Rediscovering the Bedford to Northampton Line

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A journey to see what remains and what there is to rediscover of the Bedford to Northampton railway, fifty-six years since the withdrawal of passenger services.
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Music
- Chopin Frederic. Piano Concerto No.1 In E Minor, Op.11: 2. Romance (Larghetto) - Krystian Zimerman
Station Photographs
- Bedford (Midland Road) - Ben Brooksbank - www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1777076
- Turvey - The Turvey Website - www.turveybeds.com/railwaystat...
- Olney - Olney & District Historical Society - www.mkheritage.org.uk/odhs/art...
- Piddington - Paul Fuller
- Northampton St. John’s Street - ‘Life and the Railway’ - lifeandtherailway.yolasite.co...
- Northampton Bridge Street - www.disused-stations.org.uk
- Northampton Castle - I could not find an adequate citation and would welcome correct information
Further Information
- Bedford to Northampton Line - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford...
- English Regional transport Association - A site dedicated to reopening the railway between the two county towns - ertarail.com/bedford-northamp...

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@benbisley 5 лет назад

Evocative and nostalgic. The Castle pub in Bedford had a cast iron Midland Railway sign from the Northampton Bay of Bedford station on the wall of the public bar. The pub was apparently a favourite of the railway staff who donated the sign to the landlord.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

Thank you for saying so! I wonder if that signs is still there, or its whereabouts are...?

@benbisley 5 лет назад

I believe the landlord removed it when he retired. I don't know where it is now. (He should have left it in the pub: it was quite a feature.)

@gv-k4f7g5b9 3 года назад

Thanks for posting. i remember back in 1998 driving into Northampton along the A508 Cotton End (right next to the Asda and near the Old White Hart pub) and you sometimes had to wait at the level crossing to let the freight trains pass. If you go to google maps and change the view to Street View and change the timeline back to the earliest point which is April 2009 you can see the rail line running across the road. Thanks once again.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

My pleasure and thank you for your memories of this line 🙂

@andybunyan649 6 лет назад

Excellent work - I discovered a mystique about forgotten lines once I moved from London to Bedfordshire. Fascinating and sad at the same time.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

Andy Bunyan as you can tell, lost railways have become an addiction of mine! Thanks for your comment.

@marilynporter4392 3 года назад

Thanks so much for this. I used to live in Northampton and now live in Belgium and frequently visit Turvey Abbey, in normal times. I really enjoyed revisiting the countryside.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Some really lovely countryside on this route!

@sukhibhogal1532 2 года назад

What a fantastic video with great editing and scenery. I used to live close to the old St Johns station and would pass it nearly every day when walking to school back in the seventies. Happy memories indeed.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 2 года назад

Really glad you enjoyed the film. Do subscribe if you've not already done so and enjoy my other films in the series!

@themightywhoosh123 5 лет назад

Really interesting. I remember MOD trains making it as far as Piddington during the 1970’s.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

Glad you enjoyed the film. The military railway is a particularly fascinating element of this branch.

@johnsharp8632 Год назад

Would have been a very scenic cross-country journey which you have brilliantly brought back to life. The station buildings on this were of a substantial nature and very fine indeed. I notice that one has been demolished to be replaced by a very uninspired new build. The current Northampton Station looks an eyesore.

@RediscoveringLostRailways Год назад

It really was one of the most delightful routes I've had the pleasure of exploring!

@MrMoley55 6 лет назад

What a wonderful video !! Keep up the great work - so enjoyable to watch. Thank you

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

I certainly will keep it up - next film will be out in August - thank you for your kind comment.

@Northampton1960 4 года назад

A nostalgic ramble through my old back yard. Many fond memories here from the 1960s; those were the days. I really enjoyed your 4-part homage to the Great Central Railway, too. Thanks for posting.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Thank you very much for your kind words about my films, I'm glad you find them evocative.

@siddywiddyb 3 года назад

What a Brilliant video! I've alway's looked at that piece of track emerging from Northampton and wondered where it used to go to!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

Many thanks indeed - so glad you enjoyed the film!

@18matchless 3 года назад

Not only did the emerging track you mention got to Bedford but also to Blisworth, Wellingborough London Road and Midland Stations and also Peterborough East

@siddywiddyb 3 года назад

@@18matchless wow! thank you

@orkneyancestor2059 5 лет назад

This is a form of enjoyable sadness.Such a waste of many years of very good workmanship,with no forward thinking. Thank you.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

Thanks for your comment. Do subscribe if you've not already done so and enjoy my other films in the series.

