Loved the "then and now" images. So sad that those marvelous images of the past have vanished!

@SDJR7F88

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Aaron. Glad you enjoyed it

@simonwhiting4571

4 жыл бұрын

@@SDJR7F88 where is this particular line???

+michael hampton Thanks Michael. Glad you liked it. It really is shame quite a lot of good railways vanished because of it. Created this video for a bit of fun for a photography project a few years back ;)

Brilliant film to watch its a shame its all gone

Saw that video Sir of the abandoned line and the BVan. Left the following comments on KZread: Loved the video. Old times merged and juxtaposed with as it lies today..nostalgic. Things so full of life at one time now irrelevant... decaying. Tha brake van is a matching stock (as we call it on the Indian Railways) with CBC coupler on one side and chain type on the other. A thing of beauty is joy forever.

I have just seen this fine video for the first time. it is so helpful in making us realise just what has been lost with so called progress!

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! Sure was fun to create with clips and images of abandoned lines I had take. I flipped a few of the pictures the other way around, as so the would line up with my footage, filmed at similar locations. Was originally used for my photography project and a bit longer, but could not upload that due to the copyright in the music I had in it. Glad you enjoyed!

love then and now aspect you've captured..... Calvin great job

@SDJR7F88

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bob

Really enjoyed this! The transitions between the past and present states of these areas is really nice. I've subscribed with the hopes of seeing more :)

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much indeed! Glad you enjoyed it and must as I did filming and editing, especially the brake van transition. I love creating little interesting video like this once in a while, my latest was returning the sound of steam to the Two Tunnels outside Bath. Here's a link if your interested; kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6mitNN_qbnYf7Q.html

Great footage & video. Before & after shots are Fab what a shame its all gone

@SDJR7F88

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, however most of the shots of the train are on preserved railways, so thankfully can still be seen today :)

Well done ,this is first class,!

@SDJR7F88

6 жыл бұрын

Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed

Nice video I see a lot of these old rail lines very sad.

@SDJR7F88

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

That was very professionally done, loved the old shots fading into the modern. I think the photo of the van with the door partly open was the most vivid image of the whole vid, like a forgotten skeleton rusting away on a track to nowhere. Ian

Big cheesy grin. Not because of the derelict railways but for the plans to re-open parts of the line. Excellent video and hope the re-opening happens sooner rather than later. It would appear the railways are beginning to make a come back. Station fairly close to me at Corby opened recently after much public lobbying and is proving to be a huge success. So there is hope we may return to a semi-decent network in the future.

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks Philip! Too true and I hope this line and the one near you will be a success story!

lovely footage,well put together.

@SDJR7F88

8 жыл бұрын

+battlestarone Thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed :)

Superbly done and a nice reference t the old Radstock line and the Avon valley!! Mus get out more. No been pllaying trains in China for 3 mnths

great vid, theres something really romantic about disused railway lines.

You have done a god job there Callum showing the past line and how it is now

Excellent video really like the shots of the old and present day 10 out of 10

Thanks mate! Fingers crossed it will get me the grades! I was very, very pleased with that shot! The persevered van was at Midsomer Norton Station and the volunteers where very helpful and let me open up the doors, so I got the right angle.

Excellent video, despite the sad nature of the subject matter, definite thumbs up!!!

@SDJR7F88

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much Michael! Glad you enjoyed it :)

+anshuman kumar Thanks mate! Glad you enjoyed it! Really enjoyed creating this! The brake van sure is very interesting. Hopefully one day she will ride the rails again!

Amazing job on this video... What a loss

Well put together piece of film.

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

George Edwards Thanks George! Glad you enjoyed!

I live in bristol and I am a great follower of the somerset and dorset railway. I have walked on sections of the old line around midford and often dreamed of the pines express steaming through the old station and viaduct, happy days long gone!

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

It is such a shame, hopefully trains may return to certain section of the route soon.

