Discovering the abandoned Smethwick West Station and the Galton Bridge
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2020
- Discovering the abandoned Smethwick West Station and the Galton Bridge!
We begin on the high level platforms at Smethwick Galton Bridge where we get our first view of the Galton Bridge. We have a quick look at the low level platforms before going in search of the abandoned Smethwick West Station.
After looking at the abandoned Smethwick West Station we walk over and under the Galton Bridge before walking through the modern Galton Tunnel.
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grew up in smethwick and this is a blast from the past for me
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Thank you for the memories 😢
You're welcome! Thank you for joining me!
Smethwick is my birth town, and it pleases me to see it being acknowledged 🙏
Love to see more abandoned stations Henry. - Domain.
Thank you for watching! Once we get out of lockdown I'll defiantly visit more abandoned railway stations!
Hi Henry, fantastic video, I have worked in Smethwick for 30 years and have used Smethwick West in the past . The ticket office was about level where the front of the stationary train was. It was a little brick building not much bigger than a garden shed and there was a metal bridge leading from it to steps on both platforms next to the concrete shelters. They went about 20 years ago.
Hi Simon, thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for describing Smethwick West when it was still open.
Brilliant, Henry! Great style, really interesting.
Thank you very much!
henry i muss sagen dein movie zu sonday war top danke dat you me gezeigt hast über eine station
Thank you!
hey henry ein nice sonday wishe i diri becam gestern nassen bluten aber heute geht es my nasse wieder better morning wishe i dir eine tolle new woche dort in GB lover henry mache weiter so
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Interesting upload. I live approx 0.5 mile away from Galton bridge and had no idea about the abandoned railway! Suppose it explains why the car park for SGB is on the opposite side of the road.
Hi henry the old smethwick west line still serves langley green and stourbridge
Thank you for watching! I travel on the line from time to time.
Had to get on a train from that station to lime street last year . I thought I recognised it
An interesting video Henry, Y have visited Galton Bridge on one of my trips to the area and I will go there again whenever i'm up that way, cheers
Glad you enjoyed watching! Its in interesting area.
Galton bridge used to be called the concrete jungle and on Oldbury road there used to be two flats called malthouse and sandfield point my mom lived in malthouse
That station was closed when the demolished the two 20 storey blocks of flats on the Oldbury road next to it, Sandfield point and Malthouse Point.
Thank you for watching and the info!
Damm now I miss now Smethwick
Grate video you should explore the west drayton - staines west abandoned railway at some point has a smashing view of planes
Thank you and thank you for the suggestion! That is one old like I would like to explore as its got some unique features! Hopefully I will in the future.
Hi Henry, great video, I have recently walked the two canals featured, I don't know if you know but as you walked through the tunnel there is another impressive bridge just a short walk along the towpath on the new mainline canal. The Engine Arm which carries a canal arm from the old mainline across the new mainline. Thanks for the video, take care.
Thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed the video. I didn't know about the bridge you mention but I'll have a look on the map and next time I change at Smethwick Galton Bridge I'll have a look. Thank you for the info.
@@HenrysAdventures It's a nice loop walk using the new mainline and old mainline, I have walked it and filmed it in sections (plug plug) I think it's Birmingham Mainline part 5, and old mainline part 1 you can see most of the loop, turning at Smethwick Junction (North end) and Stewards Aqueduct (South End).
@@WebbysWalks Thank you for the info! I'll have a look!
Hello Henry, many thanks for uploading this interesting video.
I sometimes use Smethwick Galton Bridge station to change trains between a Birmingham - Wolverhampton train and a Kidderminster bound train whenever I visit the preserved, heritage Severn Valley Railway, aa I take West Coast train between London Euston and Birmingham New Street.
The Jewellery Line is more commonly and popularly known as the Snow Hill Line. You are correct, there are no passenger trains that use the spur line which links both the Birmingham - Wolverhampton and Snow Hill lines.
Best wishes and take care. Kind regards, Peter Skuce. St. Albans. Hertfordshire.
He should visit Severn valley railway at some point
@@a1exr0ll44 I used to live near Bridgnorth and regularly visited the Severn Valley Railway. I will return in the future!
Glad you enjoyed this video and thank you for watching!
the spur goes to old hill , cradely heath , Kidderminster , the line is still used i think it joins to the jewlery line
Thank you for watching and the info.
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I’ve seen smethwick west station whilst on the train from smethwick Galton bridge Henry
What train
So you arrive at smethwick west from stourbridge on the old gwr on the curve right went to new snow hill station . Via hockley and left went to LMS line to new st station in the 1960s does that help ? The LMS came from Wolverhampton in parallel with the canal to new st station at galton bridge station.
