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morthren
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Hi, I'm Daz aka Morthren, welcome to my channel. I make videos mostly to do with transportation, particular the equipment and infrastructure that makes that possible. I also like to explore abandoned and derelict buildings and structures, there is something about disused and obsolete infrastructure that gives a sense of how times once were and how it has changed over the years. If you like my videos, please give them a thumbs up - comments good and bad are always welcome... don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss my latest upload. Thanks!
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Battersea Power Station - the New Northern Line Extension
Others were first to cover the new Northern Line Extension to Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station when it opened on Monday 20th September 2021, so a week later we take a calmer and brief look at the new extension then the power station itself. Battersea Power Station was a coal fired power station built in 1933, it has been a feature of the London skyline for nearly 90 years. One overlooked feature of the power station when it was in use was that the waste heat was used to heat homes, schools and businesses in Pimlico as part of the Pimlico District Heating Undertaking (PDHU).
Due to declining electrical output and the move away from coal as a generating source, the station closed in 1983. It remained derelict and in disrepair until 2012 when investors started work to turn it into luxury apartments and offices. Work is mostly complete but there is still a lot of construction going on.
The original title of this video "Riding the Gravy Train" was a play on the Pink Floyd song "Have a Cigar" which features the line "And did we tell you name of the game boy, they call it riding the gravy train". Battersea Power Station appeared on the cover of the 1977 Pink Floyd Album Animals with an inflatable pig floating above it.
Chapters:
00:00 - The Train Arrives
01:05 - Arriving at Nine Elms Station
02:00 - Arriving At Battersea Power Station Station
02:13 - A Dodgy Lift
02:48 - The Station
03:31 - Over to Pimlico
04:25 - The Flying Pig
04:59 - The Model
05:57 - A View Over
07:17 - Prop Failure - Blooper!
With the new apartments and retail, the area is expected to become very busy and the new tube station should help with moving people to and from the area.
#UKRailway
#BatterseaPowerStation
#London
Due to declining electrical output and the move away from coal as a generating source, the station closed in 1983. It remained derelict and in disrepair until 2012 when investors started work to turn it into luxury apartments and offices. Work is mostly complete but there is still a lot of construction going on.
The original title of this video "Riding the Gravy Train" was a play on the Pink Floyd song "Have a Cigar" which features the line "And did we tell you name of the game boy, they call it riding the gravy train". Battersea Power Station appeared on the cover of the 1977 Pink Floyd Album Animals with an inflatable pig floating above it.
Chapters:
00:00 - The Train Arrives
01:05 - Arriving at Nine Elms Station
02:00 - Arriving At Battersea Power Station Station
02:13 - A Dodgy Lift
02:48 - The Station
03:31 - Over to Pimlico
04:25 - The Flying Pig
04:59 - The Model
05:57 - A View Over
07:17 - Prop Failure - Blooper!
With the new apartments and retail, the area is expected to become very busy and the new tube station should help with moving people to and from the area.
#UKRailway
#BatterseaPowerStation
#London
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Cultural Vandalism? Great Musgrave Bridge
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This is a historic railway bridge on the B6259 in Great Musgrave in Cumbria, England. Built over 150 years ago, It crosses the former section of the Eden Valley Railway that last saw trains back in the 1950s. Highways England recently caused some controversy in its decision to infill the bridge with concrete as part of a maintenance program on historic railway structures in England. It has been...
FORGOTTEN tunnel under the M25
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This is a tunnel that was made to connect the Old Shire Lane path near Chalfont St. Peter when the M25 was built across it in the mid 1980s. #Tunnel #M25 #Motorway Filmed with southwest455 - czcams.com/channels/th7B1cD0T8JLqDuuA1cbdQ.html Original idea taken from Networker72 who did a video on this.
ABANDONED 35 years ago! - Pripyat
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I take a look around Pripyat in Ukraine, the former soviet city abandoned following the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident on the 26th April 1986. The town began evacuating the following day and has been uninhabited ever since. #Chernobyl #Pripyat #Ukraine
LANDSLIP on railway!
