hi rebecca hi paul how are you i'm a bit cold it's really cold isn't it it's june
it's summer be no need where'd you go can you can i did you know in the uk
there's six thousand eight hundred abandoned stations or disused stations yes actually
we've talked about that a few times yeah right and we've we've visited like nearly 500 of those
which is like four percent or something i think there's a train coming because we've started our
journey today in yatten which may tell you or may not tell you that we're doing the cheddar line
or the strawberry so join us as we try and find and bring you all the quirky bits
along the strawberry line which went from yatton just up there that way down towards witham we're
not going to get as far as we're getting as far as wells there's a good reason for that
so rebecca i feel like we haven't made a railway video in a long time we keep
doing map mysteries we're doing roman roads we keep doing canals
so it's about time we got back on the railways right that's very true it's very true here's our
first sign of the day oh we're like a good sign yeah injunction now interestingly you said yeah
in junction because we do we're just coming off of the curve there which this railway started off
drinking mcdonald's coffee this is this is bad hi can you hide that quick so the view that's
recyclable the other side uh of yet and station on that side i think there was another railway
off towards clevedon both of these railways closed in the 60s
this is congressbury on first inspection it looks like you can't see anything because it's a
monumental amount of over overgrown vegetation that's right but actually right there is the
platform right oh yeah it looks like right next to us is the old platform if this was um
taken back i'm not suggesting they do that but if this was taken back there would be
a platform there would be a platform there because it's it starts back there by the fence
and uh yeah right here next to us but it's very overgrown it's a long platform
it's not that long a platform actually it stops about there so right here reasonable amount now
this was also uh the section where there was a branch off uh i want to say right and branch
we're not covering that today because we're never gonna have enough time because there's
about four stations on there so our journey is going to carry on in a straight line
so we arrived at the next station on the line sanford and bamwell we've seen a few pictures
online here and we had great expectations but unfortunately it turned out to be a private
residential area now we think they do open up the cafe at weekends to non-residents but whatever you
do just make sure you check online first before you arrive here unlike us nevertheless we did
get a couple of quick shots of the old coaches here and a couple of the trucks i'm sure if you
did a bit more research than we had time for you might be able to come and have a good nose around
so winds come looks like a whole barrel of joy just started its life as wood bro
wood for yeah really windy day today it is windy have strawberry ice cream for sale
joy that's good didn't it that's so cool walk onto the platform everybody this is very exciting
it's very done up lovely nice proper nice isn't it ah i genuinely feel like now this is one of
the places where we could just sit and wait for a train this is lovely if it was a bit warmer hold
on there's a timeline on this platform oh really yeah oh there's a lot going on here isn't there
i've just walked past what they said about roman legions i mean this isn't just about
the railway history this is about the local history i think and everything because clearly
there is a lot of history in this neck of the woods the mendip somerset east somerset
right about i'm going into going into the waiting i assume it's a waiting room
in the waiting room of winscombe station
right so uh i know we're walking the toilet sorry i'm just going through the toilets
down these little steps going down the record down there the proper steps
so a lot of this line when it was opened 1869 was done so as broad gauge and then of course
within about five years the mid uh 1870s they changed it to standard gauge and we're heading
south now continuing on our journey ahead and sort of south east i don't know what's next
on the list do you uh can't remember no that's that's uh that's a common thing with us hey ho
right what what's it what are we looking for i think it's a
tunnel yeah no i know we're looking for a tunnel
but the name of it shoot shoot shelf tunnel shoot shelf yes shoot shelf shoot shell b yeah now it's
just down to our left but how we get i don't know obviously you can cycle through it but as we keep
saying we didn't bring our bikes today so we're doing this the cheating way well it's not really
walking we're we're walking quite a lot army all right can we go down there rebecca shall we
hey so walk up the uh cutting the immense cutting up to the southern porter shoot shelf
tunnel and it doesn't look from here at least like it's
