Destroying Forge Valley Railway Station | Explored before it is Gone Forever | Urban Exploration
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This is Forge Valley Railway Station, located in North Yorkshire on the Seamer to Pickering, single track branch line.
Opening on the first of May 1882, the branch line was 16 and a quarter miles long, built by NER - the North Eastern Railway.
To add a little confusion this station is not actually located on forge valley, nor does the branch line even run through it, but it is located in the village of West Ayton. The station presumably being named differently to avoid confusion with Great Ayton station also on the North Eastern network near Middlesbrough.
Forge Valley Station was complete with its own engine shed and large coal storage bunkers. A goods yard and livestock pens were located near the station and a little further west was a timber yard with its own sidings.
The branch line - one of the first to be built in North Yorkshire, ran mainly through the hills of the county’s North Yorkshire Moors, passing mainly farmland.
From opening the line was very successful and profitable, but ran in to financial and traffic decline in the 1930’s, by the time British Rail took over the network on the 1st January 1948, the line was not cost effective and it didn’t take BR’s management long to announce the closure of the line - noteworthy over a decade before Dr Richard Beechings infamous cuts.
The last passenger service left Forge Valley Station on on 3rd June 1950 and the track was lifted in the same year.
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I’m surprised no one has converted it to a house
It sure does need to be saved. I would love to own something like this. I would restore it and put a little sit on railway in lol.
This was my aunt and uncles house until around2005. Loved playing in the yard and garden and the quirky platform in the garden.
Hello there Sharon, it’s nice to read you have fond memories of here. Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Just had on the drone footage, Nice buildings, all gone before long. Thought would write first!. Now to watch the video. only had a bit on.
Hello Daniel, thank you so much. I enjoy flying the drone, shame the buildings are going to be cleared for re development.
Excellent content Andy, the railway theme on this explore is very interesting, it's so important to document this heritage before the plasterboard, 4 x 2 and brick brigade move in.
Glad you enjoyed it. It will be real history deleted soon when the bulk builders move in
It's crazy to demolish such a lovely building.
I know, it's so sad. Thanks for watching :)
Please buy it, somebody!! Look at how fab Gedney looks.
I so enjoy the history narration. It really helps in understanding what I am watching. Beautiful historical building. Too bad it's not being restored for a museum. Good video!
Many thanks! I have been working on my voiceovers for a while, still not perfect. Yes a museum would be a splendid idea. Thank you so much for watching and commenting :)
I really enjoyed the video thanks Andy 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Number one fan :)
That was a goods shed rather engine shed. It was used for handling local produce. The coal drops would be where they dropped off coal for the local coal merchant.
That is great information, thank you :)
I just wish BR didn't make such short sighted cuts back in the 1950's. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
@@ALWResearchTeam woodhead route being a big mistake and one made only on the early eighties. Great video 😁👍👊😎
The coal drops were a customary perk for the station master, who had the profits for supplying coal to consumers in the locality. At Glaisdale station on Whitby to Battersby line original ones are preserved & easily inspected.
Hello Ant :) apologies just seen this comment. Yes closing the woodhead route was badly made decision based on short term cost.
Very interesting explore with great history and information. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Simon BA :)
Really enjoy the train content ALW....but I’m sure you could have guessed that 🤪 🚂 would love more, thank you for asking! Funny about the station name and also really admired that engine shed train shaped arch door as well. Great informative video, loved it!
Glad you enjoyed it IceyDiamond!, the whole place drew me in, such a shame to see it in its final weeks. But then thats what im doing this for, document real history in photographs and video so places like this can live on. Thank you so much for watching :)
7:45 it's called Brick dentals.
Good explore, thanks.
Ah thank You :)
Well the station still stands today and seems to be no longer used by the highway agency. The shed with the collapsed roof to the left of the engine shed has been taken down and the porter cabin on the platform has now gone. I went and had a look around today although you cant get in the engine shed now. Got some nice pictures
I could live there, great interesting video Andy.xx
Glad you enjoyed it Barb, it sure would make a lovely home indeed.
The fancy brickwork "Dentils"
Ah thank you for the information :)
great video dude
Yo Kurt, thank you so much bro.
Always good stuff 👌
Hello there, thank you ver much :)
Good video keep making it love it
Hello David, thank you very much indeed
Not sure but the foot bridge could be from Oliver’s Mount race track, I remember 10 or 15 years ago an MKM truck knocked it down and I’m sure it was removed?
Nice 👌
Thank you
3:37
"The council are selling it"
I'm seeing more and more of this, and I'd like to challenge it.
The council do not own these buildings, or the land they are on. Our ancestors paid for this land in one way or another, and the councils and other branches of government merely look after this property so that we can get on with other things. We pay them for this service, so much so that executives in these organisations are paid outrageous wages, fees and bonuses.
It is as simple as this - It doesn't belong to them, it belongs to US. Just who the fuck do these people think they are, that they can sell YOUR property that YOUR taxes have paid for?
Now, how do we begin to challenge this? I don't mean online petitions that will be ignored - I mean forceful legal action.
Bro you are 100% correct can you look into this, It's outrageous. Some parasite in the council is on a back hander. This is heritage. (It would be easy to buy this on an NFT and put it back to it's original condition and make it a tourist attraction
I'mm working in Dubai
Okay, just in scrap metal and Hardscape building materials which fetch high prices used... I'm guessing 30,000 to 40,000 pounds easy, if you sell them... The fill materials roughly 2,000 to 3,000 pounds easy... The coal bunkers could be rehabbed and rented out for 100 pounds a month with minimal effort... The materials shed could be converted into rental space for trucks, cars, caravans or boats on the cheap... each slot could rented for 80 to 100 pounds a month as long as the roof is structural... I believe the station is protected from demolition...
