Digbeth's abandoned station and never used railway viaduct to nowhere

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Жыл бұрын

Looking at the almost abandoned Bordesley Railway Station (in Digbeth? Deritend? Bordesley?) with one train per week, and the unfinished, pointless Duddeston Viaduct that aims at Curzon Street and doesn't get there. It never did connect to anything or carry a single train. Is it even 'disused' if it was never used? We look at why (Spoiler: It was railway company games). The GWR knew it was pointless but built it anyway.
A mix of the usual drone footage and shaky handheld stuff on the ground, also featuring old maps with rudimentary graphics as is customary for a transport history kind of video.

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@MyWifeHatesThisCar Жыл бұрын

The Bordesley station gets used a bit more often than just the parliamentary train. It's open and trains stop there when Birmingham City are playing at home. As for the rest of Deritend/Digbeth, they've absolutely ruined it by sticking those flats there. It was good for a night out, but the flats went up and people buying flats opposites pubs (like one wanker opposite The Spotted Dog) started complaining about the music at night. Why buy a flat there in the first place? Must've been a New Media type.

@electro_sykes Жыл бұрын

why isn't it open all the time, it doesn't look like it is in the middle of nowhere unlike some other stations in the UK

@stupididiot6116 Жыл бұрын

The city area on that side of Brum is an absolute shite hole ! A graffiti filled cesspit that could be improved greatly by just demolishing the whole area !

@MyWifeHatesThisCar Жыл бұрын

@@electro_sykes There isn't really anything there that you'd go out of your way to see. It's surrounded by factories and isn't really all that busy during the week to warrant the service. The only time it's really busy is when the football is on. Of course, that said, the council are bringing the tram all the way out there to near where this station is. Because it's a good use of money - not.

@lewis72 Жыл бұрын

Interesting video. Music's a bit loud though; I blame those new media types.

@martinalooksatthings Жыл бұрын

There's nothing worse

@Samuel_J1 Жыл бұрын

I've always wanted something useful to happen with that viaduct. Whether a park, a cycle path or done other thing. Digbeth and the Lower Trinity St area is pretty decent for a night out but it does feel pretty grim when it quietens down.

@ncooper8438 2 ай бұрын

The old viaduct is an eyesore and should be knocked down. Should have been done decades ago, what's the point in having a useless eyesore like that?

@ianhart3048 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Martina. Having lived in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s I'm always interested to see what's going on in my old stomping ground! That area has so much potential being so close to the city centre and it's crazy to think that actually not much has changed there since the 1980s. Good that the tram is getting down to Bordesley/Deritend/whatever it's called - maybe that will be the thing that finally kickstarts some widespread generation in that area.

@mouf725 Жыл бұрын

You'ee right, I hope so too. Plus the Curzon Street station development as well - I really hope that it kickstarts some urban regeneration in the Eastside area (which if you ask me is crying out for it)

@markwarner9676 Жыл бұрын

Yet another interesting and informative video 😊 keep up the good work Martina

@martinalooksatthings Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@leswilliams5105 Ай бұрын

As a kid in the early 60s I would trainspot on Bordesley Station. Local sevices to Leamington be they diesel or panier tank pulled steam used to stop there. The highlight was the 6pm weekday '6 o' Clock King' out of Snow Hill bound for Paddington. Always King class hauled it made a terrific noise as it plundered through the station.

@chairmakerPete Жыл бұрын

The Luftwaffe should be invited back to re-landscape the area so Birmingham can have another go.

@user-ni9gr1qn5t Жыл бұрын

Great video Martina That viaduct looks sad and lonely

@LesD9 Жыл бұрын

Amazing how ineptly the Eastside development has happened/is happening compared with the way the Westside development took off. Mind you with the Council now having to find another £600-700m for their equal pay fiasco, I doubt much early progress will be made on the plans.

@ianhalsall-fox 3 сағат бұрын

Sky Parks are the best way of using abandoned elevated railways. New York being the most famous but Manchester and Leeds have established them. Sadly Bristol destroyed much of it''s former railway infrastructure which is also why the city struggles to secure any substantial rapid transit system apart from the MetroBus.

