Quidhampton stone terminal. You are walking on what remains of the GWR line from Westbury to Salisbury. This section was retained to serve the quarry. The lines to the quarry go off to the right. The connections at Wilton replaced the separate double track GWR/SR lines in the early 1970s.
Looked at Google Earth and it appears to be the quarry just the other side of the A36 from Wilton. That track is in amazing condition, I`ve seen worse sleepers on main lines. Nice vid James.
Quidhampton sidings isn't completely abandoned. It is occasionally used for stabling purposes. That's why the signal was still on. And you were trespassing on the railway.
Update Feb 2022 Its Quidhampton quarry. West of Salisbury UK. Closed 2009 hence only partly overgrown. There were/are plans to infill it with waste aggregate which would be delivered by train, so the tracks would be useful in that event. If you Google "Quidhampton quarry" there's a good UA-cam video (by Salisbury radio) which is done by drone and starts off from where this video was recorded
I sometimes have strange dreams about train travel where my train starts on an ordinary line in full use, then the line gets more and more overgrown like the one in the video - and eventually the rails disappear entirely and the train is somehow running on meadow grass or perhaps over under-brush! They're always quite pleasant dreams. I hope all that buddleia shown towards the end of the film is attracting lots and lots of butteflies! My parents used to keep a large buddleia at the bottom of their garden which was quite a magnet for these insects.
When the Woodhead line finally closed and the extensive Manchester-end sidings were torn up, buddleia seemed to come out of nowhere to replace the missing sleepers, along with fast-growing birch trees, almost as if the plants had been biding their time.
Quidhampton. I passed there driving a 159 about 10 years ago and saw the Royal Train parked behind that dummy. They kept it there overnight while Charlie was on a local visit.
Thanks for sharing this, a most interesting line-walk. May I suggest though, that to put things into context, you open by showing a map of exactly where this railway line is located. Also, what was the historical purpose of the line; passenger, freight, military? Again, thanks for a brilliant track walk.
Quidhampton Sidings for the former chalk & china clay quarry closed in 2009. It's only about 2 miles West of Salisbury station at Wilton Junction where the Western line branches off from the Southern to Westbury. Part of it was the original GWR line into Salisbury before the junction was built. Easily viewed on Google Earth.
This is the old quarry sidings that lead off the LSWR lines west of Salisbury before the mainline splits before east of Wilton to Exeter via Yeovil and Bristol via Westbury. I think the quarry was operated by Hanson.
Not off the old LSWR line but the GWR line, it was actually part of the GWR line from Westbury into Salisbury which was abandoned in the early BR nationalised era and GWR trains diverted onto the LSWR one for the last couple of miles into Salisbury.
I noticed the Exit ground signal,with route indicator still in place and operational,also the pandrel clips just ahead of the trap points were brand new. It makes me think that this stretch of track has not been forgotten and maybe there are some future plans in store.
My guess is that although the line is unused, and appears to have been unused for sometime, the live signal means that the person who filmed this was trespassing.
The line through our country looked like this for many years. We feared for its future. Fortunately a regional rail authority took it over and developed on-line businesses. It now see regular use with 65 car freights. We have grade protection, but no signaling system. The old semaphores and signal bridges remain darl and rusty.
Thats the old chalk pit.The track used to go much further down towards salisbury.But they built houses on it.I remember riding motorbikes down it as a child.
Quidhampton Sidings, used to be for the Quidhampton chalk slurry terminal. Still in active use hence the shunt signal 6 on thr Wilton Junction GF is still active. Please don't trespass on railway property
Was the area of hard standing a former loading area? I was just thinking that the line was a spur to a quarry that provided track ballast or stone for road tarmac. Would be great to take a 'Gronk' down there and do a bit of weed-bashing.
Our local rail historical society has an annual outing to explore what they call "dead rail." It's interesting, but I think I like "live rail" better. It's sad to see a railroad out of service or its remnants.
