RARE Alley to a railway foot crossing in London!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- This is a foot crossing on the Angerstein Wharf line in the London borough of Greenwich. It's considered rare because there are hardly any foot crossings in London. The crossing is accessible through an alley between the houses on Fairthorn Road. Angerstein Wharf is located on the south bank of the River Thames and is connected to the North Kent Main Line by this branch line. It is used to haul aggregate from the Aggregate Industries site to various freight yards in and around London.
UPDATE April 2019 - Exactly one year after this video was filmed in April 2018, Network Rail gave one weeks notice they are closing this crossing. Please see my latest video here for details - • CLOSED! London's ONLY ...
EDIT: I made a mistake in the subtitles @1:14. It should have read "Built by John Julius Angerstein in the 1850s". The branch line opened in 1852.
#footcrossing #angerstein #charlton
A video of absolutely nothing and I LOVED IT!!! Quite relaxing in a funny sort of way.
It may be nothing to you but I recognised the sound of my fav loco - the Class 66 - as soon as he got to the stairs! Could listen to them for ages!
Exactly mate ;-)
rs parker How is it nothing?
You have over a 100 likes, we all feel relaxed watching this. Brilliant
rs parker My kind of nothing. I can watch this kind of nothing for days.
Something so simple as an alleyway but built so beautifully, bricklaying at its best.
Horrendous attempt at a garden wall though
Yeah they really made things to last in the Victorian era.
Everybody dance!
And litter!
Peter Clapham So true, in your country as well as the states craftsman took pride in work and made simple things interesting and beautiful. 19thc British engineering was second to none. Hail Isombard Kingdom Brunell!!
Smooth camera work
Free Saxon feels like it was from video game
Free Saxon go pro?
post processing!
I reckon it's a gimble
I thought that as he bounced along in the alley way, where's the Steadicam lol
I never used to get these kind of videos in my UA-cam recommendations. Geoff and Vicki have got a lot to answer for...
beetooex haha! Yes!!
They certainly have!! 😅
Erm ... who are Geoff and Vicki? Please pardon my ignorance.
All the stations
All of them
All the stations
All of them
All the stations
All the stations
All the stations...
Except the Isle of Wight
Guy walks like a 90's computer game character.
Glad there were no dementors in the alleyway. It’s kind of hard to conjure up patronus when filming a video..
ЭлектромонтажUSA 😂😂😂😂 im dead
ЭлектромонтажUSA fuck off rusian
What?
@@the486kgman2 GOOD answer !! :-)
@Uncle Rico racist
I'm in my fifties now and these little alleyways were everywhere near rail-lines when I was a kid in the 70's, nowadays they really are quite rare.
Well that was perfectly timed:)
Or planned :-)
Well planned ... and well edited. Note the natty cross-fade at 0:57
Awesome alleyway. Great piece of history still in service. Thanks for sharing.
RODALCO2007 fancy seeing you here from Shango066 (Dan c) videos.
Hi. Sadly this is not in service for long. This only foot crossing is also going to be disappear, as Network Rail is permanently closing it and demolish it in April ! Sad!
A shame a load of idiots had to scribble their nonsense all over the side of those carriages.
Found this randomly and thought 'WHAT, nearly 8 minutes of filming featuring an alley - and its got 400,000 views? Is any nudity involved??!!' Was going to pass it by until I scanned the comments - and glad I did. Surprisingly, a brilliant video. Thank you.
That brought back memories. I used to live close to the A102 side of the crossing before the road was built and the crossing was a short cut to the fish and chip shop in Woolwich Road.
Up some steps, across the crossing, down the steps, through the alleyway, turn left down to Woolwich Road, turn right and the fish and chip stop was just along on the right.
What a gem of a location. Many thanks for the video.
Where would we all be without sea-dredged aggregate?
Is that sand?
Ben Lee No. Not just sand.
Over 15% of the sand and gravel currently used in England and Wales is won from the sea-bed and has been used in a wide range of reinforced concrete structures. The main difference between the majority of land-based aggregates and marine aggregate lies in the presence in the latter of sea salts, which usually have to be washed out to meet British Standard maximum limits for chloride and latest guidelines for limited alkali content to prevent alkali silica reaction (ASR). In this paper the basic facts about marine aggregates are considered in relation to the requirements of BS 8110 Structural use of concrete, of the latest guidelines to prevent ASR, and of BS 882 which all aggregates from natural sources must pass to be acceptable for structural reinforced concrete. If these requirements are fulfilled then marine aggregates can be safely used.@@benlee2765
My family of dredged the sea aggregate mines for decades. Good to finally have some gratitude.
