I live in Aintree, and use the old railway/ cycle paths regularly, i used to take the dog over what seemed a huge siding nr Wango lane nr the canal turn at Aintree racecourse
@Terry.W6 күн бұрын
So many great trains ..thanks..
@Dooguk9 күн бұрын
You were correct about the sidings for Jacob's biscuit factory on one side of the bridge, but on the other side were the sidings for Hartley's jam factory.
@MisterCreamyDude15 күн бұрын
Great video, thank you for posting. An interesting point worth mentioning, the bridge steelwork you are admiring at Maudlands at about 3:10 is where the Preston - Lancaster canal ran under the line and towards the town. Its now filled in and the canal starts further north. Cheers!
@philipatkinson703918 күн бұрын
Me and some work colleagues re-railed that line about 2 and half years ago and those clips were absolutely solid to get out. I'm led to believe that this line is the only one in the country to pass through a cemetery near to the concrete structure with the graffiti on.
@timothyseabrook158423 күн бұрын
the old railway should have been converted into a traffic free cycle path. perhaps you need to joghlight this line to Sustrans in Bristol. the make it their mission to vonvert Fidused Tsil lines into cycle paths It could getmore use than the tram ever would because they would pass below the Preston town centre with all the danger that cycling on the roads above would pose to cyclists
@SteveSmithRailways25 күн бұрын
Never realised that Preston was such a sh**hole. What a disgrace that its been allowed to get like that. Still, nothing surprises me anymore with this country.
@jimmyland1925 күн бұрын
Amazing video 😊👍🏻👍🏻
@zipdiskdude27 күн бұрын
I used to live locally to Low Moor. The tracks you saw embedded in the tarmac would have been part of the tram system from the ill fated Transperience museum that used to occupy that site.
@davidredgewell741527 күн бұрын
Still owned by The Railway as mothballed operating
@dugswell227 күн бұрын
There is still some evidence of a railway high up on Longridge Fell to the south of Old Clitheroe Road. There is an old loading ramp or platform at SD 6651 3952 and some track in a gateway to the west of this platform.
@mirvids503627 күн бұрын
Cycle lane ? Make a great railway in my book. All these old lines need to be reinstated where possible. Once the veins and arteries of our country, they'd reinvigourate the country again if reopened.
@simonharesnape657828 күн бұрын
The line from Grimsargh to Whitingham mental hospital was provided with a free train service using brake vans powered by a steam loco originating from down south Brighton I think , somebody's cast offs. It even featured in a newspaper in the USA
@stevenstopford984729 күн бұрын
Many thanks for another brilliant video 👍🏻
@McMieke29 күн бұрын
Great video. Why do people have to be pigs. That rubbish is shameful.
@railwaychristina319229 күн бұрын
The tunnels under the town are rather like the Heckmondwike Cleckheaton line
@rigaism29 күн бұрын
love these .. just 1 thing why are all these rails not been moved for recycling . there must be some serious money there in steal . .. could a scrap collector remove them . are they left just in case of reopening .. eg easier to remove the weed then to re lay ..
@michaelsmith42929 күн бұрын
They were looking at using the old track beds for trams, but as usual, they never got anywhere with it. I travel through Grimsargh regularly and they are building loads of new houses without thinking about all the traffic it will produce as there's only one road into Preston and they're already getting busier and busier - the railway from Preston to Longridge would be perfect with the population getting so high.
@martinmarsola647729 күн бұрын
A fine walk into the past this day. Thank you for this day’s video. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
@barrythedieselelectricstea521721 күн бұрын
nice to see some track has been left hope they do something about that station soon before vandalism sets in and part of our heritage gone forever
@alexhamilton4084Ай бұрын
Amazing that Ravensthorpe had 3 stations back in the day. 😃👍🏻
@alexhamilton4084Ай бұрын
Mirfield not Milfield.
@40022laconiaАй бұрын
The last train was in 1993 A coal train worked by a class 37 They use to bring coal into deepdale coal depot by rail upto 1993 Deepdale coal depot was in the area where you say the original station then depot now industrial unit was as far as i know.
@ephphatha230Ай бұрын
How do you get over those fences at the level crossings?
