Tom, this for me is the ultimate aerial ride and from one of my interests. Thank you for making the film and of course for submitting it. Best wishes. John .
Glad you enjoyed it John. I'm going to make loads of these. Focusing mainly on Canals at the moment because it might be useful to people on boating holidays
I agree. With the roads busy with tourists wanting to look at the countryside it would make sense to reopen many of them. It would help the locals travel to get work too
@@tomd544 they were great days….Bude by train..and the Victorians built one….well they did it by spade and wheelbarrow..we can do it so much easier now with JCB excavators…hs2?…no we want the train from Exeter to Bude..and while we’re at it lets open up the canal… Wouldn’t it be great to see boats from Birmingham in Bude…! And boats from Bude in Llangollen..the rest of the country has a thriving Nautical criss cross on canals,loads have been risen from extinction.
Its closure killed off Bude as a holiday destination. The roads in the area once served by lines from Halwill Jnct are totally overcrowded & dangerous.
We were held up by an accident as we went to the a30..ill vouch for the roads being dangerous as they’re festooned with suicide jockeys and tailgaters..
The alignment is so clearly visible in the landscape 50 years after the line was closed. Unfortunately so much of it has been built upon or used as a linear landfill site. I hope to see the day the line reopens but doubt it will take place in my lifetime
Not @ all, if the powers that be can be persuaded & want it they’ll find it & put it back, compulsory purchase reigns supreme.£££. Not really wise to build on old track beds like these!! Viaducts are still owned & maintained by BR. Not too hard too do these days with the plant/technology that’s available etc.
Tom, this for me is the ultimate aerial ride and from one of my interests. Thank you for making the film and of course for submitting it. Best wishes. John .
Glad you enjoyed it John. I'm going to make loads of these. Focusing mainly on Canals at the moment because it might be useful to people on boating holidays
I travelled on this line as a kid in the 50s, i travel in a car now…lets rebuild the railway to Bude..
I agree. With the roads busy with tourists wanting to look at the countryside it would make sense to reopen many of them. It would help the locals travel to get work too
@@tomd544 they were great days….Bude by train..and the Victorians built one….well they did it by spade and wheelbarrow..we can do it so much easier now with JCB excavators…hs2?…no we want the train from Exeter to Bude..and while we’re at it lets open up the canal…
Wouldn’t it be great to see boats from Birmingham in Bude…! And boats from Bude in Llangollen..the rest of the country has a thriving
Nautical criss cross on canals,loads have been risen from extinction.
I went back to Halwill Jnct in the 1980,s. What a sad site it was. Not as I remembered it at all..
Its closure killed off Bude as a holiday destination. The roads in the area once served by lines from Halwill Jnct are totally overcrowded & dangerous.
Bring back the train to Bude….
We were held up by an accident as we went to the a30..ill vouch for the roads being dangerous as they’re festooned with suicide jockeys and tailgaters..
The alignment is so clearly visible in the landscape 50 years after the line was closed. Unfortunately so much of it has been built upon or used as a linear landfill site. I hope to see the day the line reopens but doubt it will take place in my lifetime
Sadly it's far easier to destroy than it is to build
All the building on the old route has sort of killed any idea to reconnect it to Okehampton.
Not @ all, if the powers that be can be persuaded & want it they’ll find it & put it back, compulsory purchase reigns supreme.£££.
Not really wise to build on old track beds like these!!
Viaducts are still owned & maintained by BR.
Not too hard too do these days with the plant/technology that’s available etc.
Halwill to Padstow next?
Hi Les, ua-cam.com/video/fMD_LOTSFlw/v-deo.html has Launceston to Padstow and I'll make a new video for Halwill to Launceston
Halwill Junction to Launceston disused Railway ua-cam.com/video/Pp-LDsuEqLM/v-deo.html
That would be something.
Looks very rural and undisturbed...could it be reinstated? Bus transport very poor roads choked with traffic.