Ted Martin Garden & Woodland Railway Farewell 1970-2019

Подписаться 2,2 тыс.

Просмотров 106 тыс.

50% 1

Four Years ago i visited the Late Edward Ted Martin's Garden Woodland Railway at Thame in Oxfordshire for a invitation to a private Steam event. This Year on November is my Second but Final Visit to this beautiful railway as they are hold their very last Steam gala event with almost of all of the ex-home fleet Locomotives and a couple of visiting engine from other railways.
So this video i have made it longer than my very first one back in 2015 to get as many footage of the action on the railway as i can.
Ex-Home Fleet:
- GWR Saint 2986 Robin Hood
- GWR King 6028 King George VI
- GWR 31xx Prairie 3151
Visitor:
- GWR Churchward 43xx 4330
- GWR 47xx 4701
- SR Bullied Q1
- Midland Railway Railmotor
- GWR Collett 14xx 1421 with Auto coach
- BR Standard Class 4MT Tank 80151
- BR Standard Class 9F 92184
- BR Standard Class 7MT Iron Duke
Through out the event i thoroughly enjoyed myself and it is sad to see this amazing railway to be no more.
Photo will be on Flickr soon, Link will be put down below
www.flickr.com/photos/1466472...
Like, Comment or Subscribe

Развлечения

Опубликовано:

10 ноя 2019

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 87

@cbcdesign001 4 года назад

Sad to hear it is closing but glad some of it will be saved. Those locos are absolutely stunning, engineering works of art.

@microbusss 4 года назад

I hope alot of the tracks, trains & buildings were saved & moved to new homes

@microbusss 3 года назад

@@x66Hawk66x true but I have seen pix of tracks like this left in place & abandoned

@steamsearcher 4 года назад

I got an invite to Alan Wilson's home from knowing him from School in about 1975. Got to know Keith and John Short who built boilers. I watched and learned and eventually built a lathe and milling machine for A level. Watching the home fleet being built as a teenager. I now have a super workshop and own 7 lathes and 2 mills. Many current projects mostly Re Design as my Degree and working life with University Students was in Design and working with machines. And yes the First lathe still works as does the kit built mill. We managed four visits over the years including two this year. And who had a battery fail in the camera!!! Such lovely people also visited and I borrowed a camera and transferred the card. So sad that so much work put into the railway can so easily be removed. But not from our memories. Love David and Lily.

@briankirk2995 3 года назад

This takes me back ...my father built the Princess Marina locomotive in his workshop. We had tracks going around our large garden!

@meester5565 4 года назад

What a wonderful people Ted and his wife must have been and a big thumbs up to all the community. Thanks for posting this and the professional job you made filming it. I didn't know of this unyil watching today but what a wonderful way to be remembered.

@krimskrams 4 года назад

this is one of those magnificent clips where you can slow the speed down to 0.75 to really hear some awesome train sounds like a full sized steam train. the mood and feel is just right!

@davidcann4329 4 года назад

What a shame, this was just so amazing. Glad to hear that much has been saved.

@steamsearcher 3 года назад

We enjoyed all of our many visits. I watched several of these being built during my teenage years. Went to School with the builders son. We are both still building them in workshops in our gardens. We both have lovely Girls who support our passions. David and Lily. 30 miles away from!!!

@machoneboard 4 года назад

The sheds and the architectural features along the track look amazing. A housing estate....

@wamgoc 4 года назад

So sad to hear of this Railways closing! At least you got it on video one last time!

@chriscars3578 4 года назад

What amazing set up love to see anything steam places like this should be saved not closed

@geordieceltic2 2 года назад

Wow. First time I have seen this video. What a fantastic set up. The shots of all those men sitting on the train takes was classic. Thank you for sharing.

@RanmoreCommonRailway 3 года назад

i lived in Thame for 7 years. Never knew about this gem. Lovely. Thanks for sharing.

@SimonTog 4 года назад

Very nice video, looks great :)

@coloursmoke 2 года назад

What an amazing place! beautiful. stunning locos :-)

@ewoodrailway 4 года назад

Absolutely brilliant , I've subbed

@djburland 4 года назад

Wonderful to see 👍

@stanleydomalewski8497 Год назад

WOW, I wish I could have been there at least once ! Great Video !

