Land locked in Texas, your Narrowboat and through the Hedge experiences are the best Sunday morning escape! There needs to be a Texas sized "like" button for your vlogs.
LIKE MISS WINTER THOUGHT, WHO PASSED IN 1975, HAVING LIVED AT HAVENSTREET STATION COTTAGES AND PUT UP I AND A FRIEND AFTER THE VERY LAST BR STEAM TRAIN ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT SUNDAY 31 DEC 1966 WITH FISHBOURNE TO SHANKLINE AND BACK, SAID THE LOCO ANSWERED HER BY WHISTLING WHEN SHE SAID THEY SHOULD HAVE NOT CLOSED THE COWES LINE, WHEN WE WERE ON THE VERY LSAST TRAIN FROM RYDE TO COWES AND BACK VIA ONE OF THE 3 UIK MILL HILL STATIONS ON SUNDAY 21 FEB 1966.
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I'm a relatively new subscriber and still catching up, hence being 8 months late with the comment 🙂. Loving the videos but couldn't let this one pass without a comment, imagine my surprise and delight to see this one on your channel, I was born, and grew up in Highley, now home to the engine house. I now live and work in Bridgnorth. That was the best mini documentary I have seen on the Seven Valley Railway, which is about to restart following the lockdown. Fantastic stuff ladies.
Spent many happy weekends on Severn Valley Railway, my favourite station is Arley where you can walk down to the river for tea. We used to take a steam traction engine to Arley for the railway gala weekend.
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"We have to open the door ourselves at the end of the line" LOL, yup. As Kath said, real carriages have the latch on the outside just like real schoolboys would never wait for a train to completely stop before decamping. And yet, somehow we lived . . . Great episode! So good to see Ana's enthusiasm at a new experience, you both look like you had a great day and you got a great loco for your fist steam ride, the West country are one heck of a loco. SVR is a wonderful place. PS: It's a compartment you are sitting in, the entire vehicle is a carriage but no doubt someone has pointed that out in the past year..
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Best "Through the Hedge" so far. Still trying to wrap my head around sticking your head out of a bike......lol You both are just great, thanks for sharing your journey!
Thanks for taking us along! What a fun train trip. You'll think I'm crazy, but much of it made me think of Thomas the tank engine. My daughter loved Thomas. The first time I took her to see a real train she was frightened by the immense size of the train.
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What a lovely video! The weather was lovely,the trains were monsters, the countryside perfect. I don't know why exactly but it brought Agatha Christie to mind. Maybe it was the posh carriage and the posh people!!! A gem of a day to remember.
I went the whole length non-stop with the newly built engine, Tornado. It was my first ride behind a steam engine and they just did straight there-and-back runs so that they could get some speed. Wow - not the creaky wooden carriages for that journey! It was lovely, in the Winter so they connected steam pipes and the carriages were warm, just lacking some pipe smoke to complete the atmosphere.
A lovely video as I love the steam railway experience, its much like the narrowboats as its breathing life back into bygone eras. A loco like Taw Valley can cost upwards of 300k to restore when its boiler certificate runs out and a tender of coal costs upwards of 1k so bums on seats keep these places going. Long may these places as with canals survive
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Awww I've loved watching this Through the Hedge vlog, thank you both !!! The railway stations reminded me of the local one to me when I was little, going with my Mam to visit my Grandma on a Saturday...there was a sweetie machine, either on the platform or in the waiting room, where you turned a handle and got mini boxes of Toffets...the things you remember 😄 lol
We went to the 1940s weekend in 2018, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. SVR is one of the best heritage railways we've been to. Providing it still is possible to go to the UK after Brexit, we'll be back in 2021, on a hire boat. SVR is most definitely a stop on that cruise. We liked Highley the most, but Bridgnorth is not a bad second. We did not venture too far into town; the railway was very busy and occupied most of our attention. Oh, and a "train" is made up of the engine and the coaches. I think you talked about the engine as the "train". Just a minor nit. Thanks for making me remember that wonderful summer day.
I love the chugging of a steam train and the smell of the smoke. Glorious. What a lovely day out. Well done too on such beautiful clear camera work, its almost as if I was there.
