 Hello, thank you for joining me. We are continuing our walk along the old railway line which runs from Leek up towards Macklesfield and we're just coming up to Rushton Spencer station. Now this one it opened with the line in 1849 and it closed with a line in 1960 so unlike Cliff Park Stroke Rudyard it's which opened later and then it changed its name and everything. This one just existed with the railway and also unlike Cliff Park Stroke Rudyard later it's more to see. So when we get here now immediately we can see the platform is still here and it looks as though the station buildings here by the way I've not actually seen any of this before so as I do this video I'm showing it to you as I see it for the first time. There appears to be a good chef standing which is great so whether there were two platforms I'm not sure because most of the formation seems to be double track going by the size of the bridges etc so I'm not sure if there ever was a platform there. I'm not sure that one. So yeah I'm unsure whether there was a platform there but it looks like going by the edge of that stone under the fence there was two platforms and you just see the station building. What I think we'll do is we'll walk around here. Obviously we can't have any choice because that is now someone's garden so we won't obviously walk through there but we should be able to see the front of the railway station and we'll see if we can see any more. So it looks like that possibly was a very small good shed that building there certainly in the right place. The pub just here called the Not-In so if you're waiting for your train and you had a while to wait then you could have gone another pint or two in the pub which I think is nice when you get these remote railway stations. That's a bit of an interesting one about the actual name of the village because it was originally called Rushton Spencer but for what I've been told it's now just called Rushton. I'm not sure why that is but if anyone does know wants to come in and tell me why they dropped the Spencer bit please do but I'm going to call the station Rushton Spencer because the Spencer bit I think was dropped way after the railway closed. So there is the station building lovely little north Staffordshire station building similar to Chedalton which we haven't actually featured properly in Henry's adventures yet I have been there but I haven't actually gone and made a video there so we will do that section of the Churnick Valley line one day and as I said that is the Not-In. So there would have been a level crossing just up there so let's go and have a look at that and the track bed would have continued that way on towards Macklesfield. This road didn't actually join going to Macklesfield itself and we'll get onto it later but it joined the line which is the line that goes comes off the west coast main line at Shugborough and carries on up to Manchester. I've just noticed something right here look at the edge of this see where these cobbles are look they've actually used a piece of railway of rail that trains would have ran on. They've bent it obviously it would have been in this shop. There must have been some rail lying around. They've got it and they've used it which is quite good to see so the path continues that way. Look at that didn't expect to see that there's a signal look a semaphore signal and it says go so that means we should carry on going which we will but having a look here you can see the station platform this is someone's garden but as I can see it from a public right away I don't see why not so you can see where the platforms are so it's like two trains could have passed here so let's just have a look. Is that a path or not? I'm not sure it doesn't overly look like it I just wanted to see the signal from this side let's just go up here a little bit just so we can see what the signal is. There you go so there's a signal behind me as I said it is signaling to go so we carry on now and what I'm going to do this section of the railway well all the way from leak up to beyond here is a public footpath but I think what's going to happen is later on it won't be a public footpath so back on the track but again so we are going to carry on up there but later on it won't be a public footpath so I think it's going to come fragmented as to what I can show you of it because some of it will be in private property as in farmlands and I don't overly fancy getting chased by any dogs and so probably what will happen is up here the railway line crosses the river so what I think I'll do with this video is I won't record all the way because it will just be me walking through a tunnel of trees for 20 odd minutes. I'll stop filming now as if by magic I'm going to appear further up the railway line so as I said I'd magically appear further on up the track well in the last two seconds I've gone three-quarters of a mile obviously I paused the camera and walked but anyway we've now come this bit further up the track now what has been a very long path all the way from Leek continuous this huge railway looks as though it's about to come to a bit of an abrupt ending so this section of path is part of the Staffordshire way it's something I'm not sure when but I would like to do in the future and obviously I'd make a series of Henry's adventures videos on it starts up on Kinver Edge finishes at Mal Copps are both great places both National Trust, Kinver Edge has the rock houses, Mal Copp has the folly so definitely places worthy of making a video while many others on the way well it looks as though let's have a look does it say Staffordshire way yeah look the Staffordshire way goes down those steps and leaves the trackbed doesn't actually follow the trackbed away from Leek it goes around the other side of Rudyard Lake up past Cliff Park Hall so to walk along the Staffordshire way you wouldn't only just be walking along here do lots of other exciting bits give you an idea where we are that hill you can see in the distance that is the cloud which towers above Congleton and again somewhere I'd like to go in the future sort of path I think this might be an unofficial path now but it kind of carries on a bit so let's have a look what I'm thinking is we'll probably come to the river and the bridge will be missing but I'm not entirely sure because as I said I haven't actually done it I'm doing making the video as I discover it so let's wait and see what happens but I think we are no longer on an official public footpath you never know it might carry on the bridge might be there not sure if I'm gonna be able to just carry on because I think there's a path I'll carry on but if there isn't a path I won't start wandering across Farmsfield so I mentioned earlier I kind of did expect it to be that as soon as the Staffordshire way left the formation the bridge would be there straight away but it appears not quite to be the case so we'll have to keep exploring I can hear someone's out shooting you might be able to hear the bang bang I can see a fence ahead I think we might be going to go as far as I can go for the time being on the railway line so what I'm going to have to do is find an alternative route to the next railway station I wanted to show you so I'll work that out when I finish filming I think but let's just enjoy the last bit trap bed we're actually going to go along for this idea so we have been able to walk along the trap bed from the other side of the tunnel what leak unhindered all the way along until this point now here we are it says it's all fenced off so it doesn't look like I've got any chance of getting on to the bridge it says no public access beyond River Dane bridge so as I said it's all farmlands really and you can't really see a lot but it looks as though the bridge is still there I can just see the water of the river below but it looks actually quite hard for me to be able to show that to you can we see not really no but the river is down there so from the River Dane on the old railway line from leak up towards Macklesfield hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching and I'm going to retrace my steps so goodbye