Radstock Branch Line Documentary

Documentary filmed on the old Frome-Bristol line on the Mendip hills in Somerset, UK. The railway line itself is disused and is made up of an interesting mix of wooden, concrete and metal sleepers. Interseting finds including the Mells road ground frame and an old GWR brake van!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• radstock
• frome
• railway
• somerset
• mendips
• north
• trust
• disused
• GWR
• great
• western

[macthewesty]

Didn't think the S & D line was ever broad gauge.... The cycle tracks in the area are eating up all the old railway lines sadly.

[dodchorn]

@macthewesty The S&D wasnt as far as i know, but im pretty sure this part of the Great Western was.

[MiLLwallpaul231258]

please....when was this filmed?

[dodchorn]

@MiLLwallpaul231258 Last year, dont worry, it hasnt been turned into a guided busway, yet.

[ebyard]

@macthewesty Better that than they get built on, should there be a reason to relay the tracks. Glad to see a lot of old branches being re-opened, they should never have closed them, but hey.

[MrScotia]

Great Vid. The bridge at 2.26 looks is part of the wall has been replaced. You can see it from when you were looking over to the bridge and when you were on it and mentioned the lime stone. Looks as if a car probably crashed through it at one time.

[nsbmiller]

In answer to the question on Conduit Bridge, it is at Conduit Hill which referred to the Dorset & Somerset Canal which existed very briefly in the last decade of the 18th and first of the 19th Century.

[nsbmiller]

GWR, not S&D. The S&D never went to Frome... it went from Shepton to Midsomer Norton to Bath... and the GWR line *was* broad gauge at the start... as for the steam railway being created, that is (again) not on this line - it is on the old S&D at Norton.

[cookhammanor]

Tht looks like a sharke or a LMS brake van ;) 

[Clacatoo]

Very interesting and great commentary, gotta check this place out sometime before its ruined.

[jajainsulators]

Exelent vid! I have walked the entire length from frome to radstock and at one place the track moves sidewards and carrys on. Those telegraph poles arent probably the ones originally used at mells road as the footsteps are modern and no insulators are visible on the tops. I collect the insulators and found many broken ones along the line impressed GWR and the odd BR(W). I might be walking the track again in the winter. Exelent video again!

[jeepers2655]

pretty cool

[biffthebass1]

Excellent! I was born at Radstock in the 1940's & I lived in Welton near Midsomer Norton for a while as well. Thanks for posting.

[samthegreencat47]

I thought there was a preservation group trying to reopen the line as a steam railway?

[goodchappy]

I am amazed the rails are still there. Guided busways are nasty!

[slendersausage]

PLEB!!

[savican1]

tally ho me good chap tally ho. LOL

[Boobypoppop]

thats a stanier or LMS brake, may have been refurbed by the GWR tho...

[Tropichaze]

How cool, I love decommissioned rail lines!

[1957WalkerAdrian]

Cheers for this vid. walked this line many a time in the 70s when I lived in Norton. Amazed that this is still around.

[MiLLwallpaul231258]

your comment about metal sleepers....theres some on the old southern route from Exeter to Waterloo about 3 Quaters of a mile Exeter side of Pinhoe

[snowyhillrailway]

will you make any more like that

[trainlover658]

quick! someone save this line before its turned into a guided busway D:

[silver760]

A disused railway line in the UK where the rails havent been torn up and sold for scrap,you should not have advertised the fact,the pikeys will have been there by now and had that away,followed shortly by the council,interesting video though,thanks.