Pilot/Preview/Sample Episode
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- Welcome aboard the exhilarating adventure of "Tracing the Rails"
In this stand alone, showcase episode, released to show what our intention was for the main series, we introduce you to the enchanting world of West Grinstead Station, once teeming with life but now cloaked in quiet mystery. With presenter Stephen Cranford and director Chris Kirk as your guides, prepare to embark on a captivating journey through the annals of history. Together, they unearth the long-forgotten secrets of this hidden gem.
"We realise we forgot to include maps with this trailer. They are included in the main series" - Chris Kirk
Get ready for a trip like no other! Subscribe now for exclusive insights, behind-the-scenes footage shot by our producer Lou Partridge, and a front-row seat to the forthcoming series.
To dive into the full adventure, watch Episode One of "Tracing the Rails - Season 1: Shoreham to Horsham" now. • Tracing The Rails - A...
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It was a dream project to be presenting!!
Congratulations. Proper job.
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@@royl7776 no problem. I was just a little confused by it!! 🤪
Brilliant show! I really enjoyed it!
Wonderful to watch and stepping back in time. Very well presented. Looking forward to future episodes
Thank you for your lovely comments
Very well produced to a professional standard...looking forward to more in the series. Glad to see you have not fallen for intrusive background "music" and effects so often spoiling TV and video productions these days. Voiceover and speed of delivery just right. Deserves a wider audience .Excellent !
Thanks, Kevin. I've been a BBC broadcaster for well over 20 years, but compared to some modern standards, I had begun to fear that my style and voice are a bit old-fashioned now!
An interesting short documentary. Presenter has a lovely manner.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you.
Enjoyed. Very much I was at Christ’s Hospital in the 60s. I believe the station name was changed from West Horsham-or similar-when the school moved there in 1902.
So glad you liked it. If you find anything from those days like a picture or train ticket etc, do let us know :)
Well done - come on down to Holmsley Station this year we recall 60 year's since Beeching closed us down!
I remember West Grinstead's bridge very well from childhood - we always got negative g in the car going over the hump! Bonus, back in the 1960s, was being able to glimpse the station when we hit max altitude in the rear seat. In its last days, resplendent in Southern Region green, with its canopies and covered stairways, proper station. Demolition wasn't immediate after closure, it was intact for a fair while and always rather sad to see it unused as we passed.
I should add, Steyning would be commuter heaven nowadays, were the line still open.
And JFK/1st Episode of Dr. Who were only a day apart.
What lovely memories. Thank you for your lovely comments. You have to love the old hump backed bridges! Do subscribe to get notifications when the episodes are released.
Excellent piece of work, well researched and way better before and after graphics than most TH-cam productions. All that was missing was a map or two.
Yes, the original edit had a map on it and I made some improvements and then forgot to put it back. A few people have mentioned that. This is all great feedback for when we start filming the full series this spring. Thank you so much for your support :) - Chris
Thanks for the lovely comments!
Well done and fantastic presentation.
Many years ago. Probably 70 years - my uncle and aunty lived on a farm at Cowfold. I can only remember going there once. Their dog bit my younger sister and when my dad intervened, the dog bit him too!!
I love railways. We now live on the Canadian prairies where passenger trains are a thing of the past. You have no idea how I miss trains. Luckily we have people who research history of trains so I can satisfy my interest in trains and history.
Look forward to more episodes.
Thanks for your lovely message... and what a memory to conjour up! I go through Cowfold regularly! Thank you for your support.
So delighted I stumbled across this delightful video.. I well recall this line, having travelled from Shoreham to Christs Hospital more than once. I shall follow your future videos with great interest.
SO glad you enjoyed it and that we brought back some memories for you. If you do stumble across any pictures or tickets or anything like that, do drop us a line - kind regards - Chris
Great video, including presentation, old photos and overlays. Greetings from Bali.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My wife and I cycled this route about 10 years back. Lots of hideous development since then. Good pilot episode
Instant sub.
Greetings from the Franconia region, Germany
Terrific start, can't wait for next episode
This is a really interesting documentary and one where I have a family link to the station, West Grinstead, that is featured. My grandmother on my dad's side of the family told me that her grandfather had run away from home in Amberley to work at West Grinstead station when it was opened, clearly on the date quoted here of 1st July 1861. A few years ago I saw a census return from around that time that contained details of all the people living at the station at the time and my great, great, grandfather was mentioned. I do know that he later worked at Ockley station, which is on the Horsham to Dorking line, but have sadly lost a picture that showed him sat on a bench by the station sign. Once again, thank you for this documentary.