This is the military loading spur for the heavy armour, and QM stores , now all de comissioned . But as its military the main line connection is kept installed and maintained . That's why it's all still in situ and technically with a day or twos spot sleepering and clearing fully operational
Looks very much like the Quidhampton Sidings at Salisbury. I have a number of digital pictures going back to the last day when the last load of clay was removed from the site on 30 March 2009. IMERYS loco Coral TOPS No 01571 (Loco now at Bugle in Cornwall) was present and took the remaining wagons to the exchange sidings for Class 66 Loco No 66191 to take the wagons to their final destination. Still have a number of digital pictures, any ideas on how to get them on UA-cam?
You say this line is abandoned, yet the signal at 4:59 is still working. In the US, the first thing a railroad does when a line is abandoned is turn off the signals.
Chris Ackerley I think that signal is on, because it’s protecting that derail switch. There it probably doesn’t matter which direction the signal is facing. Don’t want track maintenance or any other movements hitting the derail from either direction.
No,i think it is the old GW tracks from their terminus at Salisbury to Bristol.Houses have been built on part of the line nearer Salisbury.Also shown was the tracks leading to Quidhampton Quarry which closed down a few years ago,but that is kept for possible reopening.
Quidhampton (Tinkerpit) Broadland Quarry sidings. Interesting video, but going beyond the shunt signal 994 was very iffy, as that is Network Rail live railway. Railscene video did a feature on these sidings when still operated by English China Clays (ECC).
Quidhampton English China Clay ECC or Calcium Carbonates sidings nothing to do with MOD though the Airfield fuel point sidings was nearby that fed a pipeline to Boscombe Down
If the line is no longer in service, why do they still have a functioning signal at the junction with the other rail line? In the area where I live, when they take a rail line out of service they usually remove the switches and diamonds at junctions with other lines, along with the signals.
@@charlesgault3777 the lines past the active ground signal are the main lines to Salisbury and everything past the signal towards the main lines is still network rail property
@@nnited Are all of these answers that the location is England some kind of inside joke? At 0:23 it says that it is Winter Garden, Florida. Also, at 1:26 you can see a palm tree which I'm sure you won't find in England.
A lot of track going to waste. Why not tear it up and donate it to an operational preserved railway like Bluebell and the one in Kent failing that sell it for s rap
It must have been "mothballed" for possible future use or it would have been torn up. I read that good-condition continuously-welded (in-tunnel) track from the former Manchester-Sheffield main line was never reused but just sent for scrap,and this line looks rather woebegone, despite the in-situ points-signalling: maybe the sleepers have rotted away, as you'd probably expect.There doesn't seem to be any visible "development" around the trackbed (like housing-estates or industry) that the disused line could serve.
after seeing your other video, i was looking at the wrong thing on g maps, ive just found this and it will make for fat footage from my fixed wings, as soon as the weather improves ill start flying my bigger and more capable planes, just been to damp as they are belly landers, gopro flight footage of that will go well in a video i have planned, i know the line isnt long but i dont need more than a few seconds on each run. i know its dark now but im jumping in the car to check access right now lol
240 . The track on the left is definitely abandoned because nothing has ridden on that for years but the track he is walking on doesn't look abandoned to me in parts must of only became abandoned because there is not enough time for the foliage to grow
IMERYS at Quidhampton, Salisbury. Last train out with full wagons was 30 March 2009. The Quarry closed as the local authority refused planning permission to extend the quarry. These sidings at Quidhampton are located at the junction of the Western and Southern lines on the Warminster side of Salisbury at Wilton. I am given to understand that these sidings use the former Western lines from Wilton to Salisbury after the track layout was rationalised some many years ago. All traffic now uses the former Southern lines dividing at Wilton for Warminster or Tisbury. The sidings are controlled by a ground frame.
been a fire down there very recently, its still smoldering, dont know if the house just before the main line was in one piece before today but thats where the fire was. forgot my cam to upset mr wighteagle, popped home to grab it and on my way back lol
You can access it from Penning Road, a turning off the A36, opposite Quidhampton. Much of the site is a disused carbonates works. Unfortunately, there's not sufficient length of track to run a rail buggy. Hamworthy is much better. There's a free run for almost the entire length of Hamworthy.
