The Uk's Highest Abandoned Station - Wanlockhead and the Leadhills. EDS 29.
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2020
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This is the Wanlockhead and Leadhills Branch line which just so happens (we think) to be the highest abandoned railway station in the uk (adhesion traction).
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Really enjoyable Video!
Would not have wanted to go through the Tram tunnel!
No Sugar!👍👍
If your answer is correct!
No sugar! Clive in Kettering
Love this one! (Tbf, with a video title like that, how could I not?) Fascinating place, fab scenery, beautifully filmed. Great work Paul & Rebecca - looking forward to more Scotland :)
Oh wow hi tim traveller.
Oh hi Tim!
Hey Tim, I think Paul and Rebecca were a little late with their highest mountain challenge entry, though I suspect they would have won with the best, most informative video!
I’ve been up there before, once about a decade ago and from what I can recall; the Wilson mine/haul house (with its singular intact archway) has coal shoots for the furnaces and boilers along the former “rail dock”. There’s a large pedestal base near the archway that once supported a gantry. The unknown tunnel at 9:21 or there about is a remanent of the “tramway” with was a conveyor for the pig/raw ore to travel along from the mine portal to the closest mill. A lead washery was on either end of the system with the mines and mills in the centre. The finished product was shipped from the washery.
I may be 7 months late but as a Leadhills resident wanted to share some wee bits of info.
Those boards you saw up the hillside by the old viaduct (Risping Cleugh Viaduct), on the Leadhills to Elvanfoot road, are used by the shooting parties and gamekeepers when shooting grouse. Leadhills is located on the Hopetoun Estate which is still a working grouse moor, and those boards are used by the shooters.
The long tunnel located up by the Leadhills Station, which as you saw is now boarded on both ends, used to be open for the public to actually walk through. As kids we used to go up and play inside it. Obviously due to safety concerns, it was closed off a few years ago.
Despite living here almost my entire life, I don't actually have much knowledge on the workings of lead mines. So unfortunately can't help there.
It's great to see people enjoying the local area, and respectfully too. It is greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much for this video, my grandmother lived near here a village called Thankerton, we visited her very often the mainline was just below her house the sound of double-banked steamers travelling north was a sound I will not forget. The station there was still open in those days I remember walking down during winter in deep snow to catch a train to Glasgow which was waiting in a siding. I was very young then and wish I had known then about the lead mines. I must return one day and explore.
"no sugar"
PS a great video and lead mines were deep because the lead, in geological times, the molton metals (and precipitating fumes) 'flowed' up to the surface through cracks in the existing rock. Hence the miners followed the veins of lead down. There are plenty of examples of deep lead mines in the Peak District en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecton_Mines.are definitely worth visiting
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. You will find some fantastic disused railways in Scotland amongst breathtaking scenery.
I was waiting for the "Oi! Get off out of it!" to come up from the shaft when the rock hit bottom
hahahah.....
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugars. Looking forward to going to Scotland myself next year :)
Great scenery, love the channel, Rebecca takes her tea with no sugars
The mysterious tunnel is a horizontal flue for taking poisonous lead fumes away from the works. It slopes slightly uphill and would have had a chimney at the far end.
With no sugar.
I retired to France nearly 6 years ago and I live in a very small hamlet in france at an altitude of 511 metres on the southwestern slopes of the Massif Central and here because of our southerly position there are trees and the farmers grow wheat, maize, barley and lots of Limousin cattle.
There is also an abandoned narrow guage railway that used to fan out from the mainline stations to give access to the very rural interior of the department of Correze. Additionally there is an old tram route that ran from Limoges to Châteauneuf de Foret and most of the old stations are still there some have been reused whist others are just resting. France suffered the same railway cuts that the UK did so there is lots to see here. Possibly worth a visit and several vids!
Wanlock Edge where the narrow gauge line ran a bus replacement rail service when the road was closed. The answer as previously mentioned Tea no sugar.
