Looking for Swindon’s Other Railway

I go to the town of Swindon in Wiltshire to see what remains of the M&SWJ Railway.

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[Applause] [Applause] Hello and welcome to West country wanderings wel welcome to what my Railway Series there’s a Tano we’re here at Swindon railway station the gwr railway station station at Swindon obviously now managed by gwr not the original company gwr and it’s known for its trains to places like South Wales

And Paddington Bristol on up to chelterham SP but as well as this station here there was another station in sendon and that was on the line that was operated by a company called Midland and Southwest Junction Railway and that’s why we’re here today to have a look what

Remains of the old MSW Jr bit of a mouthful isn’t it be able to tell you a little bit about the history of the line and why it was built here on West country wanderings for I hope you can join me for the tour here today so if

You’re not familiar with Swindon station Mainline down that Direction takes you down to Padington it has four platforms three of them are main through platforms and one of them is a bay platform either used for trains going to chelham spar or down the West wilts line to melam and

Westbury that’s a useful line actually takes you down to Westbury so you can then connect up with trains going down to the south coast and even parts of Dorset and Devon as well so that’s I’ve used that a few times but uh this platform here platform 4 that was built

I think in the 1990 early 2000s end the end of the 1990s early 2000s and find the day that put now there so that was an addition here parts of the the Swindon station here are the original station but uh much is not so the site

Looks very very different to what it did do in the original days and of course it was electrified it’s electrified right through here to the seven tunnel down into South Wales and through to Paddington it’s from the area Fleet Street of the moment not in London here in Swindon and

I think this was the route of the North wilts Canal which we’ll meet up with again shortly cuz the building next to me is called the lock and we’ll be seeing some more of it as we go through the main shopping center in fact I’ve done a separate video looking at the

Wilts and Barks again we’ll be coming across that later on on both of those here on one of these raway series videos but we’re going to head through there and catch up What Remain me the Midland and Southwestern Junction Railway here in swinden which had its own railway

Station in what is now called Oldtown although there’s no remains of that station itself because it’s now an industrial estate but yeah really interesting to see that I did look at with all the T might dug up here at Fleet Street to see if I could see

Anything of any old locks or anything like that but I don’t think they’ve dug down deep enough it’s just a brening in the first top layer of the tarmar so nothing else other than that but uh we’ll continue our journey here in swinder in Wilshire and when I was

Coming in on the train on the Golden Valley Line here to Swindon you could actually make out part of the original North wilts Canal which is now like an impromptu Lake that runs parallel to an industrial State just to the north of the Town Center I’ll include the map so

You can see where that is now but uh I don’t want to walk around that area today because it’s only very narrow and very very muddy foot paths in fact there been flooding on the Great Western Mainline between Swindon and Bristol Parkway and trains are delayed in that

Direction but we’re going to head across this way which is the route I took before when I was doing my Wiltson barks Canal video here in the area of swinden now it’s good to see this here so we know that we’re on the right route Direction semington which was video

Number one in the Wilson barks Canal series here on West country wanderings this isn’t my usual ham is it to going through shopping centers thankfully it’s January so it’s not too busy January sales are on but uh we’re going to carry on down this way till we join out with

The line the old Midland and Southwest Junction Railway so we’re continuing on Canal Walk here through Swindon City Center Town Center is not a city is it no I think there is a plan to make it City the only city in Wilshire of course is uh Souls spray

Just lies a few miles to the the South here which I visited with the east from Southwest Sundays last year keep having to say last year now cuz now course in 2024 very early in 2024 early part of January going under this Canal Bridge here carried the road over the Wilson

Barks Canal sorry about the the lighting conditions now we’re just going underneath that and I think I’ve did my introduction to my Wilson bars Canal video on the top of this bridge we’re going to follow this way it’s not very interesting this bit catch up with you

When we get to our Railway got a handy Wilson barks Canal CH map here so we’ve been following the canal line just down there and then we’re heading down to where it joins up with the Midland Southwestern Junction Railway that’s skew bridge going onto the Old Railway

Track there there is a skew Bridge across the former line of the canal now that area is called rushley plat and it’s a really important part of our story for the Midland Southwestern Junction Railway and the reason for that is to do with the complicated history of

This line as I’m walking alongside the toe path here while it’s quieter away from the traffic I’ll tell you about how this line came into being that’s better away from that traffic now so it’s better so how did this line come into being well it started off as an idea an