I stumbled on this video a few years ago, and stumbled on it again just now! I had no idea it was you that made it Callum! 😃

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sam! Was originally an old Photography project of mine, and re-jigged it into this video :) Glad you enjoyed it!

Ive got a couple of before and after books about the GCR and a somerset & dorset one, its nice to see a moving film version, this is cleverly done

@SDJR7F88

8 жыл бұрын

+takeaway guru Very ever so much mate! I adapted it from my Photography project I did a number of years back. Took me ages to line up the Brake Van shot ;) Glad you enjoyed

Wow this video really shows how times have changed... For the worse as far as railways go. I like the remains of the brake van and track though :)

Love the way this vid is made & edited its fantastic,, a lot of old disused lines in manchester are been revived & reopened in manchester & greater manchester to the extended tram system which is great, 67 km of new track.....jim

Thanks mate! The rail along the whole line are still in place, alone with a platform and of course the Brake Van.

Thanks! Hope it does as well for my photography piece! Manchester have got the right idea! Been watch many video of the new system and it looks amazing! shame there is nothing like that in the South West!

I like this one very much. Pretty clear. Surprised the iron is still there in many places.

I did photography for my GCSEs and I did something quite like this. I took photos of Nottingham station and what was left of Weekday viaduct and edited faint outlines of locomotives to them, like ghost trains. I’m making some more and this time ones that move! The GCR sure helps with providing locomotives to record! 👍

@SDJR7F88

4 жыл бұрын

Always a good bit of fun to combine collage work with the hobby. Really enjoyed producing it.

Thanks Dave! I had to do quite a bit of research to find similar locations, to create the fading away effect.

great video

@SDJR7F88

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video! ...so sad! ...well, George Santayana got it right when he said that "...those who can't learn the lessons taught by history are doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes again and again!"

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

It really is indeed. Hopefully one day the line will re-open again

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

Wil Davis and which bit of history are you forgetting? Yes, that's right the stated of Britain's railways in the 1960s with passengers and freight leaving the railways for the roads, just like it did to the canals when the railways came along. Many of the stations on the closed lines were not close to the villages they served, for example itvwas a 2 mile walk from the centre if Kimbolton village to the station that served it. Even when the station was within the village, the village would be too small to produce much traffic of any kind.

Good photos and video

@SDJR7F88

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much Ernie! Glad you enjoyed :)

Thanks mate! Certainly is, but on the other side of the coin, it ensured the preservation movement which created many of the persevered lines we have today.

Interesting video!!!

@SDJR7F88

8 жыл бұрын

+n moughton Thanks ever so much mate! Glad you enjoyed!

Thanks mate! Hope it does the same for my photography piece. This line was only abandoned in the 1980's, when the Radstock wagon works closed. Would be a great presevered line, with ober 5 mile of track still in place, a platform, good size yard, network connection and of coure the brake van!

Thanks!

interisting on the brake van, knuckle (buckeye) coupler on one end and uk style hook coupler . nice vid . 1000 points for thee .

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

allan egleston Thanks Allan. It sure is an interesting one. Believe it was used as an adapter wagon, for the wagon works just down the line. Glad you enjoyed!

@allanegleston13

8 жыл бұрын

im a model railroad person. have a small layout and have different manufacurers .looks like im not the only one who thought of this :) have a great day

Thanks mate! It took quite a while to find similar locations and line them up! LOL!

That would be great! It is connects just out side Frome on a freight only line, so you may need to get a bus from frome to Radstock to get on the line.

Thanks mate! There are plans to re-open it as a commercial line during the week and a heritage line at the weekend, which would be amazing! But sadly the local council are agreeing over, weather to build house on it. What a waste.

