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The video was made to be played on a loop in the old booking office at Richmond station, when it was the Heritage room. There was a large Victorian wall clock, not working, brought it to life. Stupid? Maybe......

@@mikkykay3217 ​ Not stupid at all! I understood what the ticking was about, took me back to another age when businesses were not about air conditioned offices, computers and mobile phones! Super video, your work is appreciated!

Thank you so much!

How Kind! It was made with love, for free, my wife designed the Heritage Room, now sadly swept aside, in the name of progress. The Folks that refurbished the Station were so enthusiastic, it rubbed off on me. My wife was paid for her work, I wasn't, never regretted that. P.S. the ticking clock in the background was to cover for a non-working Victorian wall clock, that I donated, again for free! Cheers!

Thanks again Paul, my wife's snaps, she went with a friend on a freebie! She's an intrepid traveller, drove around Iceland on her own in a 4x4. Far too cold for me!

@@mikkykay3217 What was with the shoes on the river bank in Prague?

@@PaulSmith-pl7fo They're in Budapest to remember a Nazi atrocity, 3500 people were shot there, they had to remove their shoes first....... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_on_the_Danube_Bank

@@mikkykay3217 Why can't people just get on with one another?

Thank you Paul, it was a labour of love! This used to play on a loop in the Heritage Room at the station, a small museum that is no longer there. There was a non-working Victorian wall clock in what was a replica Station Master's office, hence the ticking clock throughout. Cheers Mick

@@mikkykay3217 What a shame that the museum is no longer there (or did it just move?). I did wonder about the ticking.

@@PaulSmith-pl7fo Sadly commercial pressures prevailed. My good lady was the museum designer, it was a really lovely project to be involved with. Such was the success of the refurbed station it became a retail space. We remounted the history panels along the corridors, so not entirely lost.....

it would make a lovely heritage line

@@juliejeanable Thanks Julie, I think I heard it was a type of garden centre/animal feed supplier? I loved making this little video, the people who renovated the place were so, so enthusiastic, I spent probably 100 hours plus on it, for no charge. And I do it all over again! My wife designed the Heritage Room that was sadly shut down a few years back, the video was played on a loop in there. Happy Days!

@@neiloflongbeck5705 I am not sure about the relative costs of mothballing, but it has got to be better than wholesale destruction, which is what happened to many. I never mentioned taxpayer's money, did I? You did though!

@@portcullis5622 as BR got it's money from the taxpayer plus the ticket and freight revenue, it safe to say the taxpayer would have been footing the bill. Just as we are with Network Rail. The trouble with mothballing is the length of the mothballing. How long can you afford to have something and not make use of it? The line through Ripon closed to passengers in March 1967 at the hight of the mid-1960s Sterling crisis (the one that resulted in Sterling being devalued by 14%) and freight 2 years later. The lines main problem was that since WW2 the line had seen a decline in both passengers and freight; this was a situation faced across the country. Today the station building and area remains available for rebuilding but most of the railbed near the station has been reused for a road. However, the trackbed between Ripon and Harrogate remains undeveloped and features in the county council's strategic transport plan, but nothing is likely to happen until after 2030. Now if they had mothballed the line, everything would need to be replaced and that could cost as much as rebuilding it, as the East-West Rail project has found out.

@@wix7657 Can't disagree about prices. There should be no way that it is cheaper to drive a car with one person in it than to use public transport, yet that is the case on most routes. A few years ago, there was a bloke on the news that wanted to travel from Bristol to London, but it was over £200 for the train fare. So, to prove a point, he bought an old car that was roadworthy. Even after the cost of the car, fuel costs, tax and insurance for the day, it was still cheaper than the train and he then sold the car for about £15!

Cheers Duncan, my father spent his 2 years in the UK, he loved it. His brother went to Germany, I think he had a better time!

I am sure your Uncle enjoyed himself in Germany , my elder brother did his time there also , and my eldest brother was posted to Hong Kong earlier . Duncan Pitkeathly. PS thank you very much for putting the video on , i thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thanks Duncan, I so enjoyed making it. I had a heart attack in 2007, was off work for 9 weeks. My Wife was working on the heritage centre for the restored Richmond Station, I learnt video editing and spent about 100 hours working on this to display at the station. I worked alongside Major John Young (Retired), an absolutely lovely bloke, who loved Catterick & Richmond. I loved every minute, better than working in the Mill! Good luck Duncan

@@mikkykay3217 I enjoyed reading these replies. As a Service brat, I was born in Hong KOng and my Dad served there (three times) as well as in Germany (Hereford, Minden, Rheindahlen and Rheindahlen) and Cyprus (Episkopi and Dhekelia. I now live not too far from Richmond Station but have only seen it as a cinema-cum-arts centre so this was an education!

@@thomasm1964 I loved making this video, and meeting the people who restored the Station. Thanks for the kind comments, I tried my best to bring a few old photos to life! Cheers