I hear ya. I totally agree with you on that. A disgrace, abhorrent, to say the least.

Agreed.

When the Woodhead line finally closed and the extensive Manchester-end sidings were torn up, buddleia seemed to come out of nowhere to replace the missing sleepers, along with fast-growing birch trees, almost as if the plants had been biding their time.

Quidhampton Sidings for the former chalk & china clay quarry closed in 2009. It's only about 2 miles West of Salisbury station at Wilton Junction where the Western line branches off from the Southern to Westbury. Part of it was the original GWR line into Salisbury before the junction was built. Easily viewed on Google Earth.

Not off the old LSWR line but the GWR line, it was actually part of the GWR line from Westbury into Salisbury which was abandoned in the early BR nationalised era and GWR trains diverted onto the LSWR one for the last couple of miles into Salisbury.

Or just use a mountain bike lol

it is in Salisbury near ware I live I'm happy you in joyed hope you can visit soon

james roddie I love that place 😍😍😍 ofcourse I would visit that place when the right time comes 😊😊😊 please do more videos 😊😊😊 keep it up. God bless 😊

Thats the old chalk pit.The track used to go much further down towards salisbury.But they built houses on it.I remember riding motorbikes down it as a child.

daphne ros cabanit

The lines past the ground signal is the mainline into Salisbury and the clips were new as the connection is still maintained

The lack of weeds suggests it’s sprayed semi-regularly as well

@@lakenwalker2660 when you say maintained, who pays who, do you know?

JOHN HEALY what would they do to it

They could take it up and transport it to where it was useful!

Not true. Its the old Imreys Chalk quarry site closed in 2009.

Not Porton Down. Bulford and Larkhill both had a branch line. Possibly one of those.

It's just a small branch line. Look at it on Google Maps, just type this in 51.080550, -1.840192

Former Imerys site.

it was part of a chalk quarry witch has been demolished

Yeah! you can tell it's in the UK by the rubbish just thrown around!"!

Please come over here. Railroad rights of way are strewn with refuse, urban and country.

No,i think it is the old GW tracks from their terminus at Salisbury to Bristol.Houses have been built on part of the line nearer Salisbury.Also shown was the tracks leading to Quidhampton Quarry which closed down a few years ago,but that is kept for possible reopening.

That is correct William

not sure maybe 1 or 2 miles

Yes it’s definitely the sidings at Quidhampton,

Looks very much like the Quidhampton Sidings at Salisbury. I have a number of digital pictures going back to the last day when the last load of clay was removed from the site on 30 March 2009. IMERYS loco Coral TOPS No 01571 (Loco now at Bugle in Cornwall) was present and took the remaining wagons to the exchange sidings for Class 66 Loco No 66191 to take the wagons to their final destination. Still have a number of digital pictures, any ideas on how to get them on KZfaq?

Chris Ackerley I think that signal is on, because it’s protecting that derail switch. There it probably doesn’t matter which direction the signal is facing. Don’t want track maintenance or any other movements hitting the derail from either direction.

@@MFXdump Makes sense.

Yes it is.

yes

james roddie oh cool :)

in Salisbury near quidhampton uk

That should be in the description. I was wondering if it was Salisbury Connecticut, USA.

It must have been "mothballed" for possible future use or it would have been torn up. I read that good-condition continuously-welded (in-tunnel) track from the former Manchester-Sheffield main line was never reused but just sent for scrap,and this line looks rather woebegone, despite the in-situ points-signalling: maybe the sleepers have rotted away, as you'd probably expect.There doesn't seem to be any visible "development" around the trackbed (like housing-estates or industry) that the disused line could serve.

@@johnhardman3 IIRC there was outline planning permission back in 2016. The line closed just after 30 March 2009.

This is southern England, I think.

State of Neglect.

County of Wiltshire oo-arr.

True.

Part of the Imreys exchange sidings for wagon loads of chalk slurry. Closed on 30 March 2009.

Nah Its just some access to some sidings for a (what appears to be) demolished power station. 51.080550, -1.840192 Put that in google maps you'll see.

@@iainstenhouse8399 Former Imerys site at Quidhampton, used for mineral extraction. Closed sometime after March 2009.

@@michaelhearn3052 thanks for the info

Crazy British anti rail freight.

this line has not been used for years

@@nnited Then how come the signal's still active?

@@chaosdemonwolf1 i dont know

@@chaosdemonwolf1 the signal is left on to protect the connection to the mainline it is common practice when a line is mothballed

@@nnited Have pictures of the last wagon movement on 30 March 2009 from the exchange sidings there.

Shut up arse hole

delicate turn of phrase there, @@williamredfern5504

@@williamredfern5504 It's only illegal if ya get caught

near quidhampton by the wilton road

If the line is no longer in service, why do they still have a functioning signal at the junction with the other rail line? In the area where I live, when they take a rail line out of service they usually remove the switches and diamonds at junctions with other lines, along with the signals.

Salisbury uk

@@charlesgault3777 the lines past the active ground signal are the main lines to Salisbury and everything past the signal towards the main lines is still network rail property

in salisbury

@@nnited Maryland?

@@Ih8kone south of england

Last remaining stretch of the old GWR line into Salisbury, kept to serve the chalk pits at Quidhampton, I believe.

@@nnited Are all of these answers that the location is England some kind of inside joke? At 0:23 it says that it is Winter Garden, Florida. Also, at 1:26 you can see a palm tree which I'm sure you won't find in England.

uk

UK

johnny llooddte double tracks are better for multiple reasons.

@@kylethedalek I get it!

IMERYS at Quidhampton, Salisbury. Last train out with full wagons was 30 March 2009. The Quarry closed as the local authority refused planning permission to extend the quarry. These sidings at Quidhampton are located at the junction of the Western and Southern lines on the Warminster side of Salisbury at Wilton. I am given to understand that these sidings use the former Western lines from Wilton to Salisbury after the track layout was rationalised some many years ago. All traffic now uses the former Southern lines dividing at Wilton for Warminster or Tisbury. The sidings are controlled by a ground frame.

No.

Standard Guage.

4' 8 1/2"

UK

Why on earth would you think it was USA - or indeed Australia ??

Salisbury. Wiltshire England

England, U.K.

It's the "Salisbury" that all the others take their name from!

You can access it from Penning Road, a turning off the A36, opposite Quidhampton. Much of the site is a disused carbonates works. Unfortunately, there's not sufficient length of track to run a rail buggy. Hamworthy is much better. There's a free run for almost the entire length of Hamworthy.

@@and7barton Former Imerys site.

Salisbury south of england

Quidhampton

near bemerton heath

51.080374, -1.839036 in Google maps takes you there.

Former Imerys site at quidhampton

this is Salisbury uk

The Original & Genuine Salisbury - all others are copies!!

@@richardholladay4165 Right!

@@nnited Should be guarded by Rhodesian Ridgebacks .

@@richardholladay4165 There is a fine copy here in Massachusetts on the North Shore.

gowd sake Train spotting is boring,anyway, I can't think anything worse, since there is not many steam locos about,much the same as watching soaps on television.

@@michaelgoodliffe4887 Now ''That's'' boring

chaosdemonwolf1 YES!