Return to The Dramway (The Dramway 2) - Lost Railway Walks 15
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- I revisit The Dramway in South Gloucestershire - a 19th Century tramway that was used to convey coal from the colleries around Kingswood and Coalpit Heath down to the River Avon and into the cities of Bath and Bristol.
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My dad was a railway employee many moons ago here in the Netherlands. It was his greatest pride when trains ran on time...and the day closed with no great upheavels. Today, the systems are so much more complicated and intricate. Timetables hard to manage and run true to form. Yet a train girl I will always be. Your historic walks and information are invaluable. What a great love you have for the Railways and their trains. Another train lovers treat. Thank you Paul. Have a great week ahead. 👌🇳🇱🙋♀🥝
Thank you Anita!
Glad you enjoyed it - clearly your dad's career passion rubbed off on you too!
I have always enjoyed railways (as well as canals, rivers, nature, history, coast, sea & landscape....!) since I was young - but more for the history of them, and the routes that they took, than the engines themselves, but, of course, I do like to see them in action too from time to time.
Hope you have a super week too!
Take care,
Paul
What amazing things you have found in old leaflets & books. The magic of maps also clarifies things you find on the ground e.g. the pottery from the kiln. Thanks for another beautiful walk, packed full of history.
Perfect day for a walk and mooch about Paul.Thanks for posting..... cheers Lee
Thank you Lee! Glad you enjoyed it.
Cheers,
Paul
Hello Paul - Sunday greetings from Poland
A wonderful video back on the Dramway. Very interesting walk and history lesson.
Well there is certainly so much to see. Manmade and natures art are really working well together. Beautiful walk. Thank you Paul.👍
Thank you Daryl!
Glad you enjoyed it - lots to see in this area - I will be back here again.
Cheers!
Paul
Thanks for that video, Paul. Plenty of railway interest both active and preserved and relics. Great!
Thank you Michael!
Glad you enjoyed it - there is much more in this area to uncover.
Cheers,
Paul
Just amazing to see how the brick work has stood the test of time! Not so sure if today's material and workmanship will pass the same test. lol
I agree Bruce!
I think it would have fallen down by now if it had been made using materials and construction standards and methods of today!
Great to see it still standing and in remarkably good condition.
Cheers,
Paul
That was a really interesting exploration of what must have been an extensive system of mine workings, interconnected by tramways - the iron veins which carried coal, iron ore and other minerals into Bristol and beyond. The dramway bridge is in amazingly good condition considering a road runs over it. Also good the see the wonderfully preserved former Midland Railway Signal Box and station at Walmsley. Great video. Thank you.
Thank you Malcolm!
There is so much to unpack in this relatively small area - I will definitely be back here again soon.
Cheers,
Paul
Hi Paul! This was lovely and I enjoyed seeing the modern things like the lizard as well as that buried cart and remnants of the tunnel. Fabulous walk tracing where the rail went.
Thank you Donna!
Yes, Willsbridge Mill Valley is a haven for wildlife - I would have liked more time to have explored it more and done some more nature shots, but, unfortunately, time wasn't on my side that day - I hope to be back there again.
Yes, old maps are great, aren't they! There is a fab resource in the UK, in Scotland to be precise, which houses (in print and digitally) of all of the old OS Maps from the 1880s onwards. They have some others on there too. It cover the whole of the UK.
Thanks again,
Paul
Very pleased to see both your videos on this, and the fact that this tramway is recognised. As a kid living in Keynsham I was able to explore a long way north from the Willsbridge tunnel entrance, then unobstructed. Happy days.
Thank you!
There is a third and final video on the Dramway on my channel now, where I go from Siston Common to Brandy Bottom Colliery, and Coalpit Heath's Ram Hill Colliery.
You should be able to find it in my Railways Playlist, or click here:
ruclips.net/video/xEzE9eR8688/видео.htmlsi=wRuvIL-zntcW2TP_
Glad you enjoyed it.
Cheers,
Paul
Oooh I grew up round there! 😊
It is a great area with much of interest.
Cheers,
Paul
That was so interesting! But 1st I decided to replay Part 1 ( as a reminder to what had gone on before)
It was extremely windy at least not raining! And the whole video was packed with information- I would be lost ( probably still am) without the maps which I find so helpful to get my bearings- they are really appreciated (by me at least)
There was so much to do and see in this area! I loved the Warmsley preserved signal box & Tea Gdns! What a find! And the Mill with so much going on there too! I saw a sign there with things to do & visit- the Fairy Wood sounds exciting for children😀 😮
At every turn there were new delights- especially finding that well constructed tunnel under the lane at the end.