@nickmelling4238Ай бұрын
I had not idea so much was left, great video mate
@justinfuller8803Ай бұрын
The rubbish is a disgrace as is the gormless graffiti.
@standclear502Ай бұрын
Love you're lost railways exploring, keep It up man 😊
@Terry.WАй бұрын
If you look very carefully you will see banners that proclaim coming soon Preston Guild Tramway 2012 ...that will supposedly run on the track you have been walking on ...however although the Tramway is still just a dream the company have bought sections of the line including Ribbleton Station ...so we wait to see what happens next ...A City deserves a Tramline..
@riotious-net222Ай бұрын
As always an absolutely amazing video well done and surprised you managed to find so many jems still left
@JimBobZeeАй бұрын
(5:55), Very nice stone and brick work.
@karlratcliffe1830Ай бұрын
stoke station, its so busy because its the fastest way out of stoke
@merseydave1Ай бұрын
Gateacre is pronounced as "Gataca" I lived next to this line (The Childwall Valley Estate) up to 1992, I remember freight trains running on the line up to 1980. Childwall is pronounced as childwall useing the small i as aposed to the Capital I ... "childwall many people who do not live around here, make the same mistakes.
@thelmaviaductАй бұрын
15:47 is fluon, back of the stills, high boilers and control gallery.
@Kavanini1878Ай бұрын
Great video, Wirral Council have plans to make a lot of that old line as a walkpath into Birkenhead town centre.. On a personal note, I use that cycle path on my daily commute, but I agree it's sad when history is destroyed. If you'd have walked towards the bridge over the estuary, there is another railway line heading to Bidston/Wallasey, which has long since forgotten.
@railwaychristina3192Ай бұрын
Canopy almost as magnificent as the one at Kettering!❤
@CLARKIE-ttvАй бұрын
On my channel I have the gbrf freight train that run along the live railway at the beginning of the video. I live in royston and I know what everything is. So the brick square was a junction box for the coal mine. The bricks on the in bankment were part of the main royston junction boxes. The mines junction box wasn't manned by a railway engineer. It was ran by a mining engineer who had to radio the main junction boxes. 1 south in cudworth the other just a few hundred metres up the line were the line diverged the first stone bride you come across on the dewsbury line carries the royston to Sandle wakefield main road( Road name Station Road. Befor turning into Walton lane
@richardberechula2942Ай бұрын
Anoraky advice, Allan - from another Anorak: In case you've not yet reached for 'side-by-side' old O.S. Maps, from NLS, BEFORE you "get on yer bike" and venture forth - - DO THAT and see the various tell-tale signs that will leave you 'wondering' LESS as you traverse any given route. In other words, you'd already be "armed with more knowledge" during your trip. MAPS SHOW: Two areas here actually were 4-tracked/3-tracked; the ENTIRE formation was built for 4-tracking and the land-acquisition boundaries are convenient indicators. . Brush-up on your map-reading skills - incl. the old abbrevations used back then - so you can easily differentiate cuttings from embankments and the like, spot signal-gantries, signal-posts, signal-boxes, weighing machines and other structures, as well as station and/or yard "furniture." An EXAMPLE is maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.3&lat=53.38318&lon=-2.85806&layers=225&right=BingHyb . LATE ADDENDUM: Nearly a MILE directly EAST of Aintree Sta., just off the S.E. corner of the race-course, lies the site of the former "Railway Signal Co." works, a surprisingly busy and fairly major designer/manufacturer of signalling/safety equipt - particularly for the Lancs & Yorks Rly. Though now just a thickly-wooded area, the factory & facilities were located on the South side of the (now-LIFTED) 'link-line' between south of Aintree (coming off the 'connector line,' which goes up into Aintree Sta.) and the (still extant) local line towards Kirkby. This innovative manufacturer started off in 1881, focussing on high-quality mechanical equipment but, by the late 1960s, DIDN'T switch over to more modern electrical & electronic alternatives, therefore, its new owner (Westinghouse Signals) folded this business finally in 1974. www.polunnio.co.uk/research-resources/constituent-companies/the-railway-signal-co
@briancooper562Ай бұрын
My grandfather use to work at Gilmores brewery on t' Wicker as a drayman between the wars. The horses used where stabled under the Victoria approach ramps. I worked near Tinsley yard (Lets be Avenue) in the 2000 to 2015 and the only regular service you could see was to the now Outokumpu steel works (Usually a 66 to take away rolled products).
