land from the railway when it closed to extend his garden. So his garden is part of where the trackbed ran. It was an embankment, which he dug out by hand with a shovel and barrow. At the bottom of Old Church Road there is a house with some signs and other memorabilia from the old station. Would have been a pleasant surprise indeed to have bumped into you.
@carlwilson1772 I filmed this on the 4th so only two days apart! That would have been a lovely surprise! How interesting about your father in law's garden.
Hello Sarah. Every time I drive past the approach to Great Yarmouth station there's now an awful lot of old trains / rolling stock parked up. Might be worth investigating / making a video about? Keep up the excellent work!
That's Eastern Rail Services (ERS). They have their own website and RUclips channel. Much of what they do is repair & maintain older stock to be leased out but they also have some in preseervation and some that is held just for spares.
Fantastic And Informative Vlog And As Mentioned It Would Save You Some Time If You Had A Bike To Use Where There Are Cycle Paths & Have Brought You Some Coffees😊
Very interesting video although it left me feeling a little melancholy due to all the railways that have disappeared. I live on the outskirts of Holmfirth in West Yorkshire which used to be served by a branch line,which, like many others,fell victim to the Beeching cuts. The old station house remains (as a private residence) but other than that you’d be hard pressed to know that the railway ever existed. Such a shame. 👋👍
It saddens me that so many places lost their rail links. So many rural places are inaccessible to anyone who doesn't drive because bus services never materialised after rail closure (or if they did come into existence they can be very sparse). There were so many lines in Norfolk that disappeared. I wonder how the country may have looked if more of the lines had remained open.
Hi Sarah, A very interesting and different video - well done another great video. If you want an interesting line to follow try the Aberystwyth to Devon/Cornwall line - the train line took a right turn out of Aberystwyth Station and followed the coast line south. Also, did you invite Paul and Rebecca Whitewick to join you on this trip?
@QALibrary Thank you! So glad you liked it! Will have to add the Aberystwyth to Devon/Cornwall to the list but definitely can't walk that one. I didn't ask Paul & Rebecca but definitely should've done! They seem like they'd be great to do a video with!
Great video, I learnt lots more than I knew about the stations from Lowestoft to Gorleston, that was my place of birth! Keep the vids coming 👏☺️
THE MESSIAH!!! PRAISE BE TO BRIAN!!
I've always been fascinated by this lost line and It would be an important line for Today's Summer Holiday makers and Holiday Parks! THANKS BEECHING!! Thanks for another fab video Sarah!
@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico Thanks Tico! Glad you liked the video! Yes God damn Beeching! Given how many holiday parks there are along that relatively short stretch of coast I'm sure it would still be well used!
I regularly walk up and down Gunton disused railway on my walks as i live nearby, there are at least 4 pillboxes in that area and the big concrete tank traps by the bridge too. There are a lot of old railway fence posts still amongst the undergrowth, some with very rust wire attached. I like your hat - I was in the same year at school as Millie!
Brilliant video Sarah, I can't believe that theme park that sits on this abandoned line had a section for Mr Blobby lol.
My one and only visit to Yarmouth was my first holiday away from the family (1961). After an overnight journey from Scotland, I used one of those Liverpool Street to Yarmouth South Town expresses. This was the last year they operated to South Town. My first outlay of that holiday was the taxi from the station to my guest-house for the next two weeks. It cost me all of 2/-. At the end it was that journey in reverse. I have no memory of the journey itself, except that it was a long one. British Railways, back then, couldn't afford to leave valuable assets around. If it couldd be sold - it was, otherwise it was done away with.
Excellent video, amazing that you covered so many miles. Do you count your steps on trips? If so, must have run into many thousands! Sad to see fully functioning infrastructure being demolished. Bad as Beeching was, buses seemed to be the alternative, until Mrs Thatcher came along, privatised those, and now most of those don't exist either. That's progress! (But glad you did find one bus, to save your poor feet!)
Excellent video as always 👍
That was some dedication walking all the way from Lowestoft to Yarmouth South along muddy overgrown footpaths
It's always interesting exploring disused railways, but such a shame that so little survives
Awesome video Sarah you want by Hopton Haven where i work in the holiday season
Yer went past the end of me road!!!
An interesting walk. Such a shame it closed... and all the housing.
