The Preston to Longridge Disused Railway Line & The Miley Railway Tunnel
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- čas přidán 16. 11. 2019
- In this video we walk on an urbex, urban explore The disused Preston to Longridge Railway line and the Miley Railway tunnel. This abandoned railway line used to serve the Tootal heights stone quarry in Lancashire. Now disused it dates from 1836 initially a tramway. It used horse drawn power then was converted for use by steam locomotives. The disused railway tunnel is about one mile long It is called the Miley tunnel. All this is located in the town of Preston Lancashire. We see some great railway architecture the legacy from the british railways days.
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Grew up living in the old flats that where on moore lane in the 70’s,crazy as it sounds we use to play round there,miley tunnel was the challenge to show how brave us was,walking on your own no torch,at night,still remember it like yesterday walking the tracks to make sure you was going kinda straight,you knew when you wasn’t as you stubbed your toe on the tracks lol,all the time waiting for the blue lady to appear, fun times
I like the hi-vis. Best way of looking like you're supposed to be there.
Also to look like you work for NOTWORK RAIL simply stand around idle, chatting aimlessly
@@danielwilson6529 Sometimes things have to happen before other things can happen. Personnel expenses are low compared to delay costs.
Martin zero should become the next Fred dibnah with his own documentry all tho Thier subjects are different the way they go into such detail is exceptional ..... Well done Martin pal
Ha agreed....... he has a certain kind of character that just captures you. Just the love the honesty of his vids, not only that, a decent chap too! ;)
Not to decry what Martin does, which is excellent. Fred Dibnah walked the walk.
The videos of Fred were created about what he created, not what he observed.
@@garyhardman8369 Really? What did Fred Dibnah create? I thought he was a steeplejack with an interest in old mechanical engineering. Bit of a demolition boffin too wasn't he? I'm led to understand he repaired some stuff but certainly didn't create anything. Perhaps I'm wrong..?
@@sputumtube he created many things incuding his own mine shaft
@@sputumtube Fred did build 2 steam engines and a tiny mine shaft in his back yard but my comment was ment on his ability to grip an audience just like Martin but I agree with you in what your saying he was mainly a steeply that became famous due to his technique he used to fall the chimneys
Martin at the end says "That was absolutely fascinating" ..... and I am sure that we all agree. Thanks Martin.
Definitely
Completely agree!
You look good with those saftey helmets and very intelligent bunch of guys well done
Fascinating as ever Martin. Thanks for the education.
What a great find! An abandoned railway with intact track! Brilliant as usual, an enjoyable Sunday night fix 😊
I remember as a lad with a few mates going through the Miley Tunnel sometime in the late 60's, as we walked through with a pathetic old torch, some of the lads were saying what happens if a train comes, I said "don't worry it is not used any more", needles to say we heard a noise and sure enough a train was coming very slowly behind us, we ran out terrified ahead of the train, luckily were not that far from the end, when we got out at the end closely followed by the train the driver was leaning out of his window playing holy hell at us to probably put us off going in again, he needn't have worried we were terrified enough already not to try again, another interesting fact is that the fire brigade still use the tunnel for training near Cold bath street, they practice lifting stretchers up out of the cutting part that you showed.
Thanks for the info Malcolm, great story 😀
Catching up on videos. Loved this, as j have been in another in Preston.
I loved the videos it's a mix of interests like old lost and forgotten abandoned derelict places too
thanks very much Carl
Wonderful video Martin. I am Preston born and bred and as a kid you hadn't lived until you had done the Miley. My last jaunt through was in 1990 but had to make a quick exit because a coal train chased us out.. I will never forget seeing the Headcorn lights of the Class 37 and running like he'll to the safety of the embankment on Cold bath street.
When you work with Stone as I do you appreciate the skill & the craftsmanship of the men who crafted & built the magnificent Bridges & tunnels on both the railways & canals of Briton.Thank you Martin for a great video.
Thanks very much Christopher
Great work. I spent 3 years in Preston in the mid 90’s and must have walked over the top of the tunnel entrance on Fylde road 100’s of times without once bothering to take a look over the bridge. Amazing that these feats of engineering from an era when the North West of England literally was the epicenter of the industrial revolution lay forgotten and rotting away. I applaud your efforts and enthusiasm for reminding us about them in such an engaging way.
