A channel devoted to exploring the lost railway lines of the UK through animation, maps and past & present photos. Produced by James Fox (The Time Travel Artist)
This video came up on my feed. What a wonderful and imaginitive way of presenting the route - i thoroughly enjoyed that and I'm going to watch a few more! (it helps that its a Sussex route as i'm local to some of those places). Great stuff, very impressive!
Another fabulous video, thank you James once again for all your hard work and dedication So many places you were able to show the ghost train. I assume these are footpaths They are all so informative
The Downs Link path follows the route of the old railway so you can walk or cycle along most of the old line, including the section that goes from Christ's Hospital up to Guildford. You can see a lot of evidence of the old railway along the route including bridges, tunnels and remains of some of the old station platforms such as those at West Grinstead which are shown in the video.
Thanks James for the latest download, much appreciated. It makes you think how many miles of track have been lifted just on your video's alone. Look forward to the next.
During the early part of WW2 the line was doubled to assist arms and freight getting to Southampton directly. Many were surprised it was closed resulting in freight taking long diversions from the north to the ports.
My father was a goods guard based at Northampton in the 1950s then we emigrated to Australia in 1956 he must have seen the end of various railway lines! Which happened in australia as well!
Brilliant I still cant understand why you only have 2.47k subscribers, I keep telling people about you channel and they think its great too, hopefully they are passing it on to others.
In about 1957 i attended Bewerley Park Camp (Summer) School which was run by the West Riding County Council with the HQ in Wakefield. It covered outdoor pursuits like running, kayaking and cricket and was great fun. I recall my parents came on a visit by train as my father was a signaller at was then a very busy raiilway at Knottingley.
Every year local community groups say they've found a feasible way to reopen this route (which is needed now more than ever as the 41 isn't sufficient for public transport), and every year it goes nowhere.
brilliant video well documented I had just seen a video on you tube of a train journey in the early 60's doing the same run but further . any chance of continuing the journey to Didcot
I just love these video's. Being a nostalgia freak, very satisfying to watch. They are educational, satisfying and just a little sad to watch. All these closed lines are heart-breaking when you consider the traffic we have to endure to get to these places in our cars. Not to mention the costs! One line that I travelled in 1962, just before closure was the Cheltenham to Kingham (originally went to Banbury) .I would love to see the Ghost train travel this route one last time. Thank you for the wonderful video's you have created.
I've cycled the Barnstaple to Braunton stretch and the Mortehoe to ilfracombe stretch, but for whatever reason (maybe land owners refusal) but the cycle track doesn't go from Braunton to Mortehoe. But i have heard there is a possibility of linking that section up too. which would be great, as you could then cycle the old railway line all the way from Ilfracombe to Meeth in the heart of Devon. That would be pretty much 41 miles of continuous old railway lines you could cycle then.