Top notch mate, shame that so much of our history was wiped off the map in the 60`s and 70's

The black fives that were double heading were hauling west coast coaches and you can’t deny it

@SDJR7F88

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, same with Tornado featuring ;)

Beeching may have been the one to decide which lines were to close, all the Tories did was stop the trains running, it was left to Barbara Castle to actually order the ripping of the lines some two years after Beeching

@funguyfarage3615

5 жыл бұрын

you'll find it was the labour party. Beeching made recommendations only . labour kept some of his recommendations open but they closed thousands of miles on top !!! Labour no one else.they could have invested and put trains on again but nooo let's blame the tories.................labour who didn't think of the nhs . libs idea )who never commissioned a study ( churchill did it ) then wasted millions on creating it

LOL! Of course! LOL! I did! Yeah, there was! I watched it too! Funny, I started this for my photography before I even realised it was 50 year since the Beeching axe. So I timed it well!

Thanks mate! LOL, yes it is. I had to get a lift over there, I should be learning to drive, but you can probable guess where my money goes! LOL! Yes, it is quite unique it has a three link coupling on one end and a knuckle coupling on the other. It was used as an adaptor wagon for Radstock Wagon Works, to allow older locos to connect to more modern wagons (or the other way around). The chassis by the looks of it is in pretty good shape, shame about the wood work.

As a kid in the 1950s I lived in Cambridgeshire and steam railway engines were to be seen every time I went near a railway line, trips with my parents from Swavesey to the sea side at Hunstanton by train always pulled by a steam engine. To get to my mother's parents at Icklingham involved a train from Swavesey to Cambridge and from Cambridge to Mildenhall all pulled by steam. Nun of the railway lines I travelled on then exsist any more but even so at the age of 69 it only seemed like yesterday. if these lines had been mothballed instead of being ripped up only days after closure I am shore that by today they would still be up and running again not by steam but either by diesel or overhead 25kv electric.

@neiloflongbeck5705

4 жыл бұрын

And sho would have paid for these mothballed lines? Don't forget at the time the Beeching cuts were being out into effect the country was on its knees economically after 13 years of economic mismanagement. Hatold Wilson stated the national balance of payments deficit run up by the Conservatives was a mere £400 Million. However, after the election it was revealed that the deficit was £800 Million. This lead to 3 years if runs on the Pound and the Labour government spend all the country's foreign currency reserves and most of the bullion reserves trying to defend the Pound and protect the economy. In the end they were forced to devalue the Pound by 14% against the US$. The country couldn't afford all of the rural branch lines that were under used and they had to go, a process that started under the Big 4.

If it's still physically there, would it be fairly easy to clear the foliage and test run the rails to see if it's still good? Demand for rail travel is going up now.

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Yep, all still in place. Though the embanks look like they need a bit of work, a few little land slips. Apart from that it's all very much still in place.

The main obstacle o reopening railway lines is the local authorities, who want profit today, not next year. WherE I live we have several railway lines re-openable, but everyone wants someone else to foot the bill, and put an end to the horrendous congestion on our roads. On top of reopening the lines, railway stations need rebuilding (they were demolished at the time) but we have a chicken & egg situation; no lines = no stations, and no stations = no lines. Oh for a big win on Lotto! I'd die a multi-millionaire courtesy of railway investment. But can I find backers? Of course not because they all want a 10% return by Friday.

@SDJR7F88

8 жыл бұрын

+John Benton It always they way, hopefully something will become of it one day and will see trains running again, hopefully sooner rather than later.

@johnbenton4488

8 жыл бұрын

We learn from our mistakes. Politicians have a lot of learning to do.

@knrdvmmlbkkn

6 жыл бұрын

"The main obstacle o reopening railway lines is the local authorities, who want profit today, not next year." In that case the "main but one" obstacle is that the "right of way" in many cases are lost, and in quite a few places the railway land is "redeveloped"; viz. built over by other (and scarcely more necessary) structures. This makes reopening of railway lines and stations more complex and expensive than it should have to be. At least in the USA they have the sense to utilise a "railroad bank" which to a considerable extent alleviates these concerns.

@blaggerfiftysix

6 жыл бұрын

You need to buy XRP - NOW!