Idea to join the Northwest to Southampton always been a strategic port on the English Channel and the Northwest burgeoning in the end of the 18th century and expanding right through the 19th century because of all the milit towns two very important cities with Manchester and Liverpool of course wanted to connect up to

Southampton so they had a plan in 1845 they tried to get an act of parliament passed to build a railway from Manchester to Southampton but it never was passed through Parliament there were several other attempts and this whole line became a very fragmented local exercise rather

Than a strategic plan to built a line from the Northwest to Southampton doesn’t that sound familiar ran into lots of difficulties meanwhile of course the gwr became dominant in the Swindon area connecting up to both Bristol South Wales and Pennington as we saw the start at the busy Swindon railway station

Which is still going strong of course there were the Midland Railway line and Midland R line had built a line between Birmingham Gloucester Gloucester to Bristol and then Bristol to ex to of course into the Southwest the area we’re familiar with here on West country wanderings but that was further away and

They wanted Their Own Line own slice of the action to get from this part down to the South Coast so there is in fact two separate lines which joined at swinden and one of those lines went from the town of cheltonham to swinden and the other line went from

Swindon to andova in Hampshire and then it had running Paris over the London and Southwestern Junction railway from andova which took it into Southampton now the connection was to be at a new station to the east of Swindon and the layout hint Swindon is quite complicated

As we’ll see it crosses over the Golden Valley Line the line I hold down to Swindon on today um hopefully there should be a bridge there so we’ll have a look out for that where intersects well not intersects goes on over and under with that and there was another

Intersection where it meets the Great Western Mainline just to the east of swinden town center we’ll have a look at that as well rushley Pat actually had four platforms split level there was a high level rushley plat and it’s a high level rushley plat I’m hoping to see

Some remains of the MS WJR I think that’s right still a mouthful isn’t it and there was a lowlevel part of it as well I’ll insert a map now because it’ll make more sense it’s difficult trying to describe what the layout was on so it

Was a bit of a over and under jobs you got the line coming out from the connection at the gwr and then it was going over and then under so the first part of the local Endeavors was businessmen in Swindon got together with businessmen from the neighboring town of

Marbra which we covered in a previous Vlog here on West country wanderings and businessmen from Andover in Hampshire and they thought they’d promote their own line connecting those three towns to’ be good for their business interests they got some Capital where they put out1 but only some 300 or just over £300,000

Of money was raised which is more than or less should I say than what they needed construction started around 1874 in 1875 the contractor went bust and just to the east of Swindon Town Center they needed to build a tunnel they started to Bard the tunnel and then that

Collapsed 1976 the entire company went bankrupt so we’re now at rushley par and this is the famous skew bridge over the Wilson barks Canal which I featured in again in my swind and Wilson barks video but we’re heading up there this time onto the track bed itself see what we can see

The remains the MSW J are here now just up ahead here amongst the trees there seems to be a widening in the track bed so that’s our track bed there heading back where we’ll be going that way back over the canal heading to a country Park where it meets up with

The Heritage line which we’ve done previously on here so all these things linked together but uh yeah there’s a widening here so see if we can see what’s over there on the right hand side now there’s a definite widening in this area we’ve actually got some raway

Fence post that’s always a good sign you can just see there there’s a bit of a cutting and I think that was our curve that was the curve that took the railway down to the lower level to rushley plant lower level so it’s very complicated

Layout here and I see if I can find some old photographs that copyright free and share with them with you now so you can see this cuz it looking on the ground here is quite confusing it’s not obvious as to what the railway track layout was

But uh I do believe that was a course of our Railway in there and also the course of our Railway on the higher level here behind me let’s carry on exploring in this area fascinating and the sun’s come out and the rain stopped as well which is always

Great now just been looking at some historical maps on my phone it was difficult looking at detailed maps on a phone particularly with a dodgy 4G signal but it looks like the rushy packed and the divide and the section that heads down to Andover splitting off and joining the uh Great West Mainline

Was the other side of the skew bridge going over the Wilson bks canal and we need to look out for a bridge called red Post Drive Bridge what I do remember seeing that bridge when I was walking following the canal on the previous one so the station was actually before that

So it’s after the skew bridge but before we get to the red Post Drive Bridge so we’re going to go back over the canal see we can see that so I don’t know why the railway was so wide at this point cuz the railway fence post are way over

To the left and to the right maybe that was just because of drainage cuz the railway track bed here is at a higher level than the land that it surrounds so I’m guessing that was purely for a drainage function good idea especially with all the rain that we’ve had