And all the evidence of industrial activity you uncovered on the walk!
Thank you Paul for an hour ( including Part 1) of solid entertainment- thoroughly enjoyed!
Thank you Diana.
Yes, probably a good idea to watch Parts 1 & 2 back to back as there was a longish gap between filming.
I didn't have time to try the tea gardens out, but they looked really good. Good too to see the station and signal box preserved.
Thanks again,
Paul
Hi Paul hope your having a good weekend ,nice video and info👌
Thank you Roy!
Been a fab day today, despite the showers. I went to the Severn Valley Railway at Kidderminster for their 1940s weekend. And then onto Wolverley on the Staffs & Worcs Canal - not been there before, and it is a canal that I don't know that well. Beautiful setting!
Cheers,
Paul
@@westcountrywanderings look forward to the videos😊
@@royedwards8713 thank you!
Hi Paul. Really enjoyed this video. The buried cart has been there for as long as i remember. Ive looked in the past where the bricked up tunnel would of come out on the Midland railway & i still cant find it. We live near the top of the incline right next to the former California coal pit. The land is raised up there so its easy to spot. Its about a 5 minute walk from the top of the incline. The old photos were lovely to see. Ive never been to the other end of the other tunnel like you did. My neighbour remembers playing in the tunnel when she was young. I will have to have a walk up to that tunnel entrance now. Your pronunciation of Siston was funny as everyone local pronounces it as S eye ston. Haven't been to Wamley station area for years & ive never seen the bridge you came across before. Will have to check this out now. The next section you do will be interesting as its where i lived as a kid. Across Siston Common near The Horseshoe pub is a lovely old building next to the Dramway. Mangotsfield station is also very interesting. 😊😊
Thank you Martin - always great to hear from you.
Glad you found it interesting, even though it is in your 'back yard'!
Thanks for the clarification about the pronuciation of Siston - there are so many places in the Westcountry like that, that don't have obvious pronuciations. I know a few of them, but it is impossible to know them all, and it is often hard to know without true local knowledge what the correct pronuciation is! Thanks for the info.
Yes, that bridge is just up The Dramway (not the cyclepath, but it is almost parallel to it) from Warmley Station - look out for the broken clay pipes!
The southern portal is on part of Bristol Water land; but it does not say it it private, nor no entry.I don't think they own The Dramway or the tunnel though. I think it may be an underground reservoir. Access is opposite the roundabout where the road goes on down to Keynsham and the BANES border & the River Avon. There is a steel gate across The Dramway at this point - it was open, so I just walked through. If not, you should be able to climb over. Don't go down if it is very windy though! Lots of branches falling off down The Dramway there.
I have been to Mangotsfield Sta in another video (may have been my Westerleigh Branch one) but I will return to it in this series, as it connects to the Dramway story as well. I want to explore the Coalpit Heath area next time.
The Dramway also runs parallel to the Bitton to Bridgeyate road, but most of it has been built over, and it is largerly inaccesble in that area I think. You can see the tramway fences by the side of the road as you drive to Bridgeyate from Willsbridge/Bitton. There is another tunnel in that area though - possibly near the Primary School?
Cheers Martin and happy filming and editing.
Paul
@@westcountrywanderings After watching your video's of our end of the dramway ive decided to do the whole walk ourselves when we get into Autumn but only in parts as its quite a way to do in one go. I've actually got some cine film my dad shot of me & my sisters & mum at Mangotsfield station not long after it closed around 1971. Will have to put it on RUclips. It's only a few seconds though with the station in the background. Looking forward to your next video of the Dramway. 😊😊
Hi Paul, such a lot to see on this dramway. You were even treated to a class 08 flypast!!
Here's one for you, the lizard that you found is very similar to the one to be found in the parque guell in Barcelona this one made by the famous architect Gaudi, however in Catalan it is a drac (a dragon in Spanish) just one letter away from being a dram!!
No trouble here finding the portals!! Look forward to seeing the next part!!
All the best!!
Thank you David!
Yes, it is a fascinating area, with much to still see, despite being close to Bristol huge urban development area - much is surprisingly untouched.
I like that - one letter away from being a dram - nice touch! No, no issues here at all, unlike Chard Canal!
Cheers,
Paul