That's a fantastic idea to support the structure, it makes my blood boil when I see a bridge filled in, well done however decided to do this job. That is one hell of a back garden and a cracking find of the signal box. Dot and Rob are very lucky to live in such a gorgeous place, as I've said before, I absolutely love old stations especially ones that are well looked after. Another brilliant effort mate👍.
Timestamp 1' 08": You do not want to disturb/destroy the spider's home. You are a man after my own heart. Live and let live. 💚 I noticed that the brickwork at the forefront of the station house seems to reflect the 'new' brickwork seen earlier on, on the bridgework. Pelters welcome! Thank you Andy and all members of the AWL Research Team. Some more pieces of that erstwhile P-Way jigsaw fitting snugly, due to your tenacity et al. ... Stay free. Rab 🍻 😎 🌠
Thanks for the video - very interesting. So nice to see people trying to look after these lines as so often they just get fenced off by farmers and forgotten. I recently discovered that bridge too and sadly found even more rubbish down there. We did a walk behind North Cave at the weekend and was surprised at the size of the embankment as I'd never seen it up close before. We walked through it on Low Mill Lane and I did wonder if there was a path on top but didn't see any way up. I don't think their back garden extends that far but it's not accessible anyway. We've also walked the section in Eastrington but not found anywhere else accessible between there and North Cave yet.
A nice jolly, I would like a back garden like then, See you give then a name check. nice house. A bit behind on the videos. Bridge like a rubbish dump down at the bottom by the metal fencing
Hello, it isn’t the council, who looks after road bridges, rather Highways England who are Under the government's plans, to peel off from the civil service and become a private company owned by the UK Government. There’s some logic in there somewhere apparently.
I work for the council so checked with our bridges team. They confirmed it is one of the bridges the ERYC are responsible for and repaired it some years ago. They are getting back to me when exactly the repair was carried out. The same can be said for the bridges on the hudson way we maintain those too. Hope that helps, thank again for your excellent videos.
Hi Andy, just had confirmation from our bridges team this is one of our bridges we look after. It was assessed in 1988 (approx dates) and was found to be a weak structure. It was strengthened to a minimum highway standard 40T in 2004 again approx date. Pointing was carried out to as you highlighted in your excellent video. Hand rails were added to aid our bridges team safe access to carry out checks on the steel work. Most disused railway bridges were sold off. The property side of the council bought some to provide bridleways, some were sold to land owners. This bridge is a council owned structure managed by our highway section because it carries a road. There are a few bridges that remain the property of the railways and are now managed by National Highways (formally highways England, formally British Rail property board. Hope that helps. I also now have a picture of the bridge prior to strengthening.
It's a shame the public see fit to dump rubbish over the parapets,wildlife is often affected and sometimes injured or trapped by plastics or containers nobody seems to think of nature.
Some good trinkets of detail hidden here 👍
That's a fantastic idea to support the structure, it makes my blood boil when I see a bridge filled in, well done however decided to do this job. That is one hell of a back garden and a cracking find of the signal box. Dot and Rob are very lucky to live in such a gorgeous place, as I've said before, I absolutely love old stations especially ones that are well looked after. Another brilliant effort mate👍.
Dot & Rob have a lovely place to live :)
Thank you so much for watching and commenting
Good Video,
Nice to see the bridge bring saved, rather than the easier option of demolition ...🙂👍
Indeed!
Timestamp 1' 08": You do not want to disturb/destroy the spider's home. You are a man after my own heart. Live and let live. 💚
I noticed that the brickwork at the forefront of the station house seems to reflect the 'new' brickwork seen earlier on, on the bridgework. Pelters welcome!
Thank you Andy and all members of the AWL Research Team. Some more pieces of that erstwhile P-Way jigsaw fitting snugly, due to your tenacity et al. ...
Stay free. Rab 🍻 😎 🌠
Awesome permission visit , it is amazing what still exists on this line if you do a bit of "rooting" around , well done
Thank you very much :)
Great video, loving this series, many thx for bringing us all along.
Glad you enjoyed it and there's plenty to come :)
Another great informative video, fantastic find of the signal box base. Thanks for the upload, superb. Regards Julian.
Hello there, thanks very much :)
Thanks for the video - very interesting. So nice to see people trying to look after these lines as so often they just get fenced off by farmers and forgotten. I recently discovered that bridge too and sadly found even more rubbish down there. We did a walk behind North Cave at the weekend and was surprised at the size of the embankment as I'd never seen it up close before. We walked through it on Low Mill Lane and I did wonder if there was a path on top but didn't see any way up. I don't think their back garden extends that far but it's not accessible anyway. We've also walked the section in Eastrington but not found anywhere else accessible between there and North Cave yet.
superb thank you
Very interesting video as always guys.
Thank you very much fine Sir
Loving this series thank you
Thank you so much Barry
@ 14:32 looks like LONDON & CHIPPENHAM SAXBY & FARMER Ld. They were Signalling apparatus manufacturers.
Good thinking 🤔 John Saxby did the signalling systems. Thanks for commenting 😀
Another great video.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Awesome buddy nice one
Thanks Mike👍
A nice jolly, I would like a back garden like then, See you give then a name check. nice house. A bit behind on the videos. Bridge like a rubbish dump down at the bottom by the metal fencing
Fascinating
Hello there, thank you very much
goodstuff , from wigan , lancs
Thank you :)
Im sure the council have adopted all old railways bridges such as this not the Highways Agency. You may have meant that, just a small point.
Hello, it isn’t the council, who looks after road bridges, rather Highways England who are Under the government's plans, to peel off from the civil service and become a private company owned by the UK Government. There’s some logic in there somewhere apparently.
I work for the council so checked with our bridges team. They confirmed it is one of the bridges the ERYC are responsible for and repaired it some years ago. They are getting back to me when exactly the repair was carried out.
The same can be said for the bridges on the hudson way we maintain those too. Hope that helps, thank again for your excellent videos.
Hi Andy, just had confirmation from our bridges team this is one of our bridges we look after. It was assessed in 1988 (approx dates) and was found to be a weak structure.
It was strengthened to a minimum highway standard 40T in 2004 again approx date.
Pointing was carried out to as you highlighted in your excellent video. Hand rails were added to aid our bridges team safe access to carry out checks on the steel work.
Most disused railway bridges were sold off. The property side of the council bought some to provide bridleways, some were sold to land owners. This bridge is a council owned structure managed by our highway section because it carries a road.
There are a few bridges that remain the property of the railways and are now managed by National Highways (formally highways England, formally British Rail property board.
Hope that helps. I also now have a picture of the bridge prior to strengthening.
It's a shame the public see fit to dump rubbish over the parapets,wildlife is often affected and sometimes injured or trapped by plastics or containers nobody seems to think of nature.
Yeah I hate fly tippers.