Sign of the times I suppose. :(
Can't wait for the next one. :)
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we used to go on holiday to Great Yarmouth (and Corton and Hopton) and would travel on the line between Lowestoft and Yarmouth Southtown before my Dad bought a car. We used to joke when we reversed at Lowestoft that they were taking us home again. Sadly, there is very little archive footage of the line so your video brings back happy memories to me. Thank You.
@@davidhamm7909 So glad you liked the video! Always love to hear stories from people who have used the railways over the years!
Sadly missed route which would have made a wonderful heritage railway.
Something fascinating about abandoned railways, I did part of the Great Central last year through Leicestershire and there was still some artefacts to be found. Great video too by the way
Nice video and it's a shame that there little left but really enjoy a disused railway
@Sim0nTrains Thanks Simon! Glad yoy enjoyed it! I wish there was more left too!
Great Video I walked the line a few years back on New years day in the rain. So happy to see all the views again.
1 view an hour ago and that person did not "say" first! what a monster!
That was really good! Informative, entertaining, a bit sad obvs, but really well-made, researched and presented. Thank you! 🙂
It's very fuzzy in my mind now but back in the early 70's we stayed in the caravan park in Hopton. The caravan adjoined the hedge row of the old line. In the evening we would go to that pub you walked past, the station was a builders yard or something like that in 1973.
Hi Sarah !
Great video.
Having grown up in Gorleston in the '70s & '80s and being a bit of a railway nerd, I know much of where you videoed like the back of my hand and can recall how it was back in the day before the Gorleston bypass (A47 / A12) was built.
I've cycled much of the route you covered (except the Lowestoft - Corton bit); I'm surprised that you walked it instead of taking a bike. It's quite a distance !
I can just remember cycing along the Lowestoft linear park in the early-mid '90s before it had been turned into a path and much of it was flooded, which seems strange. Some of the path now slightly diverts away from the trackbed and you can still see that it is in water. A small section did take you onto the old track bed (at about 3:34 in your video) but that has since been fenced off.
5:13
Up until the 1990s, the bridge top was still visible from this road (behind where you sttod) as the bridge had just been filled in. I guess that since then the enture structure was removed and it's all been filled in now.
10:18
If you had looked over that bridge (not sure if you did) on the RHS you would have looked down onto Corton station.
15:42
Using side-by-side maps, I'm quite certain that Gorleston Links Halt was exactly where that small car park is where the red & yellow van is sitting.
The bungalow, which is just infront of the van and in your video at 15:30 was there when the station and line still existed and can be seen in a number of photos when the line was there. Steps from the platform ran down close to it.
16:14
In the early-mid '80s the gardens hadn't been extended onto the old track bed by then, so there was a very wide path that ran from that bridge to where you were at Gorleston Links. I guess at some point in the '80s the council sold off the land to the home owners in order to give them the opportunity to extend their gardens.
16:50
Before the bypass road was built, the park was much bigger and was a great place for walking, playing football etc.
I can _just_ remember the site when the dereluct station was there but I would have only been about 6-8 years old or so.
20:37
On the other side of the road there is a fence with concrete poles that was there back when the station still existed.
You forgot to say "Squishy Babies !" at the end ! 😉
*I did link my photos on Flickr in a reply but as I suspected, that was blocked/auto-deleted.
Played golf at Gorleston which is the most easterly golf club in Britain narrowly beating Yarmouth and Caistor just up the road. One of my hobbies is Golf by Rail and this would have certainly been a good one!
Until researching this video I wasn't aware Gorleston even had a golf club! Interesting to know it's the most easterly!
I'd hate to live on somewhere called 'beeching' Rd or drive etc. It would remind me of the destruction he caused. Keep up the good videos. 👍
Another cracking video....
Hats off to your research and tenacity.
It seems you are experiencing similar frustrations as Paul & Rebecca Whitwick with regards to visiting former stations. They eventually abandoned their quest to visit "Every Abandoned Station" due to the proliferation of housing estates on the erstwhile station locations.
Nevertheless, as both an incomer to this part of the world and a history of the railways fan, I found your video both informative and entertaining.
What a refreshing change from 'plastic flappy bins' et al! A great video, Sarah, thanks for doing it. PS - I love the maps in particular. Best regards, Eric
Yay for the Pride unit!
