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ghh

It me years to stop thinking of him.

I miss him

35 was great! 45 was/is a disaster.

Thank you for the memories. JFK was not a perfect man but he was our President. I was hoping to find out who really was behind his murder. I am not getting any younger. All documents must be released. I know who are the suspects. It’s time to end the drama of our governments involvement. I have spent many years reading the possibilities. Let’s end this.

Please don't misread me Beeching was right about Intercity Trunk Route Freight and special Routes and planning to make a fast and efficient competitio to road haulage VERY GREEN POLICY But wholesale closure and the Buses that did not replace trains was down TO THAT CROOK MARPLES WHO STOLE PUBLIC MONEY AND HAD RUN AWAY ABROAD

Now Park and Ride and Heritage like NNR and Swanage Railway NYMoors packed and major holiday aset. Think if sone now open and linked Less Holiday Jams I these Holiday at Home Times.

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Times change, but not always for the better.

Very handsome So I fall in love

Just shows how short sighted Doctor Beeching was as we need all of them these days 😂

2:54i think its wrong cuz Josephine Brandell do survive she was on lifeboast 14 with proffesor houlbourn

So shortsighted, given the population explosions of our rural areas now, it would obviously help ease the horrendous congestion in many of our areas.

Who's got a tear in Their Eyes just let your emotions out don't feel bad about crying it's the right thing to do just let all your Sadness rest in peace to all those branch lines that didn't make into presentation you really touched me you just make me want to cry😢 good tribute to all the lost Lines

Loved him influenced America and loved his children he may have raised a so to also influence America. Wonderful RIP PRESIDENT KENNEDY

Great just great. The music is so fitting and sad

its unfortunate to see a historic railway site turn into a highway

I had a relative on the titanic second class passenger went down with the ship 17 years he was

Had to watch with the mute on as the music creeped me out. Otherwise awesome photographs of then and now.

My great great great uncle Charles Frohman Died on the Lusitania

Boy do we miss him today--more than ever!

If we, as a country, are actual serious about climate change (instead of just acting smug about buying an electric car), then the railways and ‘mass transit’ has to be the option going forward. So links back to these places would actually make sense

Very moving. I was in Braunton the other week comparing present day buildings etc with when the railway ran through it with its level crossing, buying an ice-cream from the old station, now a shop.

Como se llama la canción me hizo llorar mucho aunque no tuve la dicha de conocerlo 😢 ni de nacer en Estados Unidos mi familia si le está muy agradecida a Kennedy además de bello era un gran presidente siempre en favir de la gente con menos recursos por eso hoy 2022 aún se le recuerda con amor viva Kennedy

Me ( + two friends ) were the last members of the public to walk the disused track ( Tiverton to Tiverton Junction , now Tiverton Parkway ) , the next day they ripped it all up ! the scrap value was higher as the sleepers were pressed steel ( unusual ? ) ...

brought a tear to my eye thank you karis!! 🥂😔

very informative karis thank you xx got very emotional takes alot to do that. train life or no life

Very touching nearly brought me to tears shameless no branch line still left I couldn't listen to this song without shedding a tear of Sadness my heart goes out to all those who are watching this right now thanks for all the memories

Thk God 4 the little time we had him His dream 2 split the CIA into thousand pieces is come true God honored his wish