I'm not sure. We'd be fucked right?
I agree with most the comments here. Great smooth filming of really nothing, but I liked it a lot, but then in all honesty I'm a bit of a nosey bastard. Keep up the good work. 10 out of 10.
Yay the ally from Westcombe to Charlton, we used to tell the kids it was a magic ally when they were small, we use it all the time to go to the shops :) thank you for sharing a little piece of our hometown.
Wow, this is a blast from the past for me. I used to take this shortcut to get to Asda each Saturday with my Dad (we lived on Foyle Road1986 -1999). Thanks for sharing.
A nice qwerky visit to London with a bonus freight train hauling aggregate rock for concrete.
I suppose I am a sad person, but little alleys and railways and foot bridges adds colour to life. Thanks for posting. Oscar on the way.
There was such a quiet beauty about how you shot your video. Don’t know why it was in my recommended’s but glad it was!
Their are numerous such crossings in London, many of them around Wimbledon.
They are mostly so concealed that only local people know that they exist.
So mostly in South London
This is sensational! A ginnel between two houses that leads ti a freight line bizarre, the sort of thing you could dream about? You have to be congratulated for this super footage, and bringing it to our attention.And to finish off with an EWS 66, what could be better? Do tbe 59's pass by, and when was this video shot? Thankyou once again highly enjoyable cheers Nick.
Red Shed 66077 Dream about? U joking?
Finn P what I meant was ti walk between two joined houses then find a rqilway track, the two just dont seem to go together! Surreal is what I was looking for.
Houses and railway lines are very often close together. Come on, man.
Red Shed 66077 Surreal? Boring you mean. Trains aren’t really interesting but paths over train tracks are completely uninteresting.
@@finnpeters7867 - Why are you here? Lot of time to kill?
There used to be "Treacle Cock Alley" in Bingley, West Yorkshire that went under the railway line to the canal three rise locks. It was filled in when they built the bypass in the 2000's unfortunately. Progress kills the history and unique parts of the UK all the time!
Andrew Haines Evidence of this is they demolished Washwood Heath depot for High speed 1. HS1 or whatever it's called isn't really progress, I mean we have Eurostar, do we need much more?
An architectural gem. I doubt if such a thing would be even planned these days let alone built so beautifully. Thanks for sharing.
I used to live a stones throw away in Calvert Road (in between Maze Hill and Westcombe Park) for 3 years, 20 years ago and didn't know this crossing existed, which is a shame, I would have liked to have checked it out!
Hah just a few street from me i walk my dogs around that way regularly, over the footbridge the down thru the pleasaunce, also as a child I used to follow that rail line with friends to an abandoned railway factory but its a police car pound now.
I've often wondered where that footbridge over the A102 goes, I never realised that you can continue on it over the Angerstein Wharf line, so this video was very interesting, thanks!
I see the train on my travels. Thanks to you I know know what it carries and where it comes from. Thank you
My wife walked past while I was watching this and tutted.
Can you imagine anyone designing a street pattern like that today? "Hey guys, let's just stick a railway crossing between these houses where children will probably be playing." The health and safety crowd would absolutely freak. But I guess back when they built this, they were working from the silly idea that parents were responsible for their children.
That's wonderful. Just imagine having that treasure in your back garden !.
My God ! A secret portal into a magical alternate world of ...er, graffiti, broken down neighbours fence...a railway..a train, and a polluted noisy main road. Better to keep a place like that secret, if too many find out about it it’s beauty could be ruined for ever !!
Why don't we change that......edit the video so that thru the alleyway is....mountains - or the sea - or a desert!
Graffiti ruins everything. You don't see that in Japan or Singapore and everything looks so clean.
Those graffiti were nice ... :-)
Of course there is graffiti in those countries.
Claire 01 have you recently returned from Japan and Singapore?
Humbug sourpuss
Because people know they'll be caned for it!
It's like jumping from a quaint South-Eastern village straight into a bustling metropolis.
Very common - almost all Victorian terraced housing uses alleys, ginells back lanes or pads (likely lots more local names too). My grandma's house was an end of terrace. The rear access was in the middle of the block, so a long walk round to get stuff into the yard. In those days all deliveries and collections - like the bin men (garbage collection) was to the back.
House entrance was direct off the pavement (sidewalk) straight into the front room, or parlour, which was only used for extremely formal visits, like the vicar. Never by the family.
Only two small rooms plus kitchen downstairs, three rooms upstairs (bath was a tin bath kept in the shed used every week!) Family was 11 kids.
It's not the alleyway that''s rare but the foot crossing. Interesting post, however!
