Inspired by you Morthren, I have nearly completed a photographic survey of all the rail bridges in my borough - Bracknell Forest. Thus far I have captured 19 of the 21 I know to exist. When I have snapped the last two, I need to work out how to roll the stills into a video, with captions, for uploading to UA-cam. It won't be anywhere near as entertaining as proper video footage but hopefully an interesting little toe-in-the-water.
Aw seeing Rochester bridge took me back god knows how far back when as a small child I remember the old disused bridge that is now the road bridge, on a sunday we often had a picnic at Cuxton where we would watch through some binoculars the bridge activity as it was being rebuilt, my father was the signing off signalman at Sole Street, Cuxton Down and a few others displaced by Meopham and Dartford boxes. I gather there is getting a growing demand for a new rail bypassing Higham tunnels as the tunnels and Strood junction onto the Chatham line is a terrible bottleneck for them fancy trains.
*Summary:* This is a low bridge This one is even lower This is abandoned This one is old This is an under bridge This one is an under bridge Thanks for watching I'm only teasing, I found this very interesting
Thanks for posting such a great video. Bridges, unless very large or famous, are often overlooked. Not far from where I live, there is a railway bridge emblazoned with a 'Ferodo' sign - it's always been there, for as long as I can remember. It did, at one time, have it's own fan club, and web site - there are several other 'Ferodo' railway bridges in various places in the UK. In the area, too, we have a couple of really low bridges, at Manningtree (it has a level crossing for trucks), and another at Needham Market, which also, besides being low, is next to a river, and often has floodwater under it. Needham Market station also has a rather claustrophobic foot tunnel accessing it on one side. Suffolk, being flat, has, I think, only one rail tunnel proper, and that's at Ipswich station. There's a viaduct (which in my late teens, I walked across), immediately after Derby Road station on the Ipswich-Felixstowe line. However, there's the remains of a bridge that thousands of people pass every day, and never notice - to all intents and purposes, it's the front garden wall of a house. But prior to the second world war, there was a steep cutting there, that led to brickworks and clay diggings. The bridge crossed it, carrying the road to the village of Henley over it. A workmate put me on to this, and asked me to photograph it. As I was doing this, from the other side of the road, so I could see all of it, as it's obvious what it is, as it has a distinct curvature, the homeowner came out and asked me what I thought I was doing. When I explained, and showed him the wall, he was fascinated - but not too pleased about his house being over a filled in railway cutting. I've always wondered whether the piers and abutments are still there, under the soil? Nothing visible remains on the other side of the road, by the way. The railway was a spur of the Ipswich - Westerfield line, and can still be traced on Google maps.
Stone Crossing has a new footbridge just built to replace the manual crossing there I think. Which leads me to the point that you could potentially do a video on the different types of crossings on the railways, like the unprotected pedestrian crossings near me along the Gravesend - Hoo Freight yard, to the crossing where you have to pump the barrier up yourself (forgot where it is but it’s somewhere on the Southeastern network)
Network Rail's goal is to close as many crossings as possible by replacing them with bridges or tunnels. I don't think any new road that crosses a railway can be a level crossing now. Thanks for the video idea... I know of two crossings with pump barriers, one near Canterbury, the other is in Deal. I've still got to see them yet!
@@morthren not just that but every new overbridge has ramps as well as steps. This one has been replaced goo.gl/maps/HbGWit7WhV42 which is rather handy for running events. It's one of Peterborough's few hills now! Zoom out and you'll see it. In 20-30 years there will be virtually no level crossings left.
I remember the exceptionally long footbridge over the Rochester wagon repair yard, I grew up partly in Riverview Park and had a father signalling the local area and an uncle working his 33 out of Hoo yard in the 70's, I seem to remember the fireless steam locos at Imperial Paper too with their little peep peeps there.
Well done; evidently based in the South East. Of course, there are some notorious ones as well. Recently, there was a BBC News publication of a double-decker bus losing it's roof near Bristol Parkway: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46077532 .