@flippop101Ай бұрын
A lot of hard work went into making this excellent video, great channel, subbed!
@davidanderson1639Ай бұрын
There are two books called ‘Great Northern Outpost’ by Alan Whitaker & Jan Rapacz. Part 1 covers the Bradford - Thornton Railway & Part 2 the Halifax - Thornton - Keighley line. Well worth getting, as they are both packed with photos during & after the lines operational life.
@robvickers7103Ай бұрын
Would love you to do a vid of the old line from Wigan to Manchester that ran through platt bridge, hindley green, Howe bridge, tyldesley, roe green, monton and then connected to the existing line at Eccles through to the old Manchester exchange station
@dieselbushcraft1299Ай бұрын
It’s sad to see the remains of railway lines being erased. I personally feel that it was very short sight of the likes of Dr Beeching and others of that era especially given today’s circumstances. Great to see your videos exploring what remains. Do you have a video of the Leeds New Line?
@JoshHodginsTrainsАй бұрын
They might get it back
@duxberry1958Ай бұрын
14:44 thats were the orignal line went before MSC was built
@philipheath8265Ай бұрын
Thanks for the old footage at the end. Very nostalgic.
@philipholme9911Ай бұрын
Having worked at some of the sites visited i find these video interesting. However please do not claim you have permision to go track side. No COSS, Picop, signaler etc would give you that permission to trackside without having the correct PPE, plan, coms equipment, sentinal card etc.. If they did they would lose there job and you could be prosecuted by BTP.
@daveattrill2712Ай бұрын
Superb explore of some of the great selections of railway remnants my city still has on show. You did well to get in when you did especially with the Treeton segment as a lot of it has been fenced across since then, with the rebuild of the current Tinsley depot. I had got in for a crafty explore back early to summer 2018, when the reception sidings area was somewhat still yet to be cleared so got away with my less- so authorised explore without being spotted. You've done enthusiasts a huge credit with this video lads - there is almost nothing you left out. I didn't even know there was concrete hut still concealed in the trees at the Brightside end. Well done also in managing a safe cover of the Spital Hill tunnel entrance without any trouble from rough sleepers often inhabiting the area outside - I was less so successful and had to beat a hasty retreat twice. All the best with your future explorations - can't wait to see more of them
@Katmando3762 ай бұрын
It's a lovely route.I have cycled it many times.🚴🚂
@wotireckon2 ай бұрын
Fascinating! A mine of information - many thanks!
@kennethstill59452 ай бұрын
Great video Allan really enjoyed it especially with the original photos inserted. The railways were so interesting then but so labour intensive. Really looking forward to the New Line video as I used it regularly during the early sixties when the big diesels took over, sorry that closed so soon.
@griswald71562 ай бұрын
Mr Beeching got rid of the northern small stations in a previous levelling down exercise..but managed to keep the ones in the south..HS2 didn’t go north of Birmingham so that the levelling down exercise was continued…
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I live in Aintree, and use the old railway/ cycle paths regularly, i used to take the dog over what seemed a huge siding nr Wango lane nr the canal turn at Aintree racecourse
So many great trains ..thanks..
You were correct about the sidings for Jacob's biscuit factory on one side of the bridge, but on the other side were the sidings for Hartley's jam factory.
Great video, thank you for posting. An interesting point worth mentioning, the bridge steelwork you are admiring at Maudlands at about 3:10 is where the Preston - Lancaster canal ran under the line and towards the town. Its now filled in and the canal starts further north. Cheers!
Me and some work colleagues re-railed that line about 2 and half years ago and those clips were absolutely solid to get out. I'm led to believe that this line is the only one in the country to pass through a cemetery near to the concrete structure with the graffiti on.
the old railway should have been converted into a traffic free cycle path. perhaps you need to joghlight this line to Sustrans in Bristol. the make it their mission to vonvert Fidused Tsil lines into cycle paths It could getmore use than the tram ever would because they would pass below the Preston town centre with all the danger that cycling on the roads above would pose to cyclists
Never realised that Preston was such a sh**hole. What a disgrace that its been allowed to get like that. Still, nothing surprises me anymore with this country.
