The Last Bridge. The Old Denbigh Railway - Yr Hen Rheilffordd Dinbych. Welshbloke walking
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The Last Bridge. The Old Denbigh Railway - Yr Hen Rheilffordd Dinbych
Here's my effort to record on video, the few remaining traces of Denbigh's old railway, from half a century ago, before they disappear completely. It's a bit rough round the edges, but I think it does enough to convey the route, as was, most of which I can remember first hand.
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Bore da Will! Greetings and thanks from north Spain!
Diolch JuanKrys - Thanks for watching
Absolutely loved watching this with my 7 year old.
Glad you enjoyed it Kelly. Cheers
Thanks Will :) 🙏🏽 great video and lovely walk 🌳🌞
Cheers and thanks for watching :)
I couldn't agree more.. I've lived in denbigh all my life.. nearly 46 years and that railway is crying out to be a cycle path.. it screams cycle path.
Thankyou for sharing this will.
It certainly does. Thanks for watching :)
Fascinating.It shows how much we’ve lost. Diolch.
It does indeed. Thanks for watching
Criminal to destroy such a beautiful Railway Station building. Thanks for showing the history that is very much forgotten.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching
What a great video, thank you for sharing. and a cycle track is much needed here.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video taking me back in time to my childhood. Thanks for documenting the path the railway took and the sad loss of the bridges and station - which I just about remember. I hope the bridge at Brookhouse doesn't go the same way!
Yes, Isabel, it would be nice to have at least one left. Thanks for watching.
Brilliant video. Thank you.
Thank you for watching :)
Wow...it's my lucky day. As a railway enthusiast, an admirer of Wales and a member of the Will Huw Fan Club, this was great. Beautiful video. Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi fel wastad Will.
Gwych! Glad you enjoyed it Baruch. Diolch am wylio
Ardderchog Will. Very professionally filmed and edited and such a valuable contribution to the history of Denbigh, diolch yn fawr.
Cheers Dafydd! Diolch am wylio :)
Enjoyed that Will! :-)
Cheers Rob :)
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Excellent video. I'm familiar with some areas but I didn't realise quite how big the railway was in Denbigh.
Yes it was a fair old size Milmo.
Fantastic, full of information, great filming, and not repetitive,,,
Looking forward to seeing the others 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Gwyn. Thanks for watching.
Bought back some memories. Good to see it on record now.
Thanks for watching John
@@WillHuw Enjoyed it. Just been looking through some others.
Hi William hope you are well, another great video with some interesting facts, when the beaching axe fell some many small branch like we're lost that fed small towns and villages, one good thing that came of beachings axe was all the preservation railways that sprung up.
Best wishes stay safe Jon.
Cheers Jon. Thanks for watching
What a lovely walk. Thanks for this.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great to see local history Will. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching Jan
Well done Will Huw excellent video brought back so many memories from my childhood.
Glad you enjoyed it Allen. Thanks for watching.
Another really good video. Easy watching and none of the usual UA-cam silly 'influencer' rubbish. You really know how to present.
Cheers Liam and thanks for watching :)
Diolch yn fawr Will. A fabulous and informative video of times long past. Beautiful old photographs. What a time that was.
" The good old days" ;) Diolch am wylio.
Excellent video Billy, most enjoyable.
Cheers Peter. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
There was a lot of work done in the late1990s and an excellent document produced of plans for a cycle path from Rhyl to Ruthin but was opposed by landowners
Absolutely!
Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for creating and sharing. 😊
Thanks for watching :)
Diolch yn fawr for a great video Bill! My son has been learning about the railway in Ysgol Twm or Nant and we went for a walk yesterday exploring some of the bridges and sites. He found your video very interesting and the addition of the colour to the old images to be really immersive - helps some generations to realise that things weren't actually black and white back then! 😊 The bridge in The Green towards Tremeirchion is another great site, just such a shame that there's no acces to the public onto the old track bed. Diolch and best wishes. Arwyn
Diolch am wylio Arwyn. Glad you enjoyed it.
long video, amazing!
Thanks for watching.
Noswaith dda, Will! I've been watching some of your older videos, as I've just started learning Welsh. But since I also like walking and exploring our industrial heritage, I think I might enjoy it here👍😁 Such a shame what was done to our railway network back then, and so shortsighted! Really enjoyed watching this👍
Diolch, thanks for watching.
As someone who lives just down the road (or should that be track ) in Ruthin this was very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Great history there me been a local denbigh lad I remember it well as for your last comment in the vid your spot on with a cycling path cone on dcc get it sorted 👍
Nice one. Thanks for watching
That's called a fog mans hut , there where probebly some signals closeby so if they where obscured by heavy fog the fogman could let the driver know if the signals where at clear or danger , if that all makes sense
Thanks for the info Brian.
Great video! It's really interesting to hear about the history of the railway in Denbigh. I too enjoy finding remnants of railways when out hiking, but it also makes me feel rather sad. As always it was wonderful to join you on this walk. I particularly liked seeing how certain areas looked pre-1960s compared to how they look now. Thank you.
Thank you for watching Danielle
Hard to believe that only the faintest vestiges have survived relatively recent history. Once government or private interests have taken hold, you can kiss common history -- and common sense -- good-bye.
A short short-sighted story: The Montreal suburb where I grew up, an 18th-Century miller had a stone house beside his since long-gone mill. It was the oldest site in LaSalle, Quebec. (There is a 1734 stone house extant, and an English-style mill from 1816.) Circa 1970, the mayor decided that the old miller's house should be burned down for "firemen's practice." And up it went. Gone.
Ten years later, a magnificent late 19th-Century plantation-type mansion was set ablaze by arsonists no doubt under the employ of the mayor....who was conveniently on vacation in Florida. (Al Capone was also on vacation during the Valentine's Day Massacre!) The mansion was in the way of a 7 million dollar grant from the Federal Government to create a lakeshore park. So stupidity and greed are common traits of elected officials everywhere...not to mention Big Business as well.
I very much enjoyed this video, and I look forward to following your next adventures!
Yes indeed. Government and private interests are a curse. Thanks for watching.
Very good video.
Thank you very much!
Nicely filmed, very thorough, a great video, im usually in the area a couple of days a week but ive never had time for an exploration. Can you tell me what camera and stabilisation rig you were using?
Glad you enjoyed it. For filming, I use my phone, an old Samsung Galaxy S8. It will shoot in 4k, but I always shoot in 2K to compromise on file size. I didn't actually have a stabiliser rig when I made this video, but have since acquired a Hohem isteady X Phone stabiliser, which works very well.
I see no one else asked so I would like to know why were the rails removed? A railway line can be taken out of service while leaving the rails in case the decision is reversed later. Removing the rails is itself expensive so I question why that was done instead of leaving them in place albeit without maintenance. I am assuming all this happened at around the same time in 1963.
You would think so. But the rails, land and assets can be sold. It's just the inevitable consequence of a Conservative government. Railways, Mines, Mental health Services... Their present target is the defunding, privatisation and eventual sale of our National Health Service. Same old same old :(
Here's some more interesting film footage of the railway through Denbigh from 1961: ua-cam.com/video/yCaH11fsjCs/v-deo.html
Thanks Steve.