@@tobeytransport2802 They might look ordinary to you, but I think every single one is different. Each had an architect an engineer and lots of brickies. Some of them even have acts of Parliament. These days they would be more expensive, less well considered and probably made of concrete. No doubt there is a compound in Birmingham, where they store them up after they arrive from China. If we need one in a hurry they just hang one under a helicopter. A brickwork skew bridge is an absolute marvel of design, craftsmanship, patience and determination. Hell they even paint the bricks onto plastic Wimpey homes with robots nowadays. I don't think anyone can remember how to do English/Flemish bond any more.
To give you an idea of how low the bridge is at 2:37 I pass under it regularly on a motorcycle and have to duck or lose my head. I've scrapped it a few times.
Rochester bridge reminds me of Ethelfleda bridge, the railway bridge is a very similar design but with castellated turrets and arches it is a work of art
I like the Rochester Bridge over River Medway. The steel bridge seems amplifying the sound of the wheels when passing the rail joints. It creates loud and unique sound as I listen on your video. It also has beautiful construction.
Scotsmen, Welshmen and Northern Englishmen (upon seeing, "The South East of England is very hilly"): HAHAHAHAHA. No. It's about as flat as a witches tit, mate.
I clicked because I recognised the Luton Arches - I used to live in Medway and still go back to visit pretty often. And I recognised the Woodlands Road bridge in Gillingham, too. There used to be a station near Rochester Bridge, in the days of competing rail companies, and my great-great-grandfather was killed by a train there - he worked on the railway. Thank you for posting this look at some of the rail infrastructure in Medway.
N Kent representing! Was half expecting to see the fine specimen just off your usual patch 3:07 to 3:10 on ua-cam.com/video/8YFLkq1Bp0k/v-deo.html - probably the tallest I've been over. Always a good eye for the built environment on this channel \m/
Theres a very old brick built quite high footbridge at the Grove Park end of Elmstead Woods tunnel, further along too is a very large foot tunnel between Chinbrook Gardens park and the Bromley side. The Bromley North branch has some quite old architecture including a Victorian bridge to accommodate the river Quaggy.
I find most of Your 'Postings' to be excellent escapism & far more 'powerful' Artistic presentations than any Art Gallery can allude to as 'Creativity max'. Also It's great to be able to see all this without spending a Nickle. Thank you for this most Valuable 'Creative' Process.
I did want to show some before and after comparison pictures that I've found online, but getting approval to use them is difficult sometimes. If they are used without approval, the video can get a copyright strike
There isn't a footbridge at Berwick level crossing, which was really annoying when we would have had to walk 4 and a half miles around to get to the car which was less than 20 metres away but we couldn't get to it, but then someone gave us a lift.
Love this. Know the Chatham/Rochester area slightly and have many times driven under that 3-bridge section. Didn't know it was called Luton Arches; didn't know there had once been trams running beneath one of the bridges. Your channel is wonderfully educational, Morthren, and I love that it's always about the subject, not the presenter - unlike so many channels. I find it very restful. Thank you.
A great vid. My favourites include the majestic Royal Bridge over the Tweed carrying the trains across into Berwick station. And the little footbridge over the Northern Line in Hendon Park leading into Cheyne Walk. What I loved about your vid was the timing, a climb up the side of the bridge "just in time" to see the Thameslink to Rainham, passing underneath! What would enhance the vid, I think, would be a caption or audio description showing where each bridge was.
I purposely missed out the famous bridges as there are plenty of video's on them. I was looking at the basic bridges like the few in this video, something that hasn't been filmed because they're just a simple bridge. That said since getting all these clips, I've passed so many more interesting bridges that would have been good to film but just weren't possible at the time. The SE, It's easier to film the stuff in your own back yard. Thanks for your comments, they are appreciated.
Thomas Munn I feel you are being somewhat ‘pedantic’! I’m Scottish born (1949) and bred and have ALWAYS known the original bridge as the Forth Rail Bridge, even before the Forth Road Bridge was constructed!
Hi, very interesting video. I was born in Gillingham and the last footbridge you showed is indeed well over 60 years as it was there during WWII. The reason for it's arched covering was that up until the late 60s, early 70s it was covered in a corrugated roof and the sides were also covered half way up. Keep up the good work. Fascinating stuff.