OH OH OH We have been there 3 yrs ago too Absolutely loved the place. Funny how Paul is excited as was i when i got there
What a great place we were lucky like u to go on a sunny day ,mind u being aussies's we didn't get sunburn lol
We were lucky to see a train engine running but wasn't open for business either (so sad As im a train nut ) But didn't dampen the day
It doesn't look like its changed much and was probably the same sheep bleating at us too
It was also a shame that the museum next to the Beam engine was closed too
Had a few ales in the pub too the publican was a great guy and plenty of memorabilia in there too
Again thank you for your terrific video /vlogs Its such a shame there are so many lost stations
Although we have heritage railways here in Western Australia nothing that's a patch over there
We are off too Hotham Valley Railway this weekend in Dwellingup
Oh TEA no Sugar Like Kate lol
Mike and Kate Mandurah W.A P.s We just bought two items from your collection :)
Another great viedo Rebecca takes no sugar with her tea glad u got good weather to see the lovely scenery u get lovely views at the top of Wanlockhead amazing that one time there was a railway there
Tea, no sugar and many thanks for another great entertaining and informative exploration of our industrial heritage!
funny how things stick in your mind . I was amused as I also take my tea the same way . loved the video but way out in darkest Mozambique so won't enter the give away. Thanks again for interesting video.
Tea No sugar! She's sweet enough!
Tea no sugar. I enjoy your videos very much. The information you research about each Abandoned structure is really fascinating.
Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. Great episode, really enjoy the enthusiasm you folks have. Keep up the great work.
Lovely scenery, well done. Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar like me.
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.
With no sugar! Really liked this video Narrow gage RR, different scenery, no trees! Ken in USA
As for the question, “no sugar”. Beautiful music, it accompanies the scenery very well.
Great video! Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. It's amazing those mine trucks are still there, and haven't completely rusted away.
Rebecca's tea white without sugar.
I once went to the Leadhills mining museum, you walk into an old lead mine along a horizontal shaft, there are also some workers cottages and various bits of machinery.
We could have spent hours/days here exploring the landscape. Sadly the museum was closed.
Rebbecca takes her tea as it should be taken - without sugar
Highest? reminds me of "Snowdrift at Bleath Ghyll" worth a watch, I've driven past on the A66 a lot. Don't know if there was a station but Stainmore summit was/is 1370 feet.
Dent was the highest station on the Settle Carlisle and I think it was the highest mainline station in UK
@@nyrongristwood it's the highest in England. Corrour is the highest in the UK.
No sugar! Superb video guys - one of your best. Historically, unbeatable. Never knew this place exisited. what a railway line.
No sugars. Thanks for all of these really interesting transport history and industrial archeology vlogs.
Slight snag - if I give the answer in the comments, others can copy it without watching the video.... :)
Who would want to avoid watching the video? Isn't that why we're here? 😉
Be a bit more trusting and it's only a bit of fun 😇
Hi Rebecca you like your tea like me. Unsweetened. X
Rebecca takes her tea with “no sugar”.
It’s another beautiful area with a fascinating history.
Those holes in the building look like remains of furnaces, maybe flues rather than openings to furnaces. Question is did the old lead miners smelt the lead up there?
Thanks Daniel. Would a "wash" just down the hill be anything to do with that?
Thanks for another lovely day out. The scenery is stunning. And Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.
Rebecca likes her tea with no sugar. Thank you for the wonderful videos. I've seen parts of the country I'll never get to visit. So many disused stations. Quite sad to see, but you are keeping them alive. Keep up the excellent work!
8:07 . It's actually 200m deeper. Distance=0.5*acceleration*time^2=0.5*9.8*10^2=490m
Edit: It's crazy wondering how long it would've taken to dig that far down
Edit 2: I forgot that the real world works differently. The actual calculation gives me 255m with drag.
Ok, this is good!.... 490m is mad! Would that be below Sea level!?
You might need to take drag in consideration. Our school physics always neglected real life situations with resistance and such things. I think 300 m is a fair estimate.
Kind regards Christiaan
@@pwhitewick Yes, 490m would've been below mean sea level. However, as the gentleman below has pointed out, I left out drag in my calculations. I'm going to reply to their comment with more info. Spoiler alert: Reality is often disappointing
@@hiparthparth drag will be minimal for a stone, maybe make a metre difference? Quarter of a mile down though, extraordinary.
@@kwarts Yes. You're right. I did some more calculation and this is what I got:
Terminal velocity 30m/s
Distance covered while attaining terminal velocity=45m
Distance covered in the remaining 7s=210m
Total distance=255m
No sugar with tea , shes sweet enough already ;)
Great vid again guys 👍
No sugar! Glad to see you guys getting back out and about! Really enjoy the content.
