A most interesting watch. So sad to see this wonderful architecture and line side buildings gone. And yet the brutalist excuse for these modern square boxes which have since been built, it’s heartbreaking. You videos take a peep into better times for most of us, many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! In someways, it’s better these lines perished, because if they were still around today, they wouldn’t be in their former glory, but rather costs-cut, possibly single track form, and as demonstrated at Keyham, station buildings would’ve been demolished for plastic shelters.
You brought back some great trainspotting locations for me in the 1960's watching 1363 or a County with its straight nameplate at Laira Depot or a Spam Can at North Road Station or an N Class chugging off from Friary to Wadebridge on the Atlantic Coast Express. Happy memories. K
Ah...dear old 1363 in the 83D roundhouse...bittersweet memories triggered. Fascinating watch, beautifully put together..thanks for posting. Old Bonifacian !!
My Gran used to live between the St. Levan (GWR) and Ford (LSWR) bridges. It was sad to see the latter be demolished but better than letting it decay and fall down. I lived in St. Budeaux and spent many an evening opposite the signal box until the new electronic MAS box was built in Plymouth. Thanks for this video - it brought back many, many memories and was good to see Kings Road which was still visible in parts when I attended DHS Boys. Plymouth has certainly changed since I left it full-time way back in 1973.
Thanks for taking me back. Having lived in Alexandra Road just opposite Mannamead Signal box, then overlooking Friary yard in the days of the Drewery shunters (11227 sticks in the memory) it was sobering to see just how much has gone. Courtesy of the Plymouth Railway Circle I went on a brake van tour of many of the closed lines hauled by a couple of the Drewery locos (one broke down whilst we were in Milbay docks so the other was 'liberated' to take us on), that would have been about 1964 I think. We even went from Kings Road down to Ocean Quay.
0:15 I’ve been across that royal Albert bridge twice when I was on a railtour behind the diesels between 2008 and 2011 and that bridge sits on a county border between Devon and Cornwall
Change is a good thing sum times but it's still bothersum to see how quick it can take place....it seems sum times we get sumthang put up were taking it down for sumthang else....👍👍👍👍 great video 👍👍👍👍
Thank you. My father served among other Battleships during W.W.2 aboard H.M.S. Rodney a Devonport ship, and traveled from there aboard a blacked-out train the route frequently delayed by Luftwaffe bombing some several hundred miles and many hours to Thurso prior to transferring to Scapa Flow.👍🏻🏴
Why does it seem that every now photo seems depressing and uninteresting and every old photo seems full of life and interest....or is it my imagination?
Thanks for a good vid & all the traipsing around u’ve done, to capture it. I grew up in Plymouth & from your now pics I hardly recognise where u’m too half the time. Tis changed a lot in last 15yrs not for the good by the looks!
Lucas terrace showed my chilhood home in the background with the water tower that powered the turntable next to it . Friary engine shed where my father worked and I got a leathering for playing in it`s unsafe ruins !
A beautifully put together video but it does leave one with an overwhelming sense of loss, not just in material things, buildings, stations etc but how our railways have lost and are losing any form of humanity. Gone are the staff, the flower beds, the signal boxes many of which would have a resident cat. Romantic nonsense? Maybe.
This made me quite sad to watch, maybe the melancholy music but I just yearned to go back in time when things were simpler. We think we have progressed.....but have we ?
Ghosts of a past aged - and not for the better. See how rampant the growth of vegetation has been with no apparent attempt, due to 'costs' no doubt, to keep it in check. Then they complain of 'leaves on the line' from trees that were non-existent 60 years ago.
A most interesting watch. So sad to see this wonderful architecture and line side buildings gone. And yet the brutalist excuse for these modern square boxes which have since been built, it’s heartbreaking.
You videos take a peep into better times for most of us, many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! In someways, it’s better these lines perished, because if they were still around today, they wouldn’t be in their former glory, but rather costs-cut, possibly single track form, and as demonstrated at Keyham, station buildings would’ve been demolished for plastic shelters.
You brought back some great trainspotting locations for me in the 1960's watching 1363 or a County with its straight nameplate at Laira Depot or a Spam Can at North Road Station or an N Class chugging off from Friary to Wadebridge on the Atlantic Coast Express. Happy memories. K
Ah...dear old 1363 in the 83D roundhouse...bittersweet memories triggered. Fascinating watch, beautifully put together..thanks for posting. Old Bonifacian !!