The trackside hut is a gonna lol: ua-cam.com/video/tOsQl4VxdBg/v-deo.html Had a look at suitability for flying, its gonna be tight with those dam powerlines on the rolling loop turns but ill give it a go, flying those lines will make great video :)
gowd sake Train spotting is boring,anyway, I can't think anything worse, since there is not many steam locos about,much the same as watching soaps on television.
Ideal for any home-made rail vehicle ride !
Quidhampton stone terminal. You are walking on what remains of the GWR line from Westbury to Salisbury. This section was retained to serve the quarry. The lines to the quarry go off to the right. The connections at Wilton replaced the separate double track GWR/SR lines in the early 1970s.
thank you ...i love your plants very much...nice places
It terrible how piggish humans are dumping trash
It’s sad
However great vid
I hear ya. I totally agree with you on that. A disgrace, abhorrent, to say the least.
Agreed.
Looked at Google Earth and it appears to be the quarry just the other side of the A36 from Wilton. That track is in amazing condition, I`ve seen worse sleepers on main lines. Nice vid James.
Quidhampton sidings isn't completely abandoned. It is occasionally used for stabling purposes. That's why the signal was still on. And you were trespassing on the railway.
very nice. I love walking and cycling along railway trackbeds
What an awesome find! I loved it.
Update Feb 2022 Its Quidhampton quarry. West of Salisbury UK. Closed 2009 hence only partly overgrown. There were/are plans to infill it with waste aggregate which would be delivered by train, so the tracks would be useful in that event. If you Google "Quidhampton quarry" there's a good UA-cam video (by Salisbury radio) which is done by drone and starts off from where this video was recorded
I sometimes have strange dreams about train travel where my train starts on an ordinary line in full use, then the line gets more and more overgrown like the one in the video - and eventually the rails disappear entirely and the train is somehow running on meadow grass or perhaps over under-brush! They're always quite pleasant dreams.
I hope all that buddleia shown towards the end of the film is attracting lots and lots of butteflies! My parents used to keep a large buddleia at the bottom of their garden which was quite a magnet for these insects.
When the Woodhead line finally closed and the extensive Manchester-end sidings were torn up, buddleia seemed to come out of nowhere to replace the missing sleepers, along with fast-growing birch trees, almost as if the plants had been biding their time.
Quidhampton. I passed there driving a 159 about 10 years ago and saw the Royal Train parked behind that dummy. They kept it there overnight while Charlie was on a local visit.
Thanks for sharing this, a most interesting line-walk. May I suggest though, that to put things into context, you open by showing a map of exactly where this railway line is located. Also, what was the historical purpose of the line; passenger, freight, military? Again, thanks for a brilliant track walk.
Quidhampton Sidings for the former chalk & china clay quarry closed in 2009. It's only about 2 miles West of Salisbury station at Wilton Junction where the Western line branches off from the Southern to Westbury. Part of it was the original GWR line into Salisbury before the junction was built. Easily viewed on Google Earth.
This is the old quarry sidings that lead off the LSWR lines west of Salisbury before the mainline splits before east of Wilton to Exeter via Yeovil and Bristol via Westbury. I think the quarry was operated by Hanson.
Not off the old LSWR line but the GWR line, it was actually part of the GWR line from Westbury into Salisbury which was abandoned in the early BR nationalised era and GWR trains diverted onto the LSWR one for the last couple of miles into Salisbury.
Great video loved it.
this'd be a fun line to take a Speeder or a handcar down
That’s where my fridge went.
Track looked in good condition.
I noticed the Exit ground signal,with route indicator still in place and operational,also the pandrel clips just ahead of the trap points were brand new. It makes me think that this stretch of track has not been forgotten and maybe there are some future plans in store.
The lines past the ground signal is the mainline into Salisbury and the clips were new as the connection is still maintained
The lack of weeds suggests it’s sprayed semi-regularly as well
@@lakenwalker2660 when you say maintained, who pays who, do you know?
My guess is that although the line is unused, and appears to have been unused for sometime, the live signal means that the person who filmed this was trespassing.
That is correct William
The line through our country looked like this for many years. We feared for its future. Fortunately a regional rail authority took it over and developed on-line businesses. It now see regular use with 65 car freights. We have grade protection, but no signaling system. The old semaphores and signal bridges remain darl and rusty.
