Keep up the good work u do thanks for the memories bringing back my childhood dk

@MiddyExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and thanks for watching. There are more videos coming up shortly I have unfortunately had a break due to covid! Glad you enjoyed the video and I will be continuing my walk along the GCR in a future video

As a kid I used to stand under that metal bridge as the trains thundered overhead. Great sound.

@MiddyExplores

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. I bet that was incredible? I used to stand under the bridge in Ashby on the Ivanhoe line for a similar effect!

@petehackney1466

Жыл бұрын

@@MiddyExplores lt certainly was. I also remember walking down the line from the town centre when there was still track around. I got about half way to Aylestone and one of the bridges was filled in with car tyres and I had to climb up the bank of tyres to get out the cutting. Funny the things you remember.

The part from Evelyn drive and Marlow road was infilled after closure. Just after this it ran into the goods yard at upperton road. This area has been re developed. The old upperton road bridge has gone but bridges leading into the goods yard can still be seen. The former goods yard was taking over by berry’s scrap yard where most of the locomotives and carriages ended there days by being cut up. Further towards Leicester there was bridges at west bridge area. Long since gone now and then travelling all on a viaduct into Leicester central

Really enjoyed this one ...thank you..

@MiddyExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it. More coming from Leicester very soon 👍

Well what can I say. You have done very well thanks for the info. Ron

@MiddyExplores

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and thanks for watching. More content on the way!

I remember steam trains running along that line. I had many childhood adventures around there.

@MiddyExplores

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. It's sometimes hard to imagine that trains once ran along here. I imagine there is some lovely memories.

@UmaticSota

2 ай бұрын

1960: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oIJ72bqOdqqzlLA.html

From just north of 4arches the line was split into 4 roads that is why this stretch was so wide.

There are photos ( online : ‘The Last Main Line ‘ ) by SWA Newton of the Railway Bridges under construction taken in 1894. The Marsden Lane bridge is shown with out the Embankments , just the Brickwork .

@MiddyExplores

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. I will take a look at that 👍

Many thanks, I grew up un Evesham Road and watched many a train from the bridges you've covered.

@MiddyExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and thanks for watching. I was amazed the bridges are still there and I can only imagine what it used to be like.

The GCR was well and truly over engineered as Sir Edward Watkin's aim was to go on through London and connect to the continent by way of a planned Channel Tunnel which was begun but stopped by the government for fear of invasion. Part of it was used in the building of the present tunnel. The whole London Extension was built with a ruling 1 in 178 gradient and to continental loading gauge and designed for high speed running. During its building the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway changed its name to Great Central Railway. At the time certain shareholders said MSL had stood for Money Sunk and Lost but now it was Gone Completely! One of my friends at Gateway School had a father who was driver at Leicester Central Depot, and near King Richards Bridge the line passed behind the school dining rooms and workshops. The metal bridges are built of steel and riveted together. Cast iron is good in compression but snaps easily under stress loading. The big girder bridges there and near the Central Station were truly amazing structures sadly by now they will be in someone's house as a fridge or washing machine, or even their car! Thanks for yet another enjoyable and informative video. Keep up the good work.

@MiddyExplores

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and for the information. It really was designed and built to the highest standards and like you said never made a penny in real terms. If it was still running then who knows it may have turned the corner but we will never know. Loads more videos coming up on the GCR 👍

"Look at the caping stones on that!" LOL

@MiddyExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Can't help myself sometimes 😂

Congratulations on another interesting and informative video. The Great Central Way has become a big part of my life since I moved to Leicester back in 2003. I spent many years commuting along it on my bike to/from work in the city centre, but you don’t see as much from the bike as you can whilst on foot. I will have to follow in your footsteps (!) and take another look at the GCR bridges when the weather is more favourable. Already looking forward to the next video.

@MiddyExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you David and as always thank you for your support. It is a good walk along there and I was surprised to find the old bridges, buried but intact! I have been contacted by a local historian and I missed a couple as well! So video 2 on this one will find me backtracking a bit.

Don't worry Whetsone Viaduct hated me the first time I found it because it's so hard to find but I love this video and keep up the great work as my first video will be out soon 👍

@MiddyExplores

2 жыл бұрын

I have got to it loads of times but there is always something either goes wrong with the camera (whole video no sound!) Or I hurt myself or the weather turns! It's just jinxed. Look forward to the videos👍

The great central never disappoints me. I wish trains still ran on this line. Where I live I can look towards the old embankment just south of the 3 arch bridge. The rant about the bushes and the council was too true. Was there a junction from the GCR to the Leicester-Nuneaton line South of Whetstone viaduct as on rail map online there is a junction?

@MiddyExplores

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and I agree it should still be running but bad decisions were made in the name of progress but mainly money... I have never been aware of a junction onto the other line. There was some sidings down to the woodyard (now the tip) and the other side to serve Whetstone but I don't think the two railways joined.

@sturmtigerking4263

2 жыл бұрын

@@MiddyExplores oh right OK, I'll try researching it a bit

@sturmtigerking4263

2 жыл бұрын

@@MiddyExplores i just had a look on Google and various sites and can confirm it was part of the woodyard I think, however rail map doesn't show the sidings to the woodyard. I'm wondering if there was a junction to get small traffic around. Its hard to find information about the GCR around whetstone.

@MiddyExplores

2 жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure there were just sidings near the station the two lines didn't join in Whetstone

Great architecture, in excellent condition. A railway closed by criminals

@MiddyExplores

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and I totally agree.

If this line was still open today, I bet it would be financially sound. Marples and Beeching were criminals, and due to death escaped their responsibility for this act of mass vandalism.

@MiddyExplores

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and I totally agree it was a crooked decision based on bad economics and dodgy deals. No thought for the future. History has judged them.

Is anything being done to remove graffiti? Deter it? Penalize the "artists"?

@MiddyExplores

Жыл бұрын

The council spray the bridges black every couple of months and the whole process starts again. And after Leicester Council held a Graffiti weekend I am not sure they want to stop it either unfortunately