@PreservationEnthusiast

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is with railfans is they regard any piece of track as a good piece of track. They want loss making lines to be kept open at someone else's expense for their own personal titillation.

It is now January 2018. This video was uploaded 7th of May 2013. Has there been any progress regarding the reopening of this line?

@SDJR7F88

6 жыл бұрын

A bit. The campaign is still going trying to get the route re-opened, but sadly not much progress has been made yet.

Thanks! It is a shame nothing has been done with this line! It is almost prefect for preserving. It has over 5 miles of track (nearly all of it is still in place), a wagon (needs a lot of TLC), a station at Radstock with a massive yard (platforms are still in places and there a still some sidings) and it has a connection to the main network at Frome! Why no one has I saved it I do not know, the council just argue over weather to build house on it. Sad.

What a wicked waste - and a crying shame! So much could have been kept off the roads!

@SDJR7F88

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully one year it will be returned to its former glory

gsThanks for sharing.It's a sad reflection of the consequences of Beechings cuts.

@funguyfarage3615

5 жыл бұрын

you'll find it was the labour party. Beeching made recommendations only . labour kept some of his recommendations open but they closed thousands of miles on top !!! Labour no one else

@funguyfarage3615

5 жыл бұрын

actually it was labour party that closed the lines

nice vid. Love the way you showed how it is to how it could have been. where about was this?

Your right the preservation movement has made people realise how much they missed their local stations, and the trains that ran on them. It seems Beeching didn't get the last word on the matter.

@andrewlong6438

10 ай бұрын

The preservation movement has allowed railways to be preserved in aspic, to be remembered as they were in a bygone age. It has also allowed for a load of locomotives and coaches to be restored not to mention great film locations.

In all the books I have read is says 'axe' plus if you search 'The Beeching a' the first search that comes you is 'The Beeching Axe'

How come the track remains?

Interesting. I live in the City of Niagara Falls, and there are disused rail tracks all over the city, plus dozens of acres of defunct marshalling yards. N.F. is above all a border city, with two rail bridges (one closed) to the U.S. What a scene it must have been fifty years ago.

Progress so called can often destroy the past which sadly has happened in the video I have just watched. Cheers Greg

probably way to far out of the box at the time. Just think if all these tracks had been turned into cycle, walking paths. I remember the time well. The magic of walking old railway lines. Even better. I am from Cwmbach ,Aberdare. We used to walk regularly through Merthyr tunnel. Too late now. So much trackbed built over destroyed.

I remember doing a roof job on the old chapel in Kilmersdon in the early eighties and seeing one or two goods trains trundling past, sad to think it's now just another reminder of shortsighted political decisions. Thanks for the video

@everettkarter5716

2 жыл бұрын

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@bomaddox4771

2 жыл бұрын

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@everettkarter5716

2 жыл бұрын

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@bomaddox4771

2 жыл бұрын

@Everett Karter glad I could help xD

sad to see the legacy of short sighted thinking , i'm sure with todays road congestion these lines could prove useful again - and i don't mean covered in tarmac .

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed. There are big plans for reopening this route for commuter traffic. I certainly hope they succeed

@dvidclapperton

6 жыл бұрын

If Corbyn becomes PM, there should be compulsory purchase orders to force landowners to hand land back that has been built over old trackbed and a return of the railways to many parts devastated by the savage Beeching Cuts.

@agent_605

6 жыл бұрын

David Clapperton That’d never work, as many homes have since been built on the sites and would cause huge amounts of disruption and costs, much more than HS2 is costing

@dvidclapperton

6 жыл бұрын

+Alasdair Clift There could be new proerties built for them to move to. And that wouldn't mean the government under Corbyn having to explode nearby hill ranges that are impossible to build and live on, or exploding mountains to do so. There are many private housing estates being built that could be earmarked for them as well as other new private estates for new first time buyers moved from council estates. Not all of these new estates need to be for new first time buyers. But of course those moving to make way for old lines re-opening would still be compensated in full for doing so.

