good morning everybody and welcome to a little explore quite exciting little
explore today so stick with us because we're looking for an old, at least one,
old loco shed which have a quite fun but before we do that we're going to have a
quick look up that embankment.
okay we're done looking yeah we looked what's next huh, you're so funny
yeah I know!
first stop of the day is here so we're on the Banbury and Cheltenham direct
railway so we are going to cover that in every disused station one day but
not today today we're looking for, as I said, the loco
shed but we thought we'd stop right here because this is Milton Halt and just
down that way they're about kilometre is what we think is an old loco
but we thought it would be rude not to come here and
thought be stupid not to come and do and tick off milton hopefully there's a
pathway just down there which goes down to where the old road was the station
was lost in the station the hole was right here behind us so this is tick 4
Milton Halt let's go on with the main event today which is a big loco shed
so we are walking alongside the Banbury and Cheltenham direct Railway built I think
mid to late 1880s forgive the history we have not researched on that line
because we do this do it at a future point so we were tipped off about am an
old engine shed and we thought well we're going to look cause we've got a
couple of three hours it's morning and we started researching about the whole
quarries around here so ironstone was obviously abundant in this area they've been
using it since the mid 1700s to build the houses and churches and things like
that and it wasn't until more recent times when they realized its iron ore
qualities and how that could be used in the iron and steel industries especially
in South Wales so all of a sudden these quarries kept on popping up in the early
1800s and as a result this railway the Banbury to Cheltenham Railway was diverted
on this original course to taking consideration some of these quarries and
the fact that it could obviously be used to get a lot of the material here
down to South Wales and it took from what we've seen in the
last 5-10 minutes it's a very beautiful old railway lots of architecture
still in place so our job today is to try and explore just a little stretch of that
line and see what we can find.
so on to the Milton Quarrys but almost exactly a mile to the east of the village
of Bloxham the Milton quarries purpose-built line stretched north from
the exchanged sidings off of the main line they were built as a standard gauge
light railway once a contractor's had finished work here the quarry took over
the locos which were apparently at least one 0-2-0 so we've made it into your back
onto the track bed now to the west of Milton halt and we're now where there
were a couple of exchange sidings so that way down there is back on towards
Banbury on the main line and to our left heel to the north around that curve
when Milton quarry well it's an iron stone quarry up there directly north for
probably about a kilometer and it was a straight line north-south quarry and
behind us behind you and the camera is quite a treat we can kind of see it for
your trees now let's go and have an explore okay that's really good the
tip-off worked Thank You mr. tip-off
The loco shed itself was said to have two arches to ensure the engines could
run through if required but as it turned out only one door was ever fitted.
We are probably about 20 feet off the main....
no 20 meters off of the track bed and I'm aware that did go off at an
angle but look at that that's just utterly stunning. We are
not going in this end certainly we've got a pictures inside but we're not
going to go in there because the archway there is just being held up by itself
and I get that's what an arch way does but it's come away from itself there so
it's not particularly safe. Oddly we're not actually off of the beaten
track we came over a stile to get here.
interesting okay before we leave the area we'll just take a quick look up the
Miltonn iron stone quarry tram Road which obviously as we said headed north.
Looking vintage today, Rebeccas Nest! shameless promotion so this is just a beautiful
cutting that they've made for this quarry tramway probably very early 1900s
okay so we're not really sure much about history because research the history of
Milton ironstone tramway there's hardly anything online close to zero there's a
lot about the Hook Norton quarries which will probably another day another
Explorer but um just a beautiful cutting
but thanks for watching people hope you've enjoyed the little Explorer this
week which has included quite a few
nice peices of archuitecture, some over bridges. When we explore for Every Disused Station and come back to the
line this is the sort of thing we miss.
we don't get to see all of the random little architects
We would never of found that engine said for example.
So hopefully you have
enjoyed this slightly different style of video this week
We will see you next time!
So really before we go we just discussed a really interesting point
So we're walking here and there's a stile into the area there.
well it's an area and okay well there's no pathways in there officially so
you don't know if we are on private land or not as there are no signs saying keep out and
we're kind of treading carefully treading lightly aren't we and then we
go up that big tramway curve beautiful there's footprints on the
floor everything around horses everything so it's not can't be too bad
but we were wondering if we should be there, we we all of a sudden bump into a
dog walker randomly and it kind of shows it you know you don't know where you can
and can't go properly can you look because there's people all over the area
there but you know if you read the maps and you read the proper footpaths you
probably think its private land but obviously landowners let people walk
dogs and all that in there with what they do or they don't know but there's
no signs it's really interesting point if you are local you probably know you
probably know that that's an area you can walk your dogs clear not being a
burden but we probably saw three or four dog walkers were in there so who knows
hey topic for discussion maybe at one point
because we always want to do the right thing because we're on film and we kind
of want to be treated with a little bit of professionalism should we say and we
don't want to be like urban explorers where we're breaking into places and
stuff like that's not us but yeah that's kind of interesting point isn't it
really hey enough of me waffling , see ya later.