If you want to see the Victorian tunnel that was also along this old line, check out this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zppzhq-q0N2VXYU.html

The line needs to be re - opened. Roads have altered dramatically since 1953, we need more rail lines . Road congestion is a pain.

Very interesting. I grew up in Rugby in the early 80s. As a big railway junction town, it was strewn with abandoned buildings like these. I loved exploring them.

Seeing this station makes me glad that my local town is rebuilding it's old train station that closed in '64 in a rare case of positive town planning. Good news considering the town is just a traffic jam with a few pubs and hairdressers.

The “ buffers “ are the top of an AGA stove I think 👍🐾🥰🐾🥰

I visited this site several years ago in the late '80's early '90's and the platforms had some very old trucks on top of them as this area was used as a small commercial vehicle scrapyard. There was an old AEC truck there which interested me. So I would imagine the engine air cleaner was from one of the vehicles. Also there used to be vineyards and a small wine making company there from what I remember. Nice to see everything looking tidier up by the platforms now. Excellent video by the way. I love water tower architecture.

I remember the station from the 1970s and early 80s when I worked in the forestry department of West Dean Estate. The estate bought its Land-Rovers from the Potter family who were ex military vehicle dealers at that time and rented the station and hundreds of yards of the old line to store and work on L-Rs and other vehicles which they had many of, and trucks full of parts for them: it was a Land-Rover enthusiast's heaven which we knew as Potter's Yard. They used the hand operated crane in the main building (their workshop) for lifting heavy items like engines and the SWL 30 CWT on it means its safe working load was 30 hundredweight (1.5 imperial tons). The Potters kept two alsatian guard dogs at the top of the entrance slope (against which I once saw propped half an aircraft wing), one of which had the hair raising habit of running up soundlessly from behind and grabbing a hand as it passed - we always walked to the workshop with our hands firmly in our pockets unless we could see the dogs. I enjoyed the video: it brought back a lot of memories. Thanks

Great video again chaps, i love seeing stuff about old railways. The writing on the old crain is the max working load, CWT stands for hundred weight C is Roman for 100.

3:48 not old buffers they are actually old hot plates off industrial cookers, the spring handles lift the covers on the hot plate. Great place by the looks of it!

I can recall visiting here years ago and the tunnel was being used as both a mushroom farm and also to store some old military vehicles. Carefully protected by a chap who didn't always take kindly to unexpected visitors. Also just up the road from here is West Dean Woods Nature Reserve. Run by the Sussex Wildlife Trust it's not open to the public most of the year, but if you ever get a rare chance to visit during wild daffodil season, it's gorgeous. Sometimes the Trust will also pick you up, which means a break neck ride around nearby countryside in a rattly landover :) It was also during such a late summer, we where lucky enough to have the naturalist Richard Williamson as our guide. He was the son of Henry Williamson (author of Tarka the Otter). During our visit Richard explained how he was friends with Edward James and Salvador Dali. The 3 men would often knock around the area on old motorbikes before ending up at the pub at West Dean. Dali being a regular visitor to James's house at West Dean, which is now home to an art college and gardens. While there Dali created his famous Mae West sofa and did give James some pieces including a White Lobster Telephone. Between them an idea was hatched to create a huge wind powered musical sculpture. Something that would be so large and cost so much it would probably bankrupt the Jame's estate, so it never happened. But if it had then it might have overlooked Singleton Station.

The MGB GT is 1979 reg. My dad had two during the 70's. So sad to see it in that condition, though it was new 43 years ago. Great nostalgic railway video guys. Thank you.

A lot of the brickwork looks to be in great! Condition, especially the old water tower and goods shed. Hopefully a trust is formed to possibly restore the buildings and platforms and reinstall some tracks .

Hiya, CWT stands for hundredweight. What a great explore that was!

A bit of history about where you are exploring makes the video so much more pertinent . . .

Fabulous place. Strange to see a station frozen in time like this, and unusual the way the platforms and station buildings are on different levels. I hope the recent upsurge in exploration of abandoned places doesn't destroy it.

The "buffer" or "signals" at 3.50 are actually an AGA stove!

At 16:23 it's not a boat .. it looks like old remains of a carriage gangway door.