Cool video even if there is some possible trespassing going on here. A preservation society would die for all that track.
JOHN HEALY what would they do to it
They could take it up and transport it to where it was useful!
Awsome footage, thank you for that. Maybe in the future you could get a hold of a track cart to cover more distance. Just a suggestion.
Or just use a mountain bike lol
the place was amazing 😍😍😍 though it looks hunted because it is abandoned but it was pretty cool 😍😍😍😍 want to visit there one day 😍😍
it is in Salisbury near ware I live I'm happy you in joyed hope you can visit soon
james roddie I love that place 😍😍😍 ofcourse I would visit that place when the right time comes 😊😊😊 please do more videos 😊😊😊 keep it up. God bless 😊
Thats the old chalk pit.The track used to go much further down towards salisbury.But they built houses on it.I remember riding motorbikes down it as a child.
daphne ros cabanit
Quidhampton Sidings, used to be for the Quidhampton chalk slurry terminal. Still in active use hence the shunt signal 6 on thr Wilton Junction GF is still active. Please don't trespass on railway property
I wonder of it's not a MOD branch line to an old camp or Porten Down....that was never totally decommissioned.
Not Porton Down. Bulford and Larkhill both had a branch line. Possibly one of those.
Hope this line would be active in future 😊😊.
It's just a small branch line. Look at it on Google Maps, just type this in 51.080550, -1.840192
Former ECC Quidhampton sidings. 1km west of Salisbury beside A30.
Former Imerys site.
Tracks look like they are in pretty good shape.
The railroad should pay someone to pick up all that trash.
Where is this? The visuals I see make me think this is either British or perhaps Australian?
Very interesting stretch of decomissioned railroad in a very nice area. Thank you for sharing.
Was the area of hard standing a former loading area?
I was just thinking that the line was a spur to a quarry that provided track ballast or stone for road tarmac.
Would be great to take a 'Gronk' down there and do a bit of weed-bashing.
it was part of a chalk quarry witch has been demolished
Very interesting but also gave me the creeps--the sort of place one risks finding a body or skeletonised human remains....
Our local rail historical society has an annual outing to explore what they call "dead rail." It's interesting, but I think I like "live rail" better. It's sad to see a railroad out of service or its remnants.
Id love to walk it
Looks great for redeveloping into cycling infrastructure
abandoned sidings by the look of it
Interesting mix of bullhead and F B rail -quite haphazard.
That's awful that lines closed but good video
Is that 4 lines across
Wow
Wish it would be cleaned up.
To look smart again.
Yeah! you can tell it's in the UK by the rubbish just thrown around!"!
Please come over here. Railroad rights of way are strewn with refuse, urban and country.
This is the military loading spur for the heavy armour, and QM stores , now all de comissioned .
But as its military the main line connection is kept installed and maintained .
That's why it's all still in situ and technically with a day or twos spot sleepering and clearing fully operational
Not true. Its the old Imreys Chalk quarry site closed in 2009.
How many miles would you say the abandoned tracks go for ?
not sure maybe 1 or 2 miles
where this in salisbury
Is it near Quidhampton ?until recently china clay slurry was delivered in rail wagons.stopped a few years back!
Yes it’s definitely the sidings at Quidhampton,
Looks very much like the Quidhampton Sidings at Salisbury. I have a number of digital pictures going back to the last day when the last load of clay was removed from the site on 30 March 2009. IMERYS loco Coral TOPS No 01571 (Loco now at Bugle in Cornwall) was present and took the remaining wagons to the exchange sidings for Class 66 Loco No 66191 to take the wagons to their final destination. Still have a number of digital pictures, any ideas on how to get them on UA-cam?
Quidhampton quarry branch surely ? Still connected to main line too.
Yes it is.
Looks like its open but then saw tale tale signs of closure
You say this line is abandoned, yet the signal at 4:59 is still working. In the US, the first thing a railroad does when a line is abandoned is turn off the signals.
Chris Ackerley
I think that signal is on, because it’s protecting that derail switch. There it probably doesn’t matter which direction the signal is facing. Don’t want track maintenance or any other movements hitting the derail from either direction.