Wanlockhead is an amazing village with some great displays, I visited 1999! Thank you for rekindling some fond memories.
How does Rebecca take her tea? She drinks it, sitting.
tea, no sugar she didnt say if it was white. bet this is the furthest comment its from Namibia.
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Wow! Awesome vid, Wanlockhead, what an amazing place, that stream too! Loved that complete tunnel with no collapse and the wooden gate / barrier! How stunning was that area with Beam engine! Absolutely loved these sights!
No sugar as I take mine! Love your stuff! I'm from the US and love to see abandoned RR stuff from around the world, especially in the UK! Keep up the great work!
These videos are enchanting. Your passion leaks out all over them and these amazing places you explore, with the reverence you demonstrate, makes me want to go out exploring. Thank you both.
Oh. Tea. No sugar, although we don't know whether or not she takes it with milk...!
Rebecca takes her tea shaken but not stirred
Rebecca likes her tea with no sugar. Never! That has to be in your top ten best videos. It had a little bit of everything, even a noisy sheep! I have enjoyed your canal related videos, and I suspect that's why RUclips recommended a channel called "cruising the cut". I have been fascinated (shocked really) by how much of your canals are still open and in use. We have nothing akin to it here in the states. Just a few small sections of canal and locks preserved or restored for historic purposes.
Rebecca's tea milk no sugar. The tunnel is there for one reason. Snow spindrift. The wind can make the gully impossible to get through in the snow. Love the channel
Lovely weather you had for that video - when its fine in Scotland its BEAUTIFUL. Rebecca enjoys her tea without sugar - just as Paul enjoys his coffee !
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar! Fascinating find thanks guys. Another bizarre tunnel on top of a hill!!!
Tea with no sugar 😁 Gosh your enthusiasm is addictive. Thank you for taking us all with you on your travels.
Amazing Landscapes and that original carriage still on the tracks after all these years is amazing. Bec likes her Tea with no sugar! Great Video!
I have been enjoying your explorations and they have given me motivation to explore my local area, so thank you.
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugars. This is, of course, the correct way to drink tea so as not to spoil the natural flavours.
When the Mining Museum in Wanlockhead once again can open, well worth visiting, mine tour is a must. Many artifacts to explore, including tramways, and the Library, second oldest subscription in Europe, Leadhills Village was first by a few years in the early 1700,s.
Rebecca takes here tea with no sugar! Thank you for all of your fantastic videos!!!
Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. Great video! We went to Scotland last year, round the same time and it was lovely, quiet and so beautiful.
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.Been following your site since 1000k.Went to England,Wales and Scotland a few years back.Yearn to return and see more of the off the beaten paths you have taken.Cheers from British Columbia.
Tea no sugar , stayed at Wanlockhead a couple times - fascinating area thanks for sharing
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugars. Love your videos. I enjoy seeing the countryside.
Rebecca takes tea with no sugars. - Love the videos, mainly because you enjoy the subjects so much, the enthusiasm shines through(even when cold and wet and windy). Keep on making them please.
Thanks Neil.
She takes her tea without sugar I love your videos
One of the best yet - Well done both great work much appreciated
Another grand video as usual, never get board of watching. And Rebecca takes her tea without sugar.
Loved this video as I am from Scotland so thank you for taking me back. Loved the video. I was introduced to you by my husband during lockdown and I am hooked. Oh and the answer to the question is Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. Keep up the good work!
A truly historic line and worthy of your exploration. Thank you both and BTW the answer ,Rebecca takes her tea without sugar :
What stunning scenery in which to have your tea with no sugar.
Of to make myself a cup of tea after watching the beautiful views of Scotland no sugar of course. 👏👏👏👏
Fantastic video (as always) and lovely to see so many old relics still littered about.
Rebecca being sweet enough, takes her tea without sugar.
I do like the drone shots, I think they make the video.
Thanks Alan
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar. Thanks for making another great video. We really enjoy watching them here in Croatia. 😀 It looks really beautiful in that part of Scotland.
She takes it without sugar, as do you with your coffee. Almost too much to see in this one, what an fascinating landscape thanks for sharing it.
Rebecca answers 'none' when asked "how many sugars?". Thanks for another fascinating video. I've passed that area a few times and never realised a railway went up there in the past. Keep up the great work!
