East West Rail: Past, Present, Future?

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- megastrangeworld
- throughapseyes

00:00 - Introduction
02:39 - Drone footage
04:33 - Around Trumpington
05:07 - Drone footage
05:52 - Telescopes on the tracks!
06:17 - Lord's Bridge
08:06 - Drone footage
08:40 - South of Comberton
09:09 - Drone footage
09:49 - Remains and relics
11:09 - Drone footage
11:35 - Old North Road
13:05 - Drone footage
13:55 - Gamlingay
15:03 - Potton
17:05 - Sandy
19:29 - Girtford Halt
20:28 - Blunham
21:24 - Willington
23:14 - Bedford St. John's
24:23 - Along the Marston Vale Line
27:00 - Bletchley
27:47 - Driver's Eye View
28:22 - Drone footage
28:41 - Old & New
30:20 - Swanbourne
31:16 - Drone footage
31:40 - Winslow
33:16 - Verney Junction
34:58 - Claydon
35:59 - HS2 meets EWR
37:00 - Marsh Gibbon & Pounden
37:27 - Drone footage
37:57 - Launton
38:46 - Drone footage
39:37 - Bicester
40:43 - All Halts to Islip
42:12 - Islip
43:15 - Oxford Road Halt
43:51 - All Halts to Oxford
45:06 - Rewley Road Swingbridge
45:23 - Oxford Rewley Road
46:31 - Why did the line close?
47:08 - The Future?
49:32 - Coda

CORRECTIONS
- After departing Gamlingay, trains did not cross the road on the level, but actually passed beneath a road bridge.
- Ermine Street, like Watling Street, and others, were Anglo-Saxon names given to Roman roads. We don't know the Roman names.