@angloaust1575 2 года назад

Having lived in northampton upto 1956 one remembers the steam era Father was a goods guard on the railway until we migrated to australia!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 2 года назад

Wonderful memories! It certainly looks like it was a delightful line!

@peterbaxter2913 6 лет назад

As usual, a brilliant, evocative piece of film. Atmospheric music only serves to enhance it, and I shall watch it over and over. Thank you!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

You're very kind to say so. I'm glad it has brought (and will continue to bring) some enjoyment.

@alicebridge3489 5 лет назад

Can only agree with the above, just lovely

@plutocast3637 4 года назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I believe I have found one of the old bridges over the waterways/nene today, in between midsummer meadow and brackmills.. what a find!

@hojomo 6 лет назад

Thank you! A superb record of this long lost line - now you've shown it off I'm keen to come & discover for myself! Will certainly share @4RailTrail

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

Howard Moorey Thank you ever so much for your comment and for sharing the film

@christinaburton9297 2 года назад

I love these best with the poignant music.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 2 года назад

I completely understand - the music is delightful!

@ggfergy 2 года назад

Great video. Just wanted to add if you're leaving olney on the Yardley Road, there are still some existing bridge supports as the road snakes by the chevrons.

@RediscoveringLostRailways Год назад

Many thanks indeed. Glad you enjoyed the film!

@ccjelley2390 4 года назад

Fantastic research. I just remember the 4F 0-6-0s [as in the freight train shot] sitting in the bay platform at Bedford Midland with their short trains to Northampton, circa 1961.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

How I would've loved to have seen that!

@richardeblack 4 года назад

I lived in Harrold and, later on, Clapham and used to walk my dogs and sometimes cycle to work at Cranfield along the Stevington section. I was very sad to see the state of Skylark Cottage. I really wanted to buy that in the 80s but there was no access to it. It would have been an idyllic spot and perfect for a little tea stop. So sad to see it falling down. Another lovely relaxing and educational video beautifully researched and executed. Thank you very much.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Thank you for your memories of this line. I can imagine that many would like to own that cottage even in its present state! It certainly is beautiful as is the countryside through which this railway travelled.

@1258-Eckhart 6 лет назад

Excellent research and commentaries, thanks so much. Maybe we can look forward to seeing at least parts of the railway operational again!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

Marcomanseckisax Thank you very much!

@peebee143 6 лет назад

Another cracking video! Thank you.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

peebee143 My pleasure! Thanks for your comment.

@billburnhope2176 5 лет назад

I have a confession to make! As a resident of Hardingstone, Northampton, I had been accepted for immigration as a ten pound Pom to Australia. I was due to sail in February from Tilbury to Melbourne, but didn’t have enough money, so was put off until May. I got a temporary job with a demolition company destroying , guess what? St. John’s street station. It was a lovely old building and I had no idea what I was destroying. Curses. I was only 20 at the time!The last day I worked was on dismantling the platform. I travelled on the Castle Station to Bedford a few times, but Never from St Johns, this station had been a casualty to to the bridge that crossed the road down to the Plough Inn. It was a low bridge and stopped the United Counties double decker buses from passing. So they closed the station and demolished the bridge. Seeing this film has revised a lot of memories. So much actually survives.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

What an extraordinary story! Thanks for sharing it. It looked like it was a beautiful building. Glad the film evoked memories for you. Do subscribe and see my other films in the series.

@andrewholloway231 6 лет назад

Thank you very much for a superb video. Brilliant work as always. I find these series of films fascinating and I look forward to the next one.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

Thanks ever so much Andrew. I think that this one is up there with the Buntingfor Branch line in terms of pastoral beauty. Next one will be out in August...and from another part of the country...thanks again!

@soundnicetome 6 лет назад

Another great episode of railway history....really enjoying your efforts,thanks again.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

soundnicetome Thank you very much for saying so. The beauty of the landscape (and the good weather) makes this line just as attractive as the Buntingford branch. More to come later this summer!

@jaundicedoutlook7247 6 лет назад

Champion stuff. Thanks again for another great video.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

My pleasure - glad you enjoyed it - more to come later this summer. Thanks again.

@pwhitewick 6 лет назад

Another great video. It's clear to see the work that goes into them.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

pwhitewick Thanks ever so much. They're a delight to make and I'm glad you enjoy them.

