Fascinating presentation of this lost line, one of the rarer ones in the West Midlands and amazing to see so much track still in situ. Let's hope Andy Street is as good as his word!
I walked my dog along the track between walsall and brownhills just days after the trains were stopped in March 1984. All the semaphore signals and boxes were gone.
I still cycle along that path back of Rycroft cemetery across Harden road where the Rushall sighal box used to be all the way up to Pelsall. I bought a house on the McLean estate that was built where Pelsall sidings used to be be. The roads are named after locomotive class. I lived in Excelsior Grove. There was Enterprise Close as well. The others I can't remember. My house was right to the disused line which became the cycle track run by sustrans. We lived there 15 years but my ex wanted to leave when the rumors that the track was being reinstalled was rife. We left and 30 years later it still hasn't happened don't think it ever will. Gteat video. 👍 I ride the McLean way at least twice a week. It takes you right into Walsall and the arboretum. 👍. PS. The fence you can see on the left at 10.10 just after you let the 2 cyclists pass, is my old house. You see the side of my house a second later. 👍
If beeching & marples in1964 had used common sense, instead of being obsessed with road transport, this country could have had a very good rail service. Far too many stations were axed. Those two government idiots totally destroyed the railways in this country