Thanks very much Stephan
Interesting video and content exploring the Miley tunnel. Perhaps also of interest are some additional snippets. first, this part of the line continued in use well into the 1950s to supply coal daily to yards located nearby bottom end of Deepdale Road, in Fletcher Road. This was achieved using a spur line nearby Skeffington Road. Next, the lower platform part of Deepdale Station shown as demolished ruins in the video was still in place in the 1950s, indeed with steps down, although correctly described as long disused. However, the main station building up top remains and is the stand alone solicitor's office by side of the bridge. Finally, the Miley Tunnel ghost sort of morphed into a New York Times best selling novel called "Cold Bath Street" by A J Hartley, sometime lecturer at nearby UCLAN. Cold Bath Street remains nearby, once site of cleaning up for the construction workers.
On recent O/S Maps the Preston Longridge is shown as Railway (Disused) meaning the line still has tracks which your excellent video proves forty yrs after closure.
Still catching up. Hello Martin and thank you for your intrepid rediscoveries, surely this would make a great walkway or cycle path if cleared, at least then the architecture would be visible, accessible and not lost to the ever increasing sub tropical change in our climate. We could even plant exotic fauna along the sides.
I really find these railway videos interesting. I had no idea there used to be a line here.
No matter where we go in the world train history is so cool, but in your country there is so much more as it was England that started everything train related, AWESOME 😎
Thank you Pippa
I'm a Preston lad over in Texas, love this video, well done great insight. Became a member too. Keep up the good work
Thank you very much
Massive potential and what a gem, the tunnel is in very good repair, I cannot believe the rails are still in place, it is substantial, wide and too valuable to be just abandoned. If this was south of Cheltenham it would have been exploited already!
Neil - New York - grew up on Great Hanover Street - spent time wandering around the line. Loved the video, brought back lots of memories. Thanks Martin.
Thanks Neil
Fabulous video so much interesting detail and you guys really make it superb watching from the comforts of our homes whilst you get scratched by brambles and creeped out by the grey old lady tunnel ghost👍😉👍😉👍😉
OMG been down that Tunnel many a time as a kid lol was scary and probably still is but I got over it or should I say through it alive! Thanks for memories
Your videos are getting better and better thank you from NZ
As ever, fascinating! Thank you.
Thanks Glen
This is so cool. When I was a kid growing up in Preston in the 80s my friends and I used to dare each other to go through Miley Railway Tunnel on our own with no light or anything. Of course none of us ever did haha. Probably down to urban legends circulating at the time about dismembered bodies and the bogeyman. Good times. Thanks for the video very interesting.
Love seeing old railway relics. It’s always an adventure exploring
i stumbled upon your channel yesterday evening and I've been watching your vids all day today. excellent work.
Thanks very much. Glad you found me
Great background music at the beginning . Great clip overall!
Thanks very much
Before I was thrown out of Preston Poly, a friend and I used to conduct guided walks through the Miley Tunnel. Fascinating to find out how that central box came about. On walks after dark, we would turn our torches off at this point and experienced absolute darkness. It wasn't overgrown back then and the line was still in use for occasional freight. Of course, no high vis jackets were worn.
Don't try that at home, kids!
Well done as always. It's interesting just how much of our current rail network was built in the victorian times. It's equally interesting to get the chance to explore the sections that have become disused. I don't blame you for putting it off until the foliage has died off. In summer that would have been 10 times worse.
I love railway history like this that was amazing i hope that infrastructure gets a new lease of life thats PRICELESS railway infrastructure there it still exists and is in place it should be used again for what it was intended for!
Amazing video!
This is first rate work. Old railway lines and their infrastructure constitute one of the most fascinating aspects of industrial archaeology. Please keep us enthralled and entertained with these marvelous documentaries that remind us of another age when Britain was truly great.
Another great video, Martin. Thanks for bringing these to us every week. They're a treasure.
I was suprised to see the trackbed still intact. You would have thought the pikeys would have had that years ago!