Lately is why I mean that’s I’m standing in the middle of the track bed moment that was swinden Town station in that direction the MS swrj station and the fence sorry about the lights in the wrong place is way right over that side so I don’t know why you have that cutting

And what looks like a curve but it’s nothing to do with the former Railway track as far as I can see anyway let you know different please drop a comment below well anyway we’re going to continue back over the canal and see if we can find this platform edge here on

West country wanderings and now back over the canal again over the Y Wilson barks and I can see the bridge ahead of me which the uh has been renewed so we can walk on that bridge but the line split before we get to the bridge so it should be somewhere

Here so my eyes are peeled so if they’re wondering off the camera lens is because I’m trying to look for this uh platform Edge so this is red Post Drive Bridge which has kind of been redone since the railway closed I think parts of it though are from the original MSW Jr but

I’m still confused cuz I don’t seem to be able to find this platform which is really annoying cuz our line the section heading down to Andover and joining up with the Great Western Med line would have curved away on a lower level cuz obviously I’m at the higher level here

Which is where the higher level plat station would have been but around here nothing literally nothing at all so I’m a little bit mystified if I’m thinking I still get a gut feeling it was where the track bed was wider and I think the online map may be slightly out so I do

Think it’s the other side of that Canal there but uh it is a little bit strange I’ll see if I can do some homework online when I get back home but this is our Bridge Bridge here which has been wonderfully restored so we’re going to continue on over that bridge and see

Where the line meets the Golden Valley Line Between Swindon and cheltonham and while we’re doing that I’ll tell you then a little bit more about the history of this Railway so I’ve just come over that red Post Drive Bridge bit of a Eureka moment here because that down

There is the turnoff the turnout which would have headed down to meet up with the gwr mainline also the route for Andover the higher bit is the bit that heads on in the direction of chelton by blundon and siren cester and that’s the direction that we’re going to be heading

So I think our remains of our rushy pla high level bridge will be somewhere over here so that’s our track bed heading down to the lower level there it’s get well it gets quite overgrown we’re going to stick to the track which is now the I think it’s called The River Ray Parkway

Which will could take us into the country Park we’ll be following that for the rest of the the video the journey as I tell you about the history but uh yeah this is the section here still haven’t found the edge of that platform but we’re going to join the higher level

Section of the platform now at this point here it does cross over a really wide Bridge one for the lower level section of the track and one for the higher level can’t quite make out what it’s actually going over looks like it was a farm track it’s certainly no

Longer used because this has become much more of an urban area than it once was when the MSW Jr was in full flow now it’s great finding the platform edging here particularly because this rway station here both upper and lower level was the lower level open first

Followed by the upper level the reason for that but it opened 1883 but the whole thing closed by 1905 because this was UN like today a very rural area you didn’t have the big industrial units and factories Etc that you’ve got now was in the middle of nowhere really there was

Initially a service between the gwr mainline railway station where we started our video to swinden town station which lies not in what is now swinden Town Center but what is known as Oldtown in my opinion the better of the two hars of Swindon and say that site

Has no longer was all demolished it’s now an industrial estate as I say uh and there was a short service there I think just for two years but because gwr charged the LSS WJR High access fees to use their track the service only lasted for mere 2 years and I said the whole

Thing closed here rushley plat in 1905 we’re going to continue our journey on now right through to the the country Park where there is a little bit to see but we need to make a diversion before we do that and before I tell you more about the history of both of the Railway

Companies and how they join together to form the MSW Jr butth yeah so our Railway goes where is it off down there to the right and there’s a reason we can’t follow that bit well we can follow it for a bit um because this is the bit

Where it would have joined with a bridge going over the gwr mainline that’s no longer accessible so we have to go on a new route following the foot path down the cycle track the river R the river Ray Parkway to join it with the country

Park but just see what we can see I don’t think we’re going to be able to get very far with it because it is very very muddy let uh just have a a Qui quick look here so yeah so it continues in that direction there but

I’m yeah I’m not going to go down there cuz it is with all the rain that we’ve had it is very very boggy and it’s uh very much overo oh there is one thing there is one thing now I’m glad I did that little version but uh it’s also got

Me a little bit confused cuz I think the internet is wrong cuz it said there’s only one platform edging I think there’s two the bit that I just showed you I think is platform edging part concrete base but here we have some brick work as well look at that ladies and gentlemen