The butterfly was a train-nerd too! ... soooo much faster than a narrowboat ... reminds me of the trains I grew up with in OZ ... a long time ago. :D ... a bit of trivia - what you would call a compartment, we called, 'dogboxes'. ... What a wonderful 'Through The Hedge'!
omg wow I just did the steam train from mount barker to victor harbor in Adelaide Australia was just the best, if you get a chance to watch the Griff Rhys Jones Doco when he is his Australian tour I am on there woohoo lol i am the 6th episode footy and all and the steam train brilliant
Spent 20 years until my (age limited !) retirement on the SVR and my last driving turn was on Taw Valley. Nice to see you enjoyed it as Heritage railways, like canals are all part of that important transport history of the UK. All due due enthusiastic volunteers keeping it alive
Well that was a blast from the past, as I went there on a date with a (hoped for) girlfriend when I was 16 and living in Shrewsbury. That was ....oh at least 45 years ago and I loved the trains. She didn't - so we went our separate ways. Toot!!
Visited summer 2009 in the school holidays very busy as it was a wet day and we were standing in the corridor. When we went though the tunnel approaching Kidderminster it entertaining with the shouts as thick smoke came in the open windows and even between the floorboards in places. The tourist board should pay you for the "through the hedge" videos. Well done.
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AnnaMarie, I recall that you had tea on the Llangollen steam railway, but with no tickets to be had you couldn't roll on down the track ☹️. I know this because my wife and I vacationed in Llangollen and Shropshire, rode the steam train and the hired a narrowboat for a week this past June. Fantastic! We decided on that area after seeing your vlog (Cruising the Cut & Minimalist - all great). Who knows, Kidderminster might be next. Love your vlogs. Thank you both. Stephen
As "Through The Hedge" videos go that one was Epic! The look of pure enjoyment and delight on your faces was priceless, as you mentioned in the video a change of speed does alter ones perspective but though steam trains are faster than your narrow-boat they are just as enjoyable. More so than modern transport and the bonus is the smell of steam, smoke, oil and grease, it all adds to the experience like when you see and hear a narrow boat with a vintage engine. You just don't get that total sensation with modern transport.
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Excellent Through the Hedge. You share both my interests: canal boating and steam trains❤️ (though I did my trainspotting in the 80's with diesels and have some favourites - unfortunately most of those diesels locos have also been scrapped like nearly all the steam engines were!!). Well done to the preserved railway groups around the country that keep the history and atmosphere of times-gone-by alive👍
Good to see the Gresley magic working again. The teak carriages on your first run were LNER Gresley stock - superb things - and their running gear was very special too :-) Thanks for the post :-)
Anybody remember the Golden Arrow? Gosh does this bring back memories from my childhood. I live in Canada now but my mom used to take me traveling in Britain on trains all the time when l was a child. Love them.
It's many years since I was on the Severn Valley Railway. Thank you for taking us along. It reminds me of the trains of my childhood in England's beautiful West Country -- the sounds and smell of the railway on a rural branch line to its terminus at a seaside resort.
Wowzers! Idyllic. Quint essentially English. What could be better than actually being bonafide time travellers. Aa a nation, in fact, as a planet weve lost so much in the constant need for speed and convenience. You cant help but look through rose spectacles when we look to the past when it was all so simple. On a more personal note i dont think ive enjoyed a vlog of yours more than that, the look of sheer glee on your faces had me smiling along with you, and in turn brightened an otherwise very dull day. C M & H. Xxx
Love, love, love it! I miss being there so much. Thanks for reminding me how amazing it is. My soon to be Son in law’s Granddad is a station master at one of the small stations on the line. There is also a train there that my late Granddad drove for real way back in the day. On one of his ‘special’ birthdays many years ago he went to the SVR and the amazing people there took him up onto the footplate once again. He said it was the best Birthday ever! Sorry to ramble but thanks ladies for a super video.
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I have read in a lot of books about the old steam trains and their carriages but your video brings it alive and is full of eyecatching moments. Thanks for this.
Annamarie you have the best bride ever! She wants to go to steam engine museums and the like! Looked my whole life for a partner like that and alas never found one, Cath is a real keeper...do you fellas like steam and vintage fairs too? This was a truly great video, loved it...many thanks...
This has been my favourite Through The Hedge by far! I really enjoyed this one, I'm a bit of a self confessed rail enthusiast myself and always love seeing steam in action 😊
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I grew up with a railway in our back yard in Wisconsin (USA) and we would pick up loose coal from the tracks that would fall off the trains as they went down the tracks.
Great video. I always look forward to your new stuff. The steam train stuff is fun. I particularly liked the bit where the worker was having so much trouble with the water fill.
glad you had a wonderful day in bridgnorth and the SVR, im lucky enough to live in bridgnorth and visit the station quite often, shame i missed you , we also missed you at llangollen when you where moored up there ,
There's nothing like the look of polished timber and brass that's been polished by someone else :) (a bit like a cuppa tastes nicer when someone else has made it - with love). Great video - and lovely to see the butterfly. I might have to see if Puffing Billy is still running down here in Melbourne.
