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It was most certainly a horrible drizzly day :(

Thanks for the info, I didn't know anything about the plans of village being bypassed, I guess that explains the speed camera just past the bottom of the dip facing the SW.

@@rods-stuff Winterbourne Stoke would have been by-passed as part of the canceled Stonehenge tunnel scheme.

Unfortunately not much more, I wanted to get more but was unable to work out the exact route it took due to the published directions not being very clear by using the names of farms and names of junctions that locals may know but are not marked as such on maps. Maybe next year.

Thanks, glad you like it.

You're not wrong, who knows what was going through the planners minds when they came up with it. It's just stupid to alternate the two lane sections the way they have.

@@rods-stuff The alternating lanes were only introduced in around 2002 as a short term safety improvement. Before that, there was just a single broken white line down the centre of the road and you'd get vehicles from both sides barrelling down the centre line, occasionally with fatal consequences.

Upgrading this section of the A303 was high on the Highway Authority's list of road projects for their next planning period and money has already been spent on the initial plans. Sadly this is now most unlikely to happen after the new Government has scrapped most new road projects. So much money is wasted in the UK planning transport projects that never get built.

I'm not a railway engineer or planner, so I don't know their thinking behind it, although I'm sure they have reasons for the decision.

The music title is Adventure Time, I found it on a copyright free site but I can't remember which one or who the artist is. I've extended it as the original is 4 mins in length.

Yep, there appears to be quite a lot in the area this year

Thanks, I travel between Essex & Devon regularly and I must admit it's my preferred route.

I don't know the exact size of the sculpture, but I would guess as being very close to life size.

@@rods-stuff Just Googled it and found it listed as a 15ft sculpture.

You don't see many of them these days, I took the video on my phone a few years ago, wish I'd recorded more

@@rods-stuff There don't seem to be as many fairground organs getting out and about so much in general now, but you will typically find them at steam rallies as part of their attractions.

Thanks, I really wanted to get more footage but the rain beat me - maybe next time...

That just makes it a place that you'll be looking forward to back to, it's a pity mother nature doesn't always play the game

I used to Live just outside Exeter & I can't imagine just how many times I've driven past the access road without knowing it was there. I'll keep hoping for better weather for my next trip.

It's tucked away on the edge of a village, the trees on two sides prevented getting good views from those sides.

It was half of my trip home from visiting family in Exeter, I'm just editing the second half of the journey.

@rods-stuff I enjoy watching these trips especially when I can't get out during chemotherapy. It makes me feel like I am out and about

Thank you, I've got some footage of an old Devon tin mine that I'm currently editing together coming up soon.

The information on Network Rail's website does say that it has been in the pipeline for around 40 years with it finally being due to open at the end of next year. Between now and then I will hopefully be able to keep the updates coming, especially towards the latter end of the project when things always appear to change more rapidly.

Thanks for your feedback.

It's fairly local to me, but it's not very often they are playing with their toys

Thanks for watching, if you look at around the 2 minute mark it appears that the original line is being moved a few feet nearer to the road, maybe this will become a high speed pass through. On the next update I'll take the drone further along the tracks to see if/how the roadside section is connecting to the other line(s).

@@rods-stuff The line nearest the road is the rough alignment of the up line, it was so close to the road you couldn’t have squeezed a platform between the road and the track. The down line was parallel roughly where the island platform is. They have realigned the tracks to run through the station and are now reinstating the line near the road

Cool, I was making my assumption from the view in the video, unfortunately, I wasn't in the area for about 10 years and the work began before I moved back. Imagine my surprise when driving along Essex Regiment Way from the Braintree/Dunmow end when I saw the road sign for the A131 & A12 going off to the left by the McDonalds/Costa roundabout

Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it - will have some more churches coming soon.

Thank you, normally a busy little village, I went there about 7AM on a Sunday morning while no-one was around.

Much appreciated!

Many thanks, I waited until early on a Sunday morning as the village usually has loads of people wandering around. BTW, I'm your 200th subscriber!

lol, the guy in the passenger seat nearly plastered his nose on the windscreen!

Flying through the archway could have been a bit smoother, I should have disabled obstacle avoidance so it didn't "wander" - never mind, lesson learned.

Locally, until around the mid 90's it was known as the posh part of Walton-Clacton coastline, when it was home to mostly well-off retired people. It literally took decades to get planning permission for the first pub to be granted and caused many arguments.

Thanks, the surrounding village is quite a nice place to visit, very popular with tourists.

The Colne Valley Railway is about 20 miles from where I live and built on an old section of track which was decommissioned in the early 60's and used to run through the town I grew up in.

I go past there every few weeks and when the work was first starting I thought that it was just simply a new road layout being put into place. I drove by about a week ago and from the ground there doesn't appear to be much progress over the last couple of months, hopefully work will proceed a bit faster when the weather improves giving me a chance to produce an update video.

Thanks for the feedback, it's just a shame that it wasn't possible to get the different times on a single day due to the very changeable weather conditions. The daylight part was shot on a Sunday morning before it opened up as I didn't want loads of people wandering about, you may also notice a patch on the grass where the circus was in the night shots taken just a couple of days earlier.

I hadn't been there for a number of years either - the only thing that appears to have changed since I was last there is that there is now a supermarket and retail park on the roundabout at the entrance to the port

Yes, closed in 1964, around the same time as the Colne Valley line from Chappel to Haverhill line also closed.

Indeed it is, Acton is very nearly to Tesco now

Awesome thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it

May do another one soon as it's exterior has been repainted recently

I also left Essex a number of years ago, returning in 2019 - a lot has changed over the years, especially the number houses that have been built around most towns.

Thanks

Thank you, this was filmed about 6 weeks ago and I totally forgot all about it. I've watched some of your videos and I have to say you've inspired me to try out a monochrome project - keep up the good work.

When I was a teenager myself & my mates used to go camping by the lake