GWR Vs LSWR at The Hockley Viaduct Nr Winchester
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2018
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This time around on the "Hidden Railway Relics" playlist we take a peak at the history behind the Hockley Viaduct. Why it is located where it is and why it took the route it did.
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Thanks and attributes to:
Attribution: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right.
Diagram - By Railways Clearing House - Railway Junction Diagram, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Tunnel picture: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pt...
LSWR picture: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Chesil Station: John Thorn
By Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... - Розваги
Forgive the background noise which of course is.... The M3!
'Tis a noisy road indeed.
Another great video! I remember as a child I used to lookout for that viaduct everytime we drove down the M3!
Thank you very much for this, Paul. I walked along the viaduct on 19 Feb 2020 and also remember seeing it years ago as our family drove along the Winchester Bypass. Apparently the local council now stores wheelie bins etc. in the Winchester Chesil tunnel!
Yup, I think you can take a tour of the tunnel now too.
Amazing viaduct all the trouble building them and not used fo very long so enjoyable thank you
Mainly built as a "Just in case" GWR get to Southampton.
Film number 3 - marvellous video Paul. Very interesting history of a structure I know very well but knew nothing about the history surrounding it. More please!
Cracking video
I believe the ND&SR did start construction in Southampton and I was told/read that St James Park and the former Dell football stadium were 2 cuttings and that north of Southampton Central station are some embankments in the Polygon area now part of the Rollesbrook Valley Greenway.
Wow, another amazing structure sadly no longer being used for its purpose but gladly not torn down like many a viaduct
Indeed. Now used as a national cycle route and a heck of a lot of walkers!
I am sure that thirty year ago when I used to go to Southampton from Oxford to get to punk gigs there - that viaduct was visible but then as I sat in the Winchester by-pass traffic jam. Or was that a different viaduct?
Absolutely yes. The M3 extension wasn't built until the late eighties early nineties I think. The bypass pre-extension went to the west of St.Catherines hill. So I would imagine that it was even closer.
I was just wondering as what I remember was a viaduct slightly higher than the road but there may be another viaduct nearby. It is many many years ago.
@@johncrwarner that would make sense as the A3039 (or whatever it is), that's between the viaduct and M3 now sits slightly lower. This probably formed part of that road.
As I don't have access to earlier maps - it was probably a lower numbered road - a double digit starting with 3 so it might have been the A33 as that sort of merged with the A34 coming from Oxford just north of Winchester.
@@johncrwarner yup, at the time A33. Now A3090.
As a kid I used to travel between West London, and my Gran's in Bournemouth, almost every school holidays. I can remember the winding old Winchester Bypass, back when the M3 extension (and indeed much of the M3 itself) was still only on the drawing board. We'd almost always have to stop at the lights at Hockley, and the viaduct used to fascinate me. Not knowing about Dr Beeching in those tender years, I always watched the viaduct as we passed, in the hope of seeing a train on it!
In the late 1980s, in my early 20s, I remember driving (like a bloody idiot) at 90-ish miles an hour round the horrendous, sub-par, narrow-laned, snaking, road that was the Winchester Bypass, and itching to get past the LSWR bridge (and its awful bend) because I knew it was a matter of moments before the merging of the A34 (as it was then) when I would reach the relatively superior road at the Shawford Down junction & overbridge. Nowadays, most of the old bypass has been returned to nature, and the only bit remaining is the 1/3 of a mile stretch of the A31 alongside the DVSA traffic centre. Ahhh, ain't reminiscing grand?!!
Ha, excellent. Love a bit of reminiscing! Thanks for sharing. 👍