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It looks like you ladies had an absolutely lovely day. I enjoy watching the Through the Hedge segments as the snow is falling. Very relaxing way to spend a Saturday morning.
That was an excellent video and I will add that to my bucket list. I love your through the hedge videos even when they are through the supermarket car park. Beautifully filmed and edited 😁 thanks.
If you get off at Arley and walk down and cross the footbridge over the Severn there is a lovely little tea room which is run by Arley Arboretum. The Arboretum itself is just up the hill from the tea room. A wonderful collection of trees and beautiful gardens with views over the Severn Valley. There is also St Peters church to see which is next to the Arboretum which once used to be part of the Arley Estate. Another great video guys! Loved it! 👍🏼
I enjoyed that ladies, used to work on the Colne Valley Railway in Essex for 40 years, you had the LNER teak carriage set 1st & BR mk1 set on the later journey. Highley used to be a colliery village & is a slightly steep walk down to the river Severn 🙂👍
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Your videos are all very interesting and love that you take the time panning and zooming, very artistic and easy on the eyes! If I lived in England I would live on a narrowboat! I have always been a boater water person, on Lake Superior and Great Lakes sailing USA mostly, so this suits me like a perfect cuppa tea!
A great video. Appreciate you sharing your lovely experience & the big smiles you both had. Being a train buff myself I was envious of your special day out. 🚂🚂. Some great shots too, 👍👍😎
Can’t thank you enough! My Dad worked for the Western Pacific during WWII and I got to frequently ride in the steam engines! I truly enjoyed your trip. Those trains are lovingly restored! Great videography too! Gracias amigas👍✌️😊🙏🏼🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
What an excellent day out. The railway is so neat and tidy. Those carriages look really comfortable. All the old infrastructure is a gem too. I'd love a visit.
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Thanks from a 'train nerd' here in the U.S. My wife and I have ridden on numerous steam train excursions here in the U.S. and really enjoyed your capturing of the British steam locos and fancy coaches. We are looking forward to more of your adventures 'Through The Hedge'! Toot! Toot!
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Thank you for a great video, every time I fly over to visit family who live in kidderminster we took the train, we went to the end on the line as you guys did and walking around the town and took the incline train as well, watching your video I was like i remember that sign and the look of the stations, thanks for bring back memories.
Hiya. Wonderful video. I miss the romanticism of steam and the comfort of those upholstered seats. Many memories surfaced. There's just 'something,' I can't explain it, about having a drink in a station bar as opposed to a pub. All the best to you.
Fantastic Video, all this is right on my doorstep and you video of it has certainly shown it in its best light and shown me things I never even noticed.
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I'm so glad you two had such a nice day. I have not been to the SVR for 30 yrs I must go again soon. But if you get near Leicester then you must check out the GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Wonderful girls this one brought back memories childhood as my dad worked on the railway in Glasgow I remember dad would take me on little trips from our house in the city sometime having breakfast with the driver and stoker cooking on his shovel, it was a peaceful way of travel who cared if sometimes trains where delayed it was a different. 👌
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It is always interesting travelling with you both on your lovely little cruises along canal as for myself I miss the walks along the banks of ours, the wild life up here in Scotland, in the near future Annamarie I would love commission you to paint a small cat but will contact you on your art channel for that, wishing you both a wonderful weekend 😀
Thoroughly enjoyed that, both for the trains and (as others have commented) for the total enjoyment shown, by Anna-Marie in particular😀. Also the content, quality, style and editing of this video puts to shame many more seasoned train spotters I know. Yes I am a train nerd too (and yes that is the term I use for myself😀) so very jealous and now I have another place I need to visit when (not if:-) I finally get over to the UK.
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Lovely journey, thanks for sharing. My favourite station is Hampton Loade. It's right by the river and there is a brilliant path between this station and Highley which hugs both the railway and the river and passes through woods. It's a fabulous walk. Another favourite station is Eardington, which only opens on special gala days. The trains can't stop there, but the home-made cakes they sell there are justly famous.....