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LANDSLIP on railway - With a lot of heavy rain over the last couple of months, the ground has become saturated. This has taken its toll on 150 year old railway cuttings and embankments which are starting to crumble. Several landslips have happened in the South East of England in January 2021, this one resulted in the closure of the Chatham Main Line between Gillingham and Sittingbourne for just...
UK Coronavirus Lockdown!
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April 1st, 2020, life in the UK is very different to what it was a month ago before the ongoing Covid-19 Coronavirus outbreak. There are restrictions on travel with the advice to travel only if you are a key worker or if it is essential. Stores, pubs, cinemas, restaurants, electrical stores and pretty much any place where people gather are all out of bounds. Public transport has been scaled bac...
ELEVATED industrial Steam Railway
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This is a former industrial 2’ 6” (762mm) narrow gauge railway once part of the Bowaters Paper Company in Sittingbourne, Kent in the UK. The railway was used to haul materials and personnel between the two mills located in Sittingbourne and Kemsley, then to, from and around Ridham Dock. It was closed in 1969 after it was deemed more expensive to run than transporting goods by road. The lower pa...
DISUSED Weymouth Harbour Tramway
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This is the long disused Weymouth Quay or Harbour Tramway. Built in 1865, it used to run services from London Waterloo on the South Western Main Line to Weymouth Quay with passengers for the Channel Island Ferries. The last scheduled passenger service was in 1987. The last trains to use the line were rail-tours back in 1994 and 1999. The line was officially placed into temporarily out of use st...
ABANDONED Chatham Docks Railway & Radioactive Land
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This is the abandoned railway that leads to the former Chatham Docks site in Gillingham. It has been covered by others on CZcams but I thought I would do my own take on it. Chatham Docks is on the River Medway and in the last 10 years has slowly undergone redeveloped into apartment blocks and an Asda Superstore. A small part of the docks still exists which is rumoured to be closing in 2025. The...
RAILTOUR to Grain and Angerstein Wharf
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Usually only carrying freight, the Isle of Grain line is situated in Kent and terminates at an aggregate works and recently a new oil terminal. The oil terminal provides aviation fuel for London's airports, a lot better than transporting it in road tankers! Angerstein Wharf is an aggregate works in South East London and features one of Londons only foot crossings. In this video, In April 2019, ...
Worlds LONGEST pier! - Southend Pier & Railway
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This is Southend-on-Sea, home of the longest pleasure pier in the world! The reason the pier was built was to enable boats to be able to dock at low tide. Southend has large mudflats so when the tide is out, it's not very deep for about a mile. The original pier was opened in 1830 and was made from wood. It was extended several times and by 1848, it was the longest pier in Europe at 1.3 miles (...
RIPPED UP! Rushenden Pier Railway, Isle of Sheppey
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This is the Rushenden Pier Branch off the Sheerness Line on the Isle of Sheppey. The branch runs off the Sheerness Line near Queenborough, through the former Invicta Marchant Bar steelworks (formally Queenborough Rolling Mill), then onwards to the Rushenden Pier/Jetty on the River Swale. This steelworks actually used to process old railway tracks and turn them into steel concrete reinforcement....
What is Samphire Hoe?
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This is Samphire Hoe in Dover, Kent. It is a creation from the excavated chalk from construction of the channel tunnel, 4.9 million cubic metres of it! It is located at the bottom of a section of the White Cliffs of Dover know as Shakespeare Cliff. This section of the cliff already has a railway tunnel that was built in 1844 which is part of the South Eastern Main Line. To build this tunnel, a ...
WALKING the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel (NOT recommended)
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This is the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel in London. It crosses under the River Thames between Rotherhithe and Limehouse. It was constructed between 1904 and 1908 opening in June of that year. It's quite rare in that you can actually walk through it unlike the Blackwell or the Limehouse Link Tunnels. In September 2018, it was assessed the ventilation system was inadequate and needs upgrading. Transpo...
They EXIST! London's Other Railway Foot Crossings
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From my recent video of the imminent closure of one of London's only open foot crossings, a few people commented that London does have more than one foot crossing, and indeed it does! Maybe not so close to Metropolitan London as the Angerstein Wharf foot crossing in Charlton/Greenwich but still in Greater London nonetheless. In this video, I visit four gated railway foot crossings - one each in...
