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yeah that was like five six seven seconds
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hi hi right stop one of the day uh Elvansfoot
little village just there main line just there
um and the station is there, we just spoke with a
network rail guy and he said this is the this is where the station was
right here as you can see up there it's kind of a
little embankment of that is the lead hills line the
Elvansfoot to Wanlockhead Line which is where we're gonna go now
that's where it came off the main line round this way south behind us
and up into the valley so we're going to follow that now we're going to another
100 meters higher than where we are now to the next two stations lead hills and
Wanlockhead
right yeah well i'm exceptionally excited that's an
understatement rebecca's rebecca's not as excited as i am it's supposed to
say i'm a little bit more excited how my heart has got my legs up to come up that
hill true so we've just come off of the m74
as you saw we stopped at Elvansfoot abandoned station, disused station
where this line started Elvansfoot one lock head
and up into the villages of the the the mine villages
the lead mines and a number of other things we'll come to the bit more about
the history in a little bit but for the first little
bit of waffle we've been driving up this
valley now for probably 10 15 minutes and it rises from 300
meters up to 400 meters and the whole time you can see the line
up in the hills you can see the the old structures there's some old
culverts right underneath us now there must be an old culvert
because you've got uh of you've got that
and this is exactly what i mean this is the type of thing we love looking for
little bits like this um okay the trickle of water through it
i try and tread carefully um annoyingly i've lost my torch
it only cost 250 quid or 200 quid even but we can get in look wow i really hope
you can see down there well we're coming up to now where we
think the viaduct was so we got a sworn from the road we saw some
structures i'm not convinced rebecca didn't see them well we um
you can see i say you can see it was when we were coming from when we
were coming from we're driving from up here
we there's an old viaduct here um common the name of it
but clearly there's a viaduct here and i thought we could see some remains
i have a funny feeling we can see whatever these things are up here
so the path up the other side there's some kind of balding air
no idea what that is but i reckon we looked to that i looked to that i
thought yeah as a side on view that's a
structure
so um we're at the lead hills and one lock railway which is obviously
a little heritage center really sadly um it's still closed
which i completely understand um probably down to
a number of different factors obviously but for an intermediate tick
this is uh lead hills station and obviously it's got the light railway
which is really sadly not yet open
i did not expect this rebecca a bit more just we've just come from our home in
the south of england and it's been 30 no no no i mean the
last week has been 35 degrees intense heat and we thought we'd come to
scotland to escape that it's 26 degrees we're 400 meters above sea level and
we're like well i guess i'm burning we did not prepare for this
we're on the elven's foot to one lock head
branch line which i think i mean it almost made it across the valley it was
the hills to the dumfries to glasgow line but it
didn't it was made as a branch line because it was predominantly used to say
the minerals that were mined here especially led down to the main line one
lock head which we shall get to very shortly is
the and was the highest we think the highest mainland standard
gauge railway therefore the one lock head was the
highest and is the highest disused um abandoned
railway i guess there's some old lead mine
workers ahead of us because there's all sorts of wonderful weird wonderful
buildings here half the reason we've carried on walking
up from lead hills which is just down there
lead hill station in the distance is because there's an old tunnel up here so
there's a lead mine and the lead moment from that building
just behind the camera now back down the hill toward lead hills and
it went for a tunnel so just there in the distance there's a
tunnel bizarrely so we're just taking a detour from the
main line at lead hills and we come up to this old tramway
as we said to have a look at the mineral line here
which went from that building there in that mine there right down into lead
hills so let's have a look at the building
first
know nothing about lead mines but this is wilson's shaft it then went
down there through the tunnel and down to what was a washing mill
nothing about lead mines if you do know stuff about lead lines shout
and let us know what all these holes for on the side of the building here
what are we looking at what was the archway for no clue
let us know by all means
really no clue as to what we're looking at in terms of
a lead mind ah here's your shaft wow
seconds yeah at least we might just carry on going for we know
let us know about lead mines because honestly that was that's exceptionally
deep were lead mines really deep
so
wow wow completely clear no collapses
nothing completely sort of local stone built
no sort of cement or anything to bind it together just lump together like this
completely intact all the way through you can see the portal probably 150
yards the other end um why was this built this is another
big question this is very similar to the garnifus whales one we saw where
it just defies logic doesn't it really there's no steep hill here
um fascinating absolutely fascinating right onto one lock head i could do a
cup of tea really high cup of tea how many sugars
no sugars okay a cup of tea cup of coffee no sugars
let's go
so in terms of one lock head this is as we said
one of the high of the highest village in scotland and we assume the uk
but maybe not to correct us on that again we're 410 meters although visit
scotland says 467 meters high either way whatever um
there's a noisy shield just across the way there so
before we go up and see the station here we're trying to come down and do the
beam engine so this area has been mined for all
sorts of reasons from very early times right including
the romans who came here in mind so anyway either way
the gold quality of the gold here is exceptionally high
22 point something carrot gold yeah it's used to make the spanish crack of the
spanish crown the scottish crown where'd spain come from
so yeah quite a quite intense mining history in this
village and there's all sorts of um mining houses built you can tell
all around you can't you yeah those are led by there's houses houses
a bit oh just across the way there you can see the beam engine wonderful
if you see the beam engine the left-hand side of the beam engine is where the
shaft was that's where they pump water out of a deep mine
but perhaps as well they also then took out some of what they mined
uh from the shaft here and along this line
obviously these are i assume they're original you know that was built in 1870
i think lasted 40 years i'm assuming these are
from the same sort of era how amazing is that and of course a
little bit of track for rebecca's still stood on now
goes across the embankment over there probably to the actual line oh that's
not a main line but it's another mine working line
what a fascinating landscape this is i'm so glad we came here
all right matey rebecca we did just it's such a warm day this is crazy
um right that is like some sheep pens industrial building
that we think marks a spot of the uh the station the the one lock head or
lockhead station which is the we think again
we're thinking a lot here that the highest abandoned uk station
um in existence or wasn't existence um right highest abandoned scottish
state well this yeah exactly because this is the highest um
scottish town village so we're going to gamble
and call this video just that the line heads off back that way
through the through the pass up there back down sort of eight miles towards
alvin's foot um behind us you can see the end of the
line which is just there so probably like a siding or something we assume
um so we'll call it a day thanks for watching i hope you like this little
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