So that’s uh NE other platforms obviously there was two platforms for rushley plat higher level and two platforms for the lower level which now goes lost in down there and then it goes into this big industrial complex so there’s no point uh proceeding with that but uh this is wonderful bit

Here well that’s made my day finding that because I didn’t expect to find that and that which would have been on the opposite side of the track you hear freight trains on the gwr mainline just behind me there so we’re very close to that again now as we double round on

Ourselves but yeah this considering that this Station closed best part of 120 years ago in 1905 and now in 2024 of course it is leaning somewhat but he expect it after at zero maintenance after 120 years but uh look at that that’s just brilliant and that’s fantastic remains here the middle and

Southwest Junction Railway rushley Pat upper level here in Swindon as we walk now carrying on to the Country Park obviously there are some other bits and pieces to see I’ve been promised I still can’t get over that that’s great that was a great scene I’m

Glad I just poked my head down there as well worth doing sometimes is worth doing that the Midland and sorry the Midland no the Swindon Swindon marbra and Andover Railway where they they went pretty much into bankruptcy but the government this time kind of stepped in

They had the ACT Department to open the line they were determined it was going to do it and there was a new debentures offered for the contractors I can’t remember the name of the contractors I’ll put that in below and the contractors offered deal a share of the

Profits of the line which they took up and construction restarted later on in 1880 completed just uh 2 or 3 years later to the line opened as I say a rushley plant station opened here in 1883 enabling traffic to go through from Swindon down in direction of andova

Which is really good connecting up Swindon to Southampton Channel ports that’s not our full story there because obviously what this line was on the upper level here at rushley par was nothing to do with the swinden malburn Andover Railway at all it was to do what was known as a Swindon and chelham

Extension Railway has its own unique history before the two became one so having got Swindon connected up to the English Channel and Southampton that obviously wasn’t enough they needed to connect it up to the Midland Railway and the Northwest that was the key for the both the Midlands and the Northwest industrial Northwest

The West Midlands so a separate Act was passed in 1881 to build a line from rushley plat where I am currently to andoversford a little to the east of chelterham where there was the chelam and Banbury Railway so it’s going to connect up with that there and then Link in to chelam it’s

Self that construction started just towards the end of 1881 and it was completed by 1883 when the aforementioned rushley pla high level station open here so our track continued along so you can see some fence posts are there at the higher level there’s some also some fence posts

To the left and to right of me and I’m not quite sure why they are there but it was possible that it was just to Mark the boundary at the land now what happened next was that you had a line that went from here from Swindon down to andava and another line

That was going on from that’s the gwr main line again just just right in front of me going on up to chelham but no through company no through route needed to link cheltonham it was at chelham landown which is the existing cheltam station also going through Lampton and places like siren

Sester and chedworth where there was a tunnel this all connected up but they didn’t have enough trains so when the line opened there wasn’t any through trains between Manchester or Cham or indeed Southampton so we’ve now reached up with the Great Western Mainline that direction there takes you to brist Parkway in South

Wales and down in that direction there takes you to Swindon main railway station because we’ve already had that link which we saw the lower level link and off going around to swinden town here the track was on an embankment passing over the main line on a bridge that’s not the only Mainline

Obstacle that the mssw Jr had following its route up to cheltonham because of course there’s the golden line Golden Valley Line which is what we’ll see shortly so currently an industrial State Bridge me that’s Bridge me trash screen down there for the river Ray the environment agency and that’s our track

Red it would have come up here and gone right through what is currently Ren kitchens before it hits one of two country Parks so I’m following along here H looks like an old Railway B there but I don’t know if that’s from where they’ve been breaking up hardcore

Whether it’s from the original route it’s hard to tell because obviously so much of this area has been redeveloped since the line closed but uh certainly along here oh we have we have some Railway stuff over here to show you away from all of that is some Railway fence

Spos here opposite Ren kitchens if you know Ren kitchens in Bridge me in Swindon you’ll know where I mean got some in there some additional ones too but the I think our track bid would have been in the wood there just to the right of that oh we can actually join it we

Can join it here it’s very muddy I’m not going to stay on this I don’t think cuz it goes goodness knows where it doesn’t we what I what I join up with the country Park but yeah this would have been our track bed through there I just showed you

That’s it in the other direction but it is built on with the fences in that area now ssbd Bridge me which is just through there in the car park so Railway come from behind me here we’ve got something really interesting to show you here though it’s got new coping bricks on the

Top of it you can see that there those red bricks underneath I do believe that’s our Railway brick work in there which would have carried on on the top here just where this wall is across here with the sabur car park on the other side of it it says Mannington signs a

