Mothballed Stations
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Mothballed stations are stations that have not officially closed but have no trains stopping there anymore. This is my video covering all of them in the UK which are listed on Wikipedia. Enjoy!
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Incredible the amount of money that railway infrastructure costs. £6 million worth of maintenance at Teesside Airport?
Yeah. It's crazy, I would not have thought it would be so expensive for such a small basic station
@@trainman86trainstramsandmoreit isn’t, especially when nothing is actually spent on anything based on the pictures…someone lied in the claims, the money was reallocated elsewhere but never shown on paper
Teesside Airport station is on the Stockton to Darlington line, the first passenger train service in the world.
The problem with it is it is 1 mile away from the actual airport , which is now doing ok .
It needs to have the historic line rerouted to the actual airport.
Yes I agree. The station was a great concept but it is no where near the airport so it is a pretty useless station.
When I was younger there was a shuttle bus between the station and the airport. It was even walkeable if you didn't have any suitcases on a dry day too 😂
In the late fifties/early sixties, my Dad was stationed at RAF Middleton-st-George (now Teesside Airport). We lived in married quarters on a road that is now called Washington Avenue. Before I started school, my mum would take me with her when she went to Darlington. We'd catch the train from Dinsdale station; not sure how we got there but I can't remember any bus being involved and it looks like a long way for a three/four year old to be made to walk but who knows? I never realised that the line was part of the Stockton to Darlington although looking into it, the bit I traveled on actually wasn't.
@@trainman86trainstramsandmoreWhy couldn't just build a two track station, with single track lines leading back obto the main line?
@@robotx9285 I don't know the answer to that question sorry. What I do know is that I don't think any other location for the station was ever considered. Correct me if i'm wrong on that
Rosyth dockyard was another opening 1917 ish to 1999 the line still there just mothballed...
I understood that they closed Sampford Courtenay because there is not enough time for a train to get to Okehampton and back for an hourly service to fit in with timetables at Exeter, and there can't be 2 trains on the Dartmoor line at once because there's no signalling, just a token system from credit.
Maybe that will change when Okehampton Parkway is built (funding is in place), I hope so because I live in Sampford Courtenay
Well also because Sampford Courtenay is bare with basically nothing there
Next train to...
I'm pretty sure it's because the business case doesn't stack up. The station site is isolated, it's some distance from Sampford Courtenay and the area is thinly populated. If you've not seen it already, I suggest you Google "The Okehampton Line - Restoring the second route from Exeter to Plymouth around the north side of Dartmoor", a web page by Railfuture. I'm not including a link as the RUclips bot seems to dislike them.
More recommended reading: "Reversing Beeching - schemes within Devon", a pdf document by Jonathan Roberts Consulting. This was written before the Okehampton Parkway scheme got fully underway.
Very good, although I spotted some minor spelling mistakes.
Yeah sorry sometimes some slip through my editing its normal
Can you consider Weymouth Quay "mothballed" when no train can reach it (not on rails anyway!).
Well I put it there because it is somehow not officially closed yet
There's a proposal from Brittany Ferries for Weymouth-Roscoff and Weymouth-Vigo (or the nearest port to Vigo) routes so that's why Weymouth Quay hasn't been officially closed - they're wondering about a way to re-open and re-lay the tramway without the disruption to traffic of earlier years.
I feel like the Weymouth Harbour Line could have been converted into a tramway, with extensions around the town
Funnily enough I thought that too. Good opportunity for potential tram train?
make it a historic tramway and you have a tourist attraction on top of public transportation
Too small a system for the investment money to be recouped.
@@bostonrailfan2427the public who will pay for it want reliable services and not museum pieces. That's why heritage railways don't offer commuter services.
Weymouth quay station has now been flattened
Ok thanks for that 👍
1:55 so they closed that station because of health and safety issues
@@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 yes
@@trainman86trainstramsandmoreoh right so that explains why that station had to close and no longer served
@@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 Not exactly, it was clsoed for that WCML programme thing but was never re-opened afterwards for reasons unknown and then the platforms eventually became rotten as a result, even though they look in good nick on the surface
@@trainman86trainstramsandmorethat the reason why
1:02 look at them station name signs of barlaston they’re rotting away
Altnabreac is a new addition to the list.
Thanks 👍
The croxley green branch would be another
It's officially closed isn't it?
According to the disused railway site. Most of the track is still in situ
@@jasonl4411. ok, yes formally closed in 2003.
Norton bridge is still here but it’s overgrown since it closed 6 years ago
Yeah
@@trainman86trainstramsandmoreyeah and that station like barlaston and Wedgwood had its last train used that station back in may 2004 some 19 years ago
I think they officially closed it though. The other two haven’t been officially closed.
@@fryvern50 yeah
@@trainman86trainstramsandmorethey were meant to reopen both barlaston and Wedgwood stations but unfortunately nothing has transpired
Great videos...captions could remain displayed a little longer to cater for us slower readers!
That's the 2nd comment I have had today about that. I completely understand, and I have fixed captions on newer videos
Great video!
Smethwick West is another one, mothballed in 1995 but still retaining it's platforms.
Smethwick west is officially closed, not mothballed but thanks.
@@trainman86trainstramsandmoreI went past that station numerous times and it’s a shame that it’s now overgrown since it was closed in 1996 and the footbridge was also gone too and so has the signal box but the platform is still very much in tact
but the junction is still much used for Railtours and freight trains to come round the junction after coming off the stour valley line and join the snow hill line extension to Worcester Stourbridge and Kidderminster
@@trainman86trainstramsandmoreand I went past that station numerous times and I saw the platforms being engulfed by the overgrown plants
Polesworth, south of Atherstone Warwickshire.
No, polesworth still gets trains.
When you give statistics on entries and exits for a station, is that per day, week, month or year?
In the years
£6 million in maintenance costs saved by closing one, barely utilized, under-maintained platform?
sorry, but someone fiddled the numbers there!
Derby County Football Club station.???
Nope, officially closed in 1997
Down th line to Sinfin..
@@duncancurtis5108 sinfin north and central officially closed now
Wording needs to larger unreadable..
This is the most readable text on my editor. Pause the video to read if that helps. This issue has been addressed before, but most people thought this new font I started using was better
@@trainman86trainstramsandmoreno more than two lines of text then. it’s extremely hard to read even when paused!
@@bostonrailfan2427have you tried reading in full screen
@@trainman86trainstramsandmore YES! and zooming-in too!
sorry, but it’s still too small. that third line crunches everything up too much. you could easily split it into another slide or hold the slide longer with a new text box and it would be fine…
@bostonrailfan2427 ok, well, I can't do much about that now. Anyway, you and Chris are the only ones who can't read it. Everybody else seems fine.
2:00 health and safety? Wot?!
Maybe because the station is so basic and there is so many people overcrowding it.
@@trainman86trainstramsandmoredon’t try to justify the unjustifiable
@@valuetraveler2026 tbh I don't really know that was just a thought
bingo. better to have fans crowd at ground level getting trams than crowding the narrow platform