My Gran used to live between the St. Levan (GWR) and Ford (LSWR) bridges. It was sad to see the latter be demolished but better than letting it decay and fall down. I lived in St. Budeaux and spent many an evening opposite the signal box until the new electronic MAS box was built in Plymouth. Thanks for this video - it brought back many, many memories and was good to see Kings Road which was still visible in parts when I attended DHS Boys. Plymouth has certainly changed since I left it full-time way back in 1973.
The world has changed
Thanks for taking me back. Having lived in Alexandra Road just opposite Mannamead Signal box, then overlooking Friary yard in the days of the Drewery shunters (11227 sticks in the memory) it was sobering to see just how much has gone. Courtesy of the Plymouth Railway Circle I went on a brake van tour of many of the closed lines hauled by a couple of the Drewery locos (one broke down whilst we were in Milbay docks so the other was 'liberated' to take us on), that would have been about 1964 I think. We even went from Kings Road down to Ocean Quay.
I like the way how you have found the same locations at the old Photos - very ghostly of the past!!! 🤔🚂🚂🚂
0:15 I’ve been across that royal Albert bridge twice when I was on a railtour behind the diesels between 2008 and 2011 and that bridge sits on a county border between Devon and Cornwall
Excellent look back
Massive shame all that history is just gone and is now just buildings and roads huge shame and makes me very sad watching this thank you
Walked across the road bridge footpath last weekend - always worth another visit!
vVERY INTERESTING....BROUGHT BACK A LOT OF PLEASANT MEMORIES AS A BOY.......
Change is a good thing sum times but it's still bothersum to see how quick it can take place....it seems sum times we get sumthang put up were taking it down for sumthang else....👍👍👍👍 great video 👍👍👍👍
Thanks
Thank you. My father served among other Battleships during W.W.2 aboard H.M.S. Rodney a Devonport ship, and traveled from there aboard a blacked-out train the route frequently delayed by Luftwaffe bombing some several hundred miles and many hours to Thurso prior to transferring to Scapa Flow.👍🏻🏴
Great video .Even though I am from up north I found it very haunting .
Thanks
Why does it seem that every now photo seems depressing and uninteresting and every old photo seems full of life and interest....or is it my imagination?
So many memories, so many years ago. DHS Boys and Kings Road Station and Yards. Happy days. Thank you.
Very evocative - thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Yes please, more of that chief.
👍 I’ve only scratched the surface!
Wonderful memories Thank you.
Thank you for taking the effort to show before and noe.
Thanks for a good vid & all the traipsing around u’ve done, to capture it.
I grew up in Plymouth & from your now pics I hardly recognise where u’m too half the time. Tis changed a lot in last 15yrs not for the good by the looks!
Lucas terrace showed my chilhood home in the background with the water tower that powered the turntable next to it . Friary engine shed where my father worked and I got a leathering for playing in it`s unsafe ruins !
Great video amazing how much it has changed yet there are subtle hints if you look closely that a railway was once there
I love ur video. New here. Love finding about our railway in Plymouth. Please can we have some more
Those HST power cars look so odd when sat on their own. I read somewhere that plans are underway to reopen Plympton?
I’ve heard that also, creating a ‘Plymouth Metro’ from Plymton to St Budeaux, although the plans are poor and have little momentum
Excellent video as ever! Do you have any book recommendations for sourcing historic railway images of Plymouth and surrounding areas? Thanks.
Where would we be without nostalgia eh?
Ah yes....my Plymouth, I remember these stations..I was born 1946 in Plymouth..
Good effort
Thank you
A beautifully put together video but it does leave one with an overwhelming sense of loss, not just in material things, buildings, stations etc but how our railways have lost and are losing any form of humanity. Gone are the staff, the flower beds, the signal boxes many of which would have a resident cat. Romantic nonsense? Maybe.
This made me quite sad to watch, maybe the melancholy music but I just yearned to go back in time when things were simpler. We think we have progressed.....but have we ?
weird to see most of ford's history under a pile of dirt now.
I know, must people probably wouldn’t have known it was there
@@steamtothewest-trecanrail i used to live in ford, i was told the old railway station was turned into a dumping ground!
Thankyou so much. I’m a nerd for these things
Ghosts of a past aged - and not for the better. See how rampant the growth of vegetation has been with no apparent attempt, due to 'costs' no doubt, to keep it in check. Then they complain of 'leaves on the line' from trees that were non-existent 60 years ago.
OMG. Plymouth has lost virtually everything.
Aint progress wonderful..........🤮