The lowest bridge I've seen (more of an underpass really) is on a pedestrian footpath in Bamber Bridge which I would say is around 5' tall (53.727215, -2.673222)
Interesting video - I enjoyed that. Always nice to see history surviving. But a small point. Not sure about your comment about the hills making for a lot of bridges around 5.40. Those brick viaducts were largely built to avoid massive earthworks in built up areas - lots of roads to cross, houses to demolish etc (although that didn't cause too many concerns when Euston was built!). I may be wrong, however.
Kevin Enticott ahhh I live in strood, and that’s gun lane. I’m not sure what it is, I remember finding out once, but I don’t think it’s to do with the railway.
trying to understand the rationale to equiping a level crossing with a footbridge; it's not as though folks gotta wait for miles-long trains to pass by
Its more to do with the number of trains that pass while the road barriers are down. During the peak periods you can sometimes have to wait for 3 or 4 trains to pass.
there's a slew of crossings twixt Old Montreal and the old port, and aghast nighttime I watched dozens of revelers climb over and under stalled trains thereat; hundreds of passersby bunched up and thus spilling into the roadways too...cleptoparasitically operating a railway hereabouts, i.e.: ua-cam.com/video/UIZqIQVFut4/v-deo.html 👀
On the subject of bridges, Lady Bay Bridge in West Bridgford/Nottingham carried the Midland Railway line between Nottingham and Melton Mowbray between 1878 and 1968. It was then converted to a road bridge and re-opened in the early 1980s.
We’ve got some belting bridges in the North too. And tunnels. We’ve got a viaduct that’s 188 years old & still going strong on the main lune between Liverpool & Manchester. The world’s first proper passenger railway.
Steve, for sure, the North boasts some truly great items of industrial history. The Anderton Boat Lift is one of my favourites, though I confess I've never visited.
Sadly, yes. It's so commonplace in the UK, that someone actually wrote a spoof field guide to finding and identifying shopping trollies. Years ago, I was out in the countryside on my motorbike, when my attention was caught by the sunlight glinting on something high up in a tree. As I got closer, I saw, to my astonishment, that it was a shopping trolley. It must have taken 3 or 4 people to get it about 20 feet up. But then again, when I lived in Yorkshire, 30 odd years ago, I saw an armchair on the top of a lamp post, so maybe some people can actually levitate... 🤔
The trolley's near Rochester bridge are there to act as mines to stop the Russian submarine escaping! (There is one moored up about 100 metres from the bridge)
Nice video about an interesting subject. A minor clarification at 1:40 - the distance is not "from London", it's from the zero point on that route, which is London Victoria via Herne Hill. I would encourage you to look further into the history and construction methods of some bridges as you've just scratched the surface here.
I remember once in Dover, I was on a bus and it had to wait at traffic lights because the road under the bridge only had 1 lane, I found that slightly odd.
@@crazysharkgaming8947 there are a lot of one lane underbridges in the Slough area under the GW Mainline that have traffic light controls. Some have been converted to one way though.
Inspired by you Morthren, I have nearly completed a photographic survey of all the rail bridges in my borough - Bracknell Forest. Thus far I have captured 19 of the 21 I know to exist.
When I have snapped the last two, I need to work out how to roll the stills into a video, with captions, for uploading to UA-cam. It won't be anywhere near as entertaining as proper video footage but hopefully an interesting little toe-in-the-water.
Aw seeing Rochester bridge took me back god knows how far back when as a small child I remember the old disused bridge that is now the road bridge, on a sunday we often had a picnic at Cuxton where we would watch through some binoculars the bridge activity as it was being rebuilt, my father was the signing off signalman at Sole Street, Cuxton Down and a few others displaced by Meopham and Dartford boxes. I gather there is getting a growing demand for a new rail bypassing Higham tunnels as the tunnels and Strood junction onto the Chatham line is a terrible bottleneck for them fancy trains.
*Summary:*
This is a low bridge
This one is even lower
This is abandoned
This one is old
This is an under bridge
This one is an under bridge
Thanks for watching
I'm only teasing, I found this very interesting
Wow- the first Chatham example you used, I used to live around there and that clip gave me so much nostalgia-
I don’t LIKE this video...
... I love it!