Wow - these are the kinds of stories we love to hear about because they make things more relevant and rewarding. Thank you so much for sharing!
Excellent Steve, cycled this route a few times,look forward to yopur next production.
Thank you!
Thanks! What a lovely addition to the historic and disused railway segments on YT. SUBSCRIBED!
Breath of fresh air. Engaging, and very watchable.
Thank you 😊
This is so engaging. Brilliant stuff. There's so many disused lines to chose from. My favourite would be the long-gone Brightlingsea to Wivenhoe branch of the Great Eastern. Washed away by the 1953 floods, rebuilt then closed for good in the early 60s.
There are so many we could never do them all... they're all fascinating!
Good luck with this project Stephen.
Thanks Neal!
Love the videos of the station from the 60s, where did you find them? I’d love to watch films of the line, and the west coastway too if they exist!
The Steyning Stinker line! Fantastic. I remember going over the old humpback bridge at West Grinstead.
Brilliant, thank you. Lived and worked in the area for 30 years. A friend owned the old railway station at Petworth, running it as an hotel, with guests staying in refurbished Pullman carriages.
I've seen that! How fabulous. In the future I'd love to feature that line too.
Great video ,& well done , will be watching for future episodes
Thank you
Excellent. Very informative and just the right pace and ambience. I especially liked the overlay on old photos. Such a shame we have lost so many routes but at least some are being reopened.
Subbed and waiting the next one.
Thanks for the lovely comments!
THE standard of production, film footage, editing and excellent presentation put this pilot into an award winning category. The overlays are brilliant...Im sure many enthusiasts would enjoy seeing reconstructions on railway documentaries created on former lines in other parts of the country where some infrastructure/ relics still remain.
@@WilhelmSmit-ql5vc that's very kind of you. Thank you so much
Very much looking forward to this series. Having a deep passion for the line myself, sharing these stories to a wider audience can only be a good thing.
Just a note for the intro credits, the apostrophe in 'Loco's' is unecessary.
There are two n's in unnecessary 😂😂😂
@@Eurobazz and yet your apostrophe is just as redundant as theirs.
@@GeneralMarmoset Sorry, but your getting to pedantic hear. There doing there best.
Excellent work. +1 sub
Thank you
I like the style and quality - good luck with the series.
Thank you
this is really high quality wow. excited for more !
Thank you for your kind comments. 👍🏻
Wow! This is superb. Can’t wait for more content
Yay! Thank you!
Thank you!
Very slick production. And great content. Subscribed !
Thanks Simon 😊
A great documentary, and brilliant how the new shots were superimposed on the old ones. I use to be a driver at Three Bridges depot, and I remember some of the older driver's telling me that just before the Steyning line was closed, a lot of infrastructure was put in place for electrification, and then they changed their minds. I look forward to the next episode.
Such a shame they didn't keep the line. Thanks for your interest.
Fascinating !! i have ridden this as part of the downs link, but never realised how much was there, great clip and very good use of effects thank you
Thanks for watching. There are certainly lots of hidden stories and archive we can explore.
A very interesting and watchable video.Particularly liked the parts where you were placed at the sites as they were back in the day.
Thank you very much for your kind comments.
Good luck with the new series, enjoyed the pilot episode, really well produced . Looking forward to more, all the best from an ex Staines driver
Thanks for your lovely comments.
Great presentation and looking forward to more. A graphic / map showing the route would have helped to make it perfect!
Maps were my mistake, we had them on the first test edit and I forgot to put them back! Its the little things that catch us out eh?! Thanks for supporting it and for feeding back too. _ Chris/Director
I agree re maps both the straight geographical and the railway clearing house ones. But some great touches here and looks v professional
I cycle the lower portion of downslink almost everyday and I'm allways looking out for signs of the old line and stations. I'm going to really enjoy this channel.
Thank you!
I love the style of this, the use of old pictures and maps especially when there are laid over the new footage. Can't wait to see more!
Thank you, Jack! Please subscribe to make sure you don't miss the first episode. :-)
Very well made Stephen, enjoyed!
