 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm Matt Lancaster and this is the Selfie King Hello, hello there my friend. He says I can make an announcement. Of course you can. Can I? That's great. Yes, yes, no problem at all Should we make a start? Yes, please. Yeah, no problem at all. Okay? After three if you want to announce the train, please Okay, one two Three, we just wait for a moment. Okay, I'll tell the screen rotate round one two three The next train on platform three is the 1706 northern service to Barrow in Furness This train will be calling at Karnforth, Silverdale, Arnside, Graingeover Sands, Kent Bank, Karkin Karkmel, Oliverston, Dolson, Roos and Barrow in Furness. That's your next northern service Platform three is the 1706 to Barrow in Furness Thank you very much indeed sir. Can I check your answer? Yes, yes, no problem at all And it was lovely to meet you. And the only time you want to announce the train, feel free to come to our station Thanks very much. Thank you very much indeed sir. Cheers. Bye Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Lancaster station again, and I'm with Ian the Selfie King Hello, hello there. I believe you're gonna show me around a bit aren't you? I am. I'm going to take you to the Distrude platform Which I'm excitedly looking across and notice there's a platform over there So we're going to go over the bridge are we and have a look? Yes, yes, Distrude platform six Closed in 1965 and right about there. So I'll take you over. Great. Let's go and see the Distrude platform We've just come through this door. Ian's going to take me down the steps. So we're going down here I'm being in a church I believe this station was designed by William Tite who designed quite a lot of railway stations So this is really quite exciting and now we're going through here and Down below us Well, it's a bit overexposed at the moment, but as soon as we come out into this arch We're now on the Distrude platform This is exciting Welcome to platform six The Distrude platforms. It's only for a non it's a non-public access We can't send people round really nearly And it's only with permission by the Bounty West Coast Network Rail So this gentleman who's video in this Henry has got the privilege of walking this platform I'll take you right round and show you the platform. Great. Thank you. This is exciting We are now walking down Towards the south end of platform six Looking down towards London Right If you turn the camera right round For this side here Department civil engineers training centre. That was an old school. We're next now you're disused Okay And we're gonna go further down down the platform platform six This line was closed approximately 1965 Your viewers might just to correct me who won this. They always do. And if you look To the top of this the building you'll see two channels Right at the top if you zoom right up. Yeah, okay. Can you see the two channels? Yeah, that was the Caternary. Oh, yes Before this electrification came in In 1974 before that we did have electrification It was only DC. I Think it the voltage was about 1600 roughly the same voltage as the the Netherlands Roughly it's an experimental Electrification So if we go and they ran from here down to Morgan, that's right. Correct. Yeah, it went a different route That's it. Yeah We've got same bridge in town in Lancaster and that was the old great Lancaster Green Air Okay, and this station was called Lancaster Castle because we've had a few stations We've had obviously Lancaster Castle Lancaster Green Air Lancaster Penny Street, which is south of the station which is disused and There is a plaque near the hospital Showing where the old Penny Street was so we'll go back to this platform again So we're gonna walk down just be careful how you go Just give me an idea for the future. Maybe former stations are Lancaster. Yes, and it could stop there and You're locked down for the vegetation Yeah, I can just see the stanchion. Yeah, which would have so basically one of those Those there the formal one Just see the bottom of it Seems rather ironic that today's Stanchions are on the site of the original electrified railway. If we took all the stanchions away Then the track would have been there. Yeah, and obviously it's history now not to be forgotten And if we walked to the north end now, yeah So, yeah, you'll show us as we we go along here When this was electrified the West Coast main line wasn't electrified, so it was correct. Yeah, so this is the only electrified line in the United Kingdom overheads Well, the West Coast bedline the London Northwestern Railway was not electrified the LMS we took LNER LNWR was taken over by LMS The main line works the main line the main line was it's all non-electromad except this one So if we go further down the platform Education We have a Block there that was the old signal post. Oh, okay, she's actually cut off And that's right here. That's the old green air So it'd be the starter signal. Yeah, that's right. So if a train was sat fat there This would have been the signal for the train to go off down to more People all further on Back to the end To the safest point is the kfie go And this is the the north end How much further to go to the bridge? You've now been on platform six at Lancaster Castle Station. Oh great. Thank you very much That's been a really interesting tour. Maybe one day in the future. It will be some point You know, I know it could be reinstated. It could be. Yeah, maybe one day. We'll see a train depart this platform Maybe another time. I'll perhaps walk the old line to Morgan, but that's certainly a video for another day Well, thank you very much here. It's been really interesting. Thank you. Thank you. Show me around. Okay. Thank you Well, I'll certainly come in and say hello next time. I'm passing through Lancaster station So from the disused platform six at Lancaster station. Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment. Goodbye