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What a wonderful day you have had. Such lovely train and coach. The younger the trains get, the less fancy and pompous (is this a english word 🤔) they get and look at the subway trains of today, a rolling box with no glamour left at all ... thanks for taking us along
Wondeful video - nicely shot and editted, and loved the shot of the butterfly! In background ..... like most steam railways, much as the locomotives were most often rescued from Barry Island, Wales, many of the period carriages from the 1930's were wooden, and so by the late 1960's (when the steam railway movement really took momentum in the UK), these carriages were beyond economic repair. Hence most steam railway carriage stock is made up of British Railways Mk1 stock (the painted carriages - purchased directly from BR in blue/grey in the late 1980s), which were built en-masse in the 1950's to quickly replace the older carriage stock. Some steam railways - such the Severn Valley, which was an early starter - managed to get hold of some of the preservable pre-Nationalisation carriages. The luxury stock you rode on was a late 1920's/1930's LNER teak finished carriage (which ran on the East Coast, possibly within the famous Flying Scotsman trains). The Severn Valley also have GWR and LMS rakes of similar post-Art Deco 1930s carriages, but on public days tend to only run one of the classic carriages rakes, with most of the strain taken by the more modern Mk1's. Good Luck!
The only classic Coach sets the SVR do not operate regularly are the EX GWR Coaches due to the irregularities of the carriage door handles which have to be manually turned to secure shut, where as the other coaches are called slam shut in that as you shut the door it operates the door catch and secures the door shut, as our LMS and LNER Coaches have this type of door catch, these two carriage sets operate every weekend alongside our two mark 1 sets, so on most days you will see our heritage LMS and LNER Teak Coaches operating alongside our two MK1 Coach Sets. The GWR Coaches are usually only used in an emergency, on Footplate Experience Courses and on Galas.
Loved watching this. I worked as silver service waitress on a Sunday doing lunches. Hard work but lovely. Had to sway with movement of train but I never spilt anything on customers lol xx
so glad you enjoyed your day it was fantastic weather I know I was your driver on 75069 that day
Really? You were our driver? That is awesome.
Land locked in Texas, your Narrowboat and through the Hedge experiences are the best Sunday morning escape! There needs to be a Texas sized "like" button for your vlogs.
Aren't Steam Trains so romantic, they're almost living things,... Loved the video, xxx
LIKE MISS WINTER THOUGHT, WHO PASSED IN 1975, HAVING LIVED AT HAVENSTREET STATION COTTAGES AND PUT UP I AND A FRIEND AFTER THE VERY LAST BR STEAM TRAIN ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT SUNDAY 31 DEC 1966 WITH FISHBOURNE TO SHANKLINE AND BACK, SAID THE LOCO ANSWERED HER BY WHISTLING WHEN SHE SAID THEY SHOULD HAVE NOT CLOSED THE COWES LINE, WHEN WE WERE ON THE VERY LSAST TRAIN FROM RYDE TO COWES AND BACK VIA ONE OF THE 3 UIK MILL HILL STATIONS ON SUNDAY 21 FEB 1966.
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If i could press the like button more than once i would, what a stunning line......to sum it up in one word i would say "lovely".
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I'm a relatively new subscriber and still catching up, hence being 8 months late with the comment 🙂. Loving the videos but couldn't let this one pass without a comment, imagine my surprise and delight to see this one on your channel, I was born, and grew up in Highley, now home to the engine house. I now live and work in Bridgnorth. That was the best mini documentary I have seen on the Seven Valley Railway, which is about to restart following the lockdown. Fantastic stuff ladies.
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As an old Trainspotter you did a Brilliant Job of being one too. Your camera work and the smiles on your faces said it all. A "BIG" THANK YOU GIRLS.
Thank you
Spent many happy weekends on Severn Valley Railway, my favourite station is Arley where you can walk down to the river for tea. We used to take a steam traction engine to Arley for the railway gala weekend.
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The best part of this video was watching you both enjoying the great train ride
Thanks for the hart you both are =really great together
Another heart- thank you
You're usually smiling in your videos, but here you're both grinning ear to ear! charming upload ladies - who on earth could downvote this?
Very true, it was a stunning day.
Just a bit information for you guy's Arley station is actually the station they filmed the British comedy oh Dr Beeching with the cast from Hi De Hi 😊
Love the old steam trains, my Dad was a fireman on the GWR during WW2 on ammunition trains going to Birmingham during the bombings!
"We have to open the door ourselves at the end of the line" LOL, yup.
As Kath said, real carriages have the latch on the outside just like real schoolboys would never wait for a train to completely stop before decamping. And yet, somehow we lived . . .
Great episode! So good to see Ana's enthusiasm at a new experience, you both look like you had a great day and you got a great loco for your fist steam ride, the West country are one heck of a loco. SVR is a wonderful place.