Thanks for such an interesting video, I lived that way at the end of the last century and knew of the line but not much about it. Beeching should have faced the axe for what he did to what may not have been profitable lines but necessary diversionary routes, especially the East Grinstead to Lewes line! There was talk, about 25 years ago now of building a new station on the Coastway West line past Angmering to be called Toddington and just past that a "right turn" up the Arun Valley to Horsham. This would knock about 20 minutes off the journey time to London by removing the need to turn round at Littlehampton during engineering works or service disruption.
That was just superb and very well presented. I am so much looking forward to more of your Tracing the Rails railway history vids.
Thank you :-)
Such a nicely researched and put together video and a lovely relaxed and engaging presenting style. Nice work.
Thank you!
The old line between Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth has some great bridges, track bed and one remaining station, might be worth a look for you sometime in the future.
Sounds like a lovely idea. There are some real gems out there.
Very interesting & well done. I look forward to seeing future episodes.
so many you tube videos are let down by poor narration, this is superb, great filming too. love the flashbacks and merging of images. subscribed and looking forward to more episodes.
You're very kind, thank you
Fantastic I really look forward to more of these
You're very kind, thank you.
Great, looking forward to the rest ! 👍
Thank you!
Excellent and informative content throughout.Very well shot and edited, plus, as a professional sound guy, excellent sound quality - an area that so often lets down otherwise good TH-cam videos. Well done, looking forward to future episodes!.
Thank you, Mark. Yes, it's a bug bear of mine, too. We use Sennheiser radio mics and Rode shotguns and Sony HD cameras. Seems to have worked well for us.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Congratulations from across the pond in Tennessee! You truly made me feel as though I was there, with you, including back in the day when the rails were still live.
I do find it sad that rails and stations were just abandoned, both here in the US, and there, in the UK, during the 1960's.
Here, there's very often nothing left, but it seems a lot is still there to be seen over there, if you know where to look.
This was one of the very best presentstions on an historic station that I've ever seen.
You've definitely gained a new follower, and I offer my congratulations on your new series!
Thank you!
Aw, that's amazing. Thank you for being an overseas viewer!! We hope you like them all.
Brilliant episode, Stephen - and a Doctor Who reference too! Love it.
It had to be done!! (The director let me put that one in... 😊)
My father had fond memories of this station. He attended the ‘poor’ school nearby. I sometimes go there and imagine him as a small boy in the 1920s getting off . He saw so much change in his life. So sad indeed that this line was closed. I really hope it is reopened one day. Those really were very different days! Excellent production and presentation, thank you for doing this.
Thank you for sharing your special memories.
An excellent and professional presentation - congratulations! I will be eagerly awaiting the next instalment.
Thanks, Phil! Hopefully it won't be too long until Ep1 is released.
First class work, really slick production. Agree with other comments that a map of the line would really help to give further perspective
The map is my bad. We had one on the original edit and I made some last minute improvements and forgot to put it back in :(. Thanks so much for watching it :) - Chris
Enjoyed it immensely hope it becomes a series
Thanks David. We are planning an initial 6 part series. If that's popular enough we hope more can be made.
@@stephencranford1102 Brilliant to hear that keep up the excellent work
Really well made. Thoroughly enjoyed
Glad you enjoyed it!
I enjoyed watching your video. I did find the intro a bit too flashy with too many moving images. I found the speech to be at the correct volume and presentation speed. The production came across very slick. The inclusion of maps of the country. County and local areas might have helped. I'm looking forward to watching more from yourselves.
It was my fault. We had maps on the original edit and I made some improvements and forgot to put them back on. Its the little things that get us eh?! Thanks so much for watching and for feeding back. Do look forward to proper maps when we start filming the series early spring. _ Chris
@tracingtherails Hi Chris. I'm pleased you took my comments as they were meant to be constructive.
I have subscribed and shared it with two of my friends who have also subscribed. I know I'm a fine one as my channel is nothing to speak about, I was bullied into it, really. Still, it's all a bit of fun.
Really enjoyable film with an engaging presenter and nice use of special effects to draw us back into the past. I look forward to the next production!
Thank you for your kind comments . Please subscribe to the channel to make sure you hear about the next programmes. ❤
Excellent start to a series, keep it up!
Thank you. The filming schedule is being prepared for the Spring.
Great first video. You've done a good job well presented, well edited, very interesting and informative. Looking forward to more.
Thank you, Darrel.
Just brilliant. Really looking forward to future episodes.
Thank you. 👋
Excellent video. So well made and informative.
