DRIVER'S EYE VIEW - Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - Plus the Dulverton Heritage Centre Model Railway
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2021
- The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway closed too early for the preservation movement to step in and take it over before it was dismantled and sold off. As the reopening of the Welsh Highland Railway has shown, nothing is impossible. Today the L&B gives us a tantalising glimpse of the future with its beautifully restored Woody Bay station and the first section of the old track-bed reinstated to offer passengers wonderful views over the magnificent Devon countryside.
The 19 miles (31 km) line first opened in May 1898 as a single track, narrow gauge railway passing through the rugged and picturesque area bordering Exmoor in North Devon. In 1923 the L&B was taken over by the Southern Railway bringing much needed investment and marketing expertise, sadly the decline continued with the railway eventually closing in September 1935. That might well have been the end of the story had not the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Association been formed in 1979 marking the start of a new dawn as a heritage railway.
Today’s passengers are hauled by authentic recreations of the original locomotives and carriages allowing visitors to slip back in time to the days when travellers to the Devon coast enjoyed the last leg of their journey to holiday destinations such as Lynton, Lynmouth and Combe Martin aboard a diminutive L&B train.
Those early travellers would have arrived at Barnstaple on mainline trains before transferring to a waiting narrow gauge L&B railway train.
In this video we join our train at Woody Bay for a trip to the temporary terminus at Killington Lane.
We also take a look at some of the seaside resorts those early travellers might have been visiting for their holidays.
Finally we take a look at the amazing model railway housed at the Dulverton Heritage Centre.
For more information, please click on this link - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynton_...
To plan a visit, please click on this link - www.lynton-rail.co.uk/
Track Guage - 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (597 mm)
Wonderful landscape: rolling hills, green pastures and in between the wonderful sound of the steam locomotive. Merry Christmas to all steam fans. Merry Christmas Tim. 👍😊🎅🦌🎄🎁🙋♂️
Cheers, I'm please you enjoyed it. All the best for the New Year. Cheers. Tim 🎅🌲☺
It amazes me how often you can persuade drivers to allow you to attach cameras to their locos! Its well worth the effort!
Hi, I try to contact railways before I visit to ask permission, most heritage railways are very helpful, they know people enjoy forward views and that some of those watching might be inspired to take a ride on their next visit to the area. I use tiny GoPro cameras because they are quick and easy to fit, also being so small they don't spoil other peoples photograghs of the locomotive. I imagine a good number of your viewers have paid a visit to the WSR after watching your videos, its all good advertising. Happy New Year, I hope it's a good one. All the best. Tim.
G'Vday Tim, as usual a great video. I am writing this comment on a warm 29.8C cloudless day on duty at Menzies Creek on Puffing Billy Railway having just departed the last Down Train of the day Lakeside this hauled by Baldwin Loco NA 2-6-2T No.7A. The other three Locos running today are all NA's! Cheers from retired NA and VR Garratt driver Puf'n Pete.
Hello Pete, it's 13C here on very damp day, there are one or two heritage railways running mince pie specials for another day or two before everything closes down for a couple of months until the Spring Gala Season kicks off. I'm usually setting off to NZ and OZ around this this of year, I wonder how long it will be before I can do that again? I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Happy New Year and hopefully it won't be too long before we catch up again. Cheers. Tim.
It is a wonderful railway with an extraordinary history that allowed its survival and we can admire it today. I hope one day to meet it in person.
I hope you are able to visit the UK to ride this wonderful railway and whilst you are here don't forget that there a number of other steam railways nearby, all well worth visiting.
Awesome video Tim's !
Very nice train ride & more
Merry Christmas !
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Thank you for the seasons greetings and I'm pleased you enjoyed the video, wishing you all the best for the New Year. Tim and Karen ☺🎅🌲.
Amazing video!! Merry Christmas!
Thank you, and best wishes for the New Year. Tim.
Wspaniały prezent! Jaka interesująca historia. Dziękuję Świątecznie.
Dziękuję, cieszę się, że podobał Ci się film. Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku. Najlepsze życzenia. Tim 🎅🌲☺.
Superb quality 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Wishing you a Happy New Year. Tim 🌲🌲🎅🎅.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TIM TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY :) BE SAFE GOD BLESS. TY FOR ALL VIDEOS
Hello, I'm sorry I've taken a while to reply, thanks for the Christmas greetings, wishing you all the best in the New Year. Tim.
That Baldwin is a beauty. As the Welsh Highland has shown, nothing is impossible. All the way to Barnstaple one day! 🎅 And a very happy Christmas to you.
Thank you, for the seasons greetings. It would be wonderful to one day catch a train from Barnstaple to Lynton, I hope I get to see the day. Wishing you a Happy New Year, Best wishes from Tim and Karen 🎅🌲.
