Absolutely. The first building with the chimney was the water tower, used for servicing the engines of race trains, as they would have had to lay over for most of the day, there. The huge steel water tank is long gone, naturally enough. The whole station originally looked almost identical to Horsted Keynes, with a full set of canopies as well as the subways, and identical architecture (same architect, same civil engineer, the 2 lines built within a year of each other) Iirc, there were separate facilities for royal parties as well.
Explored this during covid epidemic, amazing. there is a water tower and a goods shed. We found the 3 tunnels on the line - singleton tunnel (no access) cucumber farm tunnel (a small door north end) and cocking tunnel. They were doing work to the cocking tunnel so managed to walk through it. (Don’t think there is access any more)They are extending Centurion Way Railway Path so will probably go through the station.
Sometimes, short and sweet is good and I like revisiting place after a while to see what happens to them! Glad to see that it's being used for something other than decay! 😊 Thank you for showing us this! I'm curious to see if they bricked the tunnel! 👍🇺🇸 Much love from Oklahoma! 💙😎
These short n sweet explores are very easy to watch i enjoy them all i think ive seen this before and it was good to see yous and becks see it for yourselves bit of history like
Enjoyed the video guys. I went to this station inthe 1980s for a school project, managed to go in side the station house/ticket office, as it was a winery at the time (v good wine too). It was a total period piece, nothing was changed from when the railway close...lots of memories...cheers Tf 😅
Definitely a goods shed not an engine shed, the double sliding doors on the side give it away, the goods wagons would have driven in and been offloaded / loaded under cover then the carts and trucks would have driven up outside and goods would have been transferred again covered by the roof which extends out on that side. The platform that had the rails sticking out at the end probably had a small signal box there, the rails would have allowed the cables to pass from the signal box out underneath and down the side of the track to the various points and signals needed just for that station. Most stations would have had a goods shed and a coal yard, some may have also had water towers for the steam engines to take on water, that large building as you approached the station was probably a pump house of some sort, the big chimney indicates a large steam engine so possibly either pumping water away from the rails or pumping water up to a long gone water tower at rail level
The height off the ground of those doors with the runners in the "Engine Shed" suggest to me that it was a Goods Shed. That's so heavy items don't need lifting onto the Wagon/Lorry bed for the "last mile" delivery.
I saw this a fair while ago. It was not all fenced off and the train buff took us down the stairs and tunnels. There was a lot of old parts on the floor then. It’s amazing it’s still there after closing in 1935 x
I walked the whole line today from Chichester to West Dean I couldn't find the station buildings only a water tower and a gated area that may have been it that said private no access. It was a great walk. Think the station I passed was Lavant.
awesome explore steve and bexx would love to explore this one and i know roughly where it is but i wont say. this also happened with the Hayling billy line in the 60s and the fareham to gosport line although some of the track at gosport is still visible. all down to the Beeching cuts and with the hayling line it was the cost of the langstone bridge maintenance.
That engine shed looks more like a goods shed. The side with the doors would have been where lorries would have been loaded for local delivery. The first building you mentioned looks like it would have been a water tower, which would have fed watering points on the paltforms for replenisheing the engines.
This a lovely old LBSCR station built to handle large volumes of traffic which never materialised. Pre-Covid planning permission was granted to extend the Centurion Way footpath through the platforms, and I wonder if this may explain the works. That goods shed is Grade II listed as is the station building which is similar to some of the stations on the Bluebell Railway.
Station begins with an S. That is the goods shed. There is a tunnel with the same name nearby. Platforms are 3/4 mile long. Other u tubers did the subway.