@victorgrasscourt3382 4 года назад

There should be fundraising to save this railway. Too unique to be destroyed

@nigel2093 4 года назад

Well Said Victor. It would be a travesty to let something as beautiful as this fade away forever.

@tomwheeler8728 4 года назад

Agreed and it is sad that the railway is gone for good

@anniemartin4483 3 года назад

The railway was closed and sold off for development because it was taken out of the hands of Ted's family and children. As his granddaughter, it is devastating to watch this footage knowing his legacy will not be shared with many due to the greed of a few. It's means a lot to see these comments and know the meaning this place had to so many people. Please know if it had been passed on to his children it would still be there today and in the hands of Ted's community, as he would have wanted.

@markfranklin4150 3 года назад

@@anniemartin4483 I had the great pleasure of visiting a number of times, reading this makes it all the more devastating to know what could have been.

@jimcarey9523 Год назад

What a Travesty. That would break my heart.

@sackvillebag 3 года назад

Gone the same way as much of British Rail did. lost forever but remains on film and in the memories of those who rode on it.

@kevp9601 3 года назад

I Love It a Lot.

@steveparadine1970 4 года назад

Most enjoyable, hope it all gets going elsewhere soon!

@riffraff7949 4 года назад

"Never overlook a little engine!"

@kevp9601 3 года назад

This is Awesome. :-D

@patrickinwood7538 4 года назад

A lovely railway. What a pity my stay in Moats Crescent was too short before ending up in York. The local Model Engineers have a growing 7 1/4 gauge railway.

@herecomethelizards2 3 года назад

The noise from GW tank and Q1 at 14.10. My friend Aidan used to visit here, wish I had gone along too. RIP Aidan and Ted's railway.

@dereketheridge4411 2 года назад

In reply to herecomethelizards2, did you know that Aidan built most of the infrastructure for the line? He would have been heartbroken to see his passion destroyed. He died 2018, a lovely bloke my best friend. RIP

@cameronknapp7315 3 года назад

I want this railway 🚃 to come back! I sure hope 🤞 it does someday. Who’s with me?

@ianturvey3894 4 года назад

I visited this line a few years ago with my late father, for a 7 1/4 Association gala and had the pleasure of meeting Ted Martin. We had a great day. I was so amazed by this wonderful railway. It’s a shame that it has come to an end but I have some video footage to remember that day.

@ichabodon 4 года назад

Never knew about this. So sad to be closing. H & S had a hand in there somewhere methinks

@kennethsrensen7706 4 года назад

I have never seen this before , didn't know it existing ( or existed ) Shame that they couldn't keep it running. Such things I think is worth save and protect so it can be there in the future. No matter if a kid , young or old this is something many people like and have great fun with. Not to mention all those building this amazing mini world. Shame this wasn't saved.

@EHSteamVideos 4 года назад

Yes it is a shame that the whole railway couldn't be saved but the great news is that the track, building structure, rolling stock and Locomotive have been saved and some have gone to different owners. :)

@Gyokuro_Ch.4801 2 года назад

@@EHSteamVideos, I didn't know that. :0

@TheMisterTibbles 2 года назад

That SR Q1 class loco looks fantastic! (not saying the others aren't it's just the SR Q1 is my favourite loco haha)

@A14b19 4 года назад

WoWwww

@Frankestein01nl 4 года назад

@14,29, a perfectly timed miniature twig sticking out, slapping everyone in the face. What a perfect little railroad, just wow. Thanks for putting this on video, very delightful.

@bewseybill3691 3 года назад

Very Sad but nothing surprises me in this country when it comes to railway, Seems the ghost of Beeching is still with us.

@southwesttrainspotter2987 3 года назад

Nice vid I was there

@frankdusty 3 года назад

My mate done some work for the late Ted Martin he done all the brickwork for the signalbox and we visited it later on what a great railway that was shame no one else could take it on, he had modelled the loco shed on the one at Didcot . He had all the rolling stock that you could ride on Great shame last I heard they was going to build houses on the spot.