John Dufton : Govt grabbing, BR track to ££, or simply pikey pikeys ¿?
Its gone
It used to have a massive black cable on the wall aswell but that obviously went before the track.
Brilliant as always. Loving the links with the past and present with the old photographs
The nostalgia at times is overwhelming. Hey Martin....
I enjoyed every second of this. Brilliant vid mate.
Never wanted to go to Preston. Until now. Well done making yet another exploration.
Really enjoyed the video! It's a privilege to see history brought to life with all the details and adventure.
A new one on me , great when the rails are still in love it . Thanks for sharing .
Always good to see a photo of the old Preston Town Hall, a tragedy that it is no longer there.
Yet another good one Martin thanks for explaining about the arches in the tunnel
It’s that time of the week again. Marvellous!!!! 👌
Stunning thank you for sharing this with us 👏❤️😁xx
Really enjoyed that, I'm from Preston and that was a cracking film thank you
I'm glad you walked this line Martin. There aren't many left with the track down and it can only be a matter of time until it is all swept away and redeveloped. The best 'find' on this video is 'Dallam forge' cast plate on the bridge. brilliant!
John Eyres supposed to be a tram line. Preston has the actual trams just stored away for future use. Had them years
Neat old pictures. Thank you for taking us along.
I love history Thumbs up 👍 from Pakistan 🇵🇰
I really enjoyed that video , thankyou Martin and your two pals. When you have people who really have a passion for what
they enjoy ,they pass on their knowledge in an understanding and enjoyable way ,.Well done guys and keepup the good
work , thanks again
Great Video and thanks , I love the history and the workmanship that went into these old structures . :-)
Fascinating video,I live just outside Preston and always knew about this but it was great to see it being explored. Thank you
the masonry work just amazing, and the grey lady yep got me a bit too lol
Extremely well done. That would be a great tour for the local schools. A way of giving back and letting the younger generation know a little bit of the history.
Great to be back and in the groove of your wonderful videos ! I've been on the move for the last few months , so , I have some good viewing to catch up on ! thank you Martin for making it so worthwhile !!xx
Thanks Anne
Brill - Perfect timing. 38 minutes of interesting Railway history. Thank you very much Martin...
Thanks very much
Top stuff again Martin - tunnels, old bridge brickwork, track and sleepers still in situ, just what Sunday evenings were made for👍 Great B & Ws! always an added bonus. Thanks guys.
Saturday night the countdown to Zero hour begins! Great stuff as usual! Thanks for dropping some more wisdom on us!
Bozo could'nt re anything.
Thanks Martin. Amazing that the railway line is still there after all these years. When I look at these old tunnels and bridges I wonder at the workmanship that must have gone into their construction. Fascinating - as you say!
Great watch yet again! Thank you Martin.
I really appreciate your efforts and enthusiasm for these videos, you really would make a great TV presenter. I would definitely watch.
Great vlog, great collaboration, funny and really interesting too. Great music and a real adventure with the "Grey Lady." Lol - thanks for sharing :)
As ever mate, fascinating vid. I just love this. Great to see the history and the industrial architecture that hidden from us. Regards Paul 😁
That EMF's unbelievable.
Another great Sunday night vid, Martin 👍
Superb video. Thanks to the guys for their help and assistance. Very interesting history. Great architecture.
Another cracking video mate, great bit of railway history, brilliant.
Great explore chaps, really enjoyed that. Just love tunnels, fascinating. I could just imagine a 'Rat' trundelling through there with its train of stone. Many thanks Martin, Gordon and Martin.
Thank you for another adventure I love old train tunnels like that see over here we don't have the pleasure of having them they barium soon as they're done with them the clap some down it's good to see that they still keep this love you videos keep mop I'll keep watching
Another fascinating video Martin, thanks very much !
Hi Martin you keep finding em and keep em coming. Find this Victorian railway engineering fascinating they certainly built things to last back then and with such pride in their work always a plate stating where and when it was built or manufactured. If only we took the same pride in our work today.
