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Absolutely first class!

I've cycled the Barnstaple to Braunton stretch and the Mortehoe to ilfracombe stretch, but for whatever reason (maybe land owners refusal) but the cycle track doesn't go from Braunton to Mortehoe. But i have heard there is a possibility of linking that section up too. which would be great, as you could then cycle the old railway line all the way from Ilfracombe to Meeth in the heart of Devon. That would be pretty much 41 miles of continuous old railway lines you could cycle then.

Works of genius, these!🤩

I can remember seeing trains going into lynn docks when I was a lad 50 years ago.

Absolutely SUPERB

Can you do Nantwich to wellington

I walked the line when it was derelict and slept in the tunnel in a refuge. Thank you so much for this!!🚂

Fantastic, thank you!

Stunning video, I really enjoyed it.

In late wartime I travelled on this line west from MC to East Rudham, where the station is still visible. We were met by horse and trap to take us to our destination. My sole memory of the journey is the train steaming in from the east.

ANOTHER MASTERPIECE .

I never knew there was this line , as a child i used to go to the Nidd Gorge kinda daily !!!!

How handy wud this line be today !!!!

Very Good 🙂🚂🚂🚂

Fascinating and so clever, thanks. Brought back memories of childhood journeys to school between Bourne End and High Wycombe.

This is one of those rare lines you can follow and observe from the roads to pateley bridge, sadly it was just a branch off a main line to the north that beeching shut. But, there are plans to open the entire length from Ripley to pateley bridge as a walking/cycling path.

What a beautiful journey. So sad it’s gone. Thanks for sharing in such a great way.

Adding insult to injury: building a road on the old trackbed. A clever piece of film!

My Great Grandad, John Charles Holmes was born at Darley or Dacre. Very vague ancestry but a very interesting train journey. Thank you.

The present station at Yarmouth is a bit far from the beach - to which it's a 25 minute walk. Pity the station at Yarmouth Beach is gone.

Another nice one !! FRosty

Another great vid and massive thanks for doing this line .a sad waste really as I'm sure it wlukd have n Been useful had it survived today

C😎😎l - I have cycle along the Monsal Trail Many Times& still find Railway 'Furniture' along the way!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂

Excellent as always thank you.

That was fantastic!

Has anyone else completed this journey, as I did during WW2?

Brilliant editing and effects. I love it. Thanks for sharing... but I now need you to do all of the old railways!!

Excellent work!

Great idea. love it.

fantastic

I used this line both in steam and diesel days, it wasn't still Broad gauge though!🧐😄

Thanks James, great work as always. Looking forward to the next.

As originally opened the first station on the branch was Maidenhead Boyne Hill, the entrance to the station can still be seen in the bridge over the line, the station closed in 1870. The original Brunel terminus station at Wycombe with overall train shed roof and engine shed still survives, it closed in 1864 and was then used as a goods shed.

Thank you for putting that together - really fascinating stuff and, as a Maidenhead resident, I only found out recently that there used to be a connecting line between Maidenhead and High Wycombe. It seems mad that they ever got rid of it.

Coming into High Wycombe from the Loudwater direction, I have to remind myself that this was originally "the" route into HW; the Chiltern (ex GWR) route from Beaconsfield which joins from the right came a lot later in 1910. In an alternative universe where technology was developed a couple of decades earlier than in real life, it would have been fantastic if all the lines which Beeching proposed for closure had been given the Don Coffey treatment - a cab-view video with well-researched and informative captions - to preserve the experience for posterity. But video cameras only became available in the 1980s, and the cost of cine film for a long route would have been prohibitive.

Brilliant creation as always on this channel.

Fantastic... amazing to see the route existed before what we think of as the 'main' line....

Another fabulous video, James. thank you so much. I enjoyed this one as I always do with your wonderful work.

i have manage to walk most of the disused section of this line back in the 1980's before parts of the line were sold off, thank you for posting this up😁

Brilliant! Fantastic! I have vague memories when I was 3 (so 1966) of my grandpa, a keen railway enthusiast, taking me for my very first ride on a train, probably to get me out of the house in Maidenhead while my mum was in labour with my sister. I remember sitting at the front of a 1st Generation DMU looking through the cab out of the front window and the driver inviting me into his cab to "help him drive". It was either on the GW main line to Slough or Twyford, or else more likely on the Bourne End and High Wycombe line. A memorable day! I wish I'd asked my grandpa before he died in 1979 whether he remembered which line it had been. It's plausible that it was teh Bourne End line, since that didn't close to passengers until 1970.

I find it amazing that after over 150 years most of the field shapes, boundary and hedge lines haven't changed.

A really excellent production. Yours is the only UA-cam channel that uses background music that feels appropriate. All others, I either mute or switch away from, as their music is intrusive, inappropriate or too loud. Thanks for producing these interesting videos.

An incredible piece of work, interesting, informative and anger-inducing at the balance-book mentality that deprived future generations of the ability to move around without the burden of having to own a car. Really impressive!

Fantastic to see how the route is still visible on modern maps, and to see a picture of my house as the train passed through Caister. Thank you for your excellent work.

Shame that all these lines had to close - would there be less cars on the road if they were still open to day I wonder??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂

Very good to watch 🙂🚂🚂🚂

This is really fascinating. Have you considered doing the Strawberry Line that, I believe, ran from Yatton to Evercreach passing through Wells and Shepton Mallet Somerset.

This line was loved by the late Sir John Betchamen (Poet Laureate). There’s even a u tube film of him on this line in the early sixties.

Your ghost train videos are so incredibly done. I've watched several, mostly from lines I have known in the past. Keep up the good work.