@buffi944 11 ай бұрын

It's disgusting to see the way them arches are in neglect and the arti farts need to be moved on.

@peddersmeister 6 ай бұрын

Love the addition of Transport Tycoon ! :D:D As others have said i understand it is used when Birmingham City Football Club play at home, so maybe "parliamentary plus" ;)

@Beri1984 Жыл бұрын

Great and informative video's you do make! Great stuff and keep it going. Just one little request; in the next video's could you make sure the music is not overwhelming like in this video? I find it very distracting from the actual story. And at times due to the music it is, for me as a non native English speaker, difficult to make out what you just said without subtitles.

@simpleNomadUK Жыл бұрын

when you are THAT early to a video it plays in 360p as the 4k version hasn't fully uploaded!

@buffi944 11 ай бұрын

Used to look at that viaduct going to school and wondered as to why it was never finished

@Whiskey2shots Жыл бұрын

With HS2 being built you could possibly build the station to increase traffic, but the tram might wnd that entirely

@captainboing Жыл бұрын

There IS nothing worse than NM types

@martinalooksatthings Жыл бұрын

So true

@empirestate8791 Жыл бұрын

Seems like a good idea would be to build a rail trail on this viaduct and build lots of apartments in the surrounding areas to make them nicer. There seem to be a lot of older, dilapidated buildings that can be replaced with something nicer.

@olivercooper1512 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your videos but the music in this one is distracting. Could it be turned down or, better still, off completely in future? Cheers!

@u1zha Жыл бұрын

Nice idea with a sky park, could be attractive flats

@Steven.Cartwright Жыл бұрын

Another good video

@fandangololo1855 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Could you turn the gain up a bit on your mic.

@et3ch851 Жыл бұрын

Interesting explanations, nice drone footages, and... nice soundtrack! (who did you pick it from?)

@martinalooksatthings Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It was from the KZfaq audio library; Everet Almond - The Fallout, and half.cool - Virtual Roaming Charges

@Danceup-dh6kn Жыл бұрын

I remember trains stopping at bordesley early 2007

@buffi944 Жыл бұрын

Most of the investors and inventers that built the old birmingham custard and all are no longer part of the town, that includes there generation's that was to follow. So in other words make more slums as that is all I see.

@jascollinscork Жыл бұрын

Wow interesting stuff so the derelict line was built before it got permission to join 🤔

@MyKharli Жыл бұрын

These days building a new railway is stupid expensive and slow , progress eh .

@simonirvine1628 Жыл бұрын

What a mess...

@argr08 Жыл бұрын

The algorithms do well for me 👍

@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway Жыл бұрын

Another excellent video is spoilt by the load music drowning your voice and the information you're trying to convey. The visuals were great.

@user-ce8un6nf3v 7 ай бұрын

lopoca has been there

@nickgower8681 2 ай бұрын

Bordesley station was once a good station. GWR

@SaltleyLad Жыл бұрын

Hi Martina I have a booklet dated February 2014 and it reports that in the Birmingham Post dated 27/2/2014 regarding turning the Duddeston Viaduct into a sky park with funding from HS2. I expect it to be another 9 years before it happens ( if it ever does)

@martinalooksatthings Жыл бұрын

They will do the sky park as soon as they've finished regenerating Birmingham

@angelsone-five7912 3 ай бұрын

I often wondered why that viaduct just stopped seemingly going nowhere. Why anyone would want to go to Birmingham I can`t imagine, I only do cos I work there............

@almostanengineer Жыл бұрын

Could they have not made it a request stop, as opposed to a parliamentary station 🤔

@martinalooksatthings Жыл бұрын

It seems like such a waste as it is, I wonder how much demand there'd be if trains stopped there?

@richardshaw2484 Жыл бұрын

@@martinalooksatthings it used to occasionally be opened when Birmingham City play at home, though I'm not sure when that last happened (the opening not the football!)

@faithlesshound5621 Жыл бұрын

Holding your arm out MAY make the bus stop, if the driver remembers, but I doubt that a train driver could.