Excellent! You go past my house. I remember that Deltic roaring past not far away on full power up to "The March" & along "The Fairy Hillocks". Very nice. And you can see the old school building at Altnabreac, just before video is cut.
As Davidwade4952 mentions below, you pass the site of what used to be Kirby Muxloe station at mins 10 secs, and you pan very briefly to your left for a fraction, showing the current crossing gates, that lead to a couple of houses and a farm path across to the Barry Drive estate. As you pan back to the view of direction of travel that where the station signal box used to stand, it went in late 60s, way after the station had gone. Pity the line has never re opened to passengers. I used to live very close to the Kirby lane bridge, the one just after the Forest Drive metal bridge and the bridge immediatly before the old station. i can recall one of the first rail specials down the line, 31st May 1981, with class 20 - 20140 leading from Nuneaton where i boarded, and managed to get a cab ride all the way to Coalville down "our line" happy days. Since then a number of specials including a double head class 33 on one occasion.. born in Kirby and lived there for 20 years, and subsequently Australia and New Zealand. thanks for posting.
Really interesting to see the view from the line as you go through Moira. After announcements last year about a feasibility study to reopen line for passenger traffic who knows future for it. Thanks for posting
0:22 Overbridge = the A1; 1:35 Ketton and Ketton Cement (now Heidelberg Cement Group); 2:34 Geeston Footbridge (blue, distance); 2:58 Ketton box (with shortly after the site of Ketton & Collyweston Station); 3:58 underbridge over the River Chater (pron. "Chayter"); 4:12 the Chater winds back and forth under the railway; 4:15 the South Luffenham Heath Golf Course Clubhouse; 5:19 the former Luffenham Station level crossing; 5:55 Settings Farm (where we got our cats from); 6:12 Morcott road overbridge; 7:05 Pilton road underbridge; 7:28 Wing road overbridge, Lyndon, the best in the world; 7:48 Wing; 8:40 the camera swings south to view the converging line from Corby; 8:44 (horizon) the redbrick pumping house beyond the Corby line; 8:50 + the gubbins where Manton Station used to be; 9:00 Manton box; 9:06 backview down the line to the Seaton Viaduct; 9:12 Manton Tunnel.
That person standing watching the train go by around 5' 58" could have been me if this were forty years before. It was my mates and my playground then.. That's the 'Ginny rails' on the right just after 5,58 where the local ironworks used horsedrawn railway to get ingredients down into the furnaces in C19. Around 6.39-43 there was a station called Lightmoor halt. Somewhere around 7,15 there was a signal 'no. 27' which was a complete bugger to pull - if not done right the first time - a walk to let the driver know they were clear to Madeley Jcn.
@Christopher125 (I can't figure out how to reply directly to a comment on youtube now). I don't know what tight clearances these would be given that the line was previously double-track and it is now predominantly single. It has only very recently been opened so the vegetation has been cut back well. The only part where I noticed anything close to the train was around Brunstane (on the section of line that was already open)
There has been talk of Cumbrian Coast-style restrictions in the past due to tight clearances, so that would presumably explain why they weren't allowing window hanging. The blanket 35mph limit on loco-hauled trains due to various structures also seems to be true.
"Martin said nothing as the train eased from Wick station, the panorama of Fiona’s beloved Caithness opened out all around and he reasoned that this would be the last time he ever saw it. She’s gone for good, she’s gone for good, the train wheels seemed to say."
One of my very favourite journeys - "the most loneliest place in Scotland", as a German friend of mine described it. There's a lot more trees about than there used to be when I did it regularly 30 years ago.
Thank for posting this. Very interesting! I used to live in Kirby Muxloe (until 1995). In your film the train passes under the Forest Drive bridge in Kirby (not far from my old home!) at 8 mins 39. You then pass the site of Kirby Muxloe station at about 9 mins10, by the level crossing. It would be great if the line could be re-opened to passengers again (I know there has been talk of doing this for many years).
I've seen a few of these Angerman videos now, what route did the train take? Started at Victoria? To Lewisham via Denmark Hill / Peckham Rye? Then Sidcup loop through Slade Green to the North Kent line and Westcombe Park?
Thanks! I wish I'd gotten to Angerstein Wharf a bit sooner to get better footage of it arriving but the train I was hoping to get on was the one that blocked my shot at Lee!
@tunneltug Sorry, I don't know the owner. I just took an interest in the boat when I saw it at the Rickmansworth festival due to it being steam powered.
@BristolVRchap Ah thanks for that info. Probably explains what the person was looking at under the cab. "We came up in a heap on a couple of occasions" I hope no tea was spilled!
1001 was suffering from an AWS fault at this point. We came up in a heap on a couple of occasions, and ended up with 73213 being used to box in the defective cab.
