 Hello, thank you for joining me happy new year. This is my first video of 2021 come out for driving my Larder as you can see We have come to a railway. We've come to the Northampton and Lamport railway Which is about five miles north of Northampton. I last came here in 2002 So it's a bit different from when I last came and there's a couple of Frames of steam locomotives here. I think one of them is the Great Western Railway Hall But it's more of a diesel day today Although we should see a couple of steam locomotives which are here So I'm going to walk out the car park We're going to go and have a look at Pittsford and Brampton station Which is currently the only station on this little railway As I say, I last visited here in 2002 when I was a child and they had a DMU running Which I believe has now gone to the Struss Bay railway So it will definitely be a different train. I can hear a diesel ticking over So we're probably, well I know we're getting a diesel all-train because that's what I said I booked the tickets online the other day and it said it would be a diesel all-train So I already know that Anyway, so there's a pub there called Brampton Hall Pittsford and Brampton station is situated halfway between the villages of Chapel Brampton that way And some up the hill Pittsford So here's the station The original station buildings unfortunately have been demolished But there's some newer ones which have come from our places There's a very Midland looking signal box up there So we'll have to go and have a look at that And let's have a look So there's a train in front of us now So that's probably our train marked to Coaching Stock So I can hear the ticking over of the diesel And then looking down that way I can see the carriages and everything Let's go and have a look see what our loco is for today It's going to be a winning loco for me I know that because I've not had any of the loco's here So that's the original signal box just there So that's the one part of the station that is original Here we are to pass 31 Cool Phoenix 31 289 Built by Brush in 1961 So that's our train Looking up the line that way I can see a class 33 47 to mark three carriages There's another mark three carriage just here Which is also the buffet So I think it's a pretty good time to go and get a cup of tea Before I go for a ride on the train So I'm sat here at the northern ended line Giving me a glass of sherry So when I get off the train I have to go for a bit of a walk To walk off before driving home Also got a mince pie which I'm going to eat As soon as I finish this clip So I'll show you a couple of things This is the interior of our mark two carriage Nicely decorated for Christmas If you look out there It's the Brampton And you can see as far as the line goes on that side Main HPLC There's a bridge beyond the loco So it seems I've got to restore that bridge Before trains can continue So the loco's taken us out of the station north Where they're going to reverse back down to the other end of the line See what we see there My plan is once we've done that I'm going to go for a walk down that way I'll come for a walk this way Possibly not all the way But see what time is I'll have to walk off that sherry though So we're going Yeah we're going back now So we're going to now enjoy the Northampton Shish scenery Heading that way So we've come as far south as we're going to come There's, it's hard to see from here But there's actually a viaduct I might be able to show you on this side of the train I'll see if you can see So well basically there is a viaduct A very low viaduct Just beyond the train It's starting to rain I can have a look over there You might actually be able to see the river I believe that's the river Neen So another Neen very railway There's a viaduct down there Which takes a railway over a tributary And a bit of a flood plain It's a very low viaduct My plan is When we've had this train ride We'll walk down there And see what we can see of it But right now We're waiting for our Fresh behind the 31 Back up to the other end of the line And then it reverses back to the railway station Just come across the crossing From the railway station Looking south towards Northampton We'll go down there We'll go down there next This is looking north It's quite good here Just get a nice view Of the railway station itself Train's gone off on another journey So the train's up there now Which we might see it come back past But if we go up here What's good is You get a really good view Of some of the other locos And rolling stock You know it's basically past the sidings So we'll have a wander up here Get a nice view of the station So there probably would have been Another platform here So as for the railway itself This line originally ran from Northampton to Market-Hambra It opened in 1858 Pittsburgh and Brampton station Was added a year later in 1859 The station closed in 1950 But the line itself hung on until 1981 So it's fairly recent In terms of closure Certainly closed way after beach in Zera Although as I said the passenger Local passenger service had already gone Quite a long time before It was then You know when railways closed The idea of preservation comes along In 1995 they ran their first train In 1996 They had their grand opening So as I said earlier that's the I believe that's the only original building A single walk So it's a relatively new coming To the preservation scene It is expanding Plamster Extend both ways Some one of their more recent Acquisitions is this Mark III Buffer Co It's actually one of a few Mark III carriages So it doesn't seem long ago Only a couple of years ago Well yeah it was 2020 They finished 2019 I was still writing these up and down To Norwich Loads of older videos on my channel Of them at Norwich What I never saw at Norwich Was one being hauled by a Pandia tank Sword and bin hauled by Class 90s But yeah Sorry Pandia tank Saddle tank Never did I see one Well or a Pandia tank for that matter Little packets Bit incongruous really Isn't it seeing They go together Already seeing that But yeah Maybe I have to come back Another day have arrived behind that There's a shed there There