Haltwhistle to ALSTON BRANCH DMU train ride 1963

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Up to closure in 1976, Alston’s was the last remaining branch from the Newcastle and Carlisle route.
Originally built for the traffic from mining of various minerals, as well as for passengers, closure was delayed until the area’s roads could be improved.
This was filmed from the front seats of a (first generation) Diesel Multiple Unit train.
The Alston end of the route is now occupied by the narrow gauge South Tynedale Railway.
Please excuse that odd shape in the sky in much of the footage. One of the problems with Film was “a hair in the gate.” The part of the camera where the lens focused the image onto the film. Keen camera operators used a little brush to try to prevent the problem. Maybe I’d left it at home!
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Комментарии : 48

@paulhaynes8045 Год назад

I've seen that viaduct from the Carlisle to Newcastle line and often wondered about it. So it was wonderful to see this film and the line in operation. So glad you captured it before 'progress' swept it away. But also, so sad to see what once was and know that it's now all gone.

@simontait8649 5 лет назад

The signalman at the beginning is my grandad Tony Bell. Wow what a cool find.

@stephd5047 4 года назад

A great tragedy the line was closed. A beautiful route...It would have been a great tourist attraction these days. Great memories from when I used to travel up to Alston every Saturday to see my Grandparents.

@marcc3514 4 года назад

Thanks so much for this film - Superb historical document. Here's to reopening

@ColinH1973 Год назад

Unfortunately I can't see that ever happening. More's the pity.

@lewisner 8 месяцев назад

@ColinH1973 they may mean the narrow gauge line but that isn't really reopening.

@Wishful-Thinking 3 года назад

Wonderful film. I’ve often wondered what that railway route looked like when it was active. We were left a wonderful railway network legacy which would have been more than relevant and viable today. We stupidly destroyed most of it because of sheer shortsightedness. The Keswick line is another that should never have closed.

@richardashton9490 3 года назад

After closing the line, the powers that be generously built an 'all-weather' road up to Alston. During its first winter, the road was closed due to snow, and the town was once again cut off.

@5705Seahorse 7 лет назад

Thank you once again Alan and Heather, and thank heavens you had the foresight to make these films back in the 1960s when 8mm film was an expensive commodity! As always, Heather's commentary is well researched and informative. I too am looking forward to the next installment!

@andrewtingate6658 11 месяцев назад

My grandfather used to drive the DMUs along that line, and I think steam locos before that, based out of Blaydon shed. Took the second last train out of Alston on closure day.

@ColinH1973 Год назад

Lovely footage and commentary. It's a line that I knew very well and travelled very often. BR closed this line, not Dr B. Shame on them!

@garyalderson1056 5 месяцев назад

Lovely video.i remember going to Haltwhisle as a teenager to the picture house .. happy days...❤

@MsJOHNBIRD 7 лет назад

I have really enjoyed the film about the Barnard Castle Line and the Stainmore Rout as it brings back memories. I t was on the 7th January 1964 that I arrived from our Regimental Depot in Preston to join my battalion at Deerbolt Camp at Barnard Castle. I once crossed the viaduct over the River Tees, which, at that time had been reduced to a single line for Middleton. Many is the time in those two years that i hitch-hiked along the '66 to Brough and then to Kirby Stephen. Our camp was close to Deepdale Beck and I remember once going running up the beck and seeing what was left of the viaduct, which was only the bases of the pillars.

@atlanticcoastexpress 7 лет назад

Another excellent vintage trip...many thanks to Alan and Heather. Yet another example of a branch line that should not have closed....the Bridport branch here in Dorset is also much missed. Best wishes. Rob.

@Ar-Rahman61 5 лет назад

So grateful for these fantastic and informative films

@PeaveyPV20 4 года назад

Very good footage. Pleased to say the railway has now been extended to slagyford. Shame its so hard for non car owners like me to get to

@jimbegin6554 4 года назад

Absolute delight! Thanks Alan and Heather.

@barryroberts2196 7 лет назад

I really enjoy these videos Alan, they take me back to my youth ! Thank you so much for sharing, please keep 'em coming.

@AlanSnowdonArchive 7 лет назад

Please see my reply to Richard Turton - It's good to be able to please folk at my age.