Amazing video 😊👍🏻👍🏻
I used to live locally to Low Moor. The tracks you saw embedded in the tarmac would have been part of the tram system from the ill fated Transperience museum that used to occupy that site.
Still owned by The Railway as mothballed operating
There is still some evidence of a railway high up on Longridge Fell to the south of Old Clitheroe Road. There is an old loading ramp or platform at SD 6651 3952 and some track in a gateway to the west of this platform.
Cycle lane ? Make a great railway in my book. All these old lines need to be reinstated where possible. Once the veins and arteries of our country, they'd reinvigourate the country again if reopened.
The line from Grimsargh to Whitingham mental hospital was provided with a free train service using brake vans powered by a steam loco originating from down south Brighton I think , somebody's cast offs. It even featured in a newspaper in the USA
Many thanks for another brilliant video 👍🏻
Great video. Why do people have to be pigs. That rubbish is shameful.
The tunnels under the town are rather like the Heckmondwike Cleckheaton line
love these .. just 1 thing why are all these rails not been moved for recycling . there must be some serious money there in steal . .. could a scrap collector remove them . are they left just in case of reopening .. eg easier to remove the weed then to re lay ..
They were looking at using the old track beds for trams, but as usual, they never got anywhere with it. I travel through Grimsargh regularly and they are building loads of new houses without thinking about all the traffic it will produce as there's only one road into Preston and they're already getting busier and busier - the railway from Preston to Longridge would be perfect with the population getting so high.
A fine walk into the past this day. Thank you for this day’s video. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
nice to see some track has been left hope they do something about that station soon before vandalism sets in and part of our heritage gone forever
Amazing that Ravensthorpe had 3 stations back in the day. 😃👍🏻
Mirfield not Milfield.
The last train was in 1993 A coal train worked by a class 37 They use to bring coal into deepdale coal depot by rail upto 1993 Deepdale coal depot was in the area where you say the original station then depot now industrial unit was as far as i know.
How do you get over those fences at the level crossings?
I had not idea so much was left, great video mate
The rubbish is a disgrace as is the gormless graffiti.
Love you're lost railways exploring, keep It up man 😊
If you look very carefully you will see banners that proclaim coming soon Preston Guild Tramway 2012 ...that will supposedly run on the track you have been walking on ...however although the Tramway is still just a dream the company have bought sections of the line including Ribbleton Station ...so we wait to see what happens next ...A City deserves a Tramline..
As always an absolutely amazing video well done and surprised you managed to find so many jems still left
(5:55), Very nice stone and brick work.
stoke station, its so busy because its the fastest way out of stoke
Gateacre is pronounced as "Gataca" I lived next to this line (The Childwall Valley Estate) up to 1992, I remember freight trains running on the line up to 1980. Childwall is pronounced as childwall useing the small i as aposed to the Capital I ... "childwall many people who do not live around here, make the same mistakes.
15:47 is fluon, back of the stills, high boilers and control gallery.
Great video, Wirral Council have plans to make a lot of that old line as a walkpath into Birkenhead town centre.. On a personal note, I use that cycle path on my daily commute, but I agree it's sad when history is destroyed. If you'd have walked towards the bridge over the estuary, there is another railway line heading to Bidston/Wallasey, which has long since forgotten.
