How did the Severn Valley Railway restore the iconic Falling Sands Viaduct?

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  • Опубліковано 10 гру 2024

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  • @mikeschillinger4427
    @mikeschillinger4427 Рік тому

    Still my favorite railway. I learned an awful lot as a young teenager working in Bridgnorth MPD. From how to pour and machine whitemetal bearings to fitting locomotive tires, replacing boiler tubes and my first experience of a pinhole camera viewed from the inside of the tender on the Great Marquess when she was stored in the headshunt.
    I learned the basics of cushion and seat upholstery and still hold Bathams Delph bitter in high regard, even though the PW's Jim Bodfish tried to drink all of it single-handedly.
    Thanks Thunderclap, you set me on a great course of beer appreciation.😊
    Long live the SVR and their great bunch of volunteers and workers.
    A great place to start a kid in many trades.

  • @Nivshin53
    @Nivshin53 3 роки тому +5

    Wonderful exercise by all concerned. It also shows the value of the Volunteer workforce when so many - like Nick - are consummate professionals in disciplines such as Civil Engineering - and who know what they are doing!

  • @gordonbruce2416
    @gordonbruce2416 3 роки тому +4

    What a great insight, very well presented.

  • @metalman4141
    @metalman4141 3 роки тому +1

    Great to see SVR engaging with the the public web cams , reports ect well done everyone 👍

  • @tonyrobertson498
    @tonyrobertson498 3 роки тому +3

    Very interesting video, thanks for preserving our heritage

  • @roboftherock
    @roboftherock 3 роки тому

    What an interesting mini-documentary. Concise information, exceedingly well presented by two articulate speakers. Kudos to all involved.

  • @thebrummierailenthusiasts5329
    @thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 3 роки тому +4

    i say that viaduct of falling sands outside Kidderminster looked magnificent

  • @johnjephcote7636
    @johnjephcote7636 5 місяців тому

    Back in the 1960s there was a rail mounted item called a 'Gozunder'. It was a sort of inverted high lift inspection platform only it went downwards to inspect the arch soffits.

  • @hendog3894
    @hendog3894 3 роки тому

    Amazing work !

  • @robertbate5790
    @robertbate5790 Рік тому

    Very interesting, thank you.

  • @TravelJackJourneys158
    @TravelJackJourneys158 3 роки тому

    Fantastic video Serven Valley Railway thank you for sharing it

  • @hoagy_ytfc
    @hoagy_ytfc 3 роки тому +1

    Great work (and great video about the work!).

  • @medwaymodelrailway7129
    @medwaymodelrailway7129 3 роки тому +1

    Like the video very much .Hope there more .Take care

  • @petersmith4455
    @petersmith4455 3 роки тому

    well done to all. looks great

  • @grahampickering1560
    @grahampickering1560 3 роки тому

    All the time and TLC was well worth it 🙂🚂

  • @Watermillfilms
    @Watermillfilms 3 роки тому +1

    Does that mean from the curve out of Kidderminster to Bewdley it’s all 25mph limits now?

    • @roadvoodoo30
      @roadvoodoo30 3 роки тому +1

      Not yet still got to stress the rail

    • @Watermillfilms
      @Watermillfilms 3 роки тому

      @@roadvoodoo30 how comes there’s so many speed restrictions on the SVR? 🙂Must be hard for the driver constantly changing speed all the time.

    • @roadvoodoo30
      @roadvoodoo30 3 роки тому +1

      Due to ground foundations been unstable due to been close to the river

    • @Watermillfilms
      @Watermillfilms 3 роки тому

      @@roadvoodoo30 ok thank you makes sense now. Must be the same with the SDR. Max limit on that is 20.

  • @haystax6289
    @haystax6289 3 роки тому

    👏

  • @tandemcompound2
    @tandemcompound2 3 роки тому

    Falling Brick Bridge-- saved by people batshit crazy for trains.

  • @lillywho
    @lillywho 3 роки тому

    That thumbnail looks like it's straight from Thomas the Tank Engine - including the tank engine! 😙

  • @Topcat634
    @Topcat634 17 днів тому

    It seems to be a scruffy viaduct. The main difficulty for the railway is if it did get any worse, there wouldn’t have been any trains at all. So the raking out of the motor joints were working out. It’s possible to run those trains.

  • @williamtacey1783
    @williamtacey1783 3 роки тому

    But physical distance, society until next spring 2022. We keep hands face space letting fresh air went liked the same since September last year.

  • @heathstjohn6775
    @heathstjohn6775 3 роки тому +1

    Not a penny more than was absolutely necessary to maintain it for decades was available for its continuing use, but only at 5 mph. But, when those to whom people keep choosing to give power decide there is money to spare, suddenly, over £106,000,000,000 can be found for HS2; paid for, in part, by the magnificent tax-paying volunteers, who work on projects such as this. In fact, it was I think entirely restored, eventually, by the money the public raised, not, not just £400,000-something; for who else but the public buys lottery tickets ? The Heritage Lottery Fund only has the money the public chooses to give it.
    The insulation didn't "Fail" at all; it succeeded, for over a hundred years; government priorities fail.
    The whole UK rail network could be improved, not just this viaduct. Instead, about half-an-hour less to Birmingham was chosen as preferable: (before the train now standing at platform whatever is either late or cancelled).

  • @allanegleston4931
    @allanegleston4931 3 роки тому

    eggscllent. so inquiring minds want to know ,, when are u going to run trains over it ? have you thought of building bat houses for the bats ?

    • @SevernValleyRailwayOfficial
      @SevernValleyRailwayOfficial  3 роки тому

      We're running trains over it now :) You can come join us to travel across the Falling Sands Viaduct :)