Thanks. Most enjoyable. I was born and lived in Ross, lived in Symonds Yat, had a girlfriend in Monmouth. I also worked in Monmouth and at the Lydbrook site mentioned.

In spite of the poor picture quality in places this is a fascinating and we'll constructed documentary piece. Thank you. The line did indeed run through some beautiful countryside.

Its hart 💔 breaking watching this video knowing its all gone must of been amazing travelling on the trains all that lovely countryside 👍

Thank you for posting this oh so nostalgic film. Being born in the late 40's I just missed so much in terms of the wonderful railway system as it once existed. Another world..... sadly gone.

Surely the Monmouth to Chepstow line must have been one of the most scenic train routes in the UK? I was born in the mid 1970's so walking the overgrown track bed is the nearest I will ever get to experiencing what it must have been like !

Very interesting collection of this much loved and missed line.

@ 37-20 very honest assessment....''we did not pick up any passengers all the way down and all the way back, none at all''. Train crews and station staff would have seen with their own eyes that railway branch lines had become obsolete as there were so few passengers. Most branch lines should never have been built in the first place, there was little or no demand. More and more people using buses in the 30's and cars in the 50's sounded the death knell for railways. These newer travel systems were quicker and more direct.

Remember travelling the line as a child from Ross to Lydbrook quite regularly to meet my dad from work at the cable works. A lovely line. Shame that they couldn't salvage it. I think that a group tried but failed, thanks to BR. They had to maintain the bridges and tunnels etc.

Closed 60 yrs ago this month. Let's hope it is not too long before part or all is rebuilt. In '77 my wife and I walked along a track bed next to the river near Beddgellert in Wales. We had no idea that in our lifetime it would all be restored.

I remember seeing the track bed being taken up near the Leys bend stretch - sad

It would be nice to ba able to have access to the original celluloid.Some of this is from VHS which is really not a good medium.

3rd Gloucester (St Mary De Lode) scouts went to Symond's Yat by train from Gloucester to camp for a week back in 1955 or 56!

"The 12 1/2 miles of scenic track between Ross and Monmouth were ripped up". How much money would a scenic track, like that make, as a heritage Railway nowadays(once Covid-19 has gone, of course)?

Great vedio... are there still persons trying to revive the railway route?

Puffing Billy in the Dandenong Ranges of Melbourne is a very successful tourist attraction brought back to life after many years, similar to the line that went through Tintern. Look up on You Tube. Michael Hayward.

Unfortunately, the place indicated on the map @ 04:15 as 'Monmouth' is Chepstow

Annoying no footage of the Kerne bridge crossing and subsequent run along the river to the tunnel. It was an adventure just trying to walk it.

There's a Wye River in Tasmania. ~

Background music is from Elgar's Cello Concerto !

That's my Dad on the left 👍

Should the south wales metro be successful, we are decades away from this line reopening. See you in 2065 👍🙂

When you look at the billions of pounds being wasted on HS2 where is the profitability in that?