@dvidclapperton

6 жыл бұрын

+SDJR7F88 New transport schemes should not be all about benefitting the 100% motor car community. New roads get built whether or not they go through a new private housing scheme. But none of them are designed with public transport serving them in mind.

dubhad Totally agree. I don't see why they could of been left, a bit like this one. Would make it so much easier to reopen them. I think it was short thing on there behalf.

@SeaToby11

9 жыл бұрын

SDJR7F88 If they were profitable, someone would have reopened these lines. Duh. Not every mile of abandoned track can be a tourist line. We lost a lot of railway lines too in the US without any government help. The private railroads closed the branch lines one at a time over a period of decades whenever they lost all of their freight customers. Cars and lorries have taken over the local freight business, and giving long distance business a solid soon d challenge. Do you ship via DHL or do you use a train? Even shipping by bus has taken a hard hit by the challenge of air cargo.

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, agree there. Though this line has been tide up in red tape for a number of years. There has been lots of talk about housing, over hear housing is massive money and a very quick way for local councils to make money. A preservation group tried to save the line many years back, but was turned down due to this. They then went on to save another line in the middle of no where, which only services a single village. This has become a very, very popular railway indeed. Hear is it not really about money, but the future. The road over here need lots of work and are getting jammed. This line could, serve as a transport link weekdays. Thanks to it's mainline connection at one end. And a tourist line at the weekend. To bring in money for the locals. There are the people willing to make this happen and people that want it too. It's just the red tape stopping them :p

@jrgboy

8 жыл бұрын

+SDJR7F88 - it was a financial exercise to save as much money as possible, parts of the West Country and South Wales were almost cut off as many people did not have cars at the time and public transport was only 9 to 5, the government of the day saw road transport as the way forward and hundred's of miles of motorways were built, now several lines are been reopened each year as we are encouraged not to use our cars..

Love it! Not the Beeching Axe, but the video! Lol! Enjoy your pasta bake last night? There was a documenty about the Beeching Axe on the other month!

Has any of this line been reclaimed, and sent to Midsomer Norton ?

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Think some of the point at Radstock were taken up and used, as part of the new houses going up there on site. As for the rest of the line, it's still untouched. Some room was left in the new development for a new platform, just in case a new rail link is put back in, so the line can reopen. I certainly hope this happens, as it just a waste to let it rot, and the two towns around it grow to rapidly.

Yeah! LOL! That would be nice!

Just came up!! After years of it being out where is this to???

@SDJR7F88

3 жыл бұрын

On the Radstock to Frome branch for the abandoned shots, track and wagon are all still there

@thatrailwayguy1236

3 жыл бұрын

@@SDJR7F88 oh nice might have to do that

I see the end shots were filmed at bitton, but then it shows it as a derelict railway which is not the case, as its still thriving today!

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve! Well spotted! All the shots in this video where filmed that same year. 2012/13 I believe, by me. The derelict railway you see is the Radstock to Frome line, which is still like that today. Even the brake van is still there. I created this video to give the effect of what happened when the Beech Axe fell. There are plan to restore that line and I sure hope they can succeed! Glad you enjoyed!

it is all a little misleading. Beeching cuts were recommendations only . the labour party closed some of his recommends but closed hundreds of miles on TOP of what he suggested . The liebour party closed the lines. The liebour party also gave beeching an honour , don't be fooled

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

funguy farage don't forget they devalued the Pound by 14%. Oh, that was because they were forced into it because Tory ineptitude in managing the economy left the economy a basket case.

what beeching axe , labour closed all the lines and then gave beeching an award, This is the workers party for you

Would like to see the line restored as much as possible Is the line still connected when you filmed it and would the brakevan still be there ?

@SDJR7F88

6 жыл бұрын

The is a petition, but it still in the balance, but hopefully one day. The line runs right up to the edge of the mainline to Frome, but think the points were removed. As for the Brake Van it's still there from what I understand, though I imagine there's less of it sadly. Been a few years since I walked the route. Well worth it if you get the chance

@shiningtime4

6 жыл бұрын

SDJR7F88 if I ever get the chance from suffolk 🙂

Fantastic..is this going to be opened under the " reverse Beeching" project?