got any sort of decoration at all just looks like someone's just cut hole in the rock it
does look a bit long which is really weird really bizarre isn't it a lot of cyclists coming through
but it does look beautiful sometimes wonder about the need for tunnels um in terms of
their depth because we've seen a lot of cut and cover jobs in our time this one however is not
one of those is a very much cut into the rock but look at that there's no there is no all the
masonry around the top or the front or there's no portal basically no portal gorgeous so isn't it
so greedy right into the darkness we haven't done a tunnel for quite a while
not lined in any way shape or form i guess it's limestone i want to say
why didn't you put the other torture i have got a little talk shot oh i just can't see anything
i kind of want to make sure i can make sure i see the other side is the same in terms of no
lining yes so let's have a look at that this cycle is coming through a big other way
all right reach the other end of the tunnel and from about two-thirds actually
right yep about two-thirds of the way in from the south it's completely lined um
and this end that looks like a normal tunnel looks like a typical tunnel masonry um sort of arch
brick throughout keystone tunnel normalness other end not normalness i wonder if they um
extended the length of the tunnel in some way i don't know let's do some reading up on that
now you may wonder why i'm showing you a hedgerow next to a main road well the official cycle route
for the strawberry line has stopped and the next three disused stations along the line are not
easy to get to here is the axbridge goodshed and as quick as a flash there was the station
so that's that one ticked off equally cheddar and draycott are quite private
so we kept our respectful distance took a quick picture took them off and moved on
how's that how's the cinematography game rebecca oh it's great fun great fun loving it cool good
shot down there yeah epic wicked and it's a long way down isn't it it is a long way down i mean
it's almost tunnel-like and it's um i'm stuck to brambles it's almost tunnel-like and it's a
yeah it's um a lot because it's so there's a lot of trees there's a lot of debris on the other
side there's a little building yeah there is no building i reckon if you go over there you might
be able to see the little building down the side i don't reckon it's railway related because i think
it's almost on the actual alignment of the railway itself oh look at the church pretty gorgeous too
it's a bit windy yeah it's stupid next up we've got um what should be called westbury sub mendip
but actually they didn't call it that because they don't want to confuse it with westbury
or wiltshire quite a big junction even as we speak today so they called it lodge hill
lodge hill lodge hill yeah that is our next stop on today's little journey okay let's do it
so all that's left of uh unit 4a is now the uh little was the goods shed it is uh
currently to-let so 4am five four four eight and five you can now let out as the old goodshed
of uh what is it called lodge hill lodge hill yesterday yeah westbury sub mendip the station
has been demolished we believe it's now part of the cranmore and somerset railway yes they use
the brickwork books from all the buildings well we've got one more stop okay with a funky name
wells no well yeah technically yeah but before wells oh okay
all right rebecca what rebecca what are you doing
you got strawberry i thought it was appropriate have you been sneaking in
all day long last station of the day rebecca yeah
so this is wookie rocky rookie hole the caves are just up ahead of us we're just coming into
the town of wells now there is another well says wells tucker road i think it was called
we'll come to that in another video because we're going to make a short video in wells and all this
quirky railways very small city loads of railways loads of stations so let's do a video about that
separately but for the meantime here is wookie on the cheddar valley line the strawberry line
hey bridge station yard wells bit of a decrepit sign but
still there but i don't know what side the station was rebecca so i'm wondering if we
just head down to the track because this side you're going to head down to the
track let's get a quick look okay before we say goodbye to our lovely uh viewers
uh sun sun's come out rebecca i know right the end of the day typical yep absolutely right so we've
just left wookie we're gonna head on into wells and we're gonna make another video as we said
we couldn't find anything of rookie station we hope you enjoyed this little everyday shoe station
it's been a while since we've been out on the railway yeah um but we've got plenty of all these
to follow i don't think we've given up on those because we haven't given up on the railways no our
first love definitely right thanks for watching people um we'll see you next week basically
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