oh look and it's all the blue bricks all the engineering but i wonder if that's like a um
okay it looks like a toilet block or something what's got a little round window
what's through the round window
good morning everybody welcome to every sunny day it's sunny day every disused station number 37,
we've made 37 Every Disused Station videos for the playlist which is quite a lot, I say quite
a lot but it's not considered we made 170 videos and only 37 at every disused station,
nevertheless welcome to everyday disused station number 37.
now you may remember if you've been watching our channel for a little while every issue station 35
was from the banbury and cheltenham direct railway
today we're doing the eastern side now if you have a look over to our left you'll see kingdom station
which was kind of a halfway point it was certainly a halfway point for us and we couldn't work out
how to get into the open access bit of land which went perpendicular to the current main line we've
now worked out um how to do that um we're gonna be trampled by some big cows no because they're
in the field next to the park i know but there's not much of a fences there's not much of a fence
so this is kingham junction and marks the start of today's journey before we head west the main line
through here which still survives today was built in 1853 a branch off the chipping norton was added
within two years to the east and just seven years later in 1862 a western branch went down to born
on the water the banbury and cheltenham direct railway eventually took over both branch lines
but it wasn't until 1906 that the flyover was built here and a complete through route was made
there is apparently a lot to explore here so let's go and take a look
so stupidly it was a lot easier than we actually thought to get into this open access bitter land
so now we're walking now towards kingdom station now this is the section of line
there's certainly the bit that goes straight on over the main line this
is a section of the line that was open in 1906. did you just do a tutu i just
did a walking oh i thought you're doing choo-choo no not choo-choo we're not on
the line are we well it's kind of here i'm not directly on it that's not the same right
well i think we're gonna go right because if we go left that would be what went down to the um the
kingdom station the low level this bit we're going to go on there's a bit that goes up over the top
right here here's a really good virus point because looking south towards the car park
you can see the other branch off the older branch and you can see this shallow embankment
just in the distance where it originally went towards its journey uh west towards cheltenham
and of course straight ahead of me is the 1906 fresh abutment with this apartment behind me again
only lasted around probably what 45 years two passengers this was used before the line closed
um anyway we'll come to that bit in a bit but this is a good advantage point because you can see
the railway looking south the main line and you can see the beautiful curvature of the original
1862 lines uh west and probably to the east as well
get off my waffle tiniest little bites all right so we're just gonna head south from the crossover
point there along trackside and we're gonna see if we can see properly the abandoned platforms of
kingdom i'm quite excited about this because we got a quick view last time didn't we yeah
over the fence we couldn't get to it so let's have a look see if we can find where they are
oh look and it's all the blue bricks all the engineering but i wonder if that's like a um
okay it looks like a toilet block or something what's got a little round
window what's through the round window that's for the round window look at that
i had better visions of cinematography than this
it's all brambles it's all rambled but i've no idea what this is it could be like a base for
a signal box it could just be like a station building but i can't see any of the platforms
here yet let's stop all that speculation have a look on side-by-side maps as always the detail
on the national library of scotland maps here is brilliant and whilst it didn't elude to what
the remaining structure was it did give us the location of a turntable that was once in this yard
we thought we'd have a quick look for that before we press onto the platforms of kingham and then
head west so basically we stood on it we're stood on what where it would have been the old turntable
says a huge great turntable just here um and it's all completely reclaimed by nature now of course
fascinating little landscape let's go see if we can see the platforms that we found last week
the abandoned platforms are through there you can't get to them because it's all all this
high fence now which is a shame because i thought it was all open access but um let's go on to the
first proper station of the day we're probably well halfway through the video now aren't we
right next station the day is still on the world very beautiful let's have an advert
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right so unfortunately stow on the wold and bourton on the water despite being
very picturesque towns they are drive-bys in terms of the station area because it's just
london industrial state which is bourton and stuff on the world is a private house now
again they were quite a distance out of their respective towns
brought on the water i think almost served some of the villages around did it slaughter slaughter
living in slaughter it's not small slaughter there wasn't that slaughter on the water on the water
that sounds good it does sound good but it served a few other villages around we're now to the uh
west of uh bourton on the water and we're gonna do a bit of trackpad uh walking it's just down in the
valley there and we just identified this lovely bit of trap bed walking we can do so we certainly
show you all that some old bridges and all sorts down here before we go on to last stop of the day
so i've just spotted um quite a way down the hill here
a huge culvert like a monster culvert deep water looks amazing let's go take a look
really difficult trying to get a good shot of that with this camera because it's tad overexposed
because of all the light around it but i'm going to get a lot closer i'm afraid very beautiful
it's the age-old question was the age-old dilemma that we have so we'd come slightly off the beaten
track to get a shot of the massive culvert just down there and we now find ourselves on track
bed to get back onto the kind of public right away and we're actually on like the most well trodden
um pathway you can imagine you think it's you think it's a problem pathway clearly
people watch this all the time because it's very well drawn in fact here's the pathway now coming
back on to here but when you if you look that way that's not an official pathway yet clearly
it's very well trodden people probably said as a shortcut to the other side of the farm
oh oh are you getting excited again yeah could you hold that for me yeah
oh i know this this is like a
oh look at this come join me look at that dry again and let me just jump down careful
old mattress if you want to have a little kit
my first thought is actually that's like farm access because there's a gate there
but you know it's like three foot high and it's i would say it's not actually a culvert
because there's no running water we're too high up um so I've no idea maybe it is farm
access and that's just been filled in over time not sure right so we're on towards now
the last station for us for the day the third station which is not grove and it's on the
section of track that was opened um after uh i think 1881 there abouts now not going to have
had big aspirations to be a local hub for all the agriculture in the area but of course it
never came to fruition it'll be a drive-by for us because knock grove is actually just a campsite
this has been every disused station of 37 where we try and visit every disused station in the country
we don't just do those videos we also do tunnels viaducts old abandoned canals old
routes you name it and today we've only ticked off three stations but hopefully
if you ever are in the air and you want to come and visit the bamboo and chow name direct railway
there's a lot else to see don't bother looking at stations because there's not much to see
um but there's all sorts of beautiful culverts there's a couple of tunnels you can take a look at
so from the white wicks on everyday disused station 37 we shall see you next week