@SDJR7F88

2 жыл бұрын

Never know, track is still in place, but would need a far bit of work

Great video. Such a Shame we suffer from short sighted politicians and councils.

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

It is a shame, but plans are a foot to reopen the line once more! Fingers crossed it will get the go ahead!

@robertmartindale563

9 жыл бұрын

Good news! I hope it goes through.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Martindale we get the politicians we deserve.

But if it was not for Belching.. We would not have so many lovely steam railways to visit...

Beeching later said about the Axe "I guess I'll always be looked upon as the axe man, but it was surgery, not mad chopping". Well, if Beeching was a surgeon, he was comparable to Ian Paterson.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Downey we've still got a viable railway carrying both passengers and freight, so he must have got it right.

@PreservationEnthusiast

2 жыл бұрын

@@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 Correct. Beeching got almost everything right. He even recommended some lines for development which were later closed. One example being the Oxford Cambridge Varsity line. This will now be reopened, proving right in the first place.

Where ???

In the states here, most, if not all railroad equipment and steel rail must be removed before it gets that old. It gets recycled here.

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed. There have been plans to re-open this line at some point. Hopefully one day they will get off the ground.

And yet the “old” shots look somehow new. The footage is too clear for the age, as if filmed with a modern camera or was someone filming at the exact same spots all those decades ago with it ? Im curious to know how those old clips were filmed.

@SDJR7F88

5 ай бұрын

They are not old clips, just scene filmed at similar looking locations at various preserved railways

Having the SDJR on TS16. I don't see any relationship in the pictures. Even though I haven't driven the whole line be before and I had the game at least 4 years

@SDJR7F88

8 жыл бұрын

Ah, no worries mate, that's because this video has nothing to do with the SDJR, but the whole railway network in general after the Beeching cuts, sort of a tribute if you will ;) It features a number of clips and pictures from railways around the Somerset, this includes the Avon Valley RAilway and the mainline near Weston-Super-Mare, though there is a little bit of Midsomer Norton Station in there, where I take a picture of there LMS Brake Van and faded it into the abandoned one on the Radstock to Frome branch, which is just down the road and the famous 5 arches bridge. I too have played the game and it is a good representation, but by no means fully accurate. ;) Hope this helps and thanks for watching

@MsMariGaming

8 жыл бұрын

+SDJR7F88 oh ok

@SDJR7F88

8 жыл бұрын

It is a bit of a mix match of clips ;)

@MsMariGaming

8 жыл бұрын

+SDJR7F88 so like most videos of Barry Island Scrapyard

@SDJR7F88

8 жыл бұрын

Like Barry Island? Do you mean is there footage of Barry Island in this or there are similar videos for Barry Island

Id like a time machine to go back and stop him being born!!! Flippin Beeching!!!

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

Keyboard Krazy can you also kill off the Conservatives that formed the governments in the 1950s as well whose incompetance lead to the economic melt down in the 1960s? And also that idiot Churchill who put us back onto the Gold Standard in 1925 at the pre-WW1 level causing an economic depression? Oh, wait that will mean Lord Halifax would be made Prime Minister in 1940 and we'll surrender to Hitler's Germany without ever fighting the Battle of Britain. If it hadn't been Beeching it would have been someone else. Beeching effectively saved the railways and introduced container trains and MGR trains. Many of the stations lost were nowhere near the villages they served, such as Kimbolton 2 miles away from the village centre, and as such litte served (Kimbolton would only have 6 very busy days a year - at the start and end of each school half-term with the pupils from the public school there travelling to/from home).

The black and white videos are new videos as the coaches say west coast railways and not British railways. They engines are way to clean as well

@SDJR7F88

4 жыл бұрын

Well spotted, its created from my own footage of preserved railways and mainline steam.

