So much information and so many old maps to dig out when rewatching. Very interesting. Stayed in the hostel for a tiring long May Bank Holiday weekend about 2002 with my 2 children attending a national training session for Karate. Obviously took time out to enjoy the museum - and a very long time before the service was reestablished. 😊
Thanks for posting that - I stayed in Okehampton two summers ago while cycling from Land's End to Taunton, and cycled on the old railway lines a lot. The re-opened line was useful for a day off cycling as I used a Devon Ranger ticket to spend a day on the trains, visiting Torquay, Exeter and Exmouth.
Scrapping all these rail project reopenings is short sighted, but Rachel has said there's a black hole to fill. Now they've caved into the junior doctors and rail union, that black hole is going to be even bigger. We aren't good at long term or major infrastructure projects in this country, The funds wasted on HS1.5, Old Oak common to Curzon street could have achieved so much more allocated elsewhere. HS to almost Birmingham has been a nice little money spinner for many companies. Makes the likes of George Hudson and Yerkes seem like saints .😂
Via Bere Alston? That's a pretty walking route to Lumburn viaduct, and a nice train journey from Gunnislake, but I've never seen more than a minibus-full of people on the train. I wonder if it would be used.
@@trs4u Yes. Tavisttock is now a pretty big populstion centtre and many of itts inhabittants work in Plymoutth. The roads between Tavistock and Plymoutth cannot handle tthe peak ttraffic.
If you’re going to use the train from Exeter to Okehampton then bus to town centre be warned that it works ok on the outwards journey. But on the return the bus arrives at the station 5 minutes after the train leave for Exeter. This leaves you an hour to wait for the next train. We did not bother with the train but took the bus from Exeter St David station to Okehampton high street in 15 minutes longer than the train journey. So much easier and cheaper too.
@@rogerphelps9939 I've been involved in both labour and the swp for some 40 odd years, and I'll never support them ever again. Only if I was a woke lover...
Thank you, Ed, for another cracking vid.
Always worth the wait. 😊
So much information and so many old maps to dig out when rewatching. Very interesting.
Stayed in the hostel for a tiring long May Bank Holiday weekend about 2002 with my 2 children attending a national training session for Karate. Obviously took time out to enjoy the museum - and a very long time before the service was reestablished. 😊
All our yesterdays...taking us on a scenic trip to long-gone railway lines and their often scenic environments. Thanks for this.
Thanks for posting that - I stayed in Okehampton two summers ago while cycling from Land's End to Taunton, and cycled on the old railway lines a lot. The re-opened line was useful for a day off cycling as I used a Devon Ranger ticket to spend a day on the trains, visiting Torquay, Exeter and Exmouth.
Scrapping all these rail project reopenings is short sighted, but Rachel has said there's a black hole to fill.
Now they've caved into the junior doctors and rail union, that black hole is going to be even bigger.
We aren't good at long term or major infrastructure projects in this country,
The funds wasted on HS1.5, Old Oak common to Curzon street could have achieved so much more allocated elsewhere.
HS to almost Birmingham has been a nice little money spinner for many companies.
Makes the likes of George Hudson and Yerkes seem like saints .😂
Good video, having just finished reading Bernard Mills’ latest book on the ACE route
Tthe line up to Tavisttock must be reopened. Then there is only a small gap with a problematic viaduct to sortout.
Via Bere Alston? That's a pretty walking route to Lumburn viaduct, and a nice train journey from Gunnislake, but I've never seen more than a minibus-full of people on the train. I wonder if it would be used.
@@trs4u Yes. Tavisttock is now a pretty big populstion centtre and many of itts inhabittants work in Plymoutth. The roads between Tavistock and Plymoutth cannot handle tthe peak ttraffic.
Great stuff, as usual. Thanks.
Ah, the "Withered Arm" - lovely.
If you’re going to use the train from Exeter to Okehampton then bus to town centre be warned that it works ok on the outwards journey. But on the return the bus arrives at the station 5 minutes after the train leave for Exeter. This leaves you an hour to wait for the next train. We did not bother with the train but took the bus from Exeter St David station to Okehampton high street in 15 minutes longer than the train journey. So much easier and cheaper too.
Really informative as usual
Thanks to the Labour government reconnection from Plymouth to Tavistock has been scrapped...
There never was enough money available for the scheme.
Nothing to do witth Labour.
@@rogerphelps9939 I've been involved in both labour and the swp for some 40 odd years, and I'll never support them ever again. Only if I was a woke lover...
Labour is even more disastrous than Conservatives
@@livestocknetwork320 Quoting the word ‘woke’. Sure sign of an idiot.
Wasn't there a custard factory at Lydford?
I think that was Lifton
Very bucolic and informative but it ends in an unsatisfactory manner as if you are using a bot voice, I hope my assumption is incorrect.