How a Man Stole an Entire Train Station - Cleckheaton Central Station 

*Walking away with suspiciously station-shaped lump in backpack*

I hate when I accidentally steal an entire railway station.

Some people steal from trains, not me. Trains steal from me. They steal my love and attention.

Sedgwick actually saved BR £2300 but removing the station for free ! Perhaps he should have counter sued BR for the difference !!

"Hippity hoppity I place your transport infrastructure in my pocketty"

Sedgwick must've called Saul Goodman to defend him in court. "You're Honor, my client couldn't have stolen a Train Station. It wouldn't have fit in his Pocket."

0:50 I smell someone making a Thomas Story out of this.

Despite the station being stolen, it was meant to be taken down in the 1st place anyway. So... Task failed successfully.

“That is a DIABOLICAL lick” -my brother

This incident reminds me of a story in the early railway days, when the Maryport & Carlisle railway had their Carlisle terminus unceremoniously demolished in about an hour by another company (L&CR). Happened because the M&CR refused to stop using their terminus once the Carlisle Citadel had been built

this makes the pannier theft look positively petty in comparison

Google Search: Help I accidentally stole a railway station

This is more bizarre than stealing an engine for time travel

The same Mr Sedgewick was one of the founders of the Coal Carrying Championship

This reminds me of an old joke where a rich farmer orders a large chicken coop to be delivered by rail, it gets hung up in a small town and he decides to go retrieve it with a truck and drives off with the whistlestop depot leaving his coop behind in it's place

The title has the exact same vibe to it as "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" lmao

My old home town still go over there every now and again to see my dad

Waiting until your hear about “the stolen railway” when locals stole and entire Branchline of the GS&WR in Ireland

This happens to many railway stations in South Africa, during the Covid pandemic when almost all passenger train travel was stopped many buildings were looted for building materials, often leaving only the brick walls but roofs, windows etc gone. Also lots of copper including catenary wires were stolen leaving the entire commuter train services in the large cities inoperable, in many cases to this day.

That's a whole new variation of "I've got a bridge to sell you!" that I've never heard before.

I feel like he actually did steal the station. Part of a con is sticking to your story and being consistent. Perhaps he needed some extra money for something, and a friend named Watson came up with a crazy idea given the Mass closures by Beeching. So he used that name as a scapegoat to plant reasonable doubt in the eyes of a jury should he get caught

Minions. Tonight, we steal the station

I once witnessed a bold and dangerous railway theft: I was volunteering as a safety officer for a tourist railroad several years ago. When riding in the caboose during an excursion, I saw a man with a crowbar by the tracks. He was pulling date spikes from live, FRA-regulated tracks! We called the local police. As I recall, he was arrested. (That’s how we learned about the date spike theft.)

The thumbnail is freaking hilarious 🤣

4:15 "Your honor, I swear, I was given permission."

You wouldn't steal a train station...

The Bulls busting a guy for taking some tie plates: "Finally our railroad is safe!" Sedgwick: "Dude! I'm taking this to Mexico!"

Rather excellent!

I imagined him just picking up the whole station like Ed Edd n Eddie

Wait hold on, I'm only thirty seconds into the video; Did you just say this man was _TRICKED_ into stealing an entire railway station?? I'm now completely flummoxed. I don't know what to expect in the video anymore, I was confused enough by reading the title that said a guy stole a whole station, but now im even more confused. Anyways, please do continue. * Unpauses *

Sounds like rail company didn't shop around for a cheaper contractor

I live next to a heritage railway. They had a load of electric cable stolen and the thieves stole two wheelbarrows from me to use as getwaway vehicles.

i always chuckle at this story, this is not that far from me 🤣

Do you mean the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, as opposed to the Yorkshire and Lancashire?

Bro stole knaphord 💀

The thumbnail goes hard. He's just like "Lemme just grab that."

This completely cracked me up! Thank you for making me laugh x

Did they find Mr.Watson? Or..??

Someone went off with £100 and no consequences. Those "inflation adjusted" figures sound low but the Bank of England agrees...maybe we just paid less for stations then than now!

Would've been my local station along with Liversedge if Beeching didn't close it!

"Elementary, my dear Watson."

I opine that they invoked jury nullification to protest the unpopular Beeching Axe. This line of legal argumentation is that, while the bricks & mortar of the station may belong to the British Railways Board, the amenity of the station is a public good and rightfully belongs to the commons. • The council owns the tarmac that covers the surface of a road, but not the right to use that area of land as a road. • The Church of England owns the town's church building, but does not own the parishioners' belief in God and would be stealing from them if it denied them the use of the church for activities relating to the practice of Christianity. • A town park is the physical property of the local authority, but were it to permanently lock the gates of the park, it would be stealing from the residents. Furthermore, if it had acquired the park because the previous owner had bequeathed it "for the public good", as many parks have been, then it would also be violating the estate of the deceased.

Funily enough, theft of railroad stations is not uncommon. I know of two near me that were stolen at one point.

Bud managed to fit that in a bag

People usually steal whole railway lines, with the stations remaining. The opposite happened here.

Reminds me of that video with the amish guys moving a barn 💀

It’s a railway station. Train stations are an Americanism

A fascinating story, thanks for sharing ToT.

What were the locales doing? Couldn't they gave asked for the papers and permits?

0:35 you mispronounced the railway name: it’s really the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway or L&YR

Down right hilarious indeed! I can't think of any better way of describing it. Yeah, I think there are lessons to be learned here. Save your receipts, kids! And don't be afraid to conduct background checks.

Can't leave anything lying around these days.

Hey, wait a minute. Is this the same Reggie Sedgwick that started the Gawthope Coal Race?

Man actually got the job done but that ment nothing to the railway. They needed their mafia guy on the job. I despise those impotent pencil pushers.

Error in commentary, that should read - Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co.

Interesting story which I vaguely remember. Although I appreciate you say 'railway station' several times can you change the video title to '...railway station..'. as well?

Well.. the company legally hired saved some moneys and lost some moneys.. probably evened out..

0:35 : Shouldn't this be the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway?

It seems he never heard of the Brooklyn Bridge?

there was recent case close to where i live. someone stole a road leading to an old station

Sorry guys, my bad

Elementary, my dear Watson. Give me three weeks, I'll show you what I can do.

Well it was not like British Rail was using the station … so why not make a bit of money 😂

I´m sorry to be that late but... ...ENGERTH-LOCOMOTIVE!

I've Heard Of Cleckheaton Station

I would have got away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids and your talking dog

Ok but how does *one man* finish demolishing an already partially demolished train station in only three weeks?

So he saved BR a lot of money, and he was prosecuted for it?

So this is where Biharis learnt from...

For God sake should have hired sherlock Watson would have been close by

I want to make a sherlock holmes joke but I shan't

Beeching stole most of the railway

You like stealing stations don’t you - w-

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A STATION

Christ this bloke can put u to sleep

I don't know why people keep doing it they should know better than to take things that don't belong to them 0:54

yoink

Shouldve expanded it with galvanized square steal with screws frkm his aun and rxo freindly would venire 🤑

Why would you steal a house? Just why?

Why use that nasty Americanism TRAIN station?

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