Drone footage of interesting places, landmarks and...
a whole load of stuff, nonsense and ramblings based on my hobbies by an aging, UK based, self confessed "old fart", ham radio user, a complete expert of nothing, master in the art of fiddling about with stuff and lifelong tinkerer!
Stop at 4:30, the village of Winterbourne Stoke. After travelling down the M3 and a long dual carriageway section of the A303, traffic from London to the SW comes thundering through the middle of this small village. A few people who don't live anywhere near Wiltshire manipulated the courts to delay this village's long awaited by-pass until the new Government ran out of money to build it.
Thanks for the info, I didn't know anything about the plans of village being bypassed, I guess that explains the speed camera just past the bottom of the dip facing the SW.
Unfortunately not much more, I wanted to get more but was unable to work out the exact route it took due to the published directions not being very clear by using the names of farms and names of junctions that locals may know but are not marked as such on maps. Maybe next year.
The Ilminster bypass is a disgrace of a road. For maybe two metres of widening the whole road could have been dual carriageway and saved dozens of lives.
You're not wrong, who knows what was going through the planners minds when they came up with it. It's just stupid to alternate the two lane sections the way they have.
@@rods-stuff The alternating lanes were only introduced in around 2002 as a short term safety improvement. Before that, there was just a single broken white line down the centre of the road and you'd get vehicles from both sides barrelling down the centre line, occasionally with fatal consequences.
Upgrading this section of the A303 was high on the Highway Authority's list of road projects for their next planning period and money has already been spent on the initial plans. Sadly this is now most unlikely to happen after the new Government has scrapped most new road projects. So much money is wasted in the UK planning transport projects that never get built.
Thx for this. I am baffled as to why Beaulieu Park station only has three platforms. The new Cambridge south station being built simultaneously, has fewer projected passengers, yet has four platforms and won't get anywhere near as much freight pass through it as Beaulieu Park. Maybe there is passive provision for more capacity in the design?
The music title is Adventure Time, I found it on a copyright free site but I can't remember which one or who the artist is. I've extended it as the original is 4 mins in length.
Not usually into sculptures, but this is gorgeous. Had no previous knowledge of it so good to see. Any idea of the scale of it? Or total height perhaps?
@@rods-stuff There don't seem to be as many fairground organs getting out and about so much in general now, but you will typically find them at steam rallies as part of their attractions.
I used to Live just outside Exeter & I can't imagine just how many times I've driven past the access road without knowing it was there. I'll keep hoping for better weather for my next trip.
The information on Network Rail's website does say that it has been in the pipeline for around 40 years with it finally being due to open at the end of next year. Between now and then I will hopefully be able to keep the updates coming, especially towards the latter end of the project when things always appear to change more rapidly.
Nice video, I pass across the bridge most days so it’s interesting to see it from a different angle. I still can’t fathom the logic of slewing the lines across to slot the station in. The original alignment was a set up for high speed running, it would have made more sense to build the station to the north of these and leave the alignment alone. Fast trains could bypass the station.
Thanks for watching, if you look at around the 2 minute mark it appears that the original line is being moved a few feet nearer to the road, maybe this will become a high speed pass through. On the next update I'll take the drone further along the tracks to see if/how the roadside section is connecting to the other line(s).
@@rods-stuff The line nearest the road is the rough alignment of the up line, it was so close to the road you couldn’t have squeezed a platform between the road and the track. The down line was parallel roughly where the island platform is. They have realigned the tracks to run through the station and are now reinstating the line near the road
Cool, I was making my assumption from the view in the video, unfortunately, I wasn't in the area for about 10 years and the work began before I moved back. Imagine my surprise when driving along Essex Regiment Way from the Braintree/Dunmow end when I saw the road sign for the A131 & A12 going off to the left by the McDonalds/Costa roundabout
Flying through the archway could have been a bit smoother, I should have disabled obstacle avoidance so it didn't "wander" - never mind, lesson learned.
Locally, until around the mid 90's it was known as the posh part of Walton-Clacton coastline, when it was home to mostly well-off retired people. It literally took decades to get planning permission for the first pub to be granted and caused many arguments.
The Colne Valley Railway is about 20 miles from where I live and built on an old section of track which was decommissioned in the early 60's and used to run through the town I grew up in.
I’d seen them building the new flyover when I’d been back and forth to London a few times had no idea a new station was being built and the tracks being re worked to fit the station in,used to work for network rail and a project like this would have fascinated me
I go past there every few weeks and when the work was first starting I thought that it was just simply a new road layout being put into place. I drove by about a week ago and from the ground there doesn't appear to be much progress over the last couple of months, hopefully work will proceed a bit faster when the weather improves giving me a chance to produce an update video.
Thanks for the feedback, it's just a shame that it wasn't possible to get the different times on a single day due to the very changeable weather conditions. The daylight part was shot on a Sunday morning before it opened up as I didn't want loads of people wandering about, you may also notice a patch on the grass where the circus was in the night shots taken just a couple of days earlier.
Thanks for posting. This is very interesting. I used to know the port and its surroundings well. Many years since I was last there, but doesn't seem to have changed much.
I hadn't been there for a number of years either - the only thing that appears to have changed since I was last there is that there is now a supermarket and retail park on the roundabout at the entrance to the port
I discovered your video by chance while searching for something else. I used to know this area well and had no idea all this was going on. I left Essex in 2015 and now live in West Yorkshire. Apart from two brief visits to Colchester, I have not been back. Thanks for posting. It's really interesting.
I also left Essex a number of years ago, returning in 2019 - a lot has changed over the years, especially the number houses that have been built around most towns.
Thank you, this was filmed about 6 weeks ago and I totally forgot all about it. I've watched some of your videos and I have to say you've inspired me to try out a monochrome project - keep up the good work.