PS: It's a compartment you are sitting in, the entire vehicle is a carriage but no doubt someone has pointed that out in the past year..
Thanks for sharing your day with us!
Jeremy from Seattle USA
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Commuting into London on some of the tired dog eared carriages some years back, I recall the joy of getting a whole compartment all to yourself. :-)
Best "Through the Hedge" so far. Still trying to wrap my head around sticking your head out of a bike......lol You both are just great, thanks for sharing your journey!
Just a little joke lol
Oh Girls, that was the best Through the Hedge yet!! 😍😁 What a wonderful day and how romantic!! Thank you so much for sharing that with us :)) 😍💕😁👍
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Thanks for taking us along! What a fun train trip. You'll think I'm crazy, but much of it made me think of Thomas the tank engine. My daughter loved Thomas. The first time I took her to see a real train she was frightened by the immense size of the train.
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What a lovely video! The weather was lovely,the trains were monsters, the countryside perfect. I don't know why exactly but it brought Agatha Christie to mind. Maybe it was the posh carriage and the posh people!!! A gem of a day to remember.
I went the whole length non-stop with the newly built engine, Tornado. It was my first ride behind a steam engine and they just did straight there-and-back runs so that they could get some speed. Wow - not the creaky wooden carriages for that journey! It was lovely, in the Winter so they connected steam pipes and the carriages were warm, just lacking some pipe smoke to complete the atmosphere.
Ive been on the Severn Valley Railway a few times and its well worth the money. They used to do Santa specials nearer Christmas for the kids.
It is well worth the money- you are right.
A lovely video as I love the steam railway experience, its much like the narrowboats as its breathing life back into bygone eras. A loco like Taw Valley can cost upwards of 300k to restore when its boiler certificate runs out and a tender of coal costs upwards of 1k so bums on seats keep these places going. Long may these places as with canals survive
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Awww I've loved watching this Through the Hedge vlog, thank you both !!! The railway stations reminded me of the local one to me when I was little, going with my Mam to visit my Grandma on a Saturday...there was a sweetie machine, either on the platform or in the waiting room, where you turned a handle and got mini boxes of Toffets...the things you remember 😄 lol
We went to the 1940s weekend in 2018, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. SVR is one of the best heritage railways we've been to. Providing it still is possible to go to the UK after Brexit, we'll be back in 2021, on a hire boat. SVR is most definitely a stop on that cruise. We liked Highley the most, but Bridgnorth is not a bad second. We did not venture too far into town; the railway was very busy and occupied most of our attention. Oh, and a "train" is made up of the engine and the coaches. I think you talked about the engine as the "train". Just a minor nit. Thanks for making me remember that wonderful summer day.
Yes, it is a great journey isn't it.
The inclined car is like the one in Pittsburgh Pa USA. Rode a train like that in Germany. Love trains. Loved your trip, Thanks from NE Ohio USA.
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I love the chugging of a steam train and the smell of the smoke. Glorious. What a lovely day out. Well done too on such beautiful clear camera work, its almost as if I was there.
The butterfly was a train-nerd too! ... soooo much faster than a narrowboat ... reminds me of the trains I grew up with in OZ ... a long time ago. :D ... a bit of trivia - what you would call a compartment, we called, 'dogboxes'. ... What a wonderful 'Through The Hedge'!
SO glad you liked it, thanks for the extra info
Thankyou so very much for this. Great nostalgic viewing.
I’m from Worcester and now live in Australia and I miss the SVR greatly.
This US railfan in bad health and poverty sure appreciates y'all doing this.
You're so welcome Scott, we really had you in mind during the episode and hoped that you would like it. Take care, x
@@TheNarrowboatExperience Aww, thanks! Y'all are so sweet.
omg wow I just did the steam train from mount barker to victor harbor in Adelaide Australia was just the best, if you get a chance to watch the Griff Rhys Jones Doco when he is his Australian tour I am on there woohoo lol i am the 6th episode footy and all and the steam train brilliant
Spent 20 years until my (age limited !) retirement on the SVR and my last driving turn was on Taw Valley. Nice to see you enjoyed it as Heritage railways, like canals are all part of that important transport history of the UK. All due due enthusiastic volunteers keeping it alive
Well that was a blast from the past, as I went there on a date with a (hoped for) girlfriend when I was 16 and living in Shrewsbury. That was ....oh at least 45 years ago and I loved the trains. She didn't - so we went our separate ways. Toot!!