Thanks for posting such a great video. Bridges, unless very large or famous, are often overlooked. Not far from where I live, there is a railway bridge emblazoned with a 'Ferodo' sign - it's always been there, for as long as I can remember. It did, at one time, have it's own fan club, and web site - there are several other 'Ferodo' railway bridges in various places in the UK. In the area, too, we have a couple of really low bridges, at Manningtree (it has a level crossing for trucks), and another at Needham Market, which also, besides being low, is next to a river, and often has floodwater under it. Needham Market station also has a rather claustrophobic foot tunnel accessing it on one side. Suffolk, being flat, has, I think, only one rail tunnel proper, and that's at Ipswich station. There's a viaduct (which in my late teens, I walked across), immediately after Derby Road station on the Ipswich-Felixstowe line. However, there's the remains of a bridge that thousands of people pass every day, and never notice - to all intents and purposes, it's the front garden wall of a house. But prior to the second world war, there was a steep cutting there, that led to brickworks and clay diggings. The bridge crossed it, carrying the road to the village of Henley over it. A workmate put me on to this, and asked me to photograph it. As I was doing this, from the other side of the road, so I could see all of it, as it's obvious what it is, as it has a distinct curvature, the homeowner came out and asked me what I thought I was doing. When I explained, and showed him the wall, he was fascinated - but not too pleased about his house being over a filled in railway cutting. I've always wondered whether the piers and abutments are still there, under the soil? Nothing visible remains on the other side of the road, by the way. The railway was a spur of the Ipswich - Westerfield line, and can still be traced on Google maps.
Stone Crossing has a new footbridge just built to replace the manual crossing there I think. Which leads me to the point that you could potentially do a video on the different types of crossings on the railways, like the unprotected pedestrian crossings near me along the Gravesend - Hoo Freight yard, to the crossing where you have to pump the barrier up yourself (forgot where it is but it’s somewhere on the Southeastern network)
Network Rail's goal is to close as many crossings as possible by replacing them with bridges or tunnels. I don't think any new road that crosses a railway can be a level crossing now. Thanks for the video idea... I know of two crossings with pump barriers, one near Canterbury, the other is in Deal. I've still got to see them yet!
morthren Didn’t know Deal had one, I was there a few weeks back as relatives live near there so I could have seen it aha
Neither did I until I saw Down The Tracks video of it. Have a look at his channel.
@@morthren not just that but every new overbridge has ramps as well as steps. This one has been replaced goo.gl/maps/HbGWit7WhV42 which is rather handy for running events. It's one of Peterborough's few hills now! Zoom out and you'll see it. In 20-30 years there will be virtually no level crossings left.
I remember the exceptionally long footbridge over the Rochester wagon repair yard, I grew up partly in Riverview Park and had a father signalling the local area and an uncle working his 33 out of Hoo yard in the 70's, I seem to remember the fireless steam locos at Imperial Paper too with their little peep peeps there.
4:14 - It leads to Gillingham Station even though it's in Chatham, for some reason.
Well done; evidently based in the South East. Of course, there are some notorious ones as well. Recently, there was a BBC News publication of a double-decker bus losing it's roof near Bristol Parkway: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46077532 .
Looks like most of this is shot in the Medway area. It's oddly fascinating...and reveals just how run-down and tatty so much of the area is ...
It was in 1983, when I left the area, nothing has changed!
How very interesting!
This is right around the corner from me! Edit: I live on Victoria road by the Luton arches! There is mural there now
Medway river is very polluted I saw at least ten trolleys where you filmed!
No railway bridge or viaduct is unremarkable!
As a Canadian who is of European decent. I just love everything about the U.K.. Centuries of culture, history and beautiful architecture.
These vids are great! It's like having a dream whilst you're wide awake. :-)
Andy Ash why? It’s good but they are just ordinary bridges
Andy Ash why? It’s good but they are just ordinary bridges
@@tobeytransport2802 They might look ordinary to you, but I think every single one is different. Each had an architect an engineer and lots of brickies. Some of them even have acts of Parliament. These days they would be more expensive, less well considered and probably made of concrete. No doubt there is a compound in Birmingham, where they store them up after they arrive from China. If we need one in a hurry they just hang one under a helicopter. A brickwork skew bridge is an absolute marvel of design, craftsmanship, patience and determination. Hell they even paint the bricks onto plastic Wimpey homes with robots nowadays. I don't think anyone can remember how to do English/Flemish bond any more.
