This is a remake of Part 2 using some original, but mainly new footage. This video includes Coalport and Linley Stations which were missing on the original video. There are also extra pictures and aerial photographs in this edition.
Brilliantly done Sir,well filmed and excellent commentary that has enable me to follow your route using the Ordnance Survey option on an online map!! I hadn't realised there were so many forges and foundries scattered up the valley - however remote it was once very industrial. Thank you so much for this have enjoyed very much indeed!!
Great to see so much of the line is pretty much intact. Most certainly would be fantastic to see trains running back up to Ironbridge again. On the face of it not too many obstacles to overcome, compared with a lot of other preserved lines that are trying to reinstate former routes. Hope it happens one day, i for one would love to travel along it.
My grandad (1940-2013) wrote a poem about this line and what he remembered of it as a lad in the 1940s/1950s. I would love to get it signposted at Bridgnorth.
Great vid, good bit of “Detective” work as well finding these old station sites on this line, I followed this line a few years ago and tried to find some stations, didn’t get as far as you have and I wondered where the railway went from Linley half into Bridgnorth, very interesting! Hopefully one day the railway may just reach Ironbridge!
Thank you. Excellent. What a crying shame that the Severn Valley Railway can't reopen this section. Ironbridge would make a perfect terminus. They could probably even get a government grant now and place the work in the hands of contractors . . . .
Agreed it does seem mad - the video is exactly what it says it is in the title, and very well done too, I can only assume they have no interest in the SVR, well then why watch? If you know its not your cup of tea, don't bother then you wont have to be annoying and thumbs done a very well made and fascinating video
Amazing Holden, thoroughly enjoyed your video and delivery, great guest appearance by you too, a fellow film maker. I am looking forward to viewing more of your films.
good commentary from you mate I went to bridgnorth and I saw the remains of the bridge that use to carry trains towards Shrewsbury until beeching cuts of 1963 in September
Great video - I rode the SVR on a date with a girlfriend in about 1973. Glad you have looked after the place since then. It would have been interesting to see a map overlay of the rail route out of Shrewsbury in part 1 as I had trouble following exactly where the route went. The use of the maps in part 2 was helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Your videos are wonderful. Linley station is beautiful. I watched a very interesting programme recently about the Benching cuts..........interestingly, it stated that 2900 stations were closed before Beeching ......which ties in with some of the facts in your other videos, sidings closures etc. Please take a trip to Glasgow if you can. We have a lot if evidence of old lines.
Excellent video! Thanks for putting in the hard graft to make it. I always wondered what was left after Bridgnorth but never had the time to look. Steam trains to Ironbridge would be nice. 😊
pleased 😌 you have done a remake from Ironbridge to Bridgenorth, note I have spelt Bridgenorth as it was when the railway first came, I was born in this town. all the best Peter
I imagine the number 1 hurdle here would be the missing bridge (!) from the back of Bridgnorth station over towards Linley, then appeasing the golf club and the residents of the current old railway stations to entertain traffic coming through their back garden, however if it simply went direct to Coalport then a bus service to the Iron Bridge Gorge Museum would be mutually beneficial for all involved.
Thanks so much for this excellent video, I wonder if you could help me because I was in the RAF 1954 and my first camp for 2 months was RAF Bridgenorth I can't remember but what was the line like from Shrewsbury to Bridgenorth at that time it just brings back so many memories thanks again for this video
the line would most likely best served in the gorge area . it would have to be a seprate entity unless someone could get your goernment to move houses , etc. im sure thered be a lot of oposition to that . we have several linse like that in the usa . one denver and silverton owned by the state of colorado and the denver and rio chma which was at one time the same railway. once connected and most of the lineside is lost due to time.
After viewing this, it honestly doesn't look like it would take much to restore the line. Rebuilding the bridges, reopening tunnels and building crossings would be easy. The most difficult part would be the private houses. Convincing them to move to brand new houses nearby would be my play, but that would prove difficult. But overall, nothing too obstructive. Not like the Churnet Valley line which has the JCB HQ right over the line among other things. I'd certainly try for it.
Great Video.Nice to see so much of the line still exists. It would indeed be wonderful to see Steam trains running from Ironbridge To Bridgnorth. So sad that these old lines were closed.
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They couldn't make money from the lines back then so how could they now? The people living near the line would not want noisy polluting steam trains in their back yards.
Of course there is no way the line will ever be re-instated from Ironbridge to Bridgnorth, from Ironbridge south, the land is suffering from rotational slips, the soggy ground is making its way to the Severn, a problem the GWR had yonks ago, you will need a bridge to get from the western tunnel mouth to Bridgnorth station, this was taken out decades ago because of the low height restriction. Also approaching Bridgnorth tunnel mouth, the trackbed is now a road through a housing estate. Who would pay for this anyway, who would look after the permanent way, the SVR have more than enough on their plate for the existing mileage. A new station with run round, would have to be built on the car park at Ironbridge, not to mention an engine house and space for stabling a set of carriages for the first train out, oh and a signal box, or at least a ground frame, then crossing gates need to be operated along the line, it will never happen, so just enjoy this lovely film, dream a bit, press the like button as I have.
SVR Would have to aquire alot of land,including the golf club.Bridges need to be built......too big a project to be realised,when the Railway is short of funds anyway.......
This is so sad i live close to the line at dolgellau to barmouth and to wrexham it was cut by beeching in 65 all these lines were cut by beeching and he was a bastard hes got a lot to answer for when i go to barmouth or wrexham and see the used lines imvin tears the lines will never be put back its just passed mems to treasure and live on beeching tried to cut the camhrian line but he did not win
