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As someone who grew up in Essex (the other side) have to say it's easy to forget just how much Essex there really is

Dramatic setting, great catch.

Fantastic.

One very minor point. The caption at Stoke Junction says "joining the WCML" , Tha line through Stoke is not the WCML.

lovely video.... I lived in Exeter many many years ago and sometimes miss it....pity to see so much built up now ..the countryside rapidly disappearing, and the wild life with it. Sad.... 70/75 % reduction in most insects, plants, trees, animals since the 1970s....

Thanks for sharing. It's a nice video of this former Branchline to Grassington. I saw this railway while driving from Skipton to Grassington on holiday this year and wondered about its history. Thanks again.

Timestamps: 0:38 Swansea 11:45 Gowerton 18:17 Llanelli 24:08 Pembrey & Burry Port 30:44 Kidwelly 36:27 Ferryside 46:54 Camarthan

regularly drive over the bridge at worleston station ,, its now a house people live in it ? not sure about trains coming throgh back garden tho..

Sure i've been up this line on a diversion before when the ECML was closed between Darlington and Ferryhill

Wasnt there once an idea to reopen the Leamside Line and start passengers services between Tyneside and Teesside also utilising the Stillington Line, but nothing ended up coming of it

Curious if you know: Apparently that crossing is interconnected with the traffic signal on Hwy 6 - when a train is passing through, does the light stay green on 6 or does it go into flash mode?

Regarding the IPort, it's funny how they can make "Mowhere" into "Everywhere". Seemingly, all it takes is plenty of money.

Well I am not familiar with the countryside. However you really need to see our train ' The Ghan' . Hours of entertainment going through the interior of Australia.

Very interesting, not been on this line, alas. Must try and get there one day. David, Crouch End, London N8

I really enjoyed watching this thankyou 😊

Line looks in good condition. Do they just call the a signaller in at Norton on Tees when required?

Did this trip in the cab of an 8f Austerity in Spring 1967. At Ferryhill, 92065 (ex Tyne Dock, with air pumps for the doors on the iron ore trains ) was shunting, then waiting to go north. Passing us in the opposite direction, tender first, was K1 62041 on Dolomite empties. Our turn was to finish at Steetley's, Hartlepool, Cemetery North - where we'd begun early that morning, after coaling up by the enormous stage at West Hartlepool Loco.

So much litter!

Must be boring being a driver on that line, flat as a pancake, I come from up north, we have structures called hills and mountains. The line could do with a few curves to stop the driver nodding off.

Would think some Northern drivers at Doncaster would still sign Bentley to Stainforth, but as time passes, it's got to dwindling.

This is how i remember it,great memories

9 days of heaven

Roll on September for me, can't wait

Seems funny departing off the depot via the North yard arrival lines ! but makes sense now with no Sandiacre box to control movements.

There used to be through coaches from Liverpool Street on the Clacton train, and we split at Thorpe with Henry taking the larger portion on to Clacton and Thomas hooked on to the rest for a slow chuff up to Walton. Trains often passed at Frinton, which shows how frequent the service must have been on Summer Saturdays; You also needed to book seats or you would be standing the whole way in packed corridors.

Great video. Thanks 🙏🏻

Our Holbeck job was always a pair of class 31’s,a nightmare to get out of the yard with 2,000 ton of limestone loaded just slipping and sliding due to being too light. A lot of this went to Hull Dairycoats sidings and it was used for the Humber Bridge i believe, I once second manned a Neville Hill man to Dairycoates from Holbeck in the early 1980’s

Uk level crossing long rock spotted 3:38

why not run from Stoke to Willington via Uttoxeter

What I find incredible about this, and most rail routes in Britain, is that they were built in the mid to late 19th century. This was in a time of basic primitive equipment, and these routes are still in use today, although speeds have definitely increased somewhat! I had the pleasure of travelling this route, north to south one cool fall day in 1973, on a "real" train (locomotive and separate carriages). Half of the passengers were enthusiasts with head and cameras outside of every available opening, and the other half were poor wretched souls trying to keep warm. Needless to say, I was in the first group.

Thanks for that, very enjoyable.

this journey to Boston from Grantham is amazing and please do a journey to Grantham from Nottingham

Excellent video and what loco are u riding on please

I'd love to see more electrified lines,but with lots of 66's in operation it doesn't make sense at the moment.

Lovely route through Staffordshire into Nottinghamshire.

Good video but shame there isnt any sound

A most welcome view of the Skellow line, which I have never seen before. Thank you!

My dad was a driver and my grandad on intercity and virgin trains, also drove steam which looks very hard work still don’t know how the drivers manage to see them signals

A wonderful journey thank you cheers Bob.🦘🐨🍺🤠😎

Did this train stop at frinton.

Fascinating. I knew where this line went but have never been over it. It never had much of a passenger service. A useful route for excursion trains from West Riding Towns to Cleethorpes.

When I was on the railway I worked Worcester Birmingham New Street Derby Cardiff. I could never have put up with those flat landscapes!

Didn’t it crash in to the buffers once and the station building was demolished after that?

Belter

Hopefully full passenger will resume over this branch, along with the freight . so great to see an update of the Askern Branch

Pity about the no sound but at least we dont get those irritating track bells and buzzers kudos for some interesting cab rides alot better than some others

Electrified but all the traction was diesel!

I can remember there being a regular passengerservicebetween Leeds and Grimsby via the Skellow line.

First time I ever “scored” this line was on a class 144 pacer. It would normally have gone all stations Leeds-Doncaster then reversed out to Scunthorpe. Adwick and Bentley didn’t exist in 1989 so there was no issue serving them. The train used this line direct to Stainforth. It then reversed to Doncaster before reversing again to Scunthorpe.

Magnificent catches of the train departing from the station, I like it 5 stars. Thumbs up. Keep up the perfect work, my friend, liked and subscribed, Greetings from Portugal to the UK.