@alanlamb6946 3 года назад

@@AlanSnowdonArchive chanced across your videos (pics on disused railways site). Just curious .. are you our cousin Alan, great uncle Joe's son ? Siblings Brian and the late Jean ? (and so, uncle to Susan). If so, haven't met since Jean's funeral. Mum (Jean), and her sister Jenny (Australia) are both still going. 90 and 86

@alanlamb6946 3 года назад

@@AlanSnowdonArchive PS .. GREAT films, thank you. We like cycling this type of route, when able ..

@steves5172 3 года назад

Thank you, solid gold!

@georgeedwardscott7159 3 года назад

thanks for that. ive walked that line many times.

@toonmag50 3 года назад

I was on a scout expedition in 1974, navigating by map in low mist and continuous rain. We hadn't seen a road or another person for hours. Out from the gloom we saw a train, a multiple unit . It came and went quickly. It took us by surprise,and we joked that it must have been a ghost train. It is now.

@rastaralph7154 Год назад

Excellent 💚💛❤️👍

@greylocks3272 5 лет назад

A really good film. Thanks.

@flippop101 6 лет назад

I love your films. Thank you very much!

@alanhesketh9265 4 года назад

Wonderful. Thank you.

@jamieadamson9780 Год назад

Lovely video. Crazy to think some of the people on that train were probably born in the 19th century.

@ianinnes8063 4 года назад

I wouldnt class myself as a railway enthusiast but i love to learn the hisory of places ive visited through work or holiday the tyndale valley is amongst the most gorgeous scenery ul find in the uk .

@richardturton9069 7 лет назад

These videos are superb Alan, I enjoy them so much. Please keep up the great work you are doing, it really is appreciated!

@AlanSnowdonArchive 7 лет назад

This may be a good place to mention that after the next one I upload, hopefully withn a few days, there will have to be a pause for probably a few weeks while I attend to some important matters at home. BUT please be assured that there are more railway journey videos to come. Maybe in Europe too.

@richardturton9069 7 лет назад

We look forward to enjoying them Alan

@Kontrolleuchte 4 года назад

Beautiful

@DaimlerSleeveValve 3 года назад

Slaggyford did originally have a passing loop, and a platform on the eastern side too. You can see the weed-covered platform as the train makes the journey north. Obviously the infrastructure was removed to cut costs prior to 1963. Lambley seems to have always been single-track. Perhaps it made things simpler for the private branch.

@EdenValleyAdventuresUK 5 лет назад

great video loved it.

@user-qw5ed9pe5n 3 года назад

Allston stayed up there unfortunately the train they set up as a little heritage ride wasn't running and had to wait for the snow to melt before we could leave. Heck of a hairpin road up there too.

@Macas1959 4 года назад

Great Alan, Is there any chance of a copy for our local Coanwood Lambley and Featherstone history club, Regards Richard

@gordonnattrass 2 месяца назад

My Dad drove the final service train

@tristacker 3 года назад

My dad used to work at Alston foundry during the second world war where he stayed. He told me that once after a dance in Haltwhistle he and his companions missed the last bus to Alston so drunkenly walked back along the railway as it was quicker than the road.

@AlanSnowdonArchive 3 года назад

Did they get there before the first bus next morning, I'm wondering !

@Sam_Green____4114 7 лет назад

Ah driver had the blinds down in the Cab .Hence filming from the window .Some drivers used to love getting on the DMU and then love rolling all the blinds down when all the enthusiast were sat at the front anticipating the departure ! mean buzzards they were !

@AlanSnowdonArchive 7 лет назад

Filming through two layers of glass, maybe dirty, is never as clear as through NO glass.

@onthegoldenline 6 лет назад

Five years more and it probably would have survived.

@ColinH1973 5 месяцев назад

What a lovely line it was. BR neglected it on purpose and invested nothing in it for years with the intention of closing it. Two years separated the closure of this line and the Penrith-Keswick line. Cultural vandalism.

@ianburnett7333 Год назад

Mechanical Signalling still works. Boxes at Cuxton Wartingbury must be the oldest in Country if still there. VSC opened in stages 1980, it was a Disaster! Failures all the time. ASE was 'Wrong man for the job' had to be paid off, he was embezzling money to run department. Replacement narcissistic had Peter Scott removed to Three Bridges, told by Chairman BR Board that he was to be sacked in 6 months time unless failures dropped. Bought in man from Swanley led task force team found lots of equipment faults, reduced failures.

@lewisner 6 лет назад

I rode this line as a lad in 1976 and I had the DMU pretty much to myself the whole way. I think one man got on at Coanwood and I remember the oil lamps there.