CLOSED! London's ONLY open foot crossing is set to close!
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CLOSED! London's ONLY open foot crossing is set to close!
Exploring a new car park on a HOVERBOARD
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Exploring a new car park on a HOVERBOARD
An Original 60s OTIS! and some other lifts
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An Original 60s OTIS! and some other lifts
ORIGINAL 1980s Kone Marryat Scott Lift / Elevator
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ORIGINAL 1980s Kone Marryat Scott Lift / Elevator
ABANDONED Trafford Park Railway and Level Crossing
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ABANDONED Trafford Park Railway and Level Crossing
UK Railway Bridges (the lesser noticed ones)
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UK Railway Bridges (the lesser noticed ones)
LOW & CREEPY Railway bridge in the UK!
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LOW & CREEPY Railway bridge in the UK!
TRAFFIC LIGHT FAILURE! But does traffic flow better?
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TRAFFIC LIGHT FAILURE! But does traffic flow better?
What happened to this hospital
What happened to this hospital?
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How I Now i'm rich
The Another one fell and then That's good I saw I A old waste card a lambo So we took it I guess
I was the other side that opened it. The first level or sticky behind and I heard that I already fell and then this happened. I opened the outfitter and this has happened. The already is on fire. The cables are on fire, so I've washed it by water. And then it's a lot of smoke.I was the door to all the borders and then it broke
Nothing cut the cables Shock me out so I went away
No way.I saw that already frail, but I will get it sneakiki.I was getting that old alphabet and this happened if failed.And it trip and then this happened underwater.I don't know what happened
I remember walking with the trains as a kid on Summer holidays in the 60s. So sad its now gone. According to Streetview it looks like the track has been retained where it curves through the car park just before the town bridge.
when are you uploading again?
Where are they?
Ur I think it’s taking off
Why do people enjoy this as a hobby I get everyone is ok to like anything but fire alarms scare the life out of me and give me anxiety 😭😭
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What
There no ligth
If i would go there hell nah i'm getting out of there
Progreso México pier is over 4 miles long. I had to take a bus to get from one end to the other.
Bloody good video well done,
Wow ale to nie jest tak że prawie nic mi nie pasuje
Great video, thanks for documenting!
Can IT work?
It Is Not Lower Ground Floor It Is Basment
2:00
Lucky you got to explore before it was torn down
Did you got stuck at the end?
Had the same yesterday and thought I had a bad leak until looking into it. Thank god it’s normal that the air con does this. It was a humid evening as well
Thanks for filming this bit of railway history
Ka ma ciu ciu 😊
It’s a real shame that it was closed down. So much of the amazing history lost
9:19 pants were shat, my god
These messages are all great tips on rail saftey
These things are insanely ancient
2nd floor Why 1st 2nd door has been blocked?
our one said 2019 removal but still here in 24 even got repaired one of 2 left in macclesfield still running
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Exellent😊
Great video but maybe a human cut the wires of the elevator inside the shaft???
Mothballed I would say ! Not closed !
My fear of darkness when no one is around could never go in a abounded place. I would also never ride a elevator without any engineers around because I have a fear of getting stuck and not being rescued. I sometimes only ride elevators that are modern and fixed regularly or I would nope it and just leave or take the stairs If there are stairs and a elevator I take stairs but sometimes I make exceptions if it’s a cool elevator I did once at a hotel hard rock. It was a glowing mirror so I took that every time because staff was around and it was cool. I also have a fear of being stuck in small places or somewhere alone stuck in a big place myself
I’m sure lots of people hate elevators sometimes
Geoff marshall took a cab ride on this line.
Love that voice say on 2 (Level 2) 1:43
Thanks man 💪
Seeing this for the first time, very cool from San Jose California❤
Do some of that
Thanks for this. Such an amazing video.
Highways England cannot manage a 2 inch deep pothole, let alone a historic structure like this bridge. Of course they ballsed it up, won’t be the last stupid thing they do either
This is an old video but thank god, i was worried
Standing upright, I would not fit under there.
Who came here from the beno video