I was on at least three of the ships that used to run up to Angersteins Wharf back in the late 1990's and early 2000's before I retired in 2005. Never knew about the rail link - interesting...
It is absolutely amazing how a little opening leads to so much! Love this video! Years ago, my two cousins and I went exploring over the rail lines on a footbridge in Faversham, Kent. It felt like we were doing something illegal, but in fact, it was a public footbridge over all the rail lines. This little alleyway almost makes it feel like we, the viewers, are doing something illegal by trespassing when in fact, it is a public right-of-way, as well!
Thank you for your wonderful video. Only thing that ruins it is all that graffiti-vandalism.I wonder if the cultural paralysis known as Hip-Hop will ever fade... we live in stagnancy.
Fascinating. Very enjoyable walk, viewed from New Zealand... I have just looked at Rail Map Online, and it is amazing how many railways and tramways were in and around the banks of the Thames.
What a brilliant video, unless you live in this area you would never know about this pathway to Westcombe Park Station. As a retired Southeastern driver I was stopped a few times over the years for the freight to Angersteins Wharf to cross over at the Junction, but of course with the track non-electrified never went there myself, very interesting, thanks for the upload.
This was thoroughly enjoyable
Toasted Fan Art I sense sarcasm
Finn P not at all I genuinely enjoyed it, reminds me of the town I grew up in :)
I tend to go for "That was riveting!" when I'm being sarcastic because it's not unusual to thoroughly enjoy something, as the Tom Jones song goes. But then again I'm often fascinated by something but can't say "That is fascinating!" because that line is textbook sarcasm, so it seems there's a very fine line between genuine sarcasm and just wanting to express that you've gone all giddy all of a sudden - y'know?
Graffiti ruined that nice old brick. It's everywhere..
Wall built in 1951. None of it Victorian. Re-built again in 1960 due to a derailment. Crayfaire Peach (Builders) Job No.23453.
Really interesting. London really is a city of amazing contrasts. The whole video feels surreal, almost like something from a game. Could quite happily spend a day there wandering.
What a gem at the end of the alleyway. I always wanted to live somewhere right next to a railway line. Used to fancy an old station or stationmasters house but I’m at an age now whereby I’m not fussy. I just want to be able to hear trains and see them from my house. It is just in my dreams now, im never likely to move which is a pity.
Frog Pr.: I too long for the mournful sound of the distant train whistle at night.
Interesting that, I live in the centre of Dunblane and I have a perfect view of the station and therefore the HML, best of all, there's a signal right outside (they replaced the semaphore one this month :C) so you get to see HSTs, sheds, the odd Network Rail train and plenty of DMUs from my bedroom window
Naniteri
@@catcook3324 Trains don't whistle anymore I live right next to a train track and its not better than a normal house lol.
I have train tracks right behind my house and it is really annoying when you are trying to get to sleep
If you hadn't of filmed this, is i would never have believed this was real.
Nice little vid, you wouldn't even know that access tunnel was there if you weren't looking for it, that looked a pretty long freight train too.
Just subscribed you, looks some interesting stuff on here. 👍
Something out of Sherlock Holmes railway, dark path, with archway, foggy night, footsteps behind you. Etc.... Lol
I often see this branch line behind the big ASDA in North Greenwich. It goes across a nice bridge on Bugsbys Way and you get a very clear view of the Class 66s and their aggregates hoppers near there. You also get a decent view of the planes landing at LCY.
It would be pretty neat to live in those houses next to the line on Fairthorn Road and Farmdale Road!
But i think the crossing needs some warning lights at the bottom of the stairs!
The old 66069 I know it well. A friend of mine is a spotter so I often hear what is that number while he looks to see if he has it ticked off. Admittedly not down an alleyway but used to live in an area which was built around a farm so you would walk around the corner and straight across a railway line which would lead into the town and because people were crossing with such regularity there were a number of casualties when I was younger as unlike this one it was on a mainline so very easy to become blasé about it. I have always lived very close to railway lines completely unintentionally.
ya mean you got idiots over thar scribbling up railway property too? hem. most people wouldnt even see that alleyway.
This popped up on my UA-cam recommendations today. No idea why, as I'm not into this sort of thing. Crikey though, I was hooked immediately once I started watching it. Brilliant camera work and such a beautiful hidden part of London. I was transfixed! Thanks for making this.
An Amazing difference in the sound level from Fairthorn Road to the tracks! Some people complain of the noise from trains which don't run continuously, but the noise from the constant traffic on highways is actually very annoying.
Wonderful rail movie !!! Excellent
Cool. Interesting video.