is another steam loco In the shed Another industrial steam loco You might just be able to see that See that there Just in the shed doors There's also industrial diesels Have a look at that But if we wander up here We will find a couple more diesels And we have Well and more mark 3 carriages So what have we got? We've got Class 33 Or Crombtum as they're known as I've had loads of Class 33 haulages It seems at one point Every time I went to a area To drill on a diesel day I ended up getting Class First 3 haulage And today obviously I've got a Class 31 Winning loco haulage So very happy with that That 31 was at the Spa Valley Railway though For quite a while So I knew I'd seen it before I couldn't remember until I looked up on my notes So it's 33, 05, 3 And Class 47, 47, 205 And then there's a Mark 1 carriage Not a passenger carriage And there's another Mark 3 carriage An ex angler So of course these These carriages would have been used On the West Coast mainline Before the Pendelinos replaced them They were displaced Ended up working the trains out of Norwich And then they have more recently been displaced By the Stadler flirt units So it's a shame to sort of see them finish Mainline service But you know they did so many miles So it's good to see quite a few of them Have earned their place in preservation So yeah another loco hauled Mark 3 carriage And then there's a few more of them In the next siding And well I'll show you what else We have to see So there's a few sidings here There's actually that technically That could be used as a run round loop Because at the moment The way it runs is that The loco is at one end And they have like a guard stroke driver At the other who basically communicates with the driver So there's no run round loops at either end Although what we'll do I believe they are building one At the other end of the line Which we'll see when we get there Is that the train coming back? I believe it is There's a river here I think this is the river Not this is the river Neen But the other river is River Neen Obviously this isn't Neen very rarely But it's another Neen very rarely Anyway Let's watch the train go past So as the class 31 propels the train back to the station We're going to continue I want to show you what's in this siding There's a signal there Line is fully signaled The signal did Five minute bit further on You'd have seen the signal Arm drop back to danger But I was only there So here Just up here in this siding We have a few more Mark 3 carriages Seems really funny though To me I think seeing these in preservation Because I'm so used to them I've never travelled on them On the west coast main lines Yeah I didn't really ever travel On long distance trains much It was I first travelled on them On the great on the line west East Anglian main line to Norwich And then when I started travelling on the west coast main line I've only ever done it on Pendelinos Or other commuter trains And then here is one of the DVTs So I tell you what I do think it really feels strange Is seeing anything with a sloped front On heritage lines I've been to a few other heritage lines lately And there'd be like an HST power car And that I think just feels funny I mean it's great I'm glad to see them in preservation But it just seems strange To think we've come to the point now Where stuff I remember in use as a child Is now in preservation So seeing as we've come this far Didn't rise I wasn't going to walk to the buffer stops Probably still won't But there's a bridge here Let's have a look at this bridge Is this a more like a girder bridge And I believe this is the River Neen Down the other end When we were on the train We saw there was a viaduct So we've got to go and have a look at that I think so yeah But it's flowing that way Unless I've just got it in my head It's the River Neen and it isn't But I know the River Neen does flow this way So yeah there's a river And we're on a bridge So yeah the row of cars on that way I'm going to go down the other end And see what we can see down That end of the line I've just walked up here to the southern end of the railway That's the southern buffer stop And there's the new station which is in the process of opening Just over there We're going to have a look at that The railway need to continue Across where those traffic lights are You can follow it as a path Down into Milton Keynes Long Yield Railway Try to bed But that is very much a video for another day But what we've come down here mainly to see Is the bit of the line that we didn't travel on Because they're still working on this southern extension So this is the new Morton crossing station here So the bay platform is quite a long platform So I'm very much looking forward to this opening It'll probably happen in the next Well they say the next year We'll have to wait and see I'm thinking possibly when it does happen It'll be a bit of a walk I might come by train And walk If it was a nice day Walk up the old track bed To catch a train here So as you can see That's the new railway station See across the valley over there There's some other sidings in that So I saw it all as I walked down And some from the train So I can point out a few things along the line Easier to point out from the line than from the train Because it's quite good here The fact that the track was once double And now it's single There is this cycleway It's nice that the cycleway can be here As well as the railway Because sometimes it's very much one or the other So it's very good for line sighting here So what I'm going to do Keep walking I'll show you a few things up there And we'll keep heading back towards the station Now walk down to the other end of the new platform There's a few things to see up here There are seven or four signals There's also like a works train There are some people actively work on the extension Getting it ready for when it reopens And there's a ride up here Which is quite a low vibe But quite a nice thing to see Some other seven or four signals So I want to have a look at the viaduct Which requires some work Before passenger trains can run over it But that is also something that's going to