What an extraordinary station with all those platforms for a low traffic line to Chichester, the extant buildings are listed I saw and whoever owns the platforms has seen fit to leave them be maybe with an eye to one day reinstate perhaps? 5 passenger platforms and a car ramp capable loading dock platform plus the small goods yard that handled all the sugar beet traffic for the two hamlets of Singleton and West Dean a handful of houses in either plus a subway connection someone threw a lot of money at this station maybe there was a planned build that never happened. The docking platform and extra platforms seems to have been only used for Goodwood racecourse meets where Goodwood specials would arrive from all over the country and the ramp used to transfer wagon held horses into horse boxes to move forward to the racetrack. I also seem to remember the royal trains would alight the royals at Lavant when visiting some peer in his estate and the baggage would be decanted at this station in the video as no royal is going to want to hang around whilst sweating workers lumbered their trunks and bags onto awaiting trucks.
Yes definitely a lot of infrastructure sitting there. And thanks did the info, makes sense they’d need a foods lift for the cars/carts for the nearby race course
After the Appleton Report called for all old railway lines to be converted to cycle/walking routes. Local highway authorities were given first choice to buy the land but as usual the councillors and officers had no eye for the future and allowed the old railway to be sold off very cheaply to local farmers and the like who soon put the usual fences up to stop people using the old track bed. A very English approach that has prevailed since John Clare and the Enclosures - another disaster for countryside access. SUPPORT RIGHT TO ROAM
Good one Steve 🤙
I remember doing this one... interesting relic.
I suspect the building was a goods shed rather than an engine shed.
@@MarkPreece-b2k probably right
Not a loco shed but a goods shed. Ian Allen books listed all loco sheds whatever their size.
Absolutely. The first building with the chimney was the water tower, used for servicing the engines of race trains, as they would have had to lay over for most of the day, there. The huge steel water tank is long gone, naturally enough. The whole station originally looked almost identical to Horsted Keynes, with a full set of canopies as well as the subways, and identical architecture (same architect, same civil engineer, the 2 lines built within a year of each other) Iirc, there were separate facilities for royal parties as well.
Explored this during covid epidemic, amazing. there is a water tower and a goods shed. We found the 3 tunnels on the line - singleton tunnel (no access) cucumber farm tunnel (a small door north end) and cocking tunnel. They were doing work to the cocking tunnel so managed to walk through it. (Don’t think there is access any more)They are extending Centurion Way Railway Path so will probably go through the station.
Sometimes, short and sweet is good and I like revisiting place after a while to see what happens to them! Glad to see that it's being used for something other than decay! 😊 Thank you for showing us this! I'm curious to see if they bricked the tunnel! 👍🇺🇸 Much love from Oklahoma! 💙😎
These short n sweet explores are very easy to watch i enjoy them all i think ive seen this before and it was good to see yous and becks see it for yourselves bit of history like
Enjoyed the video guys. I went to this station inthe 1980s for a school project, managed to go in side the station house/ticket office, as it was a winery at the time (v good wine too). It was a total period piece, nothing was changed from when the railway close...lots of memories...cheers Tf 😅
@@timothyfurmidge2206 thanks glad you enjoyed 🙏
British brick quality was something, modern house bricks crumble out in 20 years
Thanks for sharing it. It's interesting. 👍👍👍😍😍😍
A title such as.. A Tour of the disused Singleton Station in West Sussex... would have been useful for those of us in the rest of Great Britain. 👍
Cool. I had no idea this was all still there.
Definitely a goods shed not an engine shed, the double sliding doors on the side give it away, the goods wagons would have driven in and been offloaded / loaded under cover then the carts and trucks would have driven up outside and goods would have been transferred again covered by the roof which extends out on that side.
The platform that had the rails sticking out at the end probably had a small signal box there, the rails would have allowed the cables to pass from the signal box out underneath and down the side of the track to the various points and signals needed just for that station. Most stations would have had a goods shed and a coal yard, some may have also had water towers for the steam engines to take on water, that large building as you approached the station was probably a pump house of some sort, the big chimney indicates a large steam engine so possibly either pumping water away from the rails or pumping water up to a long gone water tower at rail level
Thanks for the extra information 👍
The height off the ground of those doors with the runners in the "Engine Shed" suggest to me that it was a Goods Shed. That's so heavy items don't need lifting onto the Wagon/Lorry bed for the "last mile" delivery.