Bit damaged down this way so we’re going to turn off to the right I’m still on the river Ray Parkway so we must be going in the right direction so this is the river Ray GRE feed there the other end of it we saw Bridge meat it’s the

Other end of the ssbd car park in that direction so we be following the Riverway continu it through I think we’re going past something called Mannington Recreation ground currently before we get to sha Park and then molden Hill Park where we’ be concluding our video but this part of it here you

Can’t make out the track at all but we will be on the exact route of the track probably in about half a mile or so so I’ll catch up with you then now I’ve caught with the river Ray again so this is It’s flood plane here

So so it’s a very very long bridge which I’m walking across now put some extra footage so you can see well you can see it down there so uh the river here has completely bursted its banks but I don’t think that’s anything out of the ordinary by judging by the the sheer

Length of this bridge I’m really glad that this bridge is here and then shortly on the other side we should be able to catch up with our Railway track bed again so in there actually according to the OS map looks like there were pits and shafts not sure what mining that

Would have been whether it was quarrying or coal not aware of any coal seams around swinden but uh I’ll check that out and see if I can uh find out and put that in the usual way below but interesting anyway now unfortunately although I’ve caught up with the cycle

Path again as you can see there’s a great big fence across it that’s because TS water relaying some pipes in this area H typical but I’m going to continue on to the Country Park the name which has completely gone out of my head the

One of two and see if I can catch up with the cycle sorry the railway track there down here is where the track bed would have come through as well I don’t think there’s going to be much to see that because it’s been used as a road connecting Road for some time rather

Than a a cycle route so I don’t think there’s anything of anything significance in there but that was the route of our former MSW Jr here in swind going well that’s the direction back to Swindon where we were at the start of the video I’m currently in Shaw Forest

Park one of two country Parks I said to be in the area I am feeling a little bit tired I haven’t found a seat or been able to sit down or even have a cup of tea since I sat up off the train when I got off at Swindon some well how long

Ago was that some time ago anyway probably about four or 5 hours ago so had not had any lunch yet and it’s heading up to 3:00 so if there isn’t any seat in this one I’m hoping there was going to be one in the next week

Next one I’m going to head across sha Park Forest Park here I don’t know why it’s called Forest Park it’s not really a forest it’s just a a small Woodland here sandwiched in between two main ring roads and our track bed is over the other side here and I’m hoping that it’s

Going to be clear that I think it’s a bit where T’s water have finished so I’ll be able to follow that into molden Hill Country Park but uh not as yet there is a seat there but someone’s decided to cut it in half that’s that’s

Which is not great so I think our track bed is just over here by this cops let’s let’s go and have an Overlook and see if we can join up with it there over there is something I wanted to show you and I’m still not sure

Whether it is open there are some fences around it that is the bit where the MSW Jr goes underneath the Golden Valley Line the line between Swindon and chelam bar making its own route up siren sest itself and uh the other places like chedworth but I’m not sure if we can get

Down there I’m going to persevere on here if not going to have to retrace my steps again to make my own way around to where the Swindon to crica Heritage line is and show you some bits and pieces there but uh it is being a little

Disappointed now I know I wanted to say when I did my MTH Vlog I wanted to bring you some adventurous type videos well it’s certainly that very unexpected a but not quite I wanted it to turn out now we can’t go any further in fortunately cuz there is a closure

Notice on this although it has actually expired it’s dated July and it’s 6th of July and it says it lasts um 6 months which takes us up to well just a couple of days time but there’s no way this is opening in a couple of days so they need

To get a an extension order on this and there’s no signage at all to tell you that there’s a closure to this major cycle route heading through nor North Swindon here but our Railway Bridge is down there but I can’t make it out so I’m see if I can continue further on in

This direction now this name of this part SW seems to go under a multitudinous number of names according to the OS map it says Sparkles but also in this area was a stub off the Midland Southwest Junction Railway to serve Molton Molton power station which I think it believe opened in the

1950s and actually didn’t close until 197 71 so after the main closure of the line in the 1960s you had this stub coming up from rushley plat Junction with the Great Western Mainline there and serving off a little stub here to the par station which would have been

Hereabouts I guess it possibly could have been in the area I am now which is a lovely Nature Reserve actually far nicer than where we were at sha Forest so yes unfortunately that is our Railway track bed right in there again where they’re laying in this section a