Before, I always wondered why there is f'i" and I couldn't understand it until 2016 but now I gets it in feet and inches
only 29,950 to go ...keep 'em coming ....( Australia)
Hi.can you help me how did you get your Chanel to grow like it did can I have some tips if you get some ? Plz
0:37 this one is in epsom
the eleven by eight videos get monotonous
4:30 jcdecaux, we have em in Shanghai, stdecaux
I know there are many bridges. Many that over long valleys. Its amazing how much time and effort went into building your whole system.
To give you an idea of how low the bridge is at 2:37 I pass under it regularly on a motorcycle and have to duck or lose my head. I've scrapped it a few times.
I’ve just watched a video on bridges and found quite interesting!
Rochester bridge reminds me of Ethelfleda bridge, the railway bridge is a very similar design but with castellated turrets and arches it is a work of art
Edd Herring true one of Runcorn’s finest.
Great video I know a footpath under a bridge that slightly less than 6 ft high
I like the Rochester Bridge over River Medway. The steel bridge seems amplifying the sound of the wheels when passing the rail joints. It creates loud and unique sound as I listen on your video. It also has beautiful construction.
Thats my home town area
Good video there is only one bridge that is important in my life being a Cornishman.. Thats the tamar bridge
Your videos are always intriguing.
Imagine vehicles striking bridges!
Have you seen the videos of the
famous American 11'8" bridge?
Thanks! I have seen the 11' 8" bridge video's. That bridge seems to get struck a lot!
@@morthren They have jacked it up by 8" (autumn 2019). ua-cam.com/video/-VokezIMLKE/v-deo.html
Scotsmen, Welshmen and Northern Englishmen (upon seeing, "The South East of England is very hilly"): HAHAHAHAHA. No. It's about as flat as a witches tit, mate.
I clicked because I recognised the Luton Arches - I used to live in Medway and still go back to visit pretty often. And I recognised the Woodlands Road bridge in Gillingham, too.
There used to be a station near Rochester Bridge, in the days of competing rail companies, and my great-great-grandfather was killed by a train there - he worked on the railway.
Thank you for posting this look at some of the rail infrastructure in Medway.
N Kent representing! Was half expecting to see the fine specimen just off your usual patch 3:07 to 3:10 on ua-cam.com/video/8YFLkq1Bp0k/v-deo.html - probably the tallest I've been over. Always a good eye for the built environment on this channel \m/
nicely produced video...i not a big "rail-fan"; but found this quite interesting.
Theres a very old brick built quite high footbridge at the Grove Park end of Elmstead Woods tunnel, further along too is a very large foot tunnel between Chinbrook Gardens park and the Bromley side. The Bromley North branch has some quite old architecture including a Victorian bridge to accommodate the river Quaggy.
I find most of Your 'Postings' to be excellent escapism & far more 'powerful' Artistic presentations than any Art Gallery can allude to as 'Creativity max'.
Also It's great to be able to see all this without spending a Nickle.
Thank you for this most Valuable 'Creative' Process.
To make this perfect it would have been great to see some yesteryear comparison photos of the bridges but otherwise very interesting all the same.
I did want to show some before and after comparison pictures that I've found online, but getting approval to use them is difficult sometimes. If they are used without approval, the video can get a copyright strike
@@morthren Fair enough.
I have a low bridge not too far from my house. It clocks in at four metres or thirteen feet, six inches.
There isn't a footbridge at Berwick level crossing, which was really annoying when we would have had to walk 4 and a half miles around to get to the car which was less than 20 metres away but we couldn't get to it, but then someone gave us a lift.
I have never been interested in railway videos until youtube recommended this to me, now i have a new interest :)
Mansfield town has a cool one ,js
Love this. Know the Chatham/Rochester area slightly and have many times driven under that 3-bridge section. Didn't know it was called Luton Arches; didn't know there had once been trams running beneath one of the bridges. Your channel is wonderfully educational, Morthren, and I love that it's always about the subject, not the presenter - unlike so many channels. I find it very restful. Thank you.
