Great video. The class 205's were used as there was no chance of "buffer locking" on the tight curves with those units, that's also the reason why they were uncoupled from each other.
Amazing, I've never seen this video before, great to see this as I was there! Still got my ticket, pamphlet, photos & memories. Definitely the most extraordinary rail tour I have ever been on. Thank you for posting this.
I'm in the RAF and on training there this week. The track is still down but heavily overgrown. The goods shed I saw looked the same but part of the roof has collapsed.
Fantastic - just found this, I was on this Railtour, what a great way to spend a Sunday, I went on to do Bicester and Long Marston the same year hooked on military railways. Thanks for posting. Stan
That`s awesome. I see , and hear, what you mean about tight curves with all that groaning and screeching coming off the wheels loosening my teeth in the process! Great stuff.
Blimey! The dreaded Bramley! This was (possible still is) used by the MOD for training exercises. Spent many hours here being mainly wet and cold when in the Oggies. There wasn't much railway to be seen though, mainly overgrown and lifted.
Yep, still used for training...spent this past week there part of my RAF training. Still odd sections of track around, though alot of the depot buildings are either derelict or have been cleared.
It's almost like the chase in 'The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery. Just needs Flash Harry on one of the trains a few of the staff in a Wickham and a couple of girls on a pump trolley. Really can't imagine anything remotely similar happening today.
Sadly some of the track has been lifted, specifically the marshaling yards, loco shed and track sections which connected the whole thing to the mainline. That area is now a housing estate which sprang up in the last few years. Unless a new connection is made, a heritage railway here seems doubtful...
Most of the site is still an MOD facility. However, a large swathe of it (on the North East end) is now a housing estate. If you read my comment again, I said what used to be the marshalling yards and loco shed and rail arrivals areas is now a housing estate. This is true. I live nearby and have been to that housing estate many times recently.
ChainsawDude Here, look: www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3229677,-1.0552186,404m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0 Google maps even shows the estate being built. Because of this, all the remaining track on the eastern side of the site is now completely disconnected.
Regretably general interest schemes will always take a back seat (ejector type) when housing schemes are involved, money talks, always has, always will. Also just visited the site on Google Earth and every scrap of track is now gone. Not sure what date it was but even the marshalling yard was just an over-grown but recognizable site.
Nope, still as it is in the video, although some of the track have be taken up. All the buildings are still standing and it's used as a military training area.
BUT THIS WAS DISGUSTINGLY ------- NOT ADVERTISED PROPERLY IF AT ALL, SO IT WELL NEEDS TO BE FULLY REPEATED AT THE COST OF INCOMPETENT STAFF WHO UNLAWFULLY CAUSED THE LACK OF PUBLICITY.
Great video. The class 205's were used as there was no chance of "buffer locking" on the tight curves with those units, that's also the reason why they were uncoupled from each other.
Amazing, I've never seen this video before, great to see this as I was there! Still got my ticket, pamphlet, photos & memories. Definitely the most extraordinary rail tour I have ever been on. Thank you for posting this.
As a former Air Cadet done a weekend exercise there only found a small amount that wasn't overgrown
I'm in the RAF and on training there this week. The track is still down but heavily overgrown. The goods shed I saw looked the same but part of the roof has collapsed.
Fantastic - just found this, I was on this Railtour, what a great way to spend a Sunday, I went on to do Bicester and Long Marston the same year hooked on military railways. Thanks for posting. Stan
That`s awesome. I see , and hear, what you mean about tight curves with all that groaning and screeching coming off the wheels loosening my teeth in the process! Great stuff.
The trains we see in this vid are Class 205 3H Diesel Electric Multiple Units which still carried the older blue and grey livery.
Good lord. So sorry I missed this tour, as I fascinated by glimpses of the line from passing Basingstoke to Reading trains.
Blimey! The dreaded Bramley! This was (possible still is) used by the MOD for training exercises. Spent many hours here being mainly wet and cold when in the Oggies. There wasn't much railway to be seen though, mainly overgrown and lifted.
Yep, still used for training...spent this past week there part of my RAF training.
Still odd sections of track around, though alot of the depot buildings are either derelict or have been cleared.
I spent a weekend there as an Air cadet in 2001@@stormwell
It's almost like the chase in 'The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery. Just needs Flash Harry on one of the trains a few of the staff in a Wickham and a couple of girls on a pump trolley.
Really can't imagine anything remotely similar happening today.
Nothing left now except the bases of some of the buildings.
Great vid , thank you for up loading
Sadly some of the track has been lifted, specifically the marshaling yards, loco shed and track sections which connected the whole thing to the mainline. That area is now a housing estate which sprang up in the last few years. Unless a new connection is made, a heritage railway here seems doubtful...
Wrong, the area is in use today (2017) by the MOD and is not a housing estate.
Also parts of Midsomer Murders were filmed there recently.
Most of the site is still an MOD facility. However, a large swathe of it (on the North East end) is now a housing estate. If you read my comment again, I said what used to be the marshalling yards and loco shed and rail arrivals areas is now a housing estate. This is true. I live nearby and have been to that housing estate many times recently.
ChainsawDude Here, look:
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3229677,-1.0552186,404m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0
Google maps even shows the estate being built. Because of this, all the remaining track on the eastern side of the site is now completely disconnected.
Great Video.
This would make a cracking heritage railway!
No hope of that sadly only 20% of the track still there but the whole area is now used for outdoor training & Manoeuvres
Regretably general interest schemes will always take a back seat (ejector type) when housing schemes are involved, money talks, always has, always will. Also just visited the site on Google Earth and every scrap of track is now gone. Not sure what date it was but even the marshalling yard was just an over-grown but recognizable site.
Couldn’t beat a 205. Amazing footage. A tour that would have the H&S people having kiniptions 😂
Great video Rofger, and some bragging material as well.
Hello I just wondered that your comment is now 9 years old.
At 1.10 was that Mr Bean running with his camera
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I think this all this land has now been developed into housing
Nope, still as it is in the video, although some of the track have be taken up. All the buildings are still standing and it's used as a military training area.
@@csaviation9013 classed as 3 Training areas
Often used by the army for military exercises (
BUT THIS WAS DISGUSTINGLY ------- NOT ADVERTISED PROPERLY IF AT ALL, SO IT WELL NEEDS TO BE FULLY REPEATED AT THE COST OF INCOMPETENT STAFF WHO UNLAWFULLY CAUSED THE LACK OF PUBLICITY.
Sadly this route has huge sections either lifted or overgrown
It stopped being advertised when it fully sold out after one week - first come first served! MOD no longer authorised any access