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Re: Best site visited 2014
Jan 01, 2015, 16:21
spencer wrote:
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT YOUTUBE VID. I'm a railway buff too, walked over Big Water of Fleet viaduct in September, must get my pics uploaded to Flickr. Closure of the Port Line was madness, even evil. The timing of the week long survey of passenger/traffic numbers upon which the decisions to close lines nationally was based beggars belief. With the reopening of the Borders Railway (with frequent steam trips, yay!), I still hope that one day this line reopens too...they're still keeping quiet about the massive oilfields found in the Irish Sea off Galloway in the '80's, Loch Ryan and Stranraer will one day be as bustling a place as Aberdeen, imo, and that line's reopening would be a viable option. I do wonder if the upgrading of the A(N)75 is a discrete prelude...(bye the bye, my late Dad was one of the Mulberry boffins.. I went to Garlieston for a look)


We used to live adjacent to the track on the Mid Hants (Watercress Line) railway just outside of New Alresford in Hampshire. I had full permission to walk the track and adjoining land for seven miles as I used to keep the rabbit population down (I could tell you some stories there as well!!) as they used to burrow into the various cuttings and bring the banks down!
The following clip is of the chuff-chuffs and right at the end you will see what used to be our house on the left as the train passes through before the clip finishes.
http://youtu.be/cjh4SgicgSk
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