I'm a railway enthusiast and vlogger originally from Stoke-on-Trent living in Norwich and exploring the railways, both current and historic, of East Anglia and beyond.
Sarah - great video - my Grandfather was a signalman at Saxmundham - he also worked at Hailsworth and Darsham. I spent many a wonderful day in the signalbox with Type37's and other big diesels passing on the way to Sizewell to collect nuclear waste. Fun fact - the train scene in the Detectorists features Saxmundham station and when they leave to go to London the train leaves from the wrong platform.
hi there this is the frist time i have come across your channel. you come across mature and strate to the point no messing around like you see on some channels. you have great editing skills and great facts and info about the staions you go to, which makes for a great viewing so thank you for all the videos and effort you do so nice one for that take care.
"Keep Crossing Clear": Your advice is good(!), but the main dangers are: a) when motorist stops on the railway, tries to move off quickly on seeing the crossing actuate but in a panic then stalls the engine b) when the exit side is obstructed (for whatever reason, eg traffic congestion) leaving no room for motorist to pass safely over
This is Fab! Oh, and Bill is William Shakespeare. His mother came from a nearby village to Stratford upon Avon, and the saying 'It's black over Bill's mother's" was Warwickshire slang for bad weather coming from the south west.
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If anyone wants a walk you can take the train to Borth and walk back to Aberystwyth via the marked footpath along the cliff edge - you could try it along the beach but you have to be faster and you can easily be cut off due to the tide comes up to the base of the cliffs and there no exit route apart from swimming! If you do it the other way it is an easier way to walk but you are more at the mercy of catching the train at Borth I am not sure if it is a two-hour wait or an hour wait.
Cambrian takes its names from the Cambrian period 400-500 million years ago when the first fish appeared in the oceans and paved the way for life on land.
Cambrian comes from Cambria, Latin name for Wales(Cymru). The Cambrian geological epoch was named after rock formations found in Cambria! Ordivincian, Silurian periods where named after Celtic tribes that lived in Wales. The rock formations where found in the 19th Century in Wales.
That ramp bridge was originally for the Royal Mail sorting office, which was on the site of the Waitrose shop, it closed and moved to a new building in Werrington Peterborough around 1999, can't remember the exact year. but remember the postmen loading mailbags into the BSO guard's coach
I was recently in that part of Wales myself a few weeks ago filming all of the level crossings on this line (except Barmouth as I found it way too busy when I went). I do like this line quite a bit. 1:22 - Occasionally you can get double 2-car 158s on this line, although it’s not overly common I don’t think.
I've just come upon your channel. I have subscribed. This is a great video! I watched it whilst my wife was watching "Strictly"! Always interested to hear correct pronunciations of place names and, like you at the beginning, I had always thought it was pronounced "MAN-eya" which is what my father always said and he paired it with nearby Stonea. Is this pronounced "STONE-EE" do you know?
If that's the steepest road in Wales, then I think we found the second steepest during a family holiday at a farmhouse which did B&B near Dolgarrog in the 1970s. It was up a narrow lane off the A470, which was 1 in 3 (33%) most of the way. Just about wrecked the gearbox on our Morris Minor
It was honestly awful to walk up! I never thought things could be worse than the first time I walked up Gas Hill in Norwich but oh I was wrong. A car drove down the hill as I was going up and good God I would not feel comfortable doing that even as a passenger (I assumed they lived up there due to the 'no entry' sign further down the hill)
Thank you for the show and tell - I know most of these stations due to the announcements at either Aberystwyth or Birmingham New Street or even Wolverhampton stations
Hi Sarah, l'm fairly sure that caravan site you stayed at is where I spent a very "bracing" family holiday nearly seventy years ago, the accommodation then was a row of prefabs. Those defibrillators would surely be better placed on Britain's steepest hill!
I can believe it was bracing! A lot of our holiday was rather bracing! Still not as bracing as Great Yarmouth though. I'd be intrigued to see my blood pressure after climbing that hill! I'm usually on the low side so perhaps it was normal level!
Brilliant video Sarah, I dunno if I fancy climbing up that hill you went up, even if it was still the steepest hill in the world lol. I do like stations that have pretty flowers. The waves at that beach do look very wild indeed.