Cool to see you guys up here in Scotland. Plenty of abandoned railways in the Glasgow area.
If I watched your lovely video four months earlier my answer to your question is black no sugar in her tea.
Tea, no sugar!
Loved seeing you back in Scotland again!
Great video almost a cross over with abandoned mine exploring... Lovely scenery.
Tea No Sugar. What a scenic little village. Great video.
Tea with no sugar. Really fancy cycling around Wanlockhead and Leadhills - some great climbs!
Made it over there last week and had an epic cycle up Mennock Pass and right up Lowther Hill - fabulous!
Great vlogs guys. Rebecca likes her tea without sugar. Keep up the excellent exploratory work. Take care and stay safe! Stan
Tea no sugar! Thanks for all of the vids, this one is (another) belter!
Ah, Leadhills and Wanlockhead, I know them well. You can even go on a guided tour into a leadmine. Claustrophobic, but at least H & S rules forced the construction of a vertical escape route well inside the tunnel. There is an impressive visitor centre - and café, where Rebecca could even get a tea without sugar.
No sugar in Rebecca’s tea. The Lead Mining Museum at Wanlockhead is really good. I’m guessing it’s closed at the moment due to Covid but when it reopens it is well worth a visit. Not only do you get to go down the mine, you can visit a number of buildings in the village such as the miner’s library. Hopefully it won’t be long before we can combine a trip there with the Leadhills and Wanlockhead heritage railway.
I like my tea the same, no sugar. Yet another fascinating story, thank you both!
It did look like a very warm day. Rebecca takes her tea without sugar.
She takes her tea IN A CUP lol,,,,,,, great videos you both do and you homework on the history of the places u visit, stay safe
Rebecca takes her tea without sugar. She’s sweet enough!
Love that drive north of Manchester, up the M6 and over the M74. Usually skip straight past The Borders on the way to The Highlands, but after this video will explore that area more now. Thanks for the great video guys!
My thoughts exactly. We've done a video from South of Glasgow before but didn't really consider this until someone mentioned it as a possibility. Glad they didd now.
Great enjoyable video! Glad it's you doing the walking, as my hiking days are over (even if I did get travel to the UK)!
Great video, too many people don’t see the beauty in our industrial landscape heritage. She takes her tea without sugar, but you didn’t ask whether she wanted milk or lemon with it.
Yet another great video. Beautiful Scotland!!! and Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.
Love the information you give us in your video
Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar.
You'll have to visit some of the old stations in Cumbria, we have plenty and one near me is on a pretty hard climb that I can't imagine a steam train attempting.
We almost stopped by on the way up.
Hope you do at some point
Another great video. Some fantastic drone shots. Amazing landscapes.
Cheers Dan.
No sugar for Rebecca. When I was posted in the UK, my work drink was black coffee. But I lived over a pub with the landlord’s family and I learned to enjoy tea with milk and sugar. Haven’t had a cuppa since leaving the UK. Posted to abandoned RAF Chelveston and explored every bit of the old airfield. Most of the base was remaining then. Wish I had been able to video the explore.
tea, no sugar. Enjoy you both. And the show. Thank-you!!
No suger is how Rebecca takes her tea. Another great video! All the best from Argentina.
No Sugar, great video. Lead and tin mining processes are very interesting, I visited a working tin mine in Cornwall when I was very young, probably around 1970.
tea with no sugars! I love Scotland, you're giving me so many trip ideas
Tea, no sugar! Love your videos - keep them coming!
Fantastic one of your best videos, great line, amazing find and walk, oh and Rebecca takes her tea with no sugar All the best Spence
Hi this is Deborah from Melbourne, Australia.....luv your vlogs and the history behind all we get to see...I have enjoyed 'binge' watching the vlogs....Ps Rebecca has her tea with no sugars........Keep up the great work cheers
Thanks Deborah
Superb video as usual and great to see you ‘up north’. She likes her tea without sugar! Sweet enough!
No sugar.
You got some lovely weather there, to match the scenery. Great video :)
No sugar! LOL Loved the video. Another great old railway walks to put into my bucket list.
Yet another great video. I stayed in Wanlockhead for 4 days in April and the weather was terrible. Rebecca likes her tea with no sugar