"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody and welcome back to lmm and if you're enjoying what you're seeing on the channel at the moment how about giving this video a like and maybe subscribing to the channel to help us grow and perhaps even check out our patreon today I've got a bit of a different video for you because I want to show you two of the most ridiculous stations that I have ever come across this is witell station which is the home of my locomotive Fleet you've probably seen the 165 and my 48 is currently here as well as is the one that we helped save from the scrapyard Rustin 39333 this where I'm standing now is the original track bed the museum and the railway itself that we operate on is over in what was the good Shard over there and this has been rebuilt with new buildings here and the signal box been rebuilt to represent the one that was once here this Railway here was part of the Midland and great northern joint Railway or the MNR or the muddle and go nowhere Railway this is part of the same network that went up the way going through Melton conable and eventually reaching halt which is now part of the North nor Railway this station here opened way back in 1882 and then closed to passenger traffic in 1959 although the railway continued in use for goods traffic and that bit is actually quite important so we'll come back to that later the nearest station to us is that that is in reim this is a short mile and a half away from Whitwell but if you wanted to catch a train here well you'd have had to go all the way back to Norwich or somewhere else because the two rail W that ran a mile and a half from each other in two very small places in fact Whitwell is Tiny like realistically most of people curing a train from wiw would have come from reim you couldn't do a train between the two and I find that just hilarious because this Railway was the Great Eastern Railway and this one went across and went down to deam so entirely different Railways which intersected in a very silly way now today this is now a Station Cafe and the track bed has now become a footpath and this Loops all the way back to Whitwell because although it's closed back in 52 to Passion traffic this remained in use for goods and you may be saying well didn't you say that about the station at Whitwell yes I did but they weren't connected so that must have been something interesting well follow me as we go for a walk this way following the foot path away from reim brings us to here this is where the two lines connected well they didn't really connect one went over the top of the other this little bit of land here with the grass and the Nettles and the assorted whatever is in it was the line that whipped to witw this was the m&gn that headed that way going up towards hton the north nor Railway today and at that point where that big tree is that's where the two crossed the hedge row you can see at the end of this field is where the main line that came from reim of the Great Eastern Railway came running across going that way towards darum the two Railways two stations a mile and a half apart which never actually connected apart from the fact they did the fact that both lines then kept running as Goods is because British Railways worked out that if you put a curve in just there you could link the two sites not so passengers could travel between Whitwell and Reen finally and do that mile and a half but so the railway could serve the cement works at Len Wade and to take sand from Dron it also meant that this was a functional route to be able to move stuff from the different stations in Norwich rather than having to send the trains to God knows where you could send them round the loop which was quite a long way around and there are stories that have come from the line of trains which didn't really need to run that way but somehow it happened and the crew loved these silly little turns they got to do running the long way around Norwich to move like a single item of Rolling Stock and in order to join these two main lines that ran so close to each other they built the single tightest curve on the British Mainline to link two silly bits of Railway together and Link two stations a mile and a half apart which had never been together and never allowed passengers to travel and that's just here and this is the curve you can see how stupidly tight it is as it curves back around there there is a point where the two Paths of the main line going straight and parallel are less than a mile apart it's ludicrously tight for a curve on the main line on standard gauge on the Narrow Gauge yeah that's fine you'd expect this but this is ludicrous it means that running the mile and a half between witell and re station was actually a sixmile loop and it's just mad that it just it it blows my mind and it amuses me so much that such a stupid idea two separate stations joined by this what I also really love is how easy it is to see where the railway ran you can see here where the Midland and great northern Railway used to continue off straight and you can see where the deviation happened for the new B and equally just here you can see where the great eaststone used to charge across here and where the deviation went in there as well I love being able to fly the drone over these areas and being able to use tools like Google Maps and make it even more clear to how the railway once operated and when you start noticing the signs of where a railway is is amazing what you can