Bailey Gate Railway Station 1960's Dorset UK Part 4
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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S&D Steam Railway Bailey Gate station Dorset and the cheese making factory United Dairies. Filmed in 1984 with superimposed archive film of the goods yard in the early 1960's. Edited.Archive film of Shllingston to Blandford forum steam railway in the 1960'sContinued from Blandford Forum through charlton Marshal to Spetisbury the S&D railway from operations in the 1960's to 20 years later in the early 1980's.
The remains of the railway track bed and some cuttings I filmed then have now gone. There is no evidence left of the Railway through Bailey Gate and the grand old days of steam railways.
I always thought as a child in the 1960's this line would be here forever with all that work to construct, it took around 2 years and built to last a thousand years, only to last little more than a life time.
Dr Beeching known to be the axeman of the railway branch lines. I remember at the time late 1950's there were many strikes, and transporting freight and commuting by road became more popular and convenient which I would say led more to the branch lines demise. The branch lines could not support themselves financially. In the video you will see the construction of the new Blandford By-Pass from brewery arch. These days with the ever rising cost of road transport Could the railway branch lines make a come back I sure do hope so. In the industrial age of the 1800's land owners fought against the railways through their land now we're fighting to get them back. Hope you enjoyed this memory of the past. Please like and comment thank you. From Gigagannet
Its nicest to hear it narrated in that wonderful Dorset accent. It takes me back in time to my childhood. I loved to hear the Bath drivers, then the somerset accents around Evercreech to the Dorset accents of the drivers and firemen. It makes me feel at home.
I would rather have lived in those days than now. I find the emphasis towards money money money, celebrity, status, idleness and irresponsibility almost too much to bear.
The people who rise to power are devils in my eyes. They have created a hell out of what could have been heaven.
God bless the individuals of the time that had cameras and captured so much for us to enjoy today. What amazes me is the amount of the S&D in particular was filmed in colour.
My Dad and sister both worked for Unigate at Bailey Gate. My sister was in Admin and my Dad was on milk collection with churns. When milk collection stopped the depot was used as a transit point for products including yogurts for Sainsburys. Whey was the residue from the cheese making plant, some which was sent out to local farms in wooden barrels, the majority was pumped directly to another part of the site and made into animal feed. It looked like cornflakes when it was the finished product.
Both my father and mother worked at The Factory as it was known. My father was the foreman/manager of Whey Products and my mother worked in the Laboratory. Whey Products dried the liquid whey until it could go through very hot rollers which turned it into the biscuit type animal feed that was sold on to the farmers. The laboratory was where the milk was tested and the rennet starter for the cheese was kept. The factory had a fleet of lorries that went out to farms all over the area to collect milk, and all the workers were given an allowance everyday of what was around two pints of raw milk. I remember the Pines Express coming through the station at 5.00pm heading from York to Bournemouth West and in the summer as it was busy a second Pines would come through at 5.05pm the whistle was so memorable. The siding at Bailey Gate were also used to load locally grown sugar beet and watercress from both the local cress beds and the Bere Regis Watercress beds. Milk tankers were taken to London from the sidings until the line shut down due to Beeching and then the milk went via road tankers. There were some passenger services both to Bournemouth West and to Bath Green Park, both of which I traveled on. I used to go to Bournemouth West and then hop
a train to Central and sit and watch the Bulleid Pacific's and other locos as they worked through. Having seen the demise of the Somerset & Dorset and watched this video it brought back many memories. Thank you
Thank you for your very interesting account of Bailey Gate. Its great to read about your parent's working there. For years I always wondered what Whey was. I was only 10 years old at the time and lived in Spetisbury even then wish I had a camera, but way to expensive. I use to watch the Pines Express roar through Spetisbury at around 5pm, that unforgettable lovely oily steam and Smokey aroma. And the musical type clatter and beat of the wheels over the track.
Gigagannet The curds to make the cheese was hand packed into large cheese cloth covered molds the base was a solid round that a spring outer was fitted into, this was then covered with the cloth and the curds were pressed down into it. A lid was placed over it and the the whole thing was loaded into a massive press. Whey is the liquid that's left as the cheese is pressed. It was carried in channels in the Cheese Room floor and drained into tanks to be processed. Outside there was the loading dock to the rear of which was the milk tanker siding where the London up trains were loaded with milk, in all my years of living near The Factory I don't think I ever saw a milk tanker with a clean outside. Along side the line were the cooling towers and that the rear of the factory was a massive cheese store where the large rounds of cheese were aged. One thing I remember about the line was Broadstone Station, for the size of the village it was massive, it had four platforms and a covered bridge. Now the line is a cycle track and the station has long gone, but I have happy memories of traveling the line from Bailey Gate to Poole and Bournemouth West, as well as Central to and from Waterloo, small things come to mind like the sign on the side of the line near Romsey the local brewers had put up a picture of a train with steam flying backwards as she raced for Bournemouth Central, and the words "You're in Strong Country Now". Ah breakfast on a train with silver service those were the days. The S&D never had that but it was a line that served the people and the majority of them loved it.
Did it have an evaporator plant before the drier? It would make sense if they did. It would account for the wooden cooling towers. The other use was compressor cooling for the chilled water plant used to chill the churns as they came in.
Thank you for your very concise description makes the contents of the Video all the more interesting. "Whey was the residue from the cheese making plant" And thanks again for explaining this, I have always wondered. Many thanks.
Excellent piece of history here...many thanks for posting this...so envious of people who lived locally then...such good memories. Shame Beeching the butcher came along?
This is a great video, we found it really interesting, especially showing the old footage and the same view as it looks now. We live in Corfe Mullen, and have traced the S&D route around Shillingstone, also around Broadstone, Corfe Mullen and Ashington, but can't find anywhere a photograph of what the railway bridge over the river Stour in Wimborne used to look like, assuming there was one and has since been demolished?
I believe that the S & D should be taken as a historical study of how a cross country operated. The importance to the community and business as well as memories available in film and written word.
I agree. There is much written and recorded about different parts of the line different jobs on the line and different industries they served. It should be taken as a historical study as an important part of rural Somerset & Dorset.
@gordafcb1 You may have thoughts like I did at the time, that the railway would be there for ever, so there's plenty of time. Even filming most of what was left in the 1980's has all gone now.
Thank you for your comment its great to hear that you had connections here.
I am always on the lookout for more comments from people that had connections with Bailey Gate or Blandford to complete the story. Can you enlighten me. What is Whey? I know its mentioned in the narration and always wondered. They made cheese but "they never give you none" Quoted from the Train Driver. Yes happy Days!
Thanks for your comment great you enjoyed the video. Interesting one about the crossing at Wimborne Don't know. will do some research on that one. most had a brick built structure either side with a steal span across. the spans were removed very soon after the lines were lifted, with the brickwork removed recently for use as hardcore I have loads of Vids and Pics Sadly most don't say where they were taken.
@Benny60ity Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the Video.
thank you.
@MiLLwallpaul231258 Yes. I will be completing the link from Blandford to BaileyGate
Very interesting, but in the middle around 3:00 there are a couple of sequences at Corfe Mullen, which makes it rather confusing!
There's an 89 year old chap named Albert Christopher who worked at the cheese factory - doesn't have the internet, but is willing to be contacted if necessary.
Great video mate.....anymore on the Somerset and Dorset?