Visited summer 2009 in the school holidays very busy as it was a wet day and we were standing in the corridor. When we went though the tunnel approaching Kidderminster it entertaining with the shouts as thick smoke came in the open windows and even between the floorboards in places. The tourist board should pay you for the "through the hedge" videos. Well done.
Was it standing room only in the school holidays? Oh wow.
Really like the "Through the hedge" series
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AnnaMarie, I recall that you had tea on the Llangollen steam railway, but with no tickets to be had you couldn't roll on down the track ☹️. I know this because my wife and I vacationed in Llangollen and Shropshire, rode the steam train and the hired a narrowboat for a week this past June. Fantastic! We decided on that area after seeing your vlog (Cruising the Cut & Minimalist - all great). Who knows, Kidderminster might be next. Love your vlogs. Thank you both. Stephen
Yes, very true. We had no ticket. However, after watching the Minimal list do it in summer we are very jealous
As "Through The Hedge" videos go that one was Epic! The look of pure enjoyment and delight on your faces was priceless, as you mentioned in the video a change of speed does alter ones perspective but though steam trains are faster than your narrow-boat they are just as enjoyable. More so than modern transport and the bonus is the smell of steam, smoke, oil and grease, it all adds to the experience like when you see and hear a narrow boat with a vintage engine. You just don't get that total sensation with modern transport.
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Just watch your video on this old train. 8/ 17/21 Excellent video. Love to see old trains come back to life. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Excellent Through the Hedge. You share both my interests: canal boating and steam trains❤️ (though I did my trainspotting in the 80's with diesels and have some favourites - unfortunately most of those diesels locos have also been scrapped like nearly all the steam engines were!!). Well done to the preserved railway groups around the country that keep the history and atmosphere of times-gone-by alive👍
Oh really- scrapped- that is sad.
Good to see the Gresley magic working again. The teak carriages on your first run were LNER Gresley stock - superb things - and their running gear was very special too :-) Thanks for the post :-)
Anybody remember the Golden Arrow? Gosh does this bring back memories from my childhood. I live in Canada now but my mom used to take me traveling in Britain on trains all the time when l was a child. Love them.
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Extremely pleasant. Very tasty to look at. Also very well filmed. Precise, useful, charming, poetical. Thank you very much.
You'll never complain about having to fill your water tank again :D
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I really enjoyed the trip with you, thank you for taking me along with you ladies ,John x🚞
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“That’s such a tube ethic”, great line Annamarie, and it’s your best hair evah.
lol- my hair.
A pleasant trip in such very pleasant company. Thank you both. Such a pleasure to watch.
It's many years since I was on the Severn Valley Railway. Thank you for taking us along. It reminds me of the trains of my childhood in England's beautiful West Country -- the sounds and smell of the railway on a rural branch line to its terminus at a seaside resort.
Glad it held pleasant memories for you.
Stunning! Beautiful! Thanks for taking me along. I will watch this one over and over.
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Wowzers! Idyllic. Quint essentially English. What could be better than actually being bonafide time travellers. Aa a nation, in fact, as a planet weve lost so much in the constant need for speed and convenience. You cant help but look through rose spectacles when we look to the past when it was all so simple.
On a more personal note i dont think ive enjoyed a vlog of yours more than that, the look of sheer glee on your faces had me smiling along with you, and in turn brightened an otherwise very dull day. C M & H. Xxx
Yes, such an English experience. I was delightful.
Love, love, love it! I miss being there so much. Thanks for reminding me how amazing it is. My soon to be Son in law’s Granddad is a station master at one of the small stations on the line. There is also a train there that my late Granddad drove for real way back in the day. On one of his ‘special’ birthdays many years ago he went to the SVR and the amazing people there took him up onto the footplate once again. He said it was the best Birthday ever!
Sorry to ramble but thanks ladies for a super video.
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I have read in a lot of books about the old steam trains and their carriages but your video brings it alive and is full of eyecatching moments. Thanks for this.
Annamarie you have the best bride ever! She wants to go to steam engine museums and the like! Looked my whole life for a partner like that and alas never found one, Cath is a real keeper...do you fellas like steam and vintage fairs too? This was a truly great video, loved it...many thanks...
Through the Hedge seems like it's a show about you guys exploring while you're mooring.
Sure is
This has been my favourite Through The Hedge by far! I really enjoyed this one, I'm a bit of a self confessed rail enthusiast myself and always love seeing steam in action 😊
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I grew up with a railway in our back yard in Wisconsin (USA) and we would pick up loose coal from the tracks that would fall off the trains as they went down the tracks.