find and how many relics remain like the road crossing over the cutting here and once you realize that this was a cutting of the Great Eastern Railway to get the railway low enough to go under the Midland and great northern Railway you realize just how obvious and what a scar it's left on the landscape but what a sight it would have been to see trains passing at this point the other thing I love is the fact that there's so much obvious of the Railway going in that way but then just gets to a field and The Cutting has been filled in and there's no remains of it at all and as wonderful as this curve was and the fact that you had to go 3 miles to go around curve to go back again 3 miles it couldn't save the railway forever times were changing and in the early '70s the sand traffic stopped and the concrete traffic stopped in about 1981 I think which spelled the end for the line also norch was changing and developing itself and didn't need separate Railway stations and adopted just the one station that we know and have today which meant there didn't really need to be this Loop going all the way around and so the railway was completely closed and the track was completely lifted leaving it as it is today where you can just imagine where trains once ran and see the impact the railway once had upon the landscape now this is a possible plan for the whitw and rein Railway for it to come all the way out of here and loop back into reim and I love the idea that maybe one day we'll achieve that cuz I just think it'd be hilarious that oh when's the next train oh you just missed it ah but if you just walk for 10 minutes out the road you'll get to it and you'll beat it because it's got to do six miles to get to the next station and it'd be really nice to finally be able to have passengers getting on at witw well and getting to re them it's worth noting that the majority of the track bed is still in situ all the way out of norch coming up through witw itself up back into reim and onwards towards roxom on The Bu Valley Railway because this has become a foot path and brid way known as marot's way so you can walk the entire track bed for yourself which is maybe something I'll do in a future video with that thank you all for watching I hope you've enjoyed this little silly bit looking at one of the most weird bits of the network which I absolutely love what a shame it's disappeared so with that thank you all very much for watching if you have enjoyed this how by clicking over there for one of the things we've done at reim or down there for some of the adventures with my 165 probably I don't know something like that and let me know in the comments if you want to see more of these little bits looking at abandoned bits and interesting bits of the network tohello everybody and welcome back to lmm and if you're enjoying what you're seeing on the channel at the moment how about giving this video a like and maybe subscribing to the channel to help us grow and perhaps even check out our patreon today I've got a bit of a different video for you because I want to show you two of the most ridiculous stations that I have ever come across this is witell station which is the home of my locomotive Fleet you've probably seen the 165 and my 48 is currently here as well as is the one that we helped save from the scrapyard Rustin 39333 this where I'm standing now is the original track bed the museum and the railway itself that we operate on is over in what was the good Shard over there and this has been rebuilt with new buildings here and the signal box been rebuilt to represent the one that was once here this Railway here was part of the Midland and great northern joint Railway or the MNR or the muddle and go nowhere Railway this is part of the same network that went up the way going through Melton conable and eventually reaching halt which is now part of the North nor Railway this station here opened way back in 1882 and then closed to passenger traffic in 1959 although the railway continued in use for goods traffic and that bit is actually quite important so we'll come back to that later the nearest station to us is that that is in reim this is a short mile and a half away from Whitwell but if you wanted to catch a train here well you'd have had to go all the way back to Norwich or somewhere else because the two rail W that ran a mile and a half from each other in two very small places in fact Whitwell is Tiny like realistically most of people curing a train from wiw would have come from reim you couldn't do a train between the two and I find that just hilarious because this Railway was the Great Eastern Railway and this one went across and went down to deam so entirely different Railways which intersected in a very silly way now today this is now a Station Cafe and the track bed has now become a footpath and this Loops all the way back to Whitwell because although it's closed back in 52 to Passion traffic this remained in use for goods and you may be saying well didn't you say that about the station at Whitwell yes I did but they weren't connected so that must have been something interesting well follow me as we go for a walk this way following the foot path away from reim brings us to here this is where the two lines connected well they didn't really connect one went over the top of the other this little bit of land here with the grass and the Nettles and the assorted whatever is in it was the line that whipped to witw this was the m&gn that headed that way