Thank you for watching and the info!
Hi Henry, many years ago when school was finished, we would rush down to the Galton Bridge to spot the Glasgow to London express, which arrived around 5pm,it was usually pulled by a LMS engine or a British Railways Britannia class, I remember many times sitting only a couple of feet from the busy traffic, and feeling the bridge shake when a heavy lorry crossed over! Happy Days!
Hi David! Sounds great, I wish I was around in those days!
There are three passenger trains per day on the Galton Chord, all XC one early in the morning and and two late at night. Also a Tesco train to Daventry late evening. There is also a path for the Nuclear train but that does not always run. On RTT look at Smethwick Junction. I have lead walks around that area so if you want to come back sometime I can meet up with you.
Thank you for the info! Looks like if I want to do that section of track I've got to be up early or out late. I expect I'll get it done one day when things get back to normal. I will no doubt visit the area again at some point in the future.
I literally live next to there
Good luck taking the cycle path challenge, nice video, I've been exploring, Smethwick is odd, all the levels for foundations are askew, "cut and cover" like that. Be good to link up.
Thank you for joining me! Its an interesting place.
On Sundays 21st & 28th March 2021 Cross Country trains will run via the Galton Chord using the Stourbridge Line rather than the Bromsgrove Line. However you will need a ticket covering Birmingham New Street to Cheltenham as they will be running nonstop.
Thank you for letting me know! If it wasn't for the current situation that would be a good say to track bash that section!
@@HenrysAdventures 28th March has been amended to bus but 21st still by train
They closed it around same time as the tower blocks got knocked down, & council estate across road was demolished & rebuilt, the road you carried on walk-in on past Smethwick West Was Where the tower blocks were that whole area was known as the concrete Jungle. But was so much crime etc they regenerated the area.
& if you carried on round that bend after Smethwick west to the next road that’s where Malcom X Visited In The U.K.. Marshall Street. A lot of history in Smethwick
Thank you for watching and the info! I saw a picture the other day and only then did I realise there were tower blocks and an estate there. Do you know if the blew up the tower blocks?
@@HenrysAdventures yeah they blew them up, used to live in them I was young then though but I remember the day they were blown up both were 24 story blocks, & the estate across the road was all concrete was known as a super estate because of its size they rebuilt it all, & the underpass from the estate to tower blocks was closed up as well. Still live on the estate now.
@@HenrysAdventures but yh where the Galton bridge car park is was where one of the flats was if I could upload pictures to comments I’d show u
@@liamwes4572 Thanks for letting me know! I knew they blew up quite a few tower blocks around Birmingham!
@@HenrysAdventures Yh there was a lot in Smethwick alone you had concrete jungle, then french walls & the black patch tower blocks
I noticed theres an abandoned station just before the right goes to the right on the snow hill lines, is that the west station?
Yes, that's the one.
hi frd. new frnd here
Thank you for watching! Happy New Year! :)
hey henry heute abend lasse i GB wieder auf erstehen weil es wird time dat GB waht zurück becomet
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3 weeks ago we had a Ebike stolen in galton tunnel by 5 youths.
Sorry to hear that!
Interesting
About that other track i catch the train everyday and I have never seen a public train go on there only once I sow a small freight train
Looks like the ticket office was actually near the modern car park - maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=52.50161&lon=-1.98287&layers=168&b=1
You should off looked in the skip hire place by the entrance to bcn new line you would of seen stone arch way think it’s where Samuel gallons house stood.
Thank you for watching and the info. I'll have a look next time I'm in the area.
Henry, theks for the reply, by the way, did you know as we were told at school, that the Galton Bridge is the highest bridge over a canal in the World?
I didn't know that! Thank you for telling me! Great fact!
The single train a week before closure originated from new street
Thank you!
Nothing new lived her all my life we know
This video is for all those who don't live there and don't know!!
i am from lithuania and live here 6 years .nice place except rubish everythere o lot of rubish.. and its shame
I agree it's a shame about the rubbish. I wish people would dispose of it properly.
@@HenrysAdventures the people dont dispose properly rubbish because they dont care abouth that.maybe 90procent of people living in smethwick they give the fuck abouth rubbish..if i was goverment member i put maybe 50 officers who catching people littering ..if catch child who have 11 eyars old give his parent 600pound bill for that . and never he litter again..after 10 years people know that litering cost big money.and all enviroment be clean and nice..
I hate to say but they will knock it down soon a discrace what they did to it its auful seeing it all dissappear and over growing more and more
What will they knock down?
@@HenrysAdventures Smethwick West I think the state of it shocked me