Thank you
They don't make Bridges like they used to
A great vid. My favourites include the majestic Royal Bridge over the Tweed carrying the trains across into Berwick station. And the little footbridge over the Northern Line in Hendon Park leading into Cheyne Walk. What I loved about your vid was the timing, a climb up the side of the bridge "just in time" to see the Thameslink to Rainham, passing underneath! What would enhance the vid, I think, would be a caption or audio description showing where each bridge was.
Thanks! I'll try to include locations on future videos.
very interesting, thx for sharing!
if the last bridge had a roof on it then least the pedestrians would get some cover from the rain and snow
9:24 - Oh yeah it's Gillingham crossing!
Very interesting, thank you for sharing !
You’ve obviously concentrated on the South East of England, because you didn’t mention possibly the U.K.’s most famous bridge, the Forth Rail Bridge!
I purposely missed out the famous bridges as there are plenty of video's on them. I was looking at the basic bridges like the few in this video, something that hasn't been filmed because they're just a simple bridge. That said since getting all these clips, I've passed so many more interesting bridges that would have been good to film but just weren't possible at the time. The SE, It's easier to film the stuff in your own back yard. Thanks for your comments, they are appreciated.
morthren And thank You for your reply!
Thomas Munn I feel you are being somewhat ‘pedantic’! I’m Scottish born (1949) and bred and have ALWAYS known the original bridge as the Forth Rail Bridge, even before the Forth Road Bridge was constructed!
I watched this video only to see the Southeastern trains
Hi, very interesting video. I was born in Gillingham and the last footbridge you showed is indeed well over 60 years as it was there during WWII. The reason for it's arched covering was that up until the late 60s, early 70s it was covered in a corrugated roof and the sides were also covered half way up. Keep up the good work. Fascinating stuff.
I clicked because I recognised the Luton Arches in Chatham... It's a small world!!
The lowest bridge I've seen (more of an underpass really) is on a pedestrian footpath in Bamber Bridge which I would say is around 5' tall (53.727215, -2.673222)
Nice video!
Thanks!
7:52 why does the shirtless guy have his hand down his shorts ?
Great video
Phenomenal video!
Kearseny Tunnel is hit so is Ely . In Deal we have a road bridge that goes over the railway amf a pootbridge that goes from P1 to 2
Check the one near me at Park Lane Numeaton 6' 0"
That beep from the driver lol 8:24
Thameslink drivers always seem to give a tone.
8:28 I like that horn
Interesting video - I enjoyed that. Always nice to see history surviving. But a small point. Not sure about your comment about the hills making for a lot of bridges around 5.40. Those brick viaducts were largely built to avoid massive earthworks in built up areas - lots of roads to cross, houses to demolish etc (although that didn't cause too many concerns when Euston was built!). I may be wrong, however.
This is interesting enough, an on the ground look at bits of the UK without the tourist traps, pleasure to watch.
1:35, does that number even work given rail track doesn't exist anymore
A great video morthren! I found it very interesting! Great camera work as well! Looking forward to more intriguing videos like this :D
1:50 is that an old railway building?
Kevin Enticott ahhh I live in strood, and that’s gun lane. I’m not sure what it is, I remember finding out once, but I don’t think it’s to do with the railway.
trying to understand the rationale to equiping a level crossing with a footbridge; it's not as though folks gotta wait for miles-long trains to pass by
Its more to do with the number of trains that pass while the road barriers are down. During the peak periods you can sometimes have to wait for 3 or 4 trains to pass.
that was a silly swipe I'd tried taking, wasn't it...and all on top of railway property owners over here customarily getting away with murder, you see
there's a slew of crossings twixt Old Montreal and the old port, and aghast nighttime I watched dozens of revelers climb over and under stalled trains thereat; hundreds of passersby bunched up and thus spilling into the roadways too...cleptoparasitically operating a railway hereabouts, i.e.: ua-cam.com/video/UIZqIQVFut4/v-deo.html 👀
What on Earth is a chain unit of measurement..?