New sewage pipe up to Haden Hill which is in the direction I think I’ll be capturing the bus back into the railway station in Swindon town center shortly but uh yeah closure here this actually started in August 2023 and it does say this this section here goes on for at

Least 12 months and it does give you a diversionary route I managed to find seat back there grab something to eat and drink so that was good too yeah this is called Spar around here really Pleasant Nature Reserve there is a foot pth that we’re going to

Use and I think it goes underneath the railway line so we’re going to join up with that now and then uh cuz I said our Bridge which I couldn’t quite see was that way but we see if we can get through there now now beside me here I’ve got to make

Another diversion because yes you guess it access to our rail track track bed is blocked there but this here here is Peron Road Bridge which went over not to the wilts and Barks Canal but the North wilts Canal which obviously was an arm that extended the wilts and Barks Canal

Up to the 10 s Canal a Latin I’m actually going to be doing a separate video about where it joins the Latin in more detail later on but it’s good to see a section of the North wilts Canal here in Swindon in water while I’m walking along this nice quiet tow path

Here in Swindon is to introduce a character into our story of the Midland Southwestern Junction raway and that is one Sam Fay now after the amalgamation of the two Railways the the chelham extension and the and over bit south of Swindon profits for the railway remained low it wasn’t generating the traffic

That they expected and Sam Fay was only 35 years old and he worked for the London and Southwestern Railway which the Midland Southwestern Junction Railway used to get access from andova down to Southampton they contacted the London Southwestern Railway for advice about how could they improve the profits

Of the line to cut a long story short Sam Fay became the General Secretary of the middle and Southwestern Junction Railway and managed to turn around to some extent The Fortunes of the Railway it was never going to be a really really profitable line like the Great Western

Railway but it saved it carrying on and it continued as its own separate Railway until of course yes you guessed it it was Amal with the grouping of the four into the gwr in 1923 in 1900 the MSW Jr got a loan out from the Midland Railway and the reason they

Wanted to do that is because they wanted to double the track it was built as a single track line and in stages from 1900 it was doubled and the reason for that and the reasons behind the Midland Railway was sinking was because they thought it would increase capacity and

Therefore they could use it to connect their Midland Railway Network to the channel ports as well wasn’t a huge success but it did increase a capacity line and it continued its Fortune although it was still passing through a rather rural area another thing which boosted its fortunes though was the war

Starting off with the B War and the army camp at tidworth it also connects up with the bes at luggers Shore which is still a section of that St of that I think is still used I think we might need to head down there at some point to have a look

At that continuation of my military Railway Series so he had the war there there was also a camp just on the outskirts of Swindon as well so the lot of military traffic was generated on the Midland and Southwestern Junction Railway with the nationalization of British Railways in

1948 the railway fell between two stools part of it was looked after by the western region and another part was looked after at the southern region the dividing line between that was a place called Grafton in 1958 the running power has changed as while it was running into chelam landone

Busy station on the Midland Railway and that changed and it was then just running trains to cheltonham St James sadly the combined efforts of San Fe in the 19th century the doubling of the line at the turn of the 20th century The increased capacity and the military stop wasn’t

Enough the line closed on the 9th September 1961 although parts of freight continued on a little bit longer after that we have mentioned that stub Morton covering the power station in 1971 and when the M4 was built section of it we used to bring in raval and tarmac around the swinden area as

Well what remains is very little to be honest there is a chedworth tunnel to explore at future date I will hope to go south from Swindon to have a look at the line the route of the line down towards marbor and perhaps around to to lugger shore as well what’s this though a

Bridge a bridge behind us right at the end of the video let’s have a look well we’ve got a beffer stop for you that seems appropriate at the end of the video so this is tall Valley halt station on the swinden crade railway which I have featured before they had

Trains running on New Year’s Day actually but there’ll probably be no more now until Easter it’s a great line there so it’s really good and they are trying to link it up with crade which is north witer town very delightful North witer Town which sits on the river temps

Hope you enjoyed this little tour here well it wasn’t little was it but uh it wasn’t quite what I had hoped for or expected really because I was hoping that we were going to see lots more of the track bed and that bridge where it goes underneath the Golden Valley Line

But uh because of 10 of water unfortunately and everything being closed off alas it didn’t quite work out that way I’ve got a bus to catch now in nearby Hayden Hill back to the railway station at swinden until next time on West country wanderings take care of yourselves look after yourselves and I

Hope to see on the channel again very very soon thank you very much for watching today all the best now bye-bye greatest Railway service to London Oh Oh Oh