Hi Tim! Super Christmas special. Great steam locomotive sound, and well tuned the thing. Fits exactly to the present day. We have bad weather with us, only rain. The snow is gone again. I wrote you an email on December 22nd with 10 good pieces of advice, I hope you have already read it. Merry Christmas 🎄 Tim!
Hello Hans, thank you for the seasons greeting, I'm pleased you enjoyed the video. The weather here is similar to the weather you are experiencing, wet and cold. I've been visiting family in London and Southampton, tomorrow I'm taking my mother to see my cousin and uncle in Salisbury, Karen will be staying at home to recover from a very busy and enjoyable Christmas. Because I've spent so much time driving, I've not been able to have a beer, I'll make up for it when I get home tomorrow. Wishing you and the family all the best for the New Year. Tim and Karen 🎅🌲☺🍺🍺.
Thanks for the video Tim this is a beautiful part of the country and the railway is a great treasure. Beautiful areas around the coast looked a bit cold there loved the cliff climb on the railway those always amaze me. Loved the model railway shame to see the fox hunt on it, hopefully doesn't happen nowadays. A merry Christmas to you and your family on this early Christmas morning. 🎅🚂🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧🥳🇬🇧
Hello Christopher, sorry I've been slow to reply, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. All the best to you in the New Year. Cheers. Tim.
@@Timsvideochannel1 same to you Tim and your family!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧
Nice video!
Thank you, best wishes for the New Year ☺.
Nice.
I'm pleased you enjoyed it 😊.
Aah, Tim. You're always coming up with the good stuff! This was fascinating. Sort-of reminded me of the Ravenglass-to-Eskdale narrow-gauge line operated by scaled-down locos and carriages(about one-fifth the size of regular locos & carrianges that I saw while transferring VHS videotape to digital for a neighbour who had since moved to Central NSW to be with family. She was from England and went back for a visit to catch up with her parents. While there she visited a few locations, the Ravenglass-to-Eskdale railway being one of them. Cheers, Tim! Have a happy Festive Season! (I viewed this on Xmas Morning here in Australia).
@Neil Forbes similar to puffin Billy
@@travelingman5762 In that they both run on narrow-gauge track but *Puffing Billy* is larger in size, as are its carriages.
@@neilforbes416 Hi Neil! Hans from Austria wishes you a Merry Christmas🎄 and a Happy New Year🍾. Cheers 🇦🇹🍻
@@johannperaus6890 Und auch zu Ihnen eine Frohe Weihnachten, und Glücklich Neujahr!
Hello Neil, thank you for the seasons greetings. I'm pleased you enjoyed visiting this beautiful region of the UK, also home to some of my favorite heritage railways. Like the Ravenglass and Eskdale railway it is narrow gauge, where it differs is that this is a full size railway whereas the Ratty is a miniature railway like those found on seafronts and in parks around the country. There is one 5 minutes walk from my home, maybe I should ask the driver to allow me to place a camera on the engine ☺☺. Happy New Year. Tim. 🌲🌲🎅🎅☺☺.
Choo choo! I'm a train and I approve this video ! :)
Hello, I'm please this wonderful little train met with your approval. I'm looking forward to recording the continued re-birth of this railway, there could be exciting times ahead 😊.
Was wishing everybody a Happy Christmas and was quite alarmed to see that I'm no longer subscribed to you Tim ? I sincerely do not know what has happened as you are my most favourite railway channel on the tube so I have obviously resubscribed but have no idea how that came about goodness gracious. Happy Christmas my friend wishing you all pure goodness for you and your family in 2022. Blessings in Abundance
Hello Steph, it's nice to hear from you again, you aren't the first person to have problems with UA-cam subscriptions, I've experienced similar problems with some of the people I follow. I hope you are keeping well, I'm missing New Zealand and I've no idea when I'll be allowed in again, my granddaughter will be a young lady the next time I see her and I'll be an old man. Wishing you all the best for the New Year. Stay safe and take care. Tim.
@@Timsvideochannel1 thanks Tim, I'm currently way South of Dunedin saving up for a mortgage but not sure where I'll finally settle. Pandemic is a negative in many ways, it must be heartbreaking for you. Sending you all Goodness and hope you might find Compassionate grounds to travel at Some point.
@@StephSancia I hope you are successful in finding a new place to call home. I don't think the Pandemic is doing anyone any favors, when it's all over and the real consequences hit home, I think we are in for a real shock as countries are left working out how to deal with the massive debt accumulated as a consequence of Covid. I'm sure I'll get to see my family in NZ one day, although I'm not expecting it to happen anytime soon. Take care and a Happy New Year. Tim.