@rogerbrady1578 3 года назад

I was born near the line at Clifton Reynes and after the war rail carriages were stored on the double track and remember exploring them in the 50s. I travelled from Northampton to Olney in 1961 months before the closure. One day I think it will run again. I can at least hope.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

Many thanks for your evocative memories of this delightful line!

@stephenharper9961 6 лет назад

Another fantastic video!! Love the amount of research and passion that you give to the videos you make

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

Very kind of you to say so. Each film I make causes me to become a little bit obsessive - I think that comes through in the films! Next film will be out in August.

@stephenharper9961 6 лет назад

Rediscovering Lost Railways major plus though as it needs more people to show the old railway lines to remember and educate the next generation

@stephenclark2662 4 года назад

There is an incredibly beautiful bridge just to the west of Hungary Hall near Weston Underwood. I managed to take some photos of it some years ago - if only I remembered where I filed them!

@johnthatcher4534 3 года назад

Very enjoyable, thank you, and the choice of music is excellent and really enhances the visuals.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

Thank you very much! So glad you enjoyed the film!

@tracya4087 3 года назад

that was lovely . my late grandfather was a signalman and a keen pianist too , so that went together very well , just wish i would have had the time to ask him all the questions that i now want to ask . i tell my wife that he was just like john le mesurier because he was very kind and gentile . i love every one of your films because you get it just right , all the very best from wigan lancashire

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

Thank you for your kind words and thoughtful remarks. A lesson for us all to stay close to our nearest and dearest!

@tracya4087 3 года назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways yes . i know in my late forties that i found my peace at the railway . i do remember my gran telling me that she used to love waving at that handsome man up in that signabox . so much so she walked into a lampost .

@richardwestwell4902 5 лет назад

Great video. Thanks for posting. Pity so much of Britain's great railway system was destroyed by short sighted politicians.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

Thank you! Do subscribe and watch my other films in the series.

@richardwestwell4902 5 лет назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I have been watching all your videos and subscribed a while ago. There is a lost railway in Hampshire. The old L.& S.W.R. original mainline from Brockenhurst to Bournemouth via Ringwood. Perhaps you would consider making a video? There was also a line from Christchurch to Ringwood but you would be hard pushed to find any trace of it.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

Always happy to accept recommendations - some of the films of which I am most pleased have come about owing to subscribers giving me their ideas. I will certainly do some research into this and thank you for supporting my channel.

@richardwestwell4902 5 лет назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways If it helps your research as far as I recall the stations were Holmsley, Ringwood, Ashley Heath, West Moors, Wimborne, Broadstone and Bournemouth. Bournemouth had 2 stations, Bournemouth Central and Bournemouth West.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 4 года назад

richard westwell could you please tell me what the lottery numbers will be on Easter Saturday 2020? Come on it's only a year away! You can't? Then how do you expect politicians to know what will be needed in 10, 20 or 50 years time? Branch lines like this first lost passengers to buses which went from the centres of the villages, whilst the railway station may not even be in the village (for example Kimbolton station was 2 miles from Kimbolton village, the station served the public school there) and then to cars, which also took the passengers away from the buses. In addition to this business shifted from the railways to roads to send their goods. Why, because they suffered fewer strike delays and the speed of delivery was comparable; but mainly because it was cheaper to send them door to door, especially with in the early post-WW1 and post-WW2 periods there were lots of war surplus lorries and men who could drive them (more so after WW2). The railways in the 1950s were in the same place the canals were in in the 1920s. It wasn't the railways that killed off the canals but the war surplus lorries.

@levelcrossing150 3 года назад

Lovely, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

Many thanks indeed!

@michaelpilling9659 4 года назад

An excellent film. Beautiful countryside to travel through. I wonder what happened to the Stevington and Turvey Light Railway? I will have to investigate.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Thank you! The railway moved to a local safari park I believe after suffering theft and vandalism, but I could be wrong!

@tonymulhall9573 5 лет назад

fantastic video

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

Very kind of you to say so. It was a pleasure to make and a lovely rural line to explore. Do subscribe and watch my other films in the series if you've not already done so!

@SexyButterPeanut 4 года назад

Great video, I lived In Northampton and walked my dog alongside the railway near brackmills. I also lived near bridge street station + line I remember that day the old signal box at the crossing was destroyed by arsonists

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed the film. What a ghastly thing to do, burning it down like that!

@SexyButterPeanut 4 года назад

I'm amazed how much of the station buildings + sheds remain

@HenrysAdventures 3 года назад

Another great video! I'd love to see this one reopened!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

There was some beautiful countryside here to enjoy, it would be lovely to go by train!