Awesome watch. Thank you for sharing your experience on the SVR, bringing back so many wonderful memories of a trip we had there in 2017.
Passenger locos going up, freight locos coming back. I'm not a huge steam fan but do appreciate the mechanical dance of all the parts. Great Video!!😎
Yes, definitely a mechanical dance.
Great video. I always look forward to your new stuff. The steam train stuff is fun. I particularly liked the bit where the worker was having so much trouble with the water fill.
Thanks for showing the train ride. Loved it! So different than us trains.
Been there many times as its quite local, A great day out
glad you had a wonderful day in bridgnorth and the SVR, im lucky enough to live in bridgnorth and visit the station quite often, shame i missed you , we also missed you at llangollen when you where moored up there ,
Third times a charm maybe. lol. It is a lovely place Bridgnorth, we really enjoyed that stop.
There's nothing like the look of polished timber and brass that's been polished by someone else :) (a bit like a cuppa tastes nicer when someone else has made it - with love).
Great video - and lovely to see the butterfly.
I might have to see if Puffing Billy is still running down here in Melbourne.
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It looks like you ladies had an absolutely lovely day. I enjoy watching the Through the Hedge segments as the snow is falling. Very relaxing way to spend a Saturday morning.
we did have a great day thanks.
Wow, that was amazing. A real revelation. Something else for my bucket list. Thanks for sharing girls xx
You are very welcome
That was an excellent video and I will add that to my bucket list. I love your through the hedge videos even when they are through the supermarket car park. Beautifully filmed and edited 😁 thanks.
If you get off at Arley and walk down and cross the footbridge over the Severn there is a lovely little tea room which is run by Arley Arboretum. The Arboretum itself is just up the hill from the tea room. A wonderful collection of trees and beautiful gardens with views over the Severn Valley. There is also St Peters church to see which is next to the Arboretum which once used to be part of the Arley Estate. Another great video guys! Loved it! 👍🏼
thank you for the extra information.
Awesome RR footage. Steamers are my favorite.
I enjoyed that ladies, used to work on the Colne Valley Railway in Essex for 40 years, you had the LNER teak carriage set 1st & BR mk1 set on the later journey. Highley used to be a colliery village & is a slightly steep walk down to the river Severn 🙂👍
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Train trip looked wonderful! Looks like a must if we ever get over there! 😊
Your videos are all very interesting and love that you take the time panning and zooming, very artistic and easy on the eyes! If I lived in England I would live on a narrowboat! I have always been a boater water person, on Lake Superior and Great Lakes sailing USA mostly, so this suits me like a perfect cuppa tea!
Wonderful video, pleased you managed to film funicular rail at Bridgenorth
Lovely, best through the hedge ever. I can smell the steam!
agree.
A great video. Appreciate you sharing your lovely experience & the big smiles you both had. Being a train buff myself I was envious of your special day out. 🚂🚂. Some great shots too, 👍👍😎
It was a lovely day, so glad you liked it.
Can’t thank you enough! My Dad worked for the Western Pacific during WWII and I got to frequently ride in the steam engines! I truly enjoyed your trip. Those trains are lovingly restored! Great videography too! Gracias amigas👍✌️😊🙏🏼🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
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What a fun trip and beautifully edited and photographed. I feel like I have been on a special date with my two best girls!
yay, thanks.
I think for me it is the smell of the steam itself that i enjoy, there is nothing like it.
It was surprisingly addictive
Well done ladies we will go on the train next time we are in Kidderminster. Fantastic vlog, love your work.
You won't be disappointed.
What an excellent day out. The railway is so neat and tidy. Those carriages look really comfortable. All the old infrastructure is a gem too. I'd love a visit.
This was the best through the hedge so far. Wonderful journey!
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Very nice video. Thanks for cheering it.
Thanks from a 'train nerd' here in the U.S. My wife and I have ridden on numerous steam train excursions here in the U.S. and really enjoyed your capturing of the British steam locos and fancy coaches. We are looking forward to more of your adventures 'Through The Hedge'! Toot! Toot!
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Thank you for a great video, every time I fly over to visit family who live in kidderminster we took the train, we went to the end on the line as you guys did and walking around the town and took the incline train as well, watching your video I was like i remember that sign and the look of the stations, thanks for bring back memories.
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Hiya. Wonderful video. I miss the romanticism of steam and the comfort of those upholstered seats. Many memories surfaced. There's just 'something,' I can't explain it, about having a drink in a station bar as opposed to a pub. All the best to you.
