 Hi everyone, do you want to meet? I'm just standing by the busy but small Mary Lou station at Beckinscott model village This is episode one of a series I'm going to do called branch line Britain Well, we're going to explore some of the branch lines around Britain Just occasionally we'll you know go to a branch line We'll walk along it Along close to the can to it look at the stations and then get the train back or that's the concept It might vary in various episodes. So here we have a busy main line station. It's called Mary Lou But have a look here. It says Mary Lou Change for the even load branch. So this is the Beckinscott model railways main line But as I said the even load branch branches off here now the actual branch Junction is in the signal box or underneath the signal box in the tunnel, but the main line curves round It comes back along here now. I have done various other videos all around Beckinscott where I explored the rest of Beckinscott This one we're going to purely concentrate on the even load branch But what I was saying was the junction is under there on this side There's also it's a trying a triangle of junction. So just down there where two trains you see waiting at signals That's gully junction. So behind the furthest one the train a line makes its way Down there over the bridge and then here we have the other side of the triangle It comes out the signal box. So the lines that way down there. That's the even load branch And then for trains coming off even load branch They could go over this bridge and they could go under under this little bridge here Which Radstock is now passing over for the passenger train on the main line So soon we should see a passenger train on the branch lines Now let's walk along the branch line and have a look at the stations and see what a branch line has on offer I mean this branch line has probably got a bit of everything Here you have it could be somewhere maybe in the West country the railways on a high vibe up to above the docks and Passes the village of Southpaw which doesn't have its own station, but for the people who live in Southpaw The dock side village this one here if they want to catch a train which they have Passing basically over their heads all they've got to do is cost a road here to Hampton Now we have the very metropolitan looking station of Hampton So this is the first intermediate station on the even load branch So Hampton is a fairly small village, but the residents as I said from Southpaw Not Southpaw, Southpaw's visit there Southpaw's in London But also more recently Beckett's got a new town that's been built. So they have got their tube station But they also may if they want to travel further afield They'll go to Hampton and get a train from here So what I'm going to do now after Hampton the line becomes single track will follow the single track line up towards Splashing and even load and then we're gonna have one last look Up there back towards the junction with the main line So as we walk around here There we have Beckett's got new town London's smallest tube station Hampton Road So sometimes when I'm doing these branch lines, they might be most of them will be rural But some will be urban so we may find ourselves walking down streets like this of Nash Semmys as we walk from one station to another maybe sometimes Probably most of them will go through rural areas past farms just as the branch here does Takes a very rural feel It makes its way along towards even those Passing the airfield. This is Hampton airfield. So you could almost say that So the airfields called Hampton airfield, but Hampton is right down there from nearest station Is actually splashing so people from splashing would use splashing station To catch an airplane Very mind we are in 1930s England. So things are a little bit different to today Still the branch line train hasn't come But what we do have here is the electric tramway. So it's like a branch line within a branch line a tram Runs from here Along to the cafe at the other end of the beach trams currently stops The branch line from here onwards Goes over Alexandra Lake on that bridge, which is Based on Sydney Harbour Bridge. So let's just go up here To the viewpoint just to get a better view over the whole site Could stand here all day and Enjoy the view over Beckinscott So let's continue our walk around. I'm looking very serrated. Let's get into the light. Let's continue our walk around Following the evening branch or the trams just come back. So when Talking of we've got the splashing electric tramway Trams just pulled into its Into its station and there goes a branch line train So it's a branch line off a branch line, which there are cases where you do get branch lines off branch lines It's also um You get very several branch lines. So they could be in the form of an electric tramway. There goes the tram But sometimes there could be a narrow gauge branch line. So branch lines come in all shapes and sizes There's a bit debatable as to what the longest branch line is some people say that ding water carl of lockhouse at about 63 miles Is a branch line because it's kind of off the far north line, which is true It certainly does come off the far north line It's a bit debatable whether I'd actually say it's a branch line or not And um, as I said, but the idea of this branch line British and series is that I walk the branch Get the train back. Well, I'm not going to be able to do 63 miles in a day. So, um But we'll we'll probably one day go to carl of lockhouse and do a video there because it's a lovely part of the world So the people on the train They would get a really nice view looking across at the castle And um, the rather large