@davidjones3758 5 лет назад

Please keep up the good work,these films are very enjoyable,if poss do more

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

I have already filmed three over the summer which are going to be released every couple of months, the first being in October. This is so I can focus on making my biggest project to date...and never fear, with so many disused railways there's more than I can film in a lifetime! I'm glad you're enjoying them.

@philclennell 3 года назад

I do miss the music of the english pastoral movement accompanying this fine video. I love to lay back and listen to RVW and I imagine those magnificent but gaunt signal gantries standing proud against the bleak fenland scenery, among other marvellous relics you've discovered! Sadly there are only so many pieces to go round I suppose!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

I know how you feel about the music, but you're spot on when you say there are so many pieces of that kind - that and the fact they almost inevitably mean I have to attach adverts to my films - but your poetry is not lost on me at all and I share your sentiments 🙂

@railwaychristina3192 Год назад

Love this one

@RediscoveringLostRailways Год назад

Might have to remake this to a higher standard!

@railwaychristina3192 Год назад

@Rediscovering Lost Railways oh no it's perfect, that lovely countryside matching the Romantic era music!

@gryff8400 Год назад

I remember a loco coming up out of the Brackmills spur into Northampton station in the 1990s. The MOD had a place to keep (chemical/biological allegedly) weapons way down the end of the line in a forest. Going north out of Northampton was the line to Market Harborough - closed in 1981.

@RediscoveringLostRailways Год назад

Many thanks for your memories!

@DJWerkz Год назад

When I visited Olney in April 2022 there had been a lot of new housing development around the old track bed leading out of the town especially around the Yardley Road area. For years the old bridge abutments could be seen on Yardley Road but it looks like these have been removed as part of the development of the area.

@RediscoveringLostRailways Год назад

Thanks for the update RE the area. I was surprised anything was there when I filmed!

@atomiswave1971 3 года назад

I would like it reinstated at some point. Bedford and Northampton have few connections but Bedford is far worse being so far from any east west traffic.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

It certainly passes through some delightful countryside!

@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS 2 года назад

most enjoyable thank you

@RediscoveringLostRailways 2 года назад

Some fine countryside in this film - glad to hear you enjoyed it!

@robturner3065 4 года назад

Very enjoyable, regarding Bridge street 11:25 the track remains intact all the way to Northampton station from here, it was still visible in the road at the Bridge street crossing until about 2015 but has since been surfaced over. At this time also the signal box sadly burnt down although an adjacent building survives as a scrap metal dealer. I worked at an engineering company near Bridge street on the site of the old goods yard, formerly they made tractor cabs which were loaded onto trains in the yard as late as 2001. When i was there the track still ran through the yard. Deep in the heart of the now metal-clad building is a small Victorian workshop structure, much extended. The track also survived east of Bridge street as it served the demolished Power station.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Really glad you enjoyed the film and thank you for your insights regarding the railway's presence in Northampton - it was a wonderful line to explore!

@peebee143 4 года назад

I am a member of a Heritage Railway, we once had a Chairman whose Father used to work the box at Ravenstone Wood Jct. Apparently it was in the middle of nowhere.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Having visited the site of the signal box I can vouch for that! Of which heritage railway are you a member?

@peebee143 4 года назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I'm a member at Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough. Have been a member since 1980.

@laurencegregory6574 3 года назад

Yes I have a photo of the signal box somewhere...

@johnwebster3224 3 года назад

I travelled on that line just once - en route from Cardington to Bridgnorth as a raw RAF recruit. I remember the loco was a 4F 0-6-0 from Cardington to Northampton Castle and a Black Five from Castle to Shrewsbury via Stafford. A prairie took us from Shrewsbury to Bridgnorth. Strange how you can remember things from 1955 and can't remember much from last week!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

Just so! But I'm glad you can remember these fine details, it is so wonderful to hear them as they really bring these old lines to life!

@rogerfrancis465 4 года назад

as a boy train spotter living in Bedford I rode this line a few times.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

The countryside between the two termini is just stunning!

@rubyait 4 года назад

Good vicdeo. I live along a discontinued railway that has been turned into a recreational trail. I road the last train out about 1985. Freight.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Thank you! Where's the lost railway you live next to?