happen So people who live here Will soon have an heritage railway And they've got what they already have Just that there's not really any passenger trains So if we look here You can see some people in orange Oving They're obviously working on the extension There's the new signal and signal box Nice lattice post signal It looks like a brand new signal box The one that fits from Brampton I believe is original But this one is new There's also another one Further along which is I'll talk about when we get there So that's your new signal box There's also some siding going into there So it looks like I've got a little permanent way And then here Parked here is the works train And there's also another diesel loco So we'll have a look at that And then we'll keep walking Back to the railway station And see what else we can see So you can just see That's the permanent way Depot in there Not a lot to see I know We're just coming to the To the works train here It's got a little industrial diesel loco Not too knowledgeable on industrial diesel loco Because there's just so many And we'll have a look That looks like That's a big old mill over there Besides the line There's a lot of equine places Lots of horses Smells of horses around here So yeah, horses and trains Here we have a locomotive Rustin and Hornsby So I'm going to leave the loco here And walk back to the station And show you a couple of things on the way And just come a couple of hundred yards Up from the station where we were The new station Coming up to Pittsford siding So we're going very slightly uphill An uphill gradient of One in 204 So it's not exactly a steep hill But it's still a hill When we get to the siding up there You'll be able to see What's level and what's the gradient But this is the viaduct So obviously there have been two tracks As I mentioned earlier We go down here Have a look at the viaduct So it's a very, very low viaduct I'm really just covering a flood plain That's not supposed to come down here But anyway So yeah, see how low the arches are That I'm taller than them There's a stream up here I'm wondering if I can jump across the stream If it's not enough to go back Because I want to get back to the station It's time to watch next train go So and see how the viaduct is held together These metal braces pull it all together Right, and here's this stream Now if I can't get over the stream I'm going to have to run back Yeah, it does look a bit Yeah, okay, I'm not I'm not jumping across that So I wanted to go up those steps So I'm going to have to go back there To get back to the railway station So I'm going to come back Run over the viaduct And now on this side That's why I couldn't quite jump across So there's the viaduct Go ahead north And get to the Hittsford sidings Just here See some wagons So if you look at that level The line is dropping down Towards Northampton Now the interesting thing There was here That was once a big quarry Northampton's year area is very well known For its iron stone There's various other heritage railways Which have links to Iron stone in the area And we'll have to visit them in the future But there was a branch I really had no idea it was there Until I got here today But there was a branch out into those fields Which little industrial tank engines Would have worked See wagons like this one here This grey one That's an iron ore wagon They would have worked lots of them Bringing the iron ore out of the earth And to various other places Nice seven four signal And you've also got It's quite nice seeing the Therograph wires Running beside the line Very much a scene from Former times When they would have communicated With you know each Signal box And so there's a signal box Just up here You can see we're gradually Going to be the same level as siding This one I believe came from Wolverton Works It's not the original Signal box On the site But it's been nicely restored And then further up here The path Moves to the other side of the railway Because you may have noticed when we were at the station The railway platform was against the rail Here so yeah the footpath Just south of the station bridge Moves to the other side So we're coming up to Pittsford siding signal box now And then I'm going to run back to the station And go and see the train Probably have a cup of tea So yeah What did I say about these Mark 3s I remember travelling on them I'm sitting inside one now Not going to go anywhere But if you buy a cup of tea From the Mark 1 carriage Just over there There's nowhere to sit in there So you have to come in here and sit and drink it So I've just had a cup of tea What I'm going to do now We'll go outside I'll just show you into here one of these So it's really nice Still got the greater anglia moquette So yeah Still in a greater anglia Mark 3 carriage Even though they're finished That said I have been on one I've been on some first class ones On the Staycation Express last year No it's not last year now It's 2020 Because we're in 2022 aren't we Have a look at the English screen now Anyway so yeah Inside a Mark 3 carriage What a nice way to end my visit This is actually a buffet I'll probably have bought a beer From this actual buffet once So yeah What I'm going to do now I'll just show you one more thing Outside There's some So that's the carriage So we'll just go to where There's a couple of these Locals we saw them from the foot bath But we'll just have another look here So there's a diesel course That out for wood And there's the little peckett Steam locomotive So one day we'll have to come back And do this line with steam We'll go back onto the platform And finally finish the video So hope you've enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching And you know if you're up this way Why not come and have a ride On the Northampton and Lamport Railway It's a very pleasant little railway I've had a great time here today You can do a pleasant walk as well Nice walk beside the railway So perfect for line siding So from Pittsford and Brampton Station Thank you very much for watching Once again, happy new year And please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment Goodbye