@@MFXdump Makes sense.
Abandoned at present but the condition is more of a mothballed state maybe to partially reopen if need be.
No,i think it is the old GW tracks from their terminus at Salisbury to Bristol.Houses have been built on part of the line nearer Salisbury.Also shown was the tracks leading to Quidhampton Quarry which closed down a few years ago,but that is kept for possible reopening.
I think it’s creepy that the signal is still active
lots of blue lilac trees there
Have you the Mountain Railway Biking in U.S. tbey use a bike with a frame to other rail and travel disused railways would be useful for this branch..
Quidhampton (Tinkerpit) Broadland Quarry sidings. Interesting video, but going beyond the shunt signal 994 was very iffy, as that is Network Rail live railway. Railscene video did a feature on these sidings when still operated by English China Clays (ECC).
True.
Windsock for the microphone.
Is that Quidhampton Sidings?
yes
james roddie oh cool :)
You should go back with a weedeater and clean it up a bit, before it gets so overgrown that you can't get thru...
Also an old Abandoned station not to far up the main line
wow
That looks as if it could be reopened one day?
Nah Its just some access to some sidings for a (what appears to be) demolished power station. 51.080550, -1.840192 Put that in google maps you'll see.
@@iainstenhouse8399 Former Imerys site at Quidhampton, used for mineral extraction. Closed sometime after March 2009.
@@michaelhearn3052 thanks for the info
Quidhampton English China Clay ECC or Calcium Carbonates sidings nothing to do with MOD though the Airfield fuel point sidings was nearby that fed a pipeline to Boscombe Down
Where is this line, Please I need to know. I would like to see if I could do something with it. How long has it been abandoned.
in Salisbury near quidhampton uk
That should be in the description. I was wondering if it was Salisbury Connecticut, USA.
Mmmmmmm.............Salisbury Steak.
Where are the tracks. I know you said the city but what state.
This is southern England, I think.
State of Neglect.
County of Wiltshire oo-arr.
Ok nice vid share
Lucky they didn't get you for trespassing!
Shut up arse hole
delicate turn of phrase there, @@williamredfern5504
@@williamredfern5504 It's only illegal if ya get caught
Its not abandoned. It looks decommissioned.but maintained otherwise it wont remain powered
Rain road owns 25 feet both sides of track .could put some one in jail for trash on tracks
Nice video! This abandoned line is in good shape ! Why it's abandoned?
Crazy British anti rail freight.
cool but walking onto the active line... not cool
Where is this at? It looks like somewhere in Europe. I can tell by the tie plates that are used between the rails and the ties.
If the line is no longer in service, why do they still have a functioning signal at the junction with the other rail line? In the area where I live, when they take a rail line out of service they usually remove the switches and diamonds at junctions with other lines, along with the signals.
Salisbury uk
@@charlesgault3777 the lines past the active ground signal are the main lines to Salisbury and everything past the signal towards the main lines is still network rail property
The lights are on in the signal by the main line. Is this track abandoned or just unused?
this line has not been used for years
@@nnited Then how come the signal's still active?
@@chaosdemonwolf1 i dont know
@@chaosdemonwolf1 the signal is left on to protect the connection to the mainline it is common practice when a line is mothballed
@@nnited Have pictures of the last wagon movement on 30 March 2009 from the exchange sidings there.
I`m from Salisbury, where on earth is this?
near quidhampton by the wilton road
i dont understand this double track..what is it used for.. you cant switch on in it
johnny llooddte double tracks are better for multiple reasons.
@@kylethedalek I get it!
Amazing, where is abandoned line!
in salisbury
@@nnited Maryland?
@@Ih8kone south of england
Last remaining stretch of the old GWR line into Salisbury, kept to serve the chalk pits at Quidhampton, I believe.
@@nnited Are all of these answers that the location is England some kind of inside joke? At 0:23 it says that it is Winter Garden, Florida. Also, at 1:26 you can see a palm tree which I'm sure you won't find in England.
Typical Britain...that once was Great Britain....everything abandoned......