@ 4:45 those two steel discs are the top of an old aga cooker. In fact as you panned in and around that area I could see a few aga cooker parts all over the place and perhaps several other bits and pieces.

Use to be a car breakers along time ago now privately owned! Shame you can't get though singleton tunnel as its blocked both ends! The old engine shed is nice to see still standing. The sub way is a nice added extra to a incredible station. Use to run the old freight trains though to cocking lime works! Singleton was primarily used for Goodwood.

The buffers you mentioned are infact an old AGA cooker. Steelwork on floor was body of cooker less insulation 🙂

Great explore, I explored there in 2020. We also found and explored all the tunnels. Apparently they are extending the centurion way railway foot path, poss though singleton tunnel (depends on bat survey) and through the old station to cocking

Great video. It has to be the ultimate disused station in Sussex for exploring. Fascinating to see pipe work from the water tower still intact under the platforms. The deep cavity below the platform surface which was fenced off, was probably a cellar beneath the old refreshment room (buffet).

That rectangle hole in the platform with the old section of pipe would have connected up to a water crane for the steam loco’s and been fed from the water tower . Excellent video .Inside the goods shed you have the loading dock complete with crane , this would of transferred the heavy items from road to rail or vice versa .

Great video. I checked the DVLA website. The MG was first registered in 1978 and last registered in 1992.

Used to visit the station in the 1980s when it was the Chilsdown Vineyard. The slopes above the platforms were covered in grapevines and they made the wine in the station buildings. They had an information board describing King Edward VII using the station to go to the races. Was a nice place, shut in 2011. The station is now a private house according to Wikipedia. Thanks for bringing back those memories.

Really nice video. The goods crane was a gem. 30cwt is 30 hundredweight, so with 20 hundredweight in a ton the maximum load is 1½ tons.

Dude. . . . 3.:00 into the vid . . . . . that was an Aga "Type" Cooker top. Those where the lift up covers on the hot plates. The rest of it was there stripped and scattered on the ground. One part clearly shows the oven "top & bottom" slots for the doors and to the left of that part are the actual oven castings themselves. Vehicle Details Vehicle make MG Date of first registration October 1978 Year of manufacture 1978 Cylinder capacity 1798 cc CO₂ emissions Not available Fuel type PETROL Euro status Not available Real Driving Emissions (RDE) Not available Export marker No Vehicle status Untaxed Vehicle colour BLACK Vehicle type approval Not available Wheelplan 2 AXLE RIGID BODY Revenue weight Not available Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 9 January 1992 Great explore lads. . Thank you

Hi Alex & Ed, I was wondering when Pompeye would show up lol, Hi Ed. That "Water tower" looks more like a signal box ???. The MG was first registered in 1978 and it was taken off the road in 1992. A very cool explore, a shame Ray wasn't with you as he would have loved that. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 🥰

So interesting the finds you were both discovering at the old train station area,one thing I really enjoy about your discovery videos is you and your friends discuss what things are or could possibly be along with the history lesson,it just makes it more like I’m there on your discoveries🇨🇦

This was an awesome explore, our old house used to back on to an old railway cutting & until vegetation took over we could see the tunnel entrance. We now live not far from the other end of the tunnel & there's an air shaft that people used to throw their rubbish down, the second shaft was demolished to build housing. Railway lines are so fascinating, thanks for the explore.

Thanks for the tour, love seeing old stuff from the past!

The concrete block with the hexagon shaped pattern by the water tower,is a base for the angle cranks for the point rodding to the signal box,these are also used for signal pulley wheels which are round,to carry signal cables to the signal box also.

Looks older than 1800s. We have the same thing here, same structures so weird! Nice video Thank you, God Bless 🙏❤️

Alex love how passionate u r on Ur explores. Lvly man ❤. The information u give 1st is so interesting. Keep up Ur good work ❤

Another cool video guy!!! 😊👍

Thank you for another interesting video. I love that you give a lot of history of the things that you share with everyone. . I just love watching your videos. Great job again guys 👍❤

Found another one and have listened and heard both of them over the years. Thanks guys.😊👍

I’m glad the buildings haven’t been demolished, but It’s still sad🏚🚂😔🥺

That 1 record you pulled from the MG engine I found it on KZfaq and saved it.😊👍 I tried to see the other cool records but some were covered up too much. Those are all collector LP's 👍

The 'buffers' on the shed looks like the top of a solid fuel cook.

