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Used to run alongside "the planton" Station Road....alot of roman pottery on that feild too😊

Caught this video by chance. So glad I did! Congratulations on what you all have done, and wishing you 110% increasing success in the future. It's the veriest heart & soul of railway preservation! 😀

14:40 The original timbers of the lifting bridge didn't survive because they were burnt by contractors working for Leicestershire County Council when they moved it from its position outside the fascinating Snibston Discovery park, which closed in 2015 (a cost cutting measure). The timbers were deteriorating (from an 1845 rebuild and an 1883 redesign) but no thought had been made about recording the workings of the mechanism. Despite being removed from West Bridge in the 1960s, it had been reconstructed firstly at Abbey Pumping Station and then at Snibston but bizarrely in the open position with a wagon on it, which would never have happened. I look forward to it being 'lifted' to show its workings. The current reconstruction was completed using photos and drawings of it in its place at West Bridge (next to Soar Lane).

I took that trip a few months ago. Delightful & amazing what the local community have achieved with this & the heritage center.

I can remember as a child playing in some old wooden wagons that were abandoned in the cutting near Nunckley Hill. Never thought that the line would be used as a passenger branch line! In my younger days I can recall walking along the towpath of the Grand Union Canal by Frog Island and going under the Swannington Railway lift Bridge when it was still in its rightful place doing the job it was built for. Sad it's not still there but at least it survives in a much renovated condition. It always fascinated me and I spent a long time looking at it and trying to work out just how it operated. It doesn't look quite the same without the canal beneath it and the woodwork was never that pristine! It was a very mucky and murky spot where it stood. I always thought it was a bit spooky!

Great video and I'm glad you enjoyed visiting us at the Heritage Centre. Very pleased to finally see some video evidence of me driving in the Ruston!

Many years ago i walked about a mile from the junction and it was just about passable. I certainly never thought trains would ever return.

Good to see the branch in use. I had a very small hand in helping with the clearance and track laying. A remarkable contrast to one summer weekday evening around the turn of the century when a few of us GCR volunteers, having finished some work on the GCR quicker than expected, went for a nosey down the abandoned trackbed. Despite having iron bars with us we only made it a hundred yards or so due to density of vegetation.

excellent video captured the heritage center lovely too i work as a guard and driver on the narrow gauge railway there its a great place to bring children and other railway enthusiasts

Question answered.Really interesting video for me as l grew up in Leicester in the 50’s/60’s and remember the G C R when it was fully functional.Sadly l saw its demise as well.

I couldn’t quite make it out but was that a remake of Stephenson’s lift bridge in the Nunockley Hill yard ?I remember the one over the Soar when l was a kid.

That was really enjoyable. I have the feeling that some preserved lines are for money; which is of course important; but that others are run by pure enthusiasts. You are definitely in the latter.

Great views, looks like you have plenty of room to fly. Great stuff

Amazing

Just to let you know that the 2b and 2c service to cutteslowe Park doesn't run anymore the only buses that go to Oxford from kidlington via cutteslowe Park is 2 and the 2A and the 7 and the 700

Flicking the pictures to the beat of the background music means we missed out on some good pics, not the best idea, A senior moment, I guess !!!

The standard stock ran on the Northern City line till 1966, this was the stock that went to the Isle of Wight

Nice tour!

Rather "rushed" and music totally out of keeping with the era of the exhibits but at least you tried

Great visit, but bit longer views of the exhibits would be nice.

Nice video. Terrible annoying music though. There must be something better available for free. And don't edit the video to whatever the music is but to how you want to viewers to see things (like after 4:15).

The subject matter is interesting but video is spoilt by that irritating background music!

Is this located in what used to be the heavy rail overhaul works at Acton Town? If so, that’s where my father spent most of his working life. I still temper telephoning him at work, asking the telephone operator for Acorn 3262, the the switchboard operator for the “drawing office, please”.. He retired in 1973 after 46 years of railway service.

Great video! It’s such a treasure trove there. I loved visiting.

I was literally at the open day I loved the Q stock

How hard is it to get tickets?

going to visit here tomorrow so great to watch the upload first

Very interesting video. 😊

The Light Railway Act of 1896 came just too late to be of any real benefit to the railway industry of Great Britain. Petrol-powered lorries came into use not many years after, then, after WW1, large numbers of war-surplus lorries came onto the market and found ready buyers of ex-soldiers who had learnt to drive them whilst in the Army. No real expenditure was necessary apart from the cost of the lorry, and there was no legislation regulating their operations. So the building of light railways became totallly uneconomic, and even the main line companies suffered greatly from road competition which had no Common Carrier obligation.

Liked the showman's engine stereo setup.

Great didn’t know Great Central had an old BR diesel railcar. Good one. As the midland region had diesel parcel cars did any survive on heritage lines? Travelling on GC Railway is one of my bucket list trips!

Great little video. Particularly liked the history segment

Really good quality pics

Thank-you!

How often do they do open days? I woulda gone if I knew one was on! (Went to a similar event at Alan Keef several years ago now)

It is good to see that companies like this are still going successfully and hold a place in the future of steam THANK YOU .

Some model buildings have been renovated since I was there 7/8 years ago. I was also horrified to find that the model of car I learned to drive on is in the motor museum there 😩

A 54’ Davezilla. 😂😂

Bond Street station is set to open later this year on the Elizabeth Line.

Bravo!

That poor bloke colin that was publicly exposed with testicle problems. Bang out of order