Another fantastic video Martin, I am currently working at the Red Scar Works which as you rightly say was the old Courtaulds works which was once the largest Rayon Fabric producing factory in Britain. Only last week during some excavation work, some old rail lines were uncovered. Keep up the good work.
What a beauty. Lovely arch brickwork
well that was fantastic thank you all so much we loved it and thanks the the grey lady it looks like a fun time out for you all cheers from trev and christine down south x
Another good one Martin, Interesting insight to the past.
This is a very special channel with very special content. Thanks for doing what you do Martin.
Another fantastic and thoroughly interesting video, cheers Martin.
Fantastic as always. Thank You Martin
Great video as always! I briefly lived in a student house in 1990, that backed onto that line near the tunnel entrance on the Deepdale end of the tunnel. I'm sure I remember hearing big diesels come thundering down that line every so often.
Great videos Martin! On a less positive note, than the one I put on the Manchester's Lost Island of Pomona video, I attempted to get into The Miley Railway Tunnel today. I had the same bright idea as
peebee143 and took some garden shears with me. After hacking my way through over 100 bramble branches etc. I got to the tunnel entrance to find the fence sealed up again! :-( Oh well, maybe somebody else will open it up again. If they do, people's transit in will be easier until the spring! Thanks for education me about things on my own doorstep that I didn't know about. Cheers!
4 days ago
I live near Preston and work in Manchester, it don’t get better than this......
Dear Martin, you never fail to impress, educate and entertain! You make Sundays so special! Dont be afraid, your charming enough that the lady wont bother you :) Thank you Martin as always. Love from Peru
Another Martin-Zero-Video to brighten up the sunday evening. It reflects the fun you had. Thanks for sharing. :-)
You're right Martin, You do appreciate things more as you get older. Thanks marra keep it up
Sir, you make such good video's that are so historically accurate and well documented that they could/should be used to teach kids in school about the history of where they live. Outstanding job Martin.
Thank you
Beautiful video Martin. Would love to visit there myself, wow such history.
Hi Martin, I too am amazed how close the houses were to the line at Deepdale station. Also what looked like a greenhouse even closer ! No fenced area then , can you imagine all the local kids congregating to watch the trains...Mothers nightmare. Love the details on the iron girders on the 3 bridges too. 💚💚
It’s fascinating just how much Victorian infrastructure is still around but hidden...as ever the use of old maps really brings our rich industrial history mostly lost right back to life....brilliant..and as I’ve commented on nodrog’s video you guys must do more of these....👍
Absolutely fantastic video Martin. Once again the choice of music and the historical narration makes your films a joy to watch. I always feel like i have learned something new. A wonderful bit of editing completes the video. So love to watch your videos. Thank you once again Martin.
Thank you very much
Great stuff Martin more amazing architecture where the sun don’t shine 😟🧱👍🏼
You gotta like how the productions are getting better and better
Thank you Martin. Another walk down history and memories. Amazed the rails were still left and not scrapped.
It seems that lines that closed in the 80s/90s didn't have the rails taken up. in the 60s, it was done on purpose to make reopening in the future more difficult because the corrupt transport minister at the time had a road building company.
@@simontay4851 Thank you Simon for that.
Ha! A surprise ghost hunt in the middle of my urb ex fix! I've done a fair bit of ghost hunting in the past, so it was entertaining to watch you three spook yourselves out thinking about the grey lady haunting the halls of the disused railway line. Another great explore!
Another great film as always maps make it easier to follow. Looks like the section in the cutting with the supports had been cleared since Gordon's recce.
Brilliant Martin as always! abit closer to home for me this time....great to see some track still in place, if you look further along the line where it crosses Skeffington Rd the tracks are still in the road👍
Unusual to still see track in situ.Great Video as usual Martin.
Well done great production and photography. Loved Clarkeys 1940's style cocky helmet slant.
You need a good long hazel stick to beat that undergrowth back with, Martin. Those brambles looked utter bastards.
Fascinating, as always. Thank you.
Ah, the hidden beauty of tunnels...
Those old bridges are so pretty and still standing!
Walked along here during my first week at uni 4 years ago and lived in the student halls next to the tunnel entrance - never made it inside but always wanted to, great to see it on video!