ABANDONED UK TRAIN STATION - Stood still in time!!

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[normandunford]

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

[McKlunkers]

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.

[jsmith]

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.

[Sparky-ovot]

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!

[geoffsullivan]

@ 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.

[bobthebinbag]

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

[michaelBoxall-yo]

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

[michaelclarkson]

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.

[John-L-]

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.

[ianrankin]

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 .

[martinwingfield]

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

[railmaster.]

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

[Duranie]

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.

[CHAVIN]

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.

[DeckngUK]

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

[DadgeCity]

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.

[grahamhall]

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

[davidmurray]

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.

[Tullian]

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).

[jayneellen]

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