Lyn has a very different chuffing sound to the other narrow gauge engines I heard. I understand the original engine which was scrapped in the 1930s
sounded very similar. the replica was built in the 2010s
The replica engine sounds good, I hope I live long enough to see the railway extended to Wistlandpound Reservoir.
Great Video Tim. Clever use of stills with sound effects and how did you fit that camera to the engine lol. I sat in that first class cabin at the front just several weeks ago filming. Wish I had stuck my camera on the engine now😏. Great work 😎👍
Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the ride, it's a lovely railway. I watched your video, First Class is well worth the extra cost.
@@Timsvideochannel1 thank you Tim 😎👍
Hello. Thank you for filming this wonderful ride. I have a question. At 10:48, what is the curved black metal(?) bar being held out to the driver? I have seen this on a few other steam train videos and am curious. :) Thank you.
Hi, the bar you see is a ring with a leather pouch attached. The pouch contains a key/token to allow the train to proceed onto the next section of track, it is also used to unlock the levers operating the switches/points. To learn more please click on this link -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)#:~:text=In%20railway%20signalling%2C%20a%20token,the%20section%20it%20belongs%20to
@@Timsvideochannel1 Thank you so much for the information. I'm new to the world of trains but find it all so fascinating. Especially driver's eye view videos like yours. :)
@@TamaraComerfordI hope you found the information useful. There are many different facets to running a railway, it's much more than a train running on rails, I love the history behind the original reasons the railways were built, such as the branch lines in Devon and Cornwall serving tiny communities that were destined to become popular holiday resorts, in many cases the railway has gone now, but their legacy is the seaside towns holiday makers still flock to such as Ilfracombe and Padstow.
Thanks for showing us some beautiful countryside. However I am astounded that you did not show us the operation of the water-balance system on the Lynton to Lynmouth funicular. Apparently there are now only three water balance funicular in the whole world.
Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed this trip and I should have explained the water balance system used to operate the Funicular Railway. Please click on this link to read a description for the operation of this unusual railway - www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk/about-the-railway/how-it-works/
Obejrzałam bardzo interesujący film Charles Dickens' England . Widzę analogie. Pozdrawiam Świątecznie.
Witam, Charles Dickens urodził się w skromnym domu w Portsmouth około 25 km od mojego domu. Podróżował również pociągiem biorącym udział w katastrofie kolejowej w Staplehurst. Był supergwiazdą w swoich czasach, pisząc książki, które czytamy do dziś, takie jak The Pickwick Papers i Oliver Twist. Kupił wiktoriańską Anglię do życia w swoich książkach. Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku. Najlepsze życzenia od Tima.
Hello, Charles Dickens was born in a modest house in Portsmouth about 25 kms from my home. He was also travelling on the train involved in the Staplehurst rail crash. He was a super-star in his day, writing books we still read today such as The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist. He bought Victorian England to life in his books. Happy New Year. Best wishes from Tim.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Z filmu wynika, że przed katastrofą namiętnie podróżował pociągami. I tu widzę analogię.Pozdrawiam. Do Siego Roku.
@@panikrystyna1 Dziękuję 😊.
The views in this video are very scenic and lovely. Was interesting to see the funicular travel and model railway. A lovely Christmas present for us admirers of your channel. 🎁✨
Merry Christmas to you and your family Tim. 🎄🥰🎄
Hello Larrisa, North Devon is a beautiful unspoiled part of the country, with deep river valleys and heather covered high-ground. Our Victorian forefathers have left us with some wonderful, quirky legacies such as the funicular railway, the narrow gauge railway is also very much a product of the age (early 1900's) sadly it wasn't able to fend off competition from road transport, but it's looking very likely that the British love for the past will bring at least part if not all of the Barnstaple and Lynton Railway back to life. Happy New Year. Best wishes from Tim and Karen 🌲🎅😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Thanks for the information Tim, you are so personable. It's always a pleasure chatting with you. Happy New Year to you, Karen and the rest of your family from us, George, Xanthe (my daughter) and me. We wish you all the very best in health, happiness and prosperity. 🤗💖😘
@@OmniaInNumerisSitaSunt Thank you, I look forward to hearing from you in the new year. All the best. Tim 😊🎅🌺.
How on earth it stays on track ? 595 mm !!! cheers .
The tracks look way too narrow, yet the train is both stable and safe 😊.
First one to comment
Hi, I hope you enjoyed the ride ☺.
@@Timsvideochannel1 I did
Return to where? Wishful thinking….oops!
Maybe one day, the Welsh Highland Railway shows what can be achieved.
Request a ticket refund on this one ... narrow gauge toy trains and HO scale (made in China) ... putts !
Some toy🤣