@TransportVloggerIan Gotta love a pride unit! Wish it had a name though!
Another interesting video Sarah, thank you
Stumbled across this video and can see you have a passion for the railways. Very well crafted and researched. There is never a bad wrong turn when on an adventure ☺️🚂💙
Get yerself a bike, lass! There's a lot of disused lines in East Anglia you can ride along. You can take it nice and slow to take in all the sights, but it's just that bit quicker that you can get a bit more covered, explore a few more little pathways that lead off.
Excellent video Sarah. I was in Hopton on Sea over Christmas. My wife grew up there and my in laws still live there. I was there until 2nd of Jan. My in laws live on Old Church Road. My father in law purchased land from the railway when it closed to extend his garden. So his garden is part of where the trackbed ran. It was an embankment, which he dug out by hand with a shovel and barrow. At the bottom of Old Church Road there is a house with some signs and other memorabilia from the old station. Would have been a pleasant surprise indeed to have bumped into you.
@carlwilson1772 I filmed this on the 4th so only two days apart! That would have been a lovely surprise! How interesting about your father in law's garden.
Hello Sarah. Every time I drive past the approach to Great Yarmouth station there's now an awful lot of old trains / rolling stock parked up. Might be worth investigating / making a video about? Keep up the excellent work!
There’s a few old decommissioned HST 125 power units in the storage sidings outside GY Vauxhall. They’re bound for Mexico I believe.
That's Eastern Rail Services (ERS).
They have their own website and RUclips channel.
Much of what they do is repair & maintain older stock to be leased out but they also have some in preseervation and some that is held just for spares.
Thanks Sarah for another great informative and enjoyable video. I look forward to more in the series.
Fantastic And Informative Vlog And As Mentioned It Would Save You Some Time If You Had A Bike To Use Where There Are Cycle Paths & Have Brought You Some Coffees😊
Very interesting video although it left me feeling a little melancholy due to all the railways that have disappeared. I live on the outskirts of Holmfirth in West Yorkshire which used to be served by a branch line,which, like many others,fell victim to the Beeching cuts. The old station house remains (as a private residence) but other than that you’d be hard pressed to know that the railway ever existed. Such a shame. 👋👍
It saddens me that so many places lost their rail links. So many rural places are inaccessible to anyone who doesn't drive because bus services never materialised after rail closure (or if they did come into existence they can be very sparse). There were so many lines in Norfolk that disappeared. I wonder how the country may have looked if more of the lines had remained open.
GREAT TO SEE YOU SHARE YOUR PASSION WITH US
@@THEFORBIDDENMAN-lk7of Thank you!
THANK YOU
Thanks for the video. It is my part of the world and I regularly used the line in the 1960’s.
So well made enjoyed it thankyou
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful video. Thank you from a snowy north Staffordshire
@socialmediaavoider Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! I've been hearing tales of the weather over there. We've not got a flake of snow in Norwich!
Pleasurewood Hills has a 2' gauge railway to explore.
@fussyboy2000 Oh I didn't know that! Will have to go to Pleasurewood Hills at some point!
Hi Sarah,
A very interesting and different video - well done another great video.
If you want an interesting line to follow try the Aberystwyth to Devon/Cornwall line - the train line took a right turn out of Aberystwyth Station and followed the coast line south.
Also, did you invite Paul and Rebecca Whitewick to join you on this trip?
@QALibrary Thank you! So glad you liked it! Will have to add the Aberystwyth to Devon/Cornwall to the list but definitely can't walk that one. I didn't ask Paul & Rebecca but definitely should've done! They seem like they'd be great to do a video with!
Nice one sarah.
brilliant vlog
Will you be coming to look at Beach Station to Martham, or even Stalham?
@matthewhodder3029 All in good time! I have another area in mind first but hopefully I can explore all the disused lines in Norfolk this year!
I could help with pointing out bits of architecture on the route
@@sarahwiththetrains are there lots?
Beaching drive not beaching close. I guessed wrong.
Enjoyable & interesting video!
Ditto my comments elsewhere.
🙂👍
@ianr Thank you Ian 😊
You think all these housing developments could do with a local station?
@QALibrary Exactly! I think Gorleston Links would actually be pretty well used as would Hopton!