The final goodbye to GCR Calvert Road Bridge 1/12/23

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7 ай бұрын

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@vishengro 7 ай бұрын

The final blow in the brutality of progress and ‘modern’ times. The GCR means a lot to me. Until age 16 I lived very close to the joint met line to Amersham / Aylesbury and went to college and subsequently lived in High Wycombe which was GC proper. It was a grand idea and a Huge shame that BR ( Beeching / Marples) decided to truncate what would have been a vital route for passengers and freight. Anyway many thanks to NWPexploring for posting this sad but significant event.

@NWP_EXPLORING 7 ай бұрын

Thank you. As they say nothing lasts forever, and i’m glad I had the opportunity to record this event in history.

@andrewbrown6786 6 ай бұрын

Not necessarily, the higher the line speed, the greater the clearance needed for trains to pass and from nearest running line to boundary fence.

@mikehindson-evans159 7 ай бұрын

Gone, but recorded for posterity as the extra capacity of our new Spine Railway continues to be developed. Thanks for the video. And thanks for tagging #hs2 in the titles. Nicely-chosen music - kudos!

@NWP_EXPLORING 7 ай бұрын

Thank you . Much appreciated

@landhopper4296 7 ай бұрын

I’m glad I went to see it before it was destroyed. About 125 years of history gone. I always found the station and the truncated track beyond to be poignant, a terrible waste, but for a time we fell out of love with our railways so cutbacks were inevitable. I find this sad from the 1960’s onwards but if EWR and HS2 are completed at least something will be in place. Progress. I doubt the Victorians would have shed a tear. Except for the men who actually toiled to build that bridge so beautifully.

@NWP_EXPLORING 7 ай бұрын

Very true words ! Thanks for your support

@mobilephil244 7 ай бұрын

We didn't "fall out of love", we were pushed out by the newly emerging and wealthy road-transport lobby which had ministers in its pockets.

@michelle47 7 ай бұрын

Corruption then in government as it is now. So many lines and stations needlessly closed down that with the rise in population would have been profitable. Beeching and Marples 2 of the worst criminals of the last century 😢

@levelcrossing150 7 ай бұрын

Many years ago the men that grafted and built that bridge would have stood back, proud on what they had created. Today they will have patted themselves on the back on how quick they brought the whole lot down. RIP lovely old bridge.

@cargy930 7 ай бұрын

I know it's only an old bridge, but it still brought a lump to my throat to see it gone. Don't even get me started on the Station Master's house...

@johnlarkin2980 7 ай бұрын

Personally I find HS2 a fascinating project. I remember the old Great Central and personally I travelled on it. But rail technology has moved on from 1898. If you want a high speed railway, then you build from scratch. Using the corpse of the old central railway was never an option.

@tmb8807 7 ай бұрын

It's true. Resurrecting the GCML would not have fulfilled the brief of HS2, and would have been even more expensive to achieve. I think the point a lot of people make is more one of simple resignation, i.e. that the context in which HS2 can be justified may well have been different if the GCML had been maintained as a viable route in the intervening decades. Although I must admit there is a heavy dose of sentimentality as well - in many places still being able to see the abandoned remnants of something that was engineered to such a high standard (for the era) but was dismantled after such a (relatively) short period of time, regardless of whether it could ever have fully economically justified its existence, does evoke a sense of wastefulness.

@rochellehewston9367 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. I loved the picture of the station in operation at the beginning. So sad but it sadly couldn’t be kept with the modern designs for railways

@grahamhall8249 7 ай бұрын

Last time I looked over this bridge, the landfill site was in full operation. Now we know why it shut!

@chairmakerPete 7 ай бұрын

Funeral for a friend 😒 We must move on I guess, but what's replacing it is a daft project, and we've just seen something smashed up that could simply have been reinstated at very low cost, reversing an error of the 1960s instead of compounding it with another one 60 years later 🤦🏻‍♂ Thank you for recording this sad demise of the site, and especially for the terrific shots of the old station at the start.

@DesigntowinLew 7 ай бұрын

Sad day !!!!! Amazed they didn't utilise the track bed to link the Aylesbury line to the Bletchley / Bicester EWR line or do they still plan to do that ?

@NWP_EXPLORING 7 ай бұрын

As far as I know, there’s going to be a massive depot with a link onto EWR

@DesigntowinLew 7 ай бұрын

@@NWP_EXPLORING Aah ok !

@markwilliams1735 7 ай бұрын

Passive provision will be put in place to re-connect the Aylesbury to Calvert Line to the EW line but this won't happen until the funding is available. The line from Quainton Road to Calvert will be relinked to the waste site at Calvert just to the south of EW Rail.

@DesigntowinLew 7 ай бұрын

@@markwilliams1735 thank you for info

@mikehindson-evans159 7 ай бұрын

@@NWP_EXPLORING If it helps... The IMD at the EXR/HS2 meeting point will have access to both HS2 northbound and EWR eastbound. Another drone-driver has recently overflown that part of the routes. Track is on its way along EWR.