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Is this on disused lines

Very interesting. Are the stations accurate? I didn't realise that Mirfield was covered

as a kid living on Dewsbury moor is where y interest in trains and train spotting began, We had three lines running across Dewsbury Moor until they were smashed.

When a kid I used to play on the or near to the top line and bottom line passing through Dewsbury moor>But we only ever saw dirty old goods trains every blue moon? was this train a special or something ?

Oh and main air gauge ,far left varies 120 to 140 psi.Airbrake locos think it was 80 to 100 psi vacuum only locos…..but nice sim.

Loco gauges are not working correctly,particularly braking.No headlight switch till 80 s ,and it is a air braked loco (dual braked air and vacuum) ,a lot were vacuum only in the sixties.Plus wrong era gauges. But entertaining….How gauges should work is….air train pipe normal working is between 70psi brakes released.50 psi brakes fully applied.This would apply the vacuum brake from 21 ins vacuum brakes off 0 ins vacuum fully applied.The reservoir needle would stay at 21 ins vacuum.Both your needles drop,just one should..! Also when brakes applied ,loco brake gauges should go from 0 brakes off to up to 70 psi fully on.Yours stay at 0 if brake on or not……but good job,must of taken some time and effort..

Looks great, from a Batley lad.

A terrific dare i say amature documentary ,enjoyed every minute thanks you two.

Take me back to that time, what have we destroyed..this is my Britain !

Very enjoyable,walked that route many times, the infrastructure of our railways in those days was superb,and the scenery around,long before the housing developments and the m62 and m606,well it just shows,how our unique areas were changed ,and mainly by the car..! Thanks for the nostalgia !

The permanent way and infrastructure look superb

Brilliant

Shame about the bloody weather, but that aside not bad.

you've missed out a 3 arch bridge of blue engineering brick about half a mile forward of Birstall town between Birstall and nab lane bridge the whole cutting section was filled in in the mid eighties but the bridge still exists buried

Didn't see the viaduct approaching batley Station that ran parallel with the union mills viaduct still standing today, demolished I think in the 90s leaving just the one still in use.

At 5:07 … those canopy’s look amazing.

Amazing work this is incredible 👌🏻

VERY GOOD

Looks very good. Has it been released?

Extremely interesting and informative. Thank you. (What a terrible waste of a route which would be immensely useful now).

Heckmondwike Old Hall was occupied by Joseph Priestley the scientist. JB Priestley was a novelist from Bradford?

Hi, do you have any simulator videos of Morley Top Station please?

would be a goldmine today

Amazing animation skill! I'd like more info about the places the train passes too.

This brought back memories. An amazing piece of work. Thank you !!

Fantastic work, it might be worth adding some commentary pointing out the various locations along the route, otherwise excellent

wow if only

awesome being a lad from chickenley its like time travel

Where was Gildersome station at again?

It's OK in its own way but it needs a bit more comprehensive and meaning in it like a person talking in it

After running walking and cycling the greenways it really caught my interest and I’ve done vast amounts of research but your videos are the first time im actually able to see how it was, how did you recreate these? Also for years I’ve walked around the pinderosa site and it’s only recently I’ve started to see where the railway used to run. The railways had closed before I was born and even at a relatively young age now can see what benefit the lines around heckmondwike would have particularly around the congestion in the towns and villages

The view from the air shows that much of the trackbed hasn't been built upon. The tunnel under the motorway is essential. It could be possible to reopen this line I think.

Is there anywhere you can download this?

brilliant just watched a video on TH-cam about how this line used to looks

Excellent simulation spoiled by the background music

Preserved railways like the 'Great Central' are very fine, and we should be eternally grateful for all the hard work involved, but they would never be as clean when they were part of BR.

Great video, shame about the silly Helicopter sound.

I found an old timetable From 1938 from thornhill Station showing the cleckheaton branch In good condition

What a lack of forward thinking closing the lines down

If only it could be reopened

I have fond memories of these quiet and powerful buses that provided clean transport for the urban environment. Their diesel replacements whilst more versatile, were no substitute in terms of noise disturbance, acceleration or the pollution left in their wake. Rather than disfiguring the landscape, I found the overhead catenary reassuring, for having come upon it on a cold and wet day, it was comforting to know that you were on a route and, given time, a bus was sure to be along. Wellington, New Zealand, had advanced trolley buses on their system until they too gave up in 2017. I expect they too are now missed. Thank you for producing this and evoking memories.

12:02 Irish Rail old steam generating van???

Great 😎

This is so good,but if you remember i told you to go on Britain from Above,the archive of skyviews the comercial air films its free it shows views of lots of stations and views of railways,in the 20,30,40,and fifties,in superb clarity,try,EPW048056,57,58,1935,Battyford and views of the line going up to Northope,or EPW042898,9,00,01,02 1933 Mirfield station gds Spen junction,and so much more take a trip back in time its so good,try the views of Heckmondwike Spen station,the bridges,eighty houses,EPW023800,799,796,795 in 1928,orEPW043118,9,20,21,22 station entrances on High St,the LNW line around flush mills in1933,and there is more so much more,EPW042904,5,6,7 superb views of the Ravensthorpe Branch,and area,1933 a view of Ravensthorpe station with L-Y 2-4-2 tank on train,EPW048714,5,6,7,8,9,20,1,2 in1935 with the booking hall on the main road and path to station.Take a trip down memory lane and view what your grandparents looked at, for the railway historian its a magic trip,just try it you will be like me (gobsmacked)Best Wishs Eric

The aspect ratio is all wrong! It appears that, for some reason, the original video capture was made in 4:3 but stretched out to 16:9 for TH-cam, and everything is slightly flattened out! Darley Transport and travel, you could do yourself a huge favour and repost the video in its original format so that the image is more "true". Great effort though!

Amongst many old photos my mother left me, there was one of a train stabled at Cleckeaton Spen, taken from the viaduct over Mann dam, I occasionally wondered why she would have taken such a nondescript picture but when you said Winston Churchill slept in a train there it made me wonder if that may be the actual one, it was the sort of soppy thing my mother would have done.

A superb video. Thanks

as cgi gets better this would be like being there if only

Fascinating and superb video. Many thanks

All very nice, but a far cry from reality. I spent my childhood observing at Gomersal and Cleckheaton Spen and regularly visited other parts of the line, many of which I can say are unrecognizable in this video, which is worrying, as future generations will watch this video and think this is how it was. They would be wrong.