Certainly is. It would great if they could reopen it, rather than building houses on it. That way it can proved a very useful local service, plus a tourist attraction at the weekend!

so sad

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Really is indeed. Hopefully one day it will be reopened. Seem such a waste otherwise

Was that lms brake van ever restored

@SDJR7F88

6 жыл бұрын

Not yet, still abandoned there

@jaydenholloway6710

4 жыл бұрын

*grabs flatbed truck* Not for much longer... 😆👍

What is the Beeching axe?

@shahedmc9656

5 жыл бұрын

In 1963 Mr Beeching, the Transport Minister was tasked to make British Railways profitable. His findings led to the closure of one third of the entire GB rail network. Many lines thus fell under the "Beeching Axe".

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

Shahed MC Beeching was never a Minister, he was chairman of the British Railway Board. Marples was the Minister.

I'd love to go on these tracks with a handcar & save the brake van too

@SDJR7F88

10 жыл бұрын

LOL! I bet you could get quite a distance on it, but you may need to clear a few little trees and bushes first. I certainly hope they reopen or preserve it! As it would be such a waste to let it go.

@microbusss

10 жыл бұрын

SDJR7F88 That I knew but I'd still like to find out IF the Brake Van is worth saving

@SDJR7F88

10 жыл бұрын

It's chassis is in pretty good nick. I'm sure it is worth saving.. Plus it is quite unique with the 3 link on one end and the knuckle on the other.

@microbusss

10 жыл бұрын

SDJR7F88 I saw that!! Why do it have a knuckle coupler anyway?? Thats just bizzare even for UK Railways

@SDJR7F88

10 жыл бұрын

Well all modern stock has knuckle coupling. This brake van was converted to a connector wagons for the Radstock wagons works. With new wagons arriving and old diesels working the line the old and new stock could not couple, so she was converted so they could couple. When the last train left the line in the 1980's she was facing the wrong way to be coupled up, so she was abandoned.

very sad very very sad

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Hopefully the abandoned line feature (the Radstock to Frome Branch) will be reopened one day.

1963: The end of the line Richard Beeching's brief as chairman of the British Transport Commission was simple: "Make the railways pay". British Rail was losing £140m a year when Dr Beeching took over the commission. His solution, announced on 27 March 1963, was equally straightforward - massive cuts. The Conservative government welcomed the report, but thousands of people - many in remote rural areas - were horrified they would lose their local branch lines. Opposition from the pressure groups failed and during the 1960s "Beeching's Axe" fell on 2,128 stations and more than 67,000 British Rail jobs.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Sugden you forgot to mention that he also decided that the railways were to concentrate on bulk and long distance freight operations including the MGR coal trains and containerised freight from the ports. In addition to this Britain's economy was failing. 1963 saw the first run on the pound that would plague the economy for the next 4 years until the Pound was devalued in 1967. The causes behind this werecthe economy policies followed by the Conservatives during the 1950s, which encouraged overmanning, a lack of investment by business (and not just the nationalised industies), and falling productivity (and nut just because of industriak action).

@lennylaa1686

4 жыл бұрын

Local people in ''remote'' areas voted with their feet,...they had long since jumped on buses or got into warm, cosy cars so as to get from A to B. Branch lines became obsolete, effectively preserved, heritage lines before their time. Railmen must have seen the system dying before their very eyes....where were all the passengers?

@lennylaa1686

4 жыл бұрын

Neil...yes the Cons. continued Attlee's socialist agenda not least reducing unemployment by shifting people off the dole into all those vast, rust bucket, loss making state industries. Massive, unsustainable wage bill soaking up vital, crucial cash to invest in said industry. Thus, no profits and so no money to invest into new plant and machinery to improve productivity. Another crippling disaster was the 16 day rail strike in Dec. 1955,...passengers had had enough, it was the last straw and they then got from A to B by other means. Today, UK suffers poor productivity thanks to mass low skilled immigration, again,...why invest in super, efficient machinery when you can get by with the cheapest of cheap labour....and often subsidised by wage credits and benefits. Madness!