Canopy almost as magnificent as the one at Kettering!❤
On my channel I have the gbrf freight train that run along the live railway at the beginning of the video. I live in royston and I know what everything is. So the brick square was a junction box for the coal mine. The bricks on the in bankment were part of the main royston junction boxes. The mines junction box wasn't manned by a railway engineer. It was ran by a mining engineer who had to radio the main junction boxes. 1 south in cudworth the other just a few hundred metres up the line were the line diverged the first stone bride you come across on the dewsbury line carries the royston to Sandle wakefield main road( Road name Station Road. Befor turning into Walton lane
Anoraky advice, Allan - from another Anorak: In case you've not yet reached for 'side-by-side' old O.S. Maps, from NLS, BEFORE you "get on yer bike" and venture forth - - DO THAT and see the various tell-tale signs that will leave you 'wondering' LESS as you traverse any given route. In other words, you'd already be "armed with more knowledge" during your trip. MAPS SHOW: Two areas here actually were 4-tracked/3-tracked; the ENTIRE formation was built for 4-tracking and the land-acquisition boundaries are convenient indicators. . Brush-up on your map-reading skills - incl. the old abbrevations used back then - so you can easily differentiate cuttings from embankments and the like, spot signal-gantries, signal-posts, signal-boxes, weighing machines and other structures, as well as station and/or yard "furniture." An EXAMPLE is maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.3&lat=53.38318&lon=-2.85806&layers=225&right=BingHyb . LATE ADDENDUM: Nearly a MILE directly EAST of Aintree Sta., just off the S.E. corner of the race-course, lies the site of the former "Railway Signal Co." works, a surprisingly busy and fairly major designer/manufacturer of signalling/safety equipt - particularly for the Lancs & Yorks Rly. Though now just a thickly-wooded area, the factory & facilities were located on the South side of the (now-LIFTED) 'link-line' between south of Aintree (coming off the 'connector line,' which goes up into Aintree Sta.) and the (still extant) local line towards Kirkby. This innovative manufacturer started off in 1881, focussing on high-quality mechanical equipment but, by the late 1960s, DIDN'T switch over to more modern electrical & electronic alternatives, therefore, its new owner (Westinghouse Signals) folded this business finally in 1974. www.polunnio.co.uk/research-resources/constituent-companies/the-railway-signal-co
My grandfather use to work at Gilmores brewery on t' Wicker as a drayman between the wars. The horses used where stabled under the Victoria approach ramps. I worked near Tinsley yard (Lets be Avenue) in the 2000 to 2015 and the only regular service you could see was to the now Outokumpu steel works (Usually a 66 to take away rolled products).
A lot of hard work went into making this excellent video, great channel, subbed!
There are two books called ‘Great Northern Outpost’ by Alan Whitaker & Jan Rapacz. Part 1 covers the Bradford - Thornton Railway & Part 2 the Halifax - Thornton - Keighley line. Well worth getting, as they are both packed with photos during & after the lines operational life.
Would love you to do a vid of the old line from Wigan to Manchester that ran through platt bridge, hindley green, Howe bridge, tyldesley, roe green, monton and then connected to the existing line at Eccles through to the old Manchester exchange station
It’s sad to see the remains of railway lines being erased. I personally feel that it was very short sight of the likes of Dr Beeching and others of that era especially given today’s circumstances. Great to see your videos exploring what remains. Do you have a video of the Leeds New Line?
They might get it back
14:44 thats were the orignal line went before MSC was built
Thanks for the old footage at the end. Very nostalgic.
Having worked at some of the sites visited i find these video interesting. However please do not claim you have permision to go track side. No COSS, Picop, signaler etc would give you that permission to trackside without having the correct PPE, plan, coms equipment, sentinal card etc.. If they did they would lose there job and you could be prosecuted by BTP.
Superb explore of some of the great selections of railway remnants my city still has on show. You did well to get in when you did especially with the Treeton segment as a lot of it has been fenced across since then, with the rebuild of the current Tinsley depot. I had got in for a crafty explore back early to summer 2018, when the reception sidings area was somewhat still yet to be cleared so got away with my less- so authorised explore without being spotted. You've done enthusiasts a huge credit with this video lads - there is almost nothing you left out. I didn't even know there was concrete hut still concealed in the trees at the Brightside end. Well done also in managing a safe cover of the Spital Hill tunnel entrance without any trouble from rough sleepers often inhabiting the area outside - I was less so successful and had to beat a hasty retreat twice. All the best with your future explorations - can't wait to see more of them
It's a lovely route.I have cycled it many times.🚴🚂
Fascinating! A mine of information - many thanks!
Great video Allan really enjoyed it especially with the original photos inserted. The railways were so interesting then but so labour intensive. Really looking forward to the New Line video as I used it regularly during the early sixties when the big diesels took over, sorry that closed so soon.
Mr Beeching got rid of the northern small stations in a previous levelling down exercise..but managed to keep the ones in the south..HS2 didn’t go north of Birmingham so that the levelling down exercise was continued…