Thanks for the lovely feedback
Look forward to future posts in this series, really enjoyable and fabulous to watch. Subscribed and liked.
Thank you so much!
Interesting format and certainly a step above plenty of other YT productions. Well done. Looking forward to more.
Thank you!
Great video and liked the way you had the old backdrop behind you looking forward to more episodes
Thank you for watching it and supporting it :)
Really enjoyed your video, as a ex steam Fireman/Driver in Worcestershire, left the railway in 1972 after Dr Beeching caught up with us.🚂🚂🚂
Thank you, that's a real compliment seeing as you were once doing it for real!
Thank you this was interesting. Looking forward to more in the series.
You're very kind.
What a very interesting and professionally produced video. Many thanks.
Thank you so much for the praise. Glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent. Just a few yards further along the line to the north was the platform at the Hunt kennels that were used to load hounds and horses on a hunting day. The platform is still there although collapsed. The kennels buildings are still there but the Hunt has relocated.
I enjoyed that very much. I agree with others about the lack of an overview map and the opening titles were a bit over the top and long but I look forward to future episodes.
Thank you for your comments. For the forthcoming episodes we will certainly be including maps!
Refreshing change from the usual run-of-the mill railway walks. I eagerly await the next one. Thank you
Thank you!
Wonderful production, thanks for sharing.
Great video. I hope the series continues. I am always impressed by the infrastructure built years ago and survives today…a tribute to the workers who built it.
Yes, it's amazing isn't. And largely built by hand, too. Stay tuned for episodes later in the year!
This was a great video and presented with care, education and a sense of a little melancholy. I gather there would 1000’s of West Grinsteads around the world.Thanks
Yes, there would be too many similar stations to imagine... Thank you for your lovely words.
Fantastic watch, you have done a stellar job and I look forward to more episodes. Well done!
Thank you for your lovely feedback. Stay tuned!
@@stephencranford1102 do you think you’ll ever venture up to Scotland for this series?
@@Proper_Chuffedit's too early to say. Let's see how Series 1 is received!
Nice nostalgic look back to an area I knew briefly. A map would have been really helpful. Thanks
Fantastic video, I really appreciate the hard work that goes into putting this together. I really enjoy learning about the history of old disused railway lines and already looking forward to the next one.
Thank you Steve
I grew up walking and cycling along the downs link, and West Grinstead was always a favourite. I'd already found everything you talked about but didn't know what all of it was for, so very interesting! Another favourite which I hope you visit in the full series is the old Baynards tunnel 🦇
I'm an Eastmidlander by birth and don't even know where "Steyning" is or might fictionally be, or that one should pronounce it "Stenning" (!), but this format (which the algorithm found for me) is magnificent - such excellent work in finding all the historic photos and viring them into the current status - subscribed in the hope that Bradshaw may encourage similar reviews of similarly stupidly closed railways NORTH of London (I know, culture shock big time). The format and the presentation are SO GOOD.
Thank you so much for your kind comments. Yes, we realised that the finished episodes could do with a map! We are already planning filming sessions for the new series, so stay tuned!
Well done. This was an excellent pilot episode. I greatly appreciated the video effects overlaying past photographs on the current landscape. Very enjoyable narration. And as for the presenter's last name of Cranford. I grew up in Cranford, New Jersey in the US (original name was Crane's Ford, but rumor says the train conductors morphed it down to Cranford). The town contained a major facility for the Central Railroad of New Jersey with a raised railbed running through the center of town with twin high passenger platforms on the 4 track mainline w/2 passenger sidings making both platforms into islands as well as the roundhouse, coach and freight yards on top of a couple of junctions to other lines.
Thank you Charles, and great coincidence about Cranford!!
Excellent story telling. The old into the new are nice, even greater to see you standing in the past. One thing: a map when start a story would help to locate where you are. Not every watcher is from the UK (like me)
Thank you! Yes, we realised that was an oversight - ironically there was a map in an earlier edit, but when it was cut for the preview it got left out!
A friend of my other half used to live in a house that backed onto this railway line at Shoreham and he always referred to the train as the Steyning stinker.
A fine job and well edited - you did decent justice to West Grinstead!
A very good video 📹 about the disused railways 🛤
This is a very well thought out production with high standards which makes it a pleasure to view. Making content is neither simple to source historic content nor indeed easy to create effective outcomes . Rail productions are highly demanding to create content that viewers expect.