Which Salisbury? UK, USA, Australia or Canada?
uk
UK
A lot of track going to waste. Why not tear it up and donate it to an operational preserved railway like Bluebell and the one in Kent failing that sell it for s rap
It must have been "mothballed" for possible future use or it would have been torn up. I read that good-condition continuously-welded (in-tunnel) track from the former Manchester-Sheffield main line was never reused but just sent for scrap,and this line looks rather woebegone, despite the in-situ points-signalling: maybe the sleepers have rotted away, as you'd probably expect.There doesn't seem to be any visible "development" around the trackbed (like housing-estates or industry) that the disused line could serve.
@@johnhardman3 IIRC there was outline planning permission back in 2016. The line closed just after 30 March 2009.
after seeing your other video, i was looking at the wrong thing on g maps, ive just found this and it will make for fat footage from my fixed wings, as soon as the weather improves ill start flying my bigger and more capable planes, just been to damp as they are belly landers, gopro flight footage of that will go well in a video i have planned, i know the line isnt long but i dont need more than a few seconds on each run.
i know its dark now but im jumping in the car to check access right now lol
240 . The track on the left is definitely abandoned because nothing has ridden on that for years but the track he is walking on doesn't look abandoned to me in parts must of only became abandoned because there is not enough time for the foliage to grow
Part of the Imreys exchange sidings for wagon loads of chalk slurry. Closed on 30 March 2009.
narrow gauge ?
No.
Standard Guage.
4' 8 1/2"
What branch line was this?
IMERYS at Quidhampton, Salisbury. Last train out with full wagons was 30 March 2009. The Quarry closed as the local authority refused planning permission to extend the quarry. These sidings at Quidhampton are located at the junction of the Western and Southern lines on the Warminster side of Salisbury at Wilton. I am given to understand that these sidings use the former Western lines from Wilton to Salisbury after the track layout was rationalised some many years ago.
All traffic now uses the former Southern lines dividing at Wilton for Warminster or Tisbury. The sidings are controlled by a ground frame.
been a fire down there very recently, its still smoldering, dont know if the house just before the main line was in one piece before today but thats where the fire was.
forgot my cam to upset mr wighteagle, popped home to grab it and on my way back lol
TH&O ?
Actually those tracks are not that very very good.
Whats the exact location?
You can access it from Penning Road, a turning off the A36, opposite Quidhampton. Much of the site is a disused carbonates works. Unfortunately, there's not sufficient length of track to run a rail buggy. Hamworthy is much better. There's a free run for almost the entire length of Hamworthy.
@@and7barton Former Imerys site.
It's this one :-) -- drive.google.com/open?id=1HW_wrPjp1qaJX-Dv3b7g_Vd2l6AvWM4E&usp=sharing
Now build a go kart and post more videos!
This is not USA is it
I checked Salisbury Mass and it looks like we don’t have this
So is this Australia
UK
Why on earth would you think it was USA - or indeed Australia ??
Salisbury. Wiltshire England
England, U.K.
It's the "Salisbury" that all the others take their name from!
Where is this place please
Salisbury south of england
Quidhampton
The trackside hut is a gonna lol:
ua-cam.com/video/tOsQl4VxdBg/v-deo.html
Had a look at suitability for flying, its gonna be tight with those dam powerlines on the rolling loop turns but ill give it a go, flying those lines will make great video :)
abandoned?????but still in good condition
Railroads please not highways!
Dinton?!!
Is this Salisbury, MD?
this is Salisbury uk
The Original & Genuine Salisbury - all others are copies!!
@@richardholladay4165 Right!
@@nnited Should be guarded by Rhodesian Ridgebacks .
@@richardholladay4165 There is a fine copy here in Massachusetts on the North Shore.
Should of "clipped" track then signal man would think train stood at signal😂😂
Where to is this in Salisbury??
near bemerton heath
51.080374, -1.839036 in Google maps takes you there.
Former Imerys site at quidhampton
Tedious.
Whats even more boring than spotting diesel trains ?
gowd sake Train spotting is boring,anyway, I can't think anything worse, since there is not many steam locos about,much the same as watching soaps on television.
@@michaelgoodliffe4887 Now ''That's'' boring
chaosdemonwolf1 YES!
Why bother if you dont talk its just a teain track
disgrace