Google: 1 Chain = 20.117m/66ft/22 Yards. 10 Chains = 1 Furlong!
It's definitely confusing!
A.K.A. one 80th of a mile.
And eight furlongs = One mile.
A cricket pitch is a chain long.
At 1:08 where is this bridge ?
The lowest in Bishton
Very interesting video. Don't forget that Network Rail maintains the National Buddleia Tree Collection in its brick bridges.
Very true!
Great video.
Where abouts do you come from? The Swale crossing is an interesting one
Very interesting, especially for railway modellers.
I must comment to tell you I am enjoying it very much because I think a thumb up is not enough
On the subject of bridges, Lady Bay Bridge in West Bridgford/Nottingham carried the Midland Railway line between Nottingham and Melton Mowbray between 1878 and 1968.
It was then converted to a road bridge and re-opened in the early 1980s.
And is was used by the BBC in their 1970's production of "Smiley's People! , pretending to be a bridge over the River Spree in Berlin.
This is better than 'The Telegraph Poles of Dunstable' by far.
Telford never has any notice :c
We’ve got some belting bridges in the North too. And tunnels. We’ve got a viaduct that’s 188 years old & still going strong on the main lune between Liverpool & Manchester. The world’s first proper passenger railway.
188 years is 3 x my life to date .... almost to the day. (Mental age about 15)
Hertog von Berkshire
The Sankey Viaduct.
And it’s Grade 1 listed.
Steve, for sure, the North boasts some truly great items of industrial history. The Anderton Boat Lift is one of my favourites, though I confess I've never visited.
Just came across this video. Thought I would give it a watch. Glad I did. I was born in Chatham and brought back memories. Thank you
My neck of the woods!!!
3:35 where is this?? O: i wanna explore at some point
The road above is called Burnt Oak Terrace in Gillingham Kent - goo.gl/maps/QbzA3asvxPC2
6:06 do people often dump shopping carts into rivers?
Sadly, yes. It's so commonplace in the UK, that someone actually wrote a spoof field guide to finding and identifying shopping trollies. Years ago, I was out in the countryside on my motorbike, when my attention was caught by the sunlight glinting on something high up in a tree. As I got closer, I saw, to my astonishment, that it was a shopping trolley. It must have taken 3 or 4 people to get it about 20 feet up. But then again, when I lived in Yorkshire, 30 odd years ago, I saw an armchair on the top of a lamp post, so maybe some people can actually levitate... 🤔
so people tend to discard shopping trolleys towards everywhere
@@liliwinnt6 there are plenty of trolleys in the river around Medway, especially around Rochester Bridge.
The trolley's near Rochester bridge are there to act as mines to stop the Russian submarine escaping! (There is one moored up about 100 metres from the bridge)
@@sofa-lofa4241 lol
i remember the time near tynemouth a doubledecker bus got stuck under a bridge that the Metro services use
Nice video about an interesting subject. A minor clarification at 1:40 - the distance is not "from London", it's from the zero point on that route, which is London Victoria via Herne Hill. I would encourage you to look further into the history and construction methods of some bridges as you've just scratched the surface here.
Thanks and thanks for the clarification.
1:25 oh hey Bud 😝😝😝
Thanks for the tour !
I remember once in Dover, I was on a bus and it had to wait at traffic lights because the road under the bridge only had 1 lane, I found that slightly odd.
I known the one you mean. Samphire Hoe Tunnel - goo.gl/maps/ZggJHDLuxZ12
@@morthren Sorry for the late reply, only just seen it now. But no that's not the one. I'm talking about the one on Coombe Valley Road
@@crazysharkgaming8947 there are a lot of one lane underbridges in the Slough area under the GW Mainline that have traffic light controls. Some have been converted to one way though.
You've missed a few loads mate.
6:00 so many 🛒!
Why are underground trains in Essex?
It's part of the Central Line which becomes overground after Stratford and goes all the way to Epping.
Bring back the lift videos!!!
There will be more soon.
@@morthren Great!!!
Maybe this vid is bit too far ?
1st Comment 9th Viewer!!!
2nd comment and 16th viewer
@@buseswithsam3280 Lol!!!