A great find and many many thanks for this video
Imagine the bustle at that station on race days.
I saw this a fair while ago. It was not all fenced off and the train buff took us down the stairs and tunnels. There was a lot of old parts on the floor then. It’s amazing it’s still there after closing in 1935 x
I remember Alex and Matt came here a few years ago! It was really cool!
What an excellent video 😊
There was a gradient marker in that shed used for steam to indicate to the footplate crew.
I walked the whole line today from Chichester to West Dean I couldn't find the station buildings only a water tower and a gated area that may have been it that said private no access. It was a great walk. Think the station I passed was Lavant.
That looked like a fairly big station
The reason why it got more platforms is because of the races.
awesome explore steve and bexx would love to explore this one and i know roughly where it is but i wont say. this also happened with the Hayling billy line in the 60s and the fareham to gosport line although some of the track at gosport is still visible. all down to the Beeching cuts and with the hayling line it was the cost of the langstone bridge maintenance.
Yes I’ve seen some of the gosport track and walked the Hayling one. It’s interesting stuff.
That engine shed looks more like a goods shed. The side with the doors would have been where lorries would have been loaded for local delivery. The first building you mentioned looks like it would have been a water tower, which would have fed watering points on the paltforms for replenisheing the engines.
Thanks for the info 👍
This a lovely old LBSCR station built to handle large volumes of traffic which never materialised. Pre-Covid planning permission was granted to extend the Centurion Way footpath through the platforms, and I wonder if this may explain the works. That goods shed is Grade II listed as is the station building which is similar to some of the stations on the Bluebell Railway.
I had read too about the Centurion Way extension. Would be brilliant if it still happens.
Thanks for the info!
I know this track well. Good on you both. I’m curious, you just good mates?
Yup 👍
Station begins with an S. That is the goods shed. There is a tunnel with the same name nearby. Platforms are 3/4 mile long. Other u tubers did the subway.
Thanks for the info 👍
West Dean
What an extraordinary station with all those platforms for a low traffic line to Chichester, the extant buildings are listed I saw and whoever owns the platforms has seen fit to leave them be maybe with an eye to one day reinstate perhaps? 5 passenger platforms and a car ramp capable loading dock platform plus the small goods yard that handled all the sugar beet traffic for the two hamlets of Singleton and West Dean a handful of houses in either plus a subway connection someone threw a lot of money at this station maybe there was a planned build that never happened. The docking platform and extra platforms seems to have been only used for Goodwood racecourse meets where Goodwood specials would arrive from all over the country and the ramp used to transfer wagon held horses into horse boxes to move forward to the racetrack. I also seem to remember the royal trains would alight the royals at Lavant when visiting some peer in his estate and the baggage would be decanted at this station in the video as no royal is going to want to hang around whilst sweating workers lumbered their trunks and bags onto awaiting trucks.
Yes definitely a lot of infrastructure sitting there. And thanks did the info, makes sense they’d need a foods lift for the cars/carts for the nearby race course
Massive station for a country location.
Served Goodwood racecourse.
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Yeah, no rebuilding old railways now. Traffic will just have to get worse. And then worse than that. And then much, much worse...
Goods Shed, not Engine Shed dude!
Did you break in and trespass?
Last time I checked, going round/under a fence isn’t breaking in, as you’ve not broken anything - clues in the name 👍
A fence, that usually means no entry, so you're trespassing, it's entitled people like you that give other Good UA-camrs a bad name.
Exactly, usually - not in every scenario 👍
After the Appleton Report called for all old railway lines to be converted to cycle/walking routes. Local highway authorities were given first choice to buy the land but as usual the councillors and officers had no eye for the future and allowed the old railway to be sold off very cheaply to local farmers and the like who soon put the usual fences up to stop people using the old track bed. A very English approach that has prevailed since John Clare and the Enclosures - another disaster for countryside access. SUPPORT RIGHT TO ROAM