going up towards hton the north nor Railway today and at that point where that big tree is that's where the two crossed the hedge row you can see at the end of this field is where the main line that came from reim of the Great Eastern Railway came running across going that way towards darum the two Railways two stations a mile and a half apart which never actually connected apart from the fact they did the fact that both lines then kept running as Goods is because British Railways worked out that if you put a curve in just there you could link the two sites not so passengers could travel between Whitwell and Reen finally and do that mile and a half but so the railway could serve the cement works at Len Wade and to take sand from Dron it also meant that this was a functional route to be able to move stuff from the different stations in Norwich rather than having to send the trains to God knows where you could send them round the loop which was quite a long way around and there are stories that have come from the line of trains which didn't really need to run that way but somehow it happened and the crew loved these silly little turns they got to do running the long way around Norwich to move like a single item of Rolling Stock and in order to join these two main lines that ran so close to each other they built the single tightest curve on the British Mainline to link two silly bits of Railway together and Link two stations a mile and a half apart which had never been together and never allowed passengers to travel and that's just here and this is the curve you can see how stupidly tight it is as it curves back around there there is a point where the two Paths of the main line going straight and parallel are less than a mile apart it's ludicrously tight for a curve on the main line on standard gauge on the Narrow Gauge yeah that's fine you'd expect this but this is ludicrous it means that running the mile and a half between witell and re station was actually a sixmile loop and it's just mad that it just it it blows my mind and it amuses me so much that such a stupid idea two separate stations joined by this what I also really love is how easy it is to see where the railway ran you can see here where the Midland and great northern Railway used to continue off straight and you can see where the deviation happened for the new B and equally just here you can see where the great eaststone used to charge across here and where the deviation went in there as well I love being able to fly the drone over these areas and being able to use tools like Google Maps and make it even more clear to how the railway once operated and when you start noticing the signs of where a railway is is amazing what you can find and how many relics remain like the road crossing over the cutting here and once you realize that this was a cutting of the Great Eastern Railway to get the railway low enough to go under the Midland and great northern Railway you realize just how obvious and what a scar it's left on the landscape but what a sight it would have been to see trains passing at this point the other thing I love is the fact that there's so much obvious of the Railway going in that way but then just gets to a field and The Cutting has been filled in and there's no remains of it at all and as wonderful as this curve was and the fact that you had to go 3 miles to go around curve to go back again 3 miles it couldn't save the railway forever times were changing and in the early '70s the sand traffic stopped and the concrete traffic stopped in about 1981 I think which spelled the end for the line also norch was changing and developing itself and didn't need separate Railway stations and adopted just the one station that we know and have today which meant there didn't really need to be this Loop going all the way around and so the railway was completely closed and the track was completely lifted leaving it as it is today where you can just imagine where trains once ran and see the impact the railway once had upon the landscape now this is a possible plan for the whitw and rein Railway for it to come all the way out of here and loop back into reim and I love the idea that maybe one day we'll achieve that cuz I just think it'd be hilarious that oh when's the next train oh you just missed it ah but if you just walk for 10 minutes out the road you'll get to it and you'll beat it because it's got to do six miles to get to the next station and it'd be really nice to finally be able to have passengers getting on at witw well and getting to re them it's worth noting that the majority of the track bed is still in situ all the way out of norch coming up through witw itself up back into reim and onwards towards roxom on The Bu Valley Railway because this has become a foot path and brid way known as marot's way so you can walk the entire track bed for yourself which is maybe something I'll do in a future video with that thank you all for watching I hope you've enjoyed this little silly bit looking at one of the most weird bits of the network which I absolutely love what a shame it's disappeared so with that thank you all very much for watching if you have enjoyed this how by clicking over there for one of the things we've done at reim or down there for some of the adventures with my 165 probably I don't know something like that and let me know in the comments if you want to see more of these little bits looking at abandoned bits and interesting bits of the network to\n"