@rubyait 4 года назад

Rediscovering Lost Railways Ha ha. In Maine. I can just remember steam trains, and passenger service is dim, but Amtrak has brought some back. I live in Farmington, and the line branched at Leeds Maine!) went to Livermore Falls, Jay, branched to Wilton, West Farmington (in sight of my house) and crossed the river to its terminal in Farmington. I road the last freighter out of Farmington, got dropped off behind my house, and observed the removal of the rails within weeks. Now the other side of my house has a truck route, the tracks having been made into a recreational trail. Thanks for asking.

@michaelpilling9659 4 года назад

The Stevington and Turvey Light Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge light railway on the outskirts of the village of Turvey in Bedfordshire, England. It was about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) long. The railway was formed in the early 1980s by former members of The Surrey Light Railway which was based in Hersham, Surrey. The railway was established on the former track bed of the Bedford to Northampton Line. The main signal box on the line was named Needham, and contains a 31 lever Westinghouse 'L' frame which originally came from Battersea Park Signal box. The line closed in 2014, with the operations moving to Woburn.[1]

@ldb281 4 года назад

i think the station at Olney was still there in a delapidated state around late 70s. I see its gone completely surrounded by houses.what was good about it is that it was right in the town unlike some where passengers would have to walk a mile.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Yes, I think they'd like the station to still be there today!

@robturner3065 4 года назад

It also served the spark plug factory (Lodge plugs or KLG I don't remember which)

@PaulBaird 4 года назад

My only criticism was at Great Houghton you seemed to gloss over some bits eg the two bridges and the section out to Lodge Road. I used to work in Brackmills and would often walk around the country park and Great Houghton.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

I'll accept that criticism, it was a long day's filming!

@sturmtigerking4263 6 лет назад

You should discover the great central

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

Yes, now that would be a big project worth doing!

@theglumrant9477 4 года назад

My farmhouse in Stevington is littered with building materials obviously “purloined” from the railway company...engineering bricks, gates and huge platform paving slabs. I imagine the slabs were bought from the auction at Turvey Station in the early 70s but the other bits must’ve come off the “back of a lorry” from 1872 on...

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

I'd love to see these - I imagine this is a story repeated up and down the country, where properties abutted closed railway lines.

@theglumrant9477 4 года назад

Rediscovering Lost Railways No problem

@JalanBax 4 года назад

We live in Harrold near the old line, we have walked on it in the past.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

It is a beautiful line to explore!

@JalanBax 4 года назад

The stations: Bedford Turvey Olney Piddington St John’s Street until 1939 Bridge Street and Castle 1939 until closure

@stephengray9432 5 лет назад

Very sad. If only they didn't lift the track and mothballed it we may still be able to reopen it.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

Yes, it is a shame. It passed through some lovely countryside!

@microbusss 5 лет назад

what is a Platelayer's & Fogman's Huts? these track beds I would mow & let people walk them

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

It would be used as a shelter or a place for storing equipment used for servicing sections of railway.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

A fogman's hut sheltered men with lamps during very foggy days in order to ensure trains were clear about the state of the route ahead (I believe...)

@bingo99aa 6 лет назад

that Beeching fellow has a lot to answer for! Look forward to seeing more of these fascinating documentaries! Perhaps other contributors in other regions of the UK could do something similar!

@RediscoveringLostRailways 6 лет назад

dick tater Yes agreed! More to come in the next few weeks, so do subscribe if you have not done so already!

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 5 лет назад

dick tater yes, like saving Britain's railways by removing unneccessary duplication of routes and uneconomic routes, the introduction of the MGR coal trains and Freighliner.

@billburnhope2176 5 лет назад

Neil Dahlgaard-Sigsworth , sorry you seem to have missed the point, Beeching is a history lesson you should study. It has now been acknowledged that he made a lot of destructive mistakes in the rush to road transport.

@DJWerkz 4 года назад

I am from Olney but live in the USA now. The old Olney station was a bay type I think, wasn’t there a turntable there at some point too? Olney also used to serve the Newport Pagnell and Wolverton line too. The picture of the house in your video where the station used to be does not look correct though, I could be wrong but we were always pointed to a different location in the area

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

You may well be correct in all you say. I found it very hard to find a good photo of the station and its surroundings, but as a resident you are likely to know better than me!

@DJWerkz 4 года назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways A good resource would be the Olney model railway club as I think they could give you lots of history. I grew up in Norwich as a kid, do you have anything on the old City Station (now a retail park)?

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

@@DJWerkz alas, no I don't but Norwich is on my list of cities with many lost stations!