@jacksugden8190

4 жыл бұрын

My statement was a copy and paste nothing more nothing less.

@jacksugden8190

4 жыл бұрын

My statement was a copy and paste nothing more nothing less.

what does beeching mean?

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Dr Beeching, the name of the man famed for the closure of many railway lines in the uk

@cyruslovesindia

7 жыл бұрын

SDJR7F88 oh thanks. i was getting confused. I thought it related to a process or some sort of technicality with regards to the British railways.. If i could ask another question....why were so many lines closed down. I mean railways should not just see profit and loss like any normal company but the general welfare of all the people of the country should be there aim, so there could be small stations where traffic is very less but it does help some people travel and commute from villages to towns and cities and hence should be kept open. This is purely my view.

@SDJR7F88

7 жыл бұрын

Short thinking I guess. The people in offices could not see what was happening out side them. Saw the railways were at the time making a loss, and didn't think about what they were used for in the first place. Ironic, as many have been reopened since, and this one featured is trying to make a comeback too

@cyruslovesindia

7 жыл бұрын

SDJR7F88 thank you.

@knrdvmmlbkkn

6 жыл бұрын

"This is purely my view." Not just your view. I think that that's the view of everyone that's neither insane, evil nor ignorant.

Frome has a mainline connection from london Paddington so next time I am going on a LONG trip I may have a little look. It has potential. I am sure it could be a preserved line yet

This is a disgrace... Not the video, the closures. It's quite a shame!

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

David Frankal Thanks mate! Glad you enjoyed my go at a creative video on the subject. The Radstock to Frome like, with the abandoned track and wagon is still like it today, the Brake Van still in place. A great place for a good walk. Plans are a foot to re-open the line, which will be amazing if they go ahead! Would be a great line indeed! Glad you enjoyed!

@caledoniansignalman8153

4 жыл бұрын

Not a appropriate comment

I know. I hope the council don't build house on it like they plan.

Why heap all the blame on Beeching? The Policy was that of Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport and ROAD builder extraorinaire. So far as the S&D was concerned, it was the ready compliance of BR (WR) that sealed its fate.

Who disliked this? Beeching?

@SDJR7F88

9 жыл бұрын

David Frankal LOL! Well you never know ;)

@MajesticTrains

8 жыл бұрын

+SDJR7F88 Nah its was Beeching and Thatcher!

@funguyfarage3615

5 жыл бұрын

@@MajesticTrains you'll find it was the labour party. Beeching made recommendations only . labour kept some of his recommendations open but they closed thousands of miles on top !!! Labour no one else

He certainly didn't! LOL!

The halcyon days of steam.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

Mark francis a time that never actually existed.

Unable to understand what was the gain by closing this many stations and lines. Lost jobs and connectivity. Beeching must have been a fool to suggest something like this and the govt of the day must have been the biggest fool

@robtyman4281

4 жыл бұрын

@ Alot of the closed lines were closed based on just ONE visit, carried out in the middle of the day....when the line would be at its quietest. Had they made several visits over say a three or even six month period, and made them in the mornings and late afternoon's I bet only half of all the lines closed would have actually closed. The rest would still be in use and active today. Very sad. No proper research or studies done. Corners were cut and the whole thing stank. It was all done far too hastily. I suspect this was because Beeching would have been under alot pressure from Marples to give him answers quickly. Marples' distain for the railways was well known. He just wanted the lines with less traffic closed...and closed quickly. So they were....in a matter of weeks rather than months. Short termist thinking and no foresight whatsoever.

Thanks mate! The location is in the description, it is between Radstock and Frome in Somerset. It is sad to see a line with such a potential of being preserved left to rot. Nearly all the track is still in place over the 5 mile (or more) length, platform and some sidings at still remaining at Radstock, mainline connection near Frome and of course the brake van! Shame the council just argue weather to build house on it.