That fabric covered fragment looks like the end of a railway carriage where you walk through between carriages

Thank you for doing this video, very interesting. This place (and so many others) needs to have a working railway back in place there. Those things you thought might have been boats, just after you came away from the top of the water tower; I reckon they are coach gangways (the end connectors/passageways) which allow people to walk from one coach to another along the train. Also, in the bottom of the water tower, the girderwork inside looks to me as if it was the base for a horizontal steam engine (hence the chimney for a boiler), which would have been used for pumping the water. And regarding the crane in the goods shed (amazing, and brilliant that it still works), it is made to pivot around the main upright pillar, and the marking "CWT" on the side of the jib, stands for "Hundredweight", of which there were 20 in a ton (a proper, imperial ton, not the smaller metric tonne), so that means that crane (30 CWT) has a maximum lifting capacity of 1.5 (imperial) tons. That whole lot there seriously needs restoring (even the car!).

When you said the next station down the line was Chester I got quite a shock . My dad and Mum lived in Prestatyn and they took me to see the walled city when I came over to see them on a trip . Seeing that old station reminded me , as it was laid out like all British Railway depots . Thanks for bringing back some old memories that was a terrific explore , Stuart in Canada ..

Thankyou for showing us the old structures. I love the old railways.

Great explore, seeing the old track beds and buildings. :)

Interesting video. Victorian station, ghosts of big roaring trains, breathing steam. So much excitement and sweet nostalgia, for my inner child A few big penny's in the pockets of her red duffle coat. Nanny shouting at her to get away from the edge or she would get would get sucked under the train.😄 Thank you Hampshire Lad, for making an old lady happy. 👵💖💖

Another great video thanks very much very interesting

Well done guys brill video keep up the good work iam from Northampton and there are several old disused railways in the area ie old Bedford line /Wellingborough/Blisworth /smj mkt harborough line which is partly preserved .take care when exploring.yours tim smith.

I found a old cottage with pink roses over it it was nice inside it was empty and a over grown garden I wonder if it still there

The "buffers" were actually old Aga hotplates. The CWT is not counterweight but hundredweight

Cool to see that this was your first published vid with Ed as a co-conspirator. I like those old water towers and have seen some really nice conversions of them into homes.

The black things you thought were buffers are actually the top of an old Aga! If you have a good look! Cheers!

Good explore here lads, especially like that brick water tower you found. Not a part of the country I've ever got round to visiting but now pretty much inclined

The old mg is a 1978 model B last purchased in Jan 1992 and mot'd for 6 months after which is was never renewed.

That train station is so cool and has a lot of history!!!😊👍

Gutted places are left to ruin like that.. The round lids were nothing to do with trains! its the lid of an old AGA cooker!

Wow! Looks a lucky survivor. Must be very few old station sites, especially in the Home Counties that haven't become housing estates, supermarkets, relief roads or business parks.

My auntie lived in an old station house and the outside toilet had a metal toilet roll holder on the wall with GWR on it. That was back in the 1960s. Enjoyed the video 👍

Very nice video and just to fill in some blanks….those two circular things @ 3.48 look like the covers for some oven or cooker the car is a MG B first registered October 1978 and the wooden crane…a great find ….has a max load of half a ton.

The round things with spring handles is probably off a range/cooker and might have all the parts there to rebuild it,

A lot of the old track beds are being turned into walking & cycling paths.

That's the remains of an old AGA cooker at 3:45, I know 'cos my parents had two of them, proper old ones like they were before they went daft with computers and software and so on like they have now.

Fascinating video lads. By the way, that chrome door handle looks like it came off a classic Mini, not surprising if the closed station later became a breakers yard..

Love seeing old stations. That booking office would make a lovely home for someone. Shame you couldn't get in the water tower. Thanks Alex enjoyed this nostalgic journey into the past xxxx

the water tower the bottom floor was where the pumps were the tank sat on the top of tower the system was gravity ran & used to supply steam engines with water aswell as the station facillities you didnt notice the doorway in from top directly below the external arch& where bike is

1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth😃😃😃

your buffers were the top of a Aga cooker and CWT stands for a hundred weight with 8 stone to a a cwt and 20 cwt to a ton so 30cwt was a ton and a half.