Excellent ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

May the Lord shine above their souls. May they rest in peace 🙏🙏🙏

Memories if the Teign Vally line Dawlish by pass line ! I am now 86 and from a railway family, in that my Grandfather was the ganger of the length from Newton Abbot to Dainton Tunnel on the Plymouth line. This included Aller Junction, where later on I learnt my trade as a signalman. (I have photographs of the interior of Aller signal box : e mail me: pgh122@hotmail.com) We all lived in Abbotskerswell. My Father served in the Army until 1945 and on his coming home he joined the track team as a platelayer - general track maintenance duties under the Gangers. It was heavy manual work - about the only machinery they had access to were the steam cranes. At the end of the war, the Royal Navy having used the Teign Valley line at times from Exeter during the hostilities to by pass Dawlish, were very concerned about possible future issues at Dawlish, that in the event of line closure, it could leave the fleet at Devonport void of the transport to access its needs ? The Admiralty drew this to the attention of the Govt and the result was a 2 year program started in in 1946 to strengthen the lines infra structures etc from Exeter to Newton Abbot, putting in extra passing and longer loops. All culverts under bridges etc were rebuilt where needed and brought up to main line standards so that the weight of the heavy ammunition trains could be accommodated. All drainage channels were increased in capacity and possible land slip sites were modified to rule out that possibility. Apparently no changes were necessary with signalling. My Father was offered work every weekend for 2 years along with others and were split up into teams of 12. Operating from Newton Abbot each Sat morning the works train set aside for this duty with all equipment and sleeping / feeding facilities for the gangs on board then stayed out on the line until the Sunday evening. I was 10 at that time and remember it clearly, on the Sunday evening my Father cycling home from Newton Station absolutely worn out, could hardly stand ! He put up with it though as we were a family of 4 to feed and clothe. At that time, he, like all railway men were also on standby to be called out for fogging duties as extra to their normal working practices. Aller Junction being in the valley was one of the first places to be affected and his allotted signal he had to man was the UP starter signal west of the Junction, situated by the Decoy to Kingskerswell road bridge on the Plymouth line. He had his sentry hut and a brazier and a pile of detonators but fog in that valley could continue on during the day as well, so when called out he never knew what time he would get home again. Of course there are freight facilities still at each end of the line and prior to its closing and lifting, some Royal Trains have stabled there overnight when the need arose. Me thinks that a care and maintenance budget in place would have been more cost affective to keep it open compared to the £30 million plus of the repairs - and still on going - in recent years. Added to that is the unknown total costs of alternative arrangements needed to be in place and the effect on the economy overall of Devon and Cornwall, all this could have been negated with some long term thinking in Government circles over the Years had they kept it open ! P G H.

Now they are saying that it was planned all along.Someone was on there w the plans to tell the right people what was going that they r trying to stop today. Bad news people but I believe it. So sad. Just like 9/11. Our own Government!

If they only knew what greedy people they were.If you try an hide greed you will always fail.

The inspirational, handsome, witty, intellectual John Fitzgerald Kennedy, will remain the main man for centuries to come, forever young and acclaimed!

Beautiful song sung wonderfully

What an heartfelt tribute. Thank you

JFK was truly a great President. A great loss to the entire world at his untimely tragic demise.

It’s a shame to see the railway lines like this one in Devon now disappeared altogether

I remember the Beeching cuts. Not ashamed to say that this made me cry...

Here where the rails once went to places far away, now only the ballast lies while ancient railwaymen watch ghosts of trains pass by... nice to see some of my pictures in the video - an acknowledgement would have been nice!

Very sad, looking at all those closed stations, very surprised that Barnstaple has been closed, I used to deliver pharmaceutical products to North Devon during the early 1990,s and the line was open from Exeter to Barnstaple, but again consecutive Conservative governments, with no imagination whatsoever, have destroyed these wonderful tourist attractions, Margaret Thatcher hated the railways apparently, but before her time, in the early 1960,s the then Tory government appointed Dr Beeching to destroy most of the branch lines in England and Wales, oh well, when it's gone its gone!

Great work. Keep it up.

Music ruins it - requiem strings only - vocals forget it

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Why did are century do this

You also forgot Seaton Junction, Colyton, Colyford and Seaton

This is a lovely little video but it's a massive shame that your high standard sound and video work is spoilt by the most appalling spelling in the titles. There are no less than 5 mistakes in the opening title frame alone as well as the insult of not giving Devon its capital D. As a result, instead of really enjoying this video in the way that I would have liked, I found it intensely annoying. Sorry but I was one of the down voters as a result.

Didn't see Bideford or Westward Ho! maybe in a future edition? 😉 But we used to travel from Barnstaple to Bideford on the train when I was small in the 1960's and Bideford station was still there East of the water back in the 1970's, although I think housing has replaced it now? And the station and level crossing in Westward Ho! was also still there in the 1970's, although a bus station replaced the line leaving just the level crossing in place. As an adult I used to get the train up from Exeter St Davids to Barnstaple, but the tunnel onwards to Instow and Bideford had been blocked by then, shame so much was lost to the Beeching cuts! But thank you so much for sharing, so many memories! 🙏🏽👍🏼😊

When you think Beeching, think also of Ernest Marples, who was minister of transport at the time & who I believe had something of a private interest in road haulage !