@karljones4321 3 года назад

£10k plus worth of kit Bering wheeled out of a van onto some rickity track balanced on some blocks 🤣

@davebambrook7745 Год назад

Wow I remember delivering the coal here for ted anthracite beans if I remember correctly

@trainking7973 2 года назад

Bro I'm jealous

@johnboughton7451 4 года назад

They should have “Crowd Funded” this property and turned into a charity so many possibilities lost to the digger such a great shame

@trainboyvlogs721 4 года назад

Are they going to keep the track, locos and rolling stock?

@leegray4999 4 года назад

Why is it no more and what happened to all the RR features ? It would be a shame if it just got sub divided !

@guymorris8617 4 года назад

What a tragedy to see and hear about as that is an amazing legacy to lose albeit prototypical of railways ending up with housing estates being built across them! Shame a railway enthusiast didn't buy the house it would have been a perfect partnership. May the Phoenix rise

@TLZgaming 4 года назад

Hi Guy, so the reason for the closure was from the sale of the house and the grounds the layout sits in?

@tonyclough9844 4 года назад

Its just build houses more houses where do all these people work Where I live all the engineering works have houses built on them

@TLZgaming 4 года назад

@@tonyclough9844 such a shame

@paullubliner6221 4 года назад

Very sad indeed.

@imagentleman8 4 года назад

Why was this railway closed down?

@abloogywoogywoo 4 года назад

The land is being sold off to developers. Housing estates most probably, ironically the death of many railways.

@karelmarkvart1517 4 года назад

@@abloogywoogywoo ironically, keepint this railway will make living there much more desirable... imagine young kids after seeint this in their maybe future neighbourhood...

@tominnis8353 4 года назад

What a crying shame that this couldn't have been preserved in its entirety. Ungrateful children! Was it ever open to the public?

@EHSteamVideos 4 года назад

It's was a private event

@Ink2Image 3 года назад

I am Ted's son and just so you know, his children had no hand in this. My father unfortunately left all this to his third wife, who then left it to her son. They are the ones responsible for destroying his legacy, not his children.

@tominnis8353 3 года назад

@@Ink2Image Please accept my sincere apologies for jumping to conclusions.

@billymule961 4 года назад

Sad to see something so unique to be destroyed. I imagine the taxes on the property are appalling. Better to build multiple housing units and a mosque I suppose.

@EHSteamVideos 4 года назад

Yes it is a shame but the great news is that the track, building structure, rolling stock and Locomotive have been saved and some have gone to different owners. :)

@billymule961 3 года назад

@@martinr1834 Well, there goes the neighborhood.

@joncoe9046 3 года назад

Absolutely gutting its closed. Such a well attended railway by looking at it. Too many of these little lines are all going the same way and soon there'll be nothing like this left.... all buried under housing estates while the developers fill their pockets 😡

@burtonfootballer5408 3 года назад

SO IS THERE AN UPDATE ON THIS. WAS IT SAVED??

@Gyokuro_Ch.4801 2 года назад

Unfortunately, no. :(

@rexxthunder 4 года назад

Where is this?!?! Those people are HUGE!!!

@radic888 4 года назад

Either that, or those trains are really small.😯

@slobama 4 года назад

It doesn't seem right that people are riding/sitting on these trains. It takes away from seeing such a great achievement.

@TheDelticMan 2 года назад

What guage is this?

@thestolenmhrproperty2102 3 года назад

Are these 7 1/4 Gauge trains?

@EHSteamVideos 3 года назад

Yes the Locomotive and rolling Stock are indeed 7 1/4 inch Gauge

@thestolenmhrproperty2102 3 года назад

@@EHSteamVideos Also in video, I noticed the Midland Railway Rail motor used to be in fact my grandfather's, before he sold it it because of cancer. 😥😥😥

@thestolenmhrproperty2102 3 года назад

So that Kinda answers my question if that was my old Grandad's Rail motor

@benjima100 3 года назад

what gauge railway is this?

@EHSteamVideos 3 года назад

7 1/4 Inch Gauge Mate

@thomastsangthomas1616 4 года назад

Wait! There are no woman driving those steam locomotive?!

@Georgeconna32 4 года назад

The fella getting in front of all the shots what a pillock, Sad to see this all being bulldozed. The whole of England will end up as a housing estate. No doubt lots free housing for our African friends.