Also, the council would let it go for a song because of the liability cost of keeping it safe and safety mitigation fencing rental and no property tax revenue, its a loss every day they own it. I would negotiate an extremely low cost for sale of the property with suspension of any property taxes for at least 2 to 3 yrs during the time of your renovations and upgrades to the property and convert it to residential property to reduce from commercial property tax... In addition they leave all the materials, excluding any toxic wastes or materials that should not be the buyers expense... But basically, an as is acquisition meaning the property in the state as seen less exclusions... That's what I would do.. But I'm south of Boston in the US. So that's that. I could also give you a ball park of the costs for disposal and clean up if you like.
And lastly, I found you after viewing Martin Zero's video with you in it... Cheers!
Hello there! Great to hear from you. It would be a good business case to put to the council. I hope the station and sheds are saved. Thanks for watching and commenting:)
Here we call that fretting
On brick bld 🖖🏼🏍🍺
Ah that’s interesting. Thank you :)
I have one minor caveat about the description of the line. It didn't follow a path through any foothills of the North York Moors, instead it largely kept to the flat bottom of the long disappeared Lake Pickering, which made it cheap & relatively easier to build & resulted in a gradient of around 100 to 1 which surely meant economy in fuel when operational, though it did mean greater distances to nearby settlements. The naming of fixed structures like stations is perhaps a little more complicated than avoiding confusion with other places with identical or silmilar names. I am thinking of Weaverthorpe crossing on the Scarborough to York line which is nearer Sherburn than Weaverthorpe, though there are many similar examples all over the rail network. Using the name Forge Valley for the whole line & the station at East Ayton might be connected to the wish of the railway company to give names that might attract Victorian tourists. Shame about the imminent destruction, but it apppears too far gone to turn into anything practical like a caravan site, as many of the other stations on this line have been.
Keep up the good work. I love this sort of thing.
Hello there. Some of the line is un recognisable as a once was railway. I flew the drone up either direction and it has been completely redeveloped.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting. We are currently filming and entire railway series that will be out late October.
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There is no shortage of quirky stuff here in NE Yorks, especially engineering in impossibly remote areas, if you are interested. 1 example: The lake bed of Forge Valley railway would not have been suitable for a rlway if Sir George Cayley, a few years earlier, had not proposed & then built the drainage system which stopped the radical seasonal flooding of the Derwent as it crossed old Lake Pickering, which was then dry enought to support a rlway. The old bed of Lake Pickering had been worthless. Suddenly land owners loved Cayley. He had invented the aeroplane, but now he had made landowners here very rich men. The turf for Wembley has always come from Lake Pickering, because it is the very best. Start at the place Cayley installed the diversion on the Derwent near Wrench Green & follow it to the North Sea, it is not many miles. After a thaw in winter of the snow & ice on the moors it is quite something to see as it crashes down the highly engineered concrete weir near it's outlet Cayley designed a system, each link in the chain following from another. People like him invented the modern world. But maybe you only film railways. I'll watch out for your stuff. Keep it up.
Hello, industrial and military are the main areas of the channel but railways and other subjects do come up. Thank You for watching and commenting :)
I’d so convert to a house
A grand house it would be too.
@@ALWResearchTeam so would
@@ALWResearchTeam It’s a shame that this fascinating site will soon disappear, no doubt replaced with a new housing development
It looks like the old station has been a private dwelling post station closure in 1950, see this site for more photo’s of the station: www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/forge_valley/index.shtml
Maybe this site could also give you some ideas for exploring other long-lost stations, there are plenty of them! I’ve got to admit that your videos featuring old railway architecture and WW2 airfields are my favourites so keep up the good work.
Hello Dave H, thank you very much for your kind words. My friend Nick Catford, is an author for the website on your link, some great information on there. Thanks again Dave, there will be plenty more content soon, some serious and some light hearted as we have all had a hard time in the last year. :)
Hi you just meet my wife in wesel, if you need any help or Advice in the area just let me know
Hello there! Yes we did, Finn reminds me of my son Thomas. It was a pleasure to meet your wife, son and dog 🐶. Thank you so much.
And measure it for railway modellers to copy
Hello there. Thanks for watching and commenting. Check alwexploration.co.uk later this week for photography and any further information I can find.
These old buildings should not be demolished if they can’t be made into houses then why can’t they be taken down and all the material use for other buildings all that sand stone what a shame 😔
I totally agree! Living in a old railway station would be a lovely experience. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Please photograph the station and
I have some photographs. I’ll put them up on my website later this week. Hopefully I will be able to find a drawing or plan with the scaling on.
Clearly you have put on a little timber nearly getting stuck in that wooden door. 🤣
Need to go on a diet shiny backside.
Sorry couldnt resist...
Absolutely Lol. Too many midnight flyers and 4 Oclocker's
They shouldn't be allowed to demolish the engine shed and station
I couldn't agree more minisareus, they should be listed.
What is wrong with Scarborough Council, why are they so obsessed with destroying all signs of the railway ?
I can only imagine greed and ignorance have a part to play
There is no reason to demolish this, actual history. Bloody shameful
You're correct, the buildings are structurally sound.
I thought there was a new law coming in to stop people demolishing buildings because of the waste and cost in new materials to replace it!
@@PaulsRoadshow not that I know of unfortunately
@@ALWResearchTeam it was mentioned on the news recently which is why they are converting a load of industrial commercial premises into housing to save knocking down and rebuilding them