fish, which to the people here are huge like whales So the little branch line after passing over Alexandra bridge by now single track Goes through this tunnel here. It disappears under the hedge towards even though so um Quite a long tunnel. Um, I'm trying to think of a branch line That has got a really long tunnel. Um, they certainly exist I suppose another one if you want to think of it as a branch line Is um the railway which goes down to Blynei for Stenioch That has the longest single track tunnel in Britain about four miles long This is even low village green where that tunnel It takes the railway underneath But even though station is over there, it's what I'm going to have to do We're going to have to go for a quick walk around the whole of Beckinscott to get there And passing many things on the way such as The canal On the fairground will also get a better look at gully junction And so as I said, I have done a video I've shown you everything in Beckinscott various other videos to do have a look at them There's a whole Beckinscott playlist And but today we are concentrating on the branch line. I also show him that house A corner of it just claps that the man is still sitting on the toilet And he's obviously going to wait till he's finished before he gets up But what this does give us the opportunity to do here is the gully junction So the other side of gully junction. So if you look here That's gully junction signal box Here comes a two-wheel unit now is a two-wheel unit going to take the branch Looking at the points I'll say yes So the two-wheel unit has taken the branch So you can see the branch line Goes off down there Here we have Brighton waiting at the signal to proceed on the main line So then when trains come in off the branch, as I said earlier, they come under that bridge through here So I'm now going to follow the main line Here As I said, we are making our way to even though, but I'm following the path all the way around Rather than just take a shortcut So this is Beckinscott town The capital of Beckinscott. It has two stations One is another train G.K. Chesterton's in the station And Settle, the 94XX Pamiya Whatever Settle will eventually end up down the branch line. We'll probably soon find out I'm now following the main line Besides Green Haley Bank Quite a steep section on the line Which takes the line up past the windmill to Green Haley That's one of my favorite spots for watching trains. This goes to Goodstrain That's another interesting thing Branch lines and Goodstrain in today's world You don't get that many Goodstrain on branch lines But it certainly is something that exists There are branch lines that do have Goodstrain because some branch lines Don't actually aren't dead ends as such That they may carry on as a freight only line or some branch lines Have the complete feel of a branch line, but they actually run between Two, um, you know two other lines. So I've got a few in mind Like that where we will see where we will certainly see Goodstrain There's the cable cars there. So, um If I was walking this and I was you know, six inches tall I probably wouldn't have walked all around Beckinscott I'd have just simply got on the cable car and come up here because that way would have been quicker and more fun But you know, I'm a bit big to fit in the cable car So I'd have to walk, but it also doesn't have a gully junction very strong things So that tunnel I showed you remember it was single track To confuse you this is the other end and it's double track. So actually becomes double track inside The inside the tunnel now It's a rather unusual terminus here even though because if you look in front of me, there's effectively Another junction You have a line going this way beneath the minus cottages will get onto the mine in a moment, but we also have a line Turn this way Which takes the cutting Round there. So if we follow that one Goes around Around here past the Roman ruin Look at that It's a miniature Henry's adventures Henry's, a miniature Henry's watching trains And it turns into even most where there's a collier. It almost a train So the Brantzline train arrives At its terminus But as I said, this one's a bit unusual because it actually gives a loop Probably in most Brantzline cases if on a steam work Brantzline local would run round its train And work the train bunker first. Some Brantzlines would have had turntables And but on the whole being rural lines. They wouldn't have done But you're talking of freight only lines where there's some Mr. Colwaggins down there and there's a line that goes off Off into a tunnel just down there. So that's like a colliery Brant There goes the Brantzline train Back towards Mary Lou Brighton So not Brighton, that's Burton the locomotive. Brighton we saw over at Gully-Jampton, didn't we? Into the tunnel Bruton goes So that pretty much concludes our first episode Of Brantzline Britain. So when I come to do this On the full-size lines, what I'm probably going to do is walk the line a bit like I have today When I say walk the line, I don't mean that literally. I mean walk Near the line seeing, you know, visiting the stations on the way and the other interested sites And then if I was 16 inches tall at this point I'd stand on the platform wait for the train, take the train back. So when we're doing full-size lines That's how I intend to do it There will be some variations because some branches might just work better for me to do it the other way around But we'll have to wait and see. So from episode one of Brantzline Britain. Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. Do come and visit Beckinscock because it's a great place informed, even though it's colliery, goodbye