 Hello thank you for joining me today I'm out on my daily exercise I'm just walking through a residential area of Chorley Wood and what we're going to do in today's video we're going to go and have a look at where the M25 crosses the Metropolitan Railway so Chorley Wood is served by the Metropolitan line station opened in 1889 and the railway is just down there down in the valley so we're going to go and find that but first we're going to come to the motorway so as we leave the residential area come into this little woodland here and you possibly can start to hear the sound of the traffic on the motorway so we're going to go over as a footbridge just up here which will take us over the motorway and then we're going to go down and have a look at where the Metropolitan line goes under the motorway so this footbridge here I used to go along the M25 from time to time for a while it was missing they took the old bridge out and it seems to take a long time to put the new one in and I always used to make me think when they replace this bridge I have to go for a walk and see where it goes so here we are we're out today I've worked out a little walk so we're going to go over the M25 right now so that way is looking down towards Heathrow and just here is junction 18 for Chawley wood and you'd also get off here for Rickman's worth in that direction. Now down there is where the Metropolitan line goes under the motorway it's about there it goes under and not particularly easy for me to show you from here so what I'm going to do as soon as we are off the motorway we're going to go down through these woods here and we're going to have a look at where the M25 goes over the Metropolitan line so get one last view of the M25 and then we continue along the footpath now this footpath we get to here and you sort of your eye tells you to go straight on but there is another footpath down here it gets a bit quieter now now we've gone down behind the sound barriers and go down through these woods and it won't be so long before I can show you hopefully we'll see a couple of trains on the Metropolitan line walking through a wood of new trees that's the name is Tactus Bactica down through here we've got big tall trees those big tall trees are beach trees and then we've got the non-native and evasive Laurel bushes which I did a video recently over in Chavons and Peacock and Charles Cross called a walk down over way to the unfinished church and I talked about and that was somewhere where it was appropriate for Laurel to grow so if you have a look at link on screen now you'll be able to see that video now as we come down here we're now about probably level with the motorway and just see the sound barrier you can probably still hear the motorway a little bit lots of young beat saplings are growing up so the motorway goes up onto an embankment the footpath starts to go downhill and it almost feels like how can we possibly find a railway in amongst these woodlands especially one of London's Metro lines is in the Metropolitan line but trust me we will because in a minute this path is going to change very dramatically and so just you wait and see what's get around this corner so we get to here you can probably see there's a bit of a bridge so what we're going to do we can actually walk under the bridge so here it looks just looks like fairly normal bridge in that direction but look at that direction it's pretty massive so let's go inside and it's incredibly vast this space this big brutalist and just giant area bit waste did really under the M25 there's actually two bridges because between the two carriageways which creates this great big line down the middle so the Metropolitan line runs right through the top over there so we're going to walk up to there you may have seen I did a video where I did a very rare track bash I went on the early morning train from Cheshire to Watford and it takes the this side of the Croxy Triangle and in that video I did show you this view from the train so do have a look at link on screen now you'll be able to see it but as we go down the hill of course the bridges are just so vast it's almost like you have like a concert or something in here with yeah you could go there's a train look that's a pass and line s-stop train you can have like put a load of seats seats all down here and have a big stage although noise might be a bit of problems in the motorway it feels like yeah you can have a concert here I can imagine you hear about these illegal raves taking place not my go to things like that but I can imagine some places I don't know maybe they have one here but it does seem in a way a little bit of a waste of space it's so vast and impressive and yet there's literally nothing here apart from a slightly more novel place to watch trains if they run steam on the Met so this I believe is Berry Lane we're coming to now so you can drive under here it appears to be well as you sort of bank here it's free to stop people racing cars up and down here and then there's these big gates on each side but you can walk through here that's the football show what we're going to do now now we're down here on Berry Lane and so then you've got more housing that way surely what itself is that way I'm gonna get up off the road and someone wanted to get their sound of their cars in the video so yeah let's have a look on this side if you have a look up there look how vast it is very impressive and we're gonna go up to the railway line itself this is where we could do with a train coming what I probably do when I get up here if a train hasn't come I'll just stop filming I'll hang around I'll wait and I'll film a train for you and then after that there's something else I'd like to show you to do with this bridge so we continue up here it's a lot steeper on this side the other side was a more of a gentle slope this one's quite a steep so if you're looking back to where we've come so here we are track level if you look that way I don't see chemistry not picking it out there's a light as a train coming now when I came up here for the first time I could hear people voices coming from over there and I thought they trust the thing on the railway but then I realized there's actually another footpath which runs along there so I'm gonna do now I'm gonna head back down to Berry Lane I'm gonna walk around and we're gonna work here just up there and I'll show you this from the other side so the children railways class one six five heads north we're gonna go under the motorway again we are now on the other side of the railway so I just came up under the road bridge and just through the trees be able to see that mega structure in a moment which carries the M25 over the Metropolitan line and Berry Lane so what I'm just want to do is show you this one other place where you can see the trains here's quite a pleasant woodland if you go up there you'll come to the housing estates up at Millend which is suburb of Ritton'sworth so I'm sure you can hear the motorway again by now here is that other bridge or quite the same bridge but the other place you can cross or put under the motorway on this side of the railway coming to here they have a different sort of place compared to where we were last time but if you look down there that is where we were a moment ago we were down there actually see there's a sign the camera's not picking out it says M25 motorway just so any tube drivers or any eagle-eyed passengers can see exactly where they are and here we are between the two bridges and just see a car down there on Berry Lane so this is where the Metropolitan line goes underneath the M25 so I'm going to let you have one final look of that very vast area and perhaps next time you're on the train why not look out and catch that glimpse for yourself as a child that was always one of my favorite parts of any journey getting on the tube at Hamilton going up to London I always used to enjoy looking out to see that view so as we leave the motorway in the railway and we head further into more woodland hope you enjoyed this video please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from near the Metropolitan line and the M25 goodbye