@laurencegregory6574 3 года назад

Olney station was a two track through station, with goods sidings on the north side of the alignment. Yes , there was also a turntable in the sidings . I remember playing on it as a kid.

@laurencegregory6574 3 года назад

Olney did not serve Newport Pagnell , unfortunately. The line from Newport Pagnell was under construction but the company ran out of money as it reached where Emberton Park is now. The end of the single track embankment meant is still there, where the bird watching tower is

@chrismccartney8668 3 года назад

Another line closed by short sighted politicians town around London can only accessed by going into London these cross country routes would allow development to be spread out and have decent transport links.. Three place lost rsilways but grew greatly and now cut off Railway North Weald and Ongar Maldon Essex Dunmow

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

Yes it is such a shame that these cross country routes were ripped up. This line passed through some beautiful countryside!

@stevealibone 4 года назад

wonderful film ......Beeching was probably correct at the time ..but how we could do with some of these lines open now

@RediscoveringLostRailways 4 года назад

Really glad you enjoyed it. Do subscribe if you've not already done so and enjoy my other films in the series.

@ryanhall4083 5 лет назад

Nice Video! How much of the track could be traveled by mountain bike do you think? I was thinking about trying to ride it one day if its not too overgrown.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

There certainly are portions that can be cycled (not continuously) between Bedford and Olney, less so between Olney and Northampton save for a few stretches. There really is some delightful countryside to admire.

@ryanhall4083 5 лет назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways thanks for the reply.

@laurencegregory6574 3 года назад

As a teenager in the 70's and living in Olney we used to ride old motorbikes up the track bed towards Bedford, that was before the houses were built and the river bridge was intact. Happy days. Also used to sit under the river bridge on the stone support structures, play in the old station buildings. My father rescued a young boy from drowning under that bridge and received some kind of queens commendation for it. West towards Northampton we used to spend our summer holidays in a platelayers hut , made a den out of it. Oh, such fond days...

@raylooney1788 3 года назад

Hello. How would I walk from Turvey to the bridge a mile later? An excellent video.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 3 года назад

I don't think it is possible to do so, I got the bridge by driving to it and scaling the embankment. Really glad you enjoyed the film!

@raylooney1788 3 года назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways really good thanks for uploading

@timothysmith8300 5 лет назад

what great idea at laying track at pidding ton if any help needed just say.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

If I owned an ex-station, I would do just what the owners of Piddington did!

@alanaldis3177 Год назад

I thought there was once a station at Oakley???

@RediscoveringLostRailways Год назад

Pass, not in this line I don't think but I stand to be corrected

@alanaldis3177 Год назад

Thanks. May be it was a siding of sorts because I remember walking at that spot and I'm sure there was evidence of a small platform

@kevlandy 5 лет назад

What are platelayers and fogmen?

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

Platelayers were those who attended to track maintenance (among other associated duties). Less certain about fogmen - I think this was a role fulfilled by a variety of staff, but on days when there was a pea-souper, such men would be sent along the track to provide additional signalling to drivers.

@kevlandy 5 лет назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways Thanks for the info! ;-), I;m enjoying your vids. I have a lost railway near to me that one day I'll explore.....

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

@@kevlandy I'm so glad you're enjoying them! Do subscribe so you don't miss out. May I ask you what the disused railway near you is?

@kevlandy 5 лет назад

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I think it's the old GCR Leicester to Rugby line, It runs from Lutterworth to Leicester, and runs right alongside the M1 Northbound between J20 & J21, I'd really like to try and walk it one day

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

@@kevlandy in which case it may please you to learn that I was there a couple of weeks ago filming that line. I'll be uploading it in a couple of months time!

@timothysmith8300 5 лет назад

what a disgrace that fish tank of a station should have left the original beutifull station that was built before the cow sheds. bring back steam NOW GET RID OF ALL ELECTRICS NOW.

@RediscoveringLostRailways 5 лет назад

There's certainly nothing on the rails as romantic as steam!

@billburnhope2176 5 лет назад

Timothy Smith , I agree, mind you Northampton Town council aren’t known for being sympathetic to old buildings, they destroyed so much in the 60,sand 70,s. The town is an eye saw, I lived there until emigrating to Australia in 1960.. see above to my contribution in helping destroy St Johns street station.

@robturner3065 4 года назад

@@billburnhope2176 Northampton would break your heart now. Castle station is the third on this sight, it is an improvement on the BR station they demolished about 5 years ago though