Love this one ❤

The abbreviation "CWT" stands for centum or cental weight, meaning one hundredweight.not counter weight .

The MG was made in Oct ‘78 and untaxed since Jul ‘92.

I lived in singleton from 77 to 82 never heard of this place , but sounds and looks fascinating!! 😊

I needed to know why don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they could extend the unused abandoned underground stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into six cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on that six cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo D10M, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it bigger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Train tunnel into a High-Speed train? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 37 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project that is OK for London Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street and also make another brand new tunnel train station in Chingford could they extend the DLR. All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo D10M, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Six carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the developed 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and they can order Every 17 Octagon and Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.10 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 117MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 117MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 16 Tonnes for all of the 117MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are Told!! And please do something about these very important Professional ideas Please Prime Minister of England, the Prime Minister of Sweden, the Prime Minister of Germany, the Prime Minister of Italy, the Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

I lived near an abandoned station. Meant to open in 3 years. I doubt that. It’s been left for 20 years doubt it will reopen.

3:50 pretty sure that's just a pair of aga style hobs 😂

cwt is hundredweight, ie 112 lb, 20 cwt to the imperial ton which is approx. 1 metric tonne

Old briefcases?, they are called shipping trunks. Interested video. thanks

Part of the old Midhurst line from the Fishbourne junction that ran behind Bishop Luffa and towards Brandy Hole Lane was still in use by freight trains transporting ballast well into the '80s.

CWT = Hundredweight The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system.

i had to laugh when you described an old aga as buffers or signals,

3:45 - that's the top of an Aga!

This must be the irony of all ironies; we desperately need a rail infrastructure, which is precisely what we had pre-Beeching!

Those buffers are a stove top to an Aga :D

brilliant vid mate thanks for sharing

Our station closed in the late '50s, though the line remains and is not only active, is now part of Cheiltern Mainline

The water tower. The water tank would have sat on top of the girders. The concrete object looks like the bottom of maybe a signal post. Langspiel/longplay.

Hi - very interesting - just a friendly comment chaps but I think I am right in mentioninng your reference to the markings on the Hook and Pulley markings in the engine shedd - I mean the -CWT - when I was at school the pre decimal terms and imperial weights and measures meant that 10 CWT would mean 1/2 a ton a full ton was a full 1CWT - check out the old weight tables or google it - google is a great asset these days -

That black MG was last Taxed in 1992. Been there a while!

the cast iron bit you looked at ar a pre 74 2 oven aga cooker in bits 3.45 in

Great tour. Thanks.

Re the crane towards the end of the vid, CWT = Hundredweight = 112 Lbs = 1/20th of an Imperial Ton. Great vid an interesting place to explore.

Its a real shame that if they're never going to reuse it.... cant they at least restore these lovely buildings as great pieces of history!

Someone left a bunch of old AGA stove parts all over there.

Why is there such a big chimney on a water tower? Was there once a steam engine for pumping? The water might have needed to be pumped to get it up into the tanks they had up on a framework next to the tracks so they could swing out the hose over the steam locomotives to supply them with water.

Brief cases are the cases city gents used to carry their papers into the office. I guess they use lap-top cases now. Those are trunks. Passenger Luggage in Advance was a fantastic service that enabled passengers to get a big piece of luggage such as a trunk to their destination, so it would be there when they arrived, at an economic price. It was a really good service for people who did not have their own transport. Very sad when that service ended.

A friend of mine grew up in a converted station very much like this. There was a swimming pool in between the platforms.

What a cool video, couldnt help but look up that reg plate, seems like someone bought it in Jan 1992, and tax ran out in July, definitely didnt enjoy it for too long.

Lovely to hear the history in your videos but am shocked to see these listed buildings is such a state

What a great video very interesting good work bro

seems typical of the time. the station built between Singleton and West dean, so not really convenient for either.

30cwt is 30 hundredweight which is 1.5 imperial tons = 1.524 metric tonnes = 1.68 US tons.