Hi Railmart| really enjoying your series of freight only routes. I have often followed these on a railway atlas so it's a pleasure to be able to "ride" them at last. The subtitles are very welcome also. I don't know if this tip might help some viewers to follow the action ... I watch the videos on a split screen with Raildar junction maps on one side. With this you can "slide" and zoom to follow each detail. (Have also enjoyed Chesterfield - Deepcar today which I recommend) Many thanks - AB
Yes I do this. I follow on one or all of: Google Maps satellite photo view, OS map (eg Streetmap site) or Raildar. Occasionally I look ahead to the Google Streetview photos of a level crossing to confirm when the video approaches a crossing that I'm where I think I am.
Excellent watching - thank you. As an aside - how were trains routed before the flyover / 2014? I can't imagine they would have reversed between the Shaftholme and Joan Croft junctions on the ECML, so presumably there was alternate planning?
Trains from the Milford area went via Gas Wood and Hambleton, Then off at Joan Croft towards Hatfield. Trains to/from Doncaster went via Shaftholme and the Askern Branch. If there was a block on trains from Knottingley had to go to Doncaster and run round or via Gainsborough if they were Immingham bound. It really did open up tons of flexibility.
I've got this mental image of a little old lady who for all her life was the level crossing keeper at the minor road which has now been bypassed by a bridge, and who was rewarded (maybe posthumously) with the naming of the junction in recognition of her years of sterling service. I'm probably *way* off the mark!
@@Mortimer50145 You may be way off the mark but your imagination set mine going. She was a tiny old lady, smoking a clay pipe as she swung the gates open and closed. In the evening she would settle down in front of a large wood burning fire, reheating her supper of stew and potatoes listening to the wind whistling through the crossing gates and over the telegraph wires. "Come on Tibbles, no more trains tonight. Time for you to go out and catch some rats and mice for your supper." she would say after she re-lit her pipe. Her chair creaking as she pushed herself up.
@@acleray The junction was actually named because of her act of selfless heroism. The late-night Edinburgh-London express struck a stray cow just north of her crossing, and was badly derailed, with wreckage strewn all over the track. Should she stay to help? What a dilemma. She knew that a freight train was due in the other direction and the railway company was still to install this newfangled "track circuit" thing, so Bert, the local signalman, would have no way of knowing that he was about to send the freight train into the scene of the crash. Donning her boots and her thick overcoat, and pausing only to explain to Tibbles that she "might be some time", she set off through the six-foot snowdrifts up the line to Bert in the signalbox. Freezing cold, she eventually made to the box, just in time for him to send an "all lines blocked" bellcode to the boxes either side, averting disaster. "Can't stop for a cup of tea," she expl;ained. "Tibbles will be wondering where I've got to." They found her body, a mere hundred yards from her house, when the snow melted three days later.
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Hi Railmart| really enjoying your series of freight only routes. I have often followed these on a railway atlas so it's a pleasure to be able to "ride" them at last. The subtitles are very welcome also. I don't know if this tip might help some viewers to follow the action ... I watch the videos on a split screen with Raildar junction maps on one side. With this you can "slide" and zoom to follow each detail.
(Have also enjoyed Chesterfield - Deepcar today which I recommend)
Many thanks - AB
Yes I do this. I follow on one or all of: Google Maps satellite photo view, OS map (eg Streetmap site) or Raildar. Occasionally I look ahead to the Google Streetview photos of a level crossing to confirm when the video approaches a crossing that I'm where I think I am.
Excellent watching - thank you. As an aside - how were trains routed before the flyover / 2014? I can't imagine they would have reversed between the Shaftholme and Joan Croft junctions on the ECML, so presumably there was alternate planning?
Trains from the Milford area went via Gas Wood and Hambleton, Then off at Joan Croft towards Hatfield. Trains to/from Doncaster went via Shaftholme and the Askern Branch. If there was a block on trains from Knottingley had to go to Doncaster and run round or via Gainsborough if they were Immingham bound. It really did open up tons of flexibility.
Ohhhh a red route trip, im going to enjoy this!!!
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Really daft question, but something I've always wondered: who was Joan Croft who had a railway junction/crossing named after her?
I've got this mental image of a little old lady who for all her life was the level crossing keeper at the minor road which has now been bypassed by a bridge, and who was rewarded (maybe posthumously) with the naming of the junction in recognition of her years of sterling service. I'm probably *way* off the mark!
@@Mortimer50145 You may be way off the mark but your imagination set mine going. She was a tiny old lady, smoking a clay pipe as she swung the gates open and closed. In the evening she would settle down in front of a large wood burning fire, reheating her supper of stew and potatoes listening to the wind whistling through the crossing gates and over the telegraph wires. "Come on Tibbles, no more trains tonight. Time for you to go out and catch some rats and mice for your supper." she would say after she re-lit her pipe. Her chair creaking as she pushed herself up.
@@acleray The junction was actually named because of her act of selfless heroism. The late-night Edinburgh-London express struck a stray cow just north of her crossing, and was badly derailed, with wreckage strewn all over the track. Should she stay to help? What a dilemma. She knew that a freight train was due in the other direction and the railway company was still to install this newfangled "track circuit" thing, so Bert, the local signalman, would have no way of knowing that he was about to send the freight train into the scene of the crash. Donning her boots and her thick overcoat, and pausing only to explain to Tibbles that she "might be some time", she set off through the six-foot snowdrifts up the line to Bert in the signalbox. Freezing cold, she eventually made to the box, just in time for him to send an "all lines blocked" bellcode to the boxes either side, averting disaster. "Can't stop for a cup of tea," she expl;ained. "Tibbles will be wondering where I've got to." They found her body, a mere hundred yards from her house, when the snow melted three days later.