So glad you liked it
I love steam trains! I get such a feeling of nostalgia. Thanks for sharing.
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Fantastic Video, all this is right on my doorstep and you video of it has certainly shown it in its best light and shown me things I never even noticed.
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Lots of Painting ideas I think. Great trip. Buck
So many painting ideas you are right.
What a beautiful trip!
I'm so glad you two had such a nice day. I have not been to the SVR for 30 yrs I must go again soon. But if you get near Leicester then you must check out the GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Great vlog! Terrific ride.
Glad you liked it
Wonderful girls this one brought back memories childhood as my dad worked on the railway in Glasgow I remember dad would take me on little trips from our house in the city sometime having breakfast with the driver and stoker cooking on his shovel, it was a peaceful way of travel who cared if sometimes trains where delayed it was a different. 👌
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It is always interesting travelling with you both on your lovely little cruises along canal as for myself I miss the walks along the banks of ours, the wild life up here in Scotland, in the near future Annamarie I would love commission you to paint a small cat but will contact you on your art channel for that, wishing you both a wonderful weekend 😀
sure thing, whenever you are ready.
Thoroughly enjoyed that, both for the trains and (as others have commented) for the total enjoyment shown, by Anna-Marie in particular😀.
Also the content, quality, style and editing of this video puts to shame many more seasoned train spotters I know. Yes I am a train nerd too (and yes that is the term I use for myself😀) so very jealous and now I have another place I need to visit when (not if:-) I finally get over to the UK.
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Lovely journey, thanks for sharing. My favourite station is Hampton Loade. It's right by the river and there is a brilliant path between this station and Highley which hugs both the railway and the river and passes through woods. It's a fabulous walk. Another favourite station is Eardington, which only opens on special gala days. The trains can't stop there, but the home-made cakes they sell there are justly famous.....
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As a big train buff I do appreciate the train ride with you GIRLS. Love this video very much thanks again for the ride.Great view of the trains
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What a great thru the hedge. Loved seeing the steam train.
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What a wonderful day you have had. Such lovely train and coach. The younger the trains get, the less fancy and pompous (is this a english word 🤔) they get and look at the subway trains of today, a rolling box with no glamour left at all ... thanks for taking us along
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Wondeful video - nicely shot and editted, and loved the shot of the butterfly!
In background ..... like most steam railways, much as the locomotives were most often rescued from Barry Island, Wales, many of the period carriages from the 1930's were wooden, and so by the late 1960's (when the steam railway movement really took momentum in the UK), these carriages were beyond economic repair. Hence most steam railway carriage stock is made up of British Railways Mk1 stock (the painted carriages - purchased directly from BR in blue/grey in the late 1980s), which were built en-masse in the 1950's to quickly replace the older carriage stock. Some steam railways - such the Severn Valley, which was an early starter - managed to get hold of some of the preservable pre-Nationalisation carriages. The luxury stock you rode on was a late 1920's/1930's LNER teak finished carriage (which ran on the East Coast, possibly within the famous Flying Scotsman trains). The Severn Valley also have GWR and LMS rakes of similar post-Art Deco 1930s carriages, but on public days tend to only run one of the classic carriages rakes, with most of the strain taken by the more modern Mk1's. Good Luck!
Thank you for the background info.
The only classic Coach sets the SVR do not operate regularly are the EX GWR Coaches due to the irregularities of the carriage door handles which have to be manually turned to secure shut, where as the other coaches are called slam shut in that as you shut the door it operates the door catch and secures the door shut, as our LMS and LNER Coaches have this type of door catch, these two carriage sets operate every weekend alongside our two mark 1 sets, so on most days you will see our heritage LMS and LNER Teak Coaches operating alongside our two MK1 Coach Sets. The GWR Coaches are usually only used in an emergency, on Footplate Experience Courses and on Galas.
Great video. Thanks for sharing your trip with an old trainspotternerd.
Trainspotternerds of the world unite.
Greta video. Brought back lots of memories of my visit there in 2000.
I love trains, old and new. You ladies are having such a great experience. The train is lovely and the views even lovelier. thank you for sharing.
You missed the Safari Park at Bewdley! You can see various animals as you go past. Great vlog!
What a wonderful trip! Thank you for taking me with you! Your editing has hit another level!
Kind of you to say
Loved watching this. I worked as silver service waitress on a Sunday doing lunches. Hard work but lovely. Had to sway with movement of train but I never spilt anything on customers lol xx