The alley must be a public right of way, but the owner of the house on the left most likely has a room or two rooms (front and back) above it. I wonder how responsibility for maintenance works out. Great to have a back gate from one of those gardens into the alley if you had to make a quick getaway!
Routeman .. "I wonder how responsibility for maintenance works out" ... that is a blinkin' good point!
We see these trains come through West Byfleet close to Woking. ..now we know where they started! 👍
Interesting bit of footage, thank you for sharing it with everyone!
Brilliant! Now I’m going to get my A to Z, track it down and visit on my next holiday to the UK!
👍good video! Thanks for sharing
Very well filmed. Railway lands hold many secrets. This is true in all developed countries.
Fascinating! I have driven up and down the A102 many times, but never realised that there was a parallel Branch line running so close by!
Ron leitch Something to look out for on your many trips, help to keep things interesting while driving. Helps keep the brain sharp.
Walked through that tunnel to the station loads of times when we lived in Gurdon Road.
I work on this stretch of line its part of my area
this is where i will sleep when i eventually hit rock bottom.
Really fun video. I love the beautiful old bricks. Incredibly sad that taggers don't respect the old or the fact that it is someone else's property and still do their ugly spray paint. I strongly dislike the damage they do!!! Thank you for the upload.
Fran Looving Was are you from the US? In the UK, graffiti is not really ‘tagging’ (there really arent that many gangs around), more of a subculture....
@@MikayeYakovlev personally I think graffiti where not asked for is just annoying but I don't mind it either
Used to use this crossing all the time to get my fish and chips
@@sabersz one mans 'graffiti' is another mans 'art '....
@@therightreverendrawhide7587 if art is an ugly eyesore so be it
Such beautiful building omg
Had no idea this existed, don't live too far. I'll visit it eventually! That's the great thing about freight lines, got quite a few little gems and unique stuff.
When my husband was a kid he had a freight train pass close to the end of his back yard. He used to wave at the engineers and they used to throw huge thick pieces of chalk to him. They used it for marking train numbers on the yard chalk board. He loved it.
This is my second time to watch this video. It is really interesting! I showed this to my son also since he went to London a couple years ago. I hope you have more videos like this because I subscribed to ya!
Jaw Tooth Feel sorry for your son
No, don't feel sorry for him, he had a great time! My sister, mother, brother in law also went to London and had a great time. They told me about the trains
Oh my i can't quite believe it..😲😲 me and my chums used to hang around there back in the day..taking acid and drinking cheap alcohol from a brown paper bag..ah those were the days my friends..🤗😍😉😁
there is a crossing like this to the west of alesford road crossing on the main line between Strood and Maidstone on the Tonbridge line,like this it has a wharf and a gavel depot
oh that road is so noisy but so nice to hear the bird song almost! over it...
Hi, Morthren, what a great little video! Very much enjoyed watching it. That's a sweet little twichell leading to the crossing; it was good fortune you didn't meet someone coming the other way - might have got a little tight in there!
You may like to visit the twichell in Wimbledon that leads between Graham Road and Hartfield Crescent, just a few yards shy of the Dundonald Road stop on the Wimbledon-Croydon tramlink line. This passageway is a little out of the ordinary in that it has a small 'kink' about half-way through, where the back gardens of the houses on the two roads are not perfectly aligned!
I can't think off-hand of any pedestrian-only crossings (at ground level) in my neck of the woods; as for pedestrian-only BRIDGES in London that are not directly associated with stations, there's the Alt Grove footbridge just outside Wimbledon station, the Elm Grove-Merton Hall Road bridge a little further southwest, and the two West Barnes Lane footbridges in Raynes Park. In addition, the Alric Avenue-Dukes Avenue bridge in New Malden.
drcurv Twichell. What a lovely word.
drcurv I have learned a new word, though the web is telling me it's "twitchel".
Glad you like it, TRiG. Comes from English Midlands vocabulary. Can also be spelled 'twitchel'.
Hi, Hertog. Both are correct, but I'll admit that ''twitchel'' is the more commonly found spelling, especially in the Midlands. Anyway, glad you liked it, and hope that you will find ample opportunity to impress your friends in the future! :)
"Twichel" is that southern for Ginnell or Jinnell? :-)
Why do people feel the need to paint on buildings and trains. "Great, you have a talent", do something useful with it.
they are adding colours and art to our day. that's useful for society in many ways.
@@CS-zj8ex If I went to your house and took a shit on your porch, it would add some color and be useful to society as fertilizer.
