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Saturday at the GCR was great :).

The tapered pier viaducts on the GCR weren't very good, both Staverton and Brackley failed when the embankment was built up to them. Check out the drunken parapets on the Catesby viaduct, the heavy top coping bricks were removed a long time ago when the railway was operational.

Great video again Neil, such a good sight to see. Love the steam trains.

Mega video bud. Thanks for joining me and Ryan.

I am down the other end between Bilton and Cawston. We have turned about 2 miles of the track into a nature walk and connected it up to Dunchurch Bridleway, which is an ancient route. Lots of history in Dunchurch. Great video and nice to see the route slowly advancing.

The car seen is an Austin A40 = 1959 to 1968.

Great videos as always mate

You should go back to Woodford halse

More money down the drain, prices will remain high or more likely increase further and people won't use it.

Magnificent men in their flying machines was filmed on that line in the late 60s

That letterbox looks a bit easier to climb through with the plank of wood added 😊

Very interesting video. The way the brickwork is blowing in the tunnel looks like heavy ground pressure overloading the lining. Doesn't bode very well for its future...

Fantastic explore wow amazing

Awesome stuff :)

nature reserve not far from where i overturned my moggi thousand on the hill from cardington when i skidded on ice. Also at that time cardington pub used to have a miniture railway running round the grounds and the air ships were being built at the sheds at cardington too. Caroline.

remember the station and road bridge on the southill road from old warden. caroline.

east west rail are going to rebuild the present bedford st johns nearer to the hospital. caroline.

Bedford bus depot carpark is still owned by Network Rail and the buses have to pay for the bus lane under the bridge too. caroline

Hi all. Went to shutts college in 1976 to 1979 but never found this tunnel. caroline.

I done that tunnel with ap mate

Interesting to see the old St. Johns station remains. We reversed goods train and later worked stone trains around into Bedford midland station for a round trip from Didcot to Leagrave stone sidings then return via Acton Canal and Acton Wels junction down onto the Western mainline. Quite a long around trip. I recall the time when an Up midland line express failed right along side us at Leagrave and we used our Western Hydraulic loco to take the express into St. Pancreas station then light engine back to Leagrave to work our stone train empties back to Didcot. The failed Midland engine was a 'Peak'.

Great day out :)

Used to love that walk, it’s a shame they have destroyed half of it 😢

Excellent video. The couple you spoke to. The lady said her father had been station master at Gretton. I live in the station at Gretton. Small world.

Calvert Depot is for Infrastructure maintenance; train maintenance will be at Washwood Heath.

I'm hoping you're correct about that embankment that's sticking out of the EWR line. It looks like it's the start of the link to Aylesbury. I'm ever hopeful we will get it!

Neil, wow, so much has changed. Happy New Year

Cheers ! and happy new year, and hope HS2 green signals continue in 2025.

Happy new year Neil.

Thanks Neil.

Is amazing how the area has been changed . Thanks for all the updates and vids .

Thank's for the update! A work in progress - though not (yet?) beyond Birmingham.

Good to see you and Austin back on my screen. Hope you've had a great Christmas. Whenever I see the lakes at Calvert, I always think of all the millions of bricks it took to create those massive holes, and how half of the London suburbs are made up from bricks made out of the clay that taken from them.

I was at the railway center yesterday with my class!!

Not quite sure why you’ve said it’s disappointing with not much to see 🤷‍♂️. It’s a fascinating site and you only have to look to around the huge area to see how much there is to see.

There was a Triangle where they turned the steam engines...

Most people who lived in Woodford worked on the railway....shed code was 2F....

It looks well laid-out.

We used to drive very that viaduct and wondered what was to become of the former east- west route. Now we see a completely new resurrection.

Or drive…..

Hi Neil I've subscribed to your channel I too love the old railways and industry. I'm from Rugby and between 1979 - 1995 my parents house backed onto the GCR In Hillmorton. So I spent a lot of time playing and taking neighbours dogs for a walk along the stretch back then. Ashlawn Bridge is my favourite as it looks so fresh to look at to this day heading off to the countryside is a great adventure. Your drone footage was brilliant 👍

This was my route to school in about 1970/71. Starting over where the CoOp store now stands and exiting by the main rail bridge and up towards the High St. There was not a tree anywhere to be seen on the track bed. As far as the eye could see it was flat cinder track bed for miles. It was a great place to play and have fun. Magical memories for sure.

A line that had the electrification structures in place could have been readily converted from DC to AC and is a much faster line than the existing line through Derbyshire.

thanks for that great bridge. have walked nearby from the Grand Union Canal to the Southam cement works which is just down the track from the junction. in later days trains came from Rugby to the junction and reversed up to the cement works.The junction is Marton junction. and in The beaten track vol 2 there are many photos of the junction. Caroline.

thanks for the junction box. caroline.

thanks again. go over this culworth bridge too on way to Northampton. caroline

Wow thanks for taking us from Helmden. will be going from Banbury to the A43 on Sunday. caroline.

Hi. I’ve watched your video a few times, do you know if they are going to build a new bridge in its place, thanks,

Another great video thanks Neil. Felt like I did the explore myself (without leaving the sofa)

Excellent work again Neil, the cuttings never cease to amaze me, so vast. I'm not sure who thought it was a good idea to put fishing lakes along the track bed, not the easiest things to access. Who actually owns the track bed? I ask because it is quite obvious that the line is walked, but when I have been driving around that area I have seen various signs saying it's private. Cheers, Jim Gillespie.