Luckily for me, I have a little knowledge of the area despite my residing location. Your program has given me new and expanded knowledge on West Grinstead. I will return again to the area and appreciate it even more thanks to your production.
I like the creative ideas and the presenting is excellent.
Well done to all involved and I look forward to future productions.
Thank you, Mike, for your kind comments. I'm pleased that you like it! Do subscribe to the channel so you'll get updated when we next release a video.
Too late, I subscribed moments after I sent you my message. I will forward to seeing more of your content.
All the best with your channel.
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Really enjoyed this. When I was a boy me and my brother would often be taken for walks along the old disused Henfield line that had once run at the end of my Aunty’s house. What we wouldn’t give to have those lines back today!
Thank you. And yes, if only we had that line today.
Excellent vid. Looking forward to seeing your future works. If you do requests, Banbury to Cheltenham would be at the top of my list. It is indeed sad that all this wonderful work which would have bequeathed us a really vital, fit-for-purpose network was sacrificed just so that Ernest Marples could make a killing on road building contracts and then scarper to his tax haven. Richard Beeching was simply doing the job he'd been hired for. He was not suited to this job from the viewpoint of benefiting the country and Marples knew it. If someone I loved was killed by a hitman, I'd go after whoever it was hired the assassin.
I myself would have loved to use most of those networks if they were still around. As with most things, once destroyed, almost impossible to put back. Makes us sad! - Chris
@@tracingtherails My son-in-law is from Port Talbot. He went to university in Aberystwyth. Had Marples/Beeching not happened, he could have been able to go home at weekends as and when by rail almost directly rather than via Shrewsbury and Newport. Utter vandalism. Even with the lines that have survived, they're not being made the best use of. For most of the time I lived in the West Midlands, you couldn't travel directly from Walsall to Wolverhampton; you had to go via Birmingham. How insane is that?
Love these sort of channels re' railways from way back when, as I used to be a signalman on the southern region......Crystal Palace, Liegham Junction, Hayes ( Kent) and Twickenham west Junction box.
That's fabulous. I bet you saw some amazing times!
Just joined the channel today 5/1/24. A wonderful video as an introduction to me subscribing. All the best with this channel. Viewed it in the U.S.A. Cheers mates! 😊
Thank you, Martin!
A great look back at what was once in situ. Very professionally presented and film quality was very good. Are there more to come?
Thank you, Keith, for your kind comments. Yes - Series 1 will be 6 30 minute episodes featuring this line. The pilot is just a demo to show the flavour of what's to come to encourage submissions, as it's the archive material which makes these programmes so special.
Brilliant video looking back at how things worked properly, lol. Looking forward to many more.
excellent production and presentation - look forward to any future videos you do
Thank you
Part of line out of Shoreham is now a cycle path , My parents lived in Station Rd Steyning when I was born. Enjoyed this 👍
STATION MANAGER OF WEST GINSTEAD BECAMBE CHIEF CLERK AT HORSHAM TICKET OFFICE. FULL NAME WAS KEN BARTLETT
thank you, David!
What a lovely well presented piece. I live near Steyning so it’s great to know more about the history of the area .
Thanks, Chris. Make sure you subscribe to get notifications about the full episodes when they're released.
Excellent video...look forward to future releases.
Thanks for your kind words 🙏
Very informative and great detail, looking forward to the next one.
Thank you!
Superb! Hopefully you will continue further up the line from Horsham to Guildford. Remember seeing the trains on this part when i visited my gran back in the 1960s.
Thank you. We are going to finish series 1 (Shoreham to Horsham) , then, depending on the success or otherwise, we can look at new lines to investigate.
Fascinating. And very professionally presented. Thank you. More please and hope you make it to the Midlands too.
Thank you!
Quality!! Thank you for finding me a new walk cometh the spring!!
You'll love it. Make sure you allow enough time to have a good look around West Grinstead.
Well researched, filmed and presented. Most enjoyable. Certainly have hit the subscribe button
Thanks, Peter. We are delighted that so many people like our pilot.
Splendid video. Enjoyed the mix of facts and old pics / vids. Looking forward to more.
Thank you. We wanted to try and present something different to other offerings out there.
In that you have most certainly succeeded Stephen. So many are so disappointing and seem to focus on the individual making it and not on the history, the pilot is very promising and I hope you can maintain its quality or even improve on it with experience. You are guaranteed a massive audience from enthusiasts providing we all share and I have started!@@stephencranford1102