I think graffiti looks nice sometimes. Not on everything but there are times I see it and enjoy it being there. It's a bit of variety in what you see. It ruins some areas, but is a great sight to see in others, like industrial areas like Digbeth in Birmingham, love seeing it there. For me it depends on what is being done, on a nice old building I hate it, ruins a nice piece of architecture. But one of those horrible gray square slabs from the 60's that they call a building? Anything to give those eyesore's colour, those buildings are vandalism in of themselves.
Although you have to be careful with graffiti, not all of it is vandals, often it can be done by the owners for their art. Although you can usually tell.
@@Xegethra If the owners of those gray square slabs approve of their buildings being graffitied, that's fine, but otherwise graffiti is criminal activity. Often graffiti itself is covered with other graffiti - what do you think about that? Look, you wouldn't tolerate graffiti covering your own house and car. It should be stamped out.
@@mikeyaureliush9017 I'm aware of the criminality of it. As for graffiti covering other graffiti, it's a changing scene, keeps it fresh. I don't actively encourage graffiti as you rightly say it goes against the wishes of the owners. Nobody should have to put up with their property the way they don't want it, but I still think it looks good. I don't agree with it everywhere of course not, like people's homes. The suburbs look nice without it. Also on old buildings, with really nice architecture.
We all think differently about our city. I know I'm in the minority, and it's a criminal act and so understand why they wipe it away, fair enough. And I think it's nice when businesses do up their buildings with it so at least as far as willing owners, it won't go away and there will be some colour and shape to look at in the city.
I'm not saying it should be done, just that when it is I think it can look quite good, like an industrial area or one of those trendy areas. Like you say, if the owners approve of it or don't mind then great. But if they don't, yeah I understand why they get rid of it.
the top flat on the right of the alleyway was sold in Aug 2017 for an attractive £255,000. It had a short lease and in need of refurbishment
Just checked the terrace house prices on this clip - flat £330,000 - house £550,000, I knew London was expensive, but this is crazy money !!
Good video. What stabiliser are you using?
This is why I love London. All these hidden gems. You won’t find this in New York.
That's a hidden crossing!
Really unique. I had to sub after looking at some of what videos you have. I am from the USA.
Very informative. Thanks for filming it.
Barry.Devon.
I dont know why but i loved that video. I find old london so interesting. Imagine back in the day? Thank you!
From the start I was expecting you to come out in Diagon Alley
Fascinating - thank you for the film and the history / views of south east London :) It is very rare to have a foot crossing like this. Network Rail are busy shutting them as fast as they can. I've subbed :)
Right on my partners road!! And the next crossing to the one i work at!
This is a really interesting video, I used to be a driver for DHL and covered many parts of London including this area, never had that much time to explore, there are so many hidden gems, shame much is being destroyed by modern development and as for the so called graffiti artists vandalising every blank space with their inane scrawling, its not exactly improving anyone's quality of life
I watch a Train Driver Called "Oldskidmarks" He uploads all his journeys to UA-cam! I wonder if that was him at the controls? 🤔
Outstanding video - Amazing how you timed your arrival at the line in time to photograph the train. I wouldn't feel safe walking that path after dark. You kept your camera very steady to produce a smooth video so very well done.
Surely that can’t be right? It’s active even today? That’s awesome, I love it.
Fucking love alleyways. Only thing I love more than an alleyway is a freight only branch line. You can only imagine what it was like for me to watch this, just let me die now, nothing can surpass this.
Wow amazing how tucked away this is! Great vid 👍
Very interesting to watch. Love the fact the entry looks like any other terraced house back entry. You never expect it to actually lead somewhere.
There is another unusual terraced house somewhere in London I saw on a documentary once but can't recall where it actually is, but it is a frontage of a three storey Georgian terraced house which is not a house at all but a railway bridge complete with false doors and windows, you'd find that interesting.
Sorta journey best made around 10 am on a school day \m/
Very nice indeed, like the alley seems like an old river passed through there and under the railway many decades ago by the shape and it was cleared away for the houses but the developers left it there and once the railway was built they turned it into a foot crossing. Someday I'd love to visit that. Seems very intriguing indeed. Wonder how those people feel about having freight trains pass by their houses all the time. Great Video also :) !
When I Was A Freight Guard At Strood Back In The 70's The Maximum We Pulled With A Crompton Was 1000 Ton's (Murphy's) I See That Train Had 1900 t. Great Video morthren
That is unusual. There’s a similar unusual passage in an terraced area in Brighton. It doesn’t lead to a railway though. It’s still interesting nonetheless.
Dodgey place after dark! also cant see a run round
I love the way the rain passes quietly with no drama unlike trains in a certain country the other side of the Atlantic where exhibitionist continuous blaring of the horn is de rigeur. People say it's to warn but what idiot needs to be warned to be careful at a train crossing?