Walsall Bescot to Lichfield City (Full Version, Speeded up)
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- A trip along the South Staffs Line, from Walsall Bescot to Lichfield City. Approx filmed in 1982 and not 1975 like our last video says.
For more information on the South Staffordshire Railway, go to: southstaffsrail.co.uk
I’ve only just stumbled upon this by pure chance! This is fabulous! We used to live along the side of this line, in Pelsall, just after we had our first baby boy, from 1972 until 1977.
Only goods trains used it while we lived there (apart from the odd, very rare passenger excursion) - you can just about see our 3-storey flats on the left… after we pass under the lattice-footbridge that used to mark the site of the old Pelsall station (5:20 into the clip), then go under the solid road bridge that led to Railswood Farm over on the right… The driver sounds his horn and then if you look quickly to the extreme left you’ll see the backs of the 3-storey flats and we lived in the topmost one at the end of the row!
We often used to watch in delight as the trains thundered past, out of our kitchen window. Our baby son was never woken by the trains’ noise - he was used to it all the time!
Just past our old flat, the driver slows down for the level crossing with Ryders Hayes Lane, which in those days continued across the railway line and became a farm track, leading to the former Ryders Hayes Farm (before it became a short-lived quarry which is now a lake).
We often used to go for a cross-country walk over this level crossing and continue-on to Coppice Wood at Walsall Wood.
This has brought back amazing memories for me - thank you so much to whoever filmed it in the first place and to you for posting it on here for us!
I never dreamed I’d ever be able to go back in time and actually take a virtual ride on a train that drove past our home all those years ago on a line that no longer exists!
Wonderful!
I've also been following the route using Bing Maps, Ordnance Survey view, while it played! Excellent!
Hi Steve I had stumbled across this myself, I lived at 50 Railswood Drive from a baby until a few years after the line was ripped up in 1983, Spent many a day on the bridge as a kid on the bridge! If you look at 04:38 at the track it is split! How the trains didn't derail I will never know!
Great bit of history
Excellent, thanks for uploading the full version. Nice to see the box known as 'Bodleys' at 01.33 and the Peak on a freight at Walsall. The revised date of 1982 would be about right as the spur to Birchills Power station (on the North Walsall line) was closed and lifted circa 1981, you can see where it used to go off to the left at Ryecroft Junction at 03.02, just past a brick hut.
I used to travel along this line daily from Pelsall to B'ham and occasionally to Lichfield and sometimes to Burton.(steam and then diesel units)Once went on an excursion from Pelsall to Alton Towers (train was packed) Thank you for bringing back memories,never thought I would see this line again.
i had to speed the video up to fit as a whole film on youtube, so the sound doesn't match the video, but atleast you can view the full version which would of taken over 24mins to view.
The original copy, which was given to us had 1975 written on the disk, but like you say, after a few views you could tell it was alot later. On the real time part 2 video, you can hear the driver mention that the line from Lichfield to Anglesey is going to be left and converted to single line running.
Walked this line from Pelsall to Lichfield on Monday. The one line is in tact from Brownhills. Fascinating walk
They really need to re-open the South Staffordshire Line!
This was a class 46
Thank you for the video it brought back so many memories,has anyone got video of the line between Wolverhampton and Walsall passing through Willenhall.
It's a shame that it's not reopened, traffic gets more and more horrific everyday, Walsall to lichfield in half hour ish, u couldn't get to Brownhills in that time, governments will never admit there wrong 😔😢 what class diesel is it????
Used to patroll all that back in the day,signalman at the end in Lichfield box was called Jim but i've forgot his surname.
jim weston
Great video.What a shame rail lines like these close.All that money and manpower gone to waste.
Hasnt all this track been removed now?
Don't think it has
Oh no I think the tracks has gone because at pelsall is a bridge and use to be railway tracks now its a footpath
It's all been cleared. Abit left towards lichfield