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FORGOTTEN TRAIN GRAVEYARDS GEMS HIDDEN ACROSS THE UK
WITH PIX AND VID
By Shuk Yee Tsang
Check out this eerie footage of a train graveyard tucked away with rusting locomotives lie abandoned and swallowed by nature.
The haunting sites was explored by Tokyo Scott, a 21-year-old Urban explorer Sheffield, UK, explored hidden train graveyards and the Scottish Highlands and Somerset, UK.
Known online as Tokyo Matilda, she recently documented the decaying train station and surrounding ironworks, revealing rows of derelict engines slowly being reclaimed by moss, heather, and rust.
Tokyo who started exploring since she was 14, says she has a personal connection to vehicle explorations.
She inspired by her car-loving family including her dad, brother, and grandfather and was shocked to find so many relics left behind.
The mist-shrouded site, with its shattered windows, collapsing chimneys, and rotting train cars, offers an atmospheric window into the past and the fading echoes of industrial life.
Over the years, she estimates she’s come across over 10,000 abandoned vehicles with a collective value well over £1 million.
Tokyo said: "Over one million for sure, trains are worth a lot!
“The abandoned train station stands silent in the misty Highlands, its weathered timbers and rusting tracks slowly vanishing beneath creeping moss and heather.
“It was crazy how long they had been left there, that’s what surprised me the most.
“How they could be dumped and left to rot with no one interested in them.
“When we found the freight train, I love trainspotting and trains so it was a dream come true.
“Some people think trespass shouldn’t be allowed, but others appreciate that I’m showcasing abandoned places that will never see the light of day otherwise.”
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00:00join us today in the scottish highlands to explore an abandoned train museum and heritage ironworks
00:09once bustling with visitors it now lays derelict and left a rot since 2022
00:16an adventure like no other come and explore it with us
00:30I'm gonna send the drone so I'm gonna send the drone down now get it really close as close to
00:38the carriage as I possibly can so you can see inside you can have a look at the outside
00:41as you've literally just seen from the drone footage there is so many trains there's more
00:52than that but my like drone physically cannot reach with the signal it is too far down the
00:57tracks and it has confirmed that 100% of them tracks are abandoned because if you looked at
01:01the start with all the grass grating trees 100% a train ain't getting through there and hasn't
01:07done a very long time and there's also no switch panels and there's also no physical train station
01:12either a bit of a drop down though we might as well walk back around and this was the little
01:17ticket booth where people come in and pay that's bando as well back now this is bando but we'll
01:25give it a shot there are nothing more I would love to do than a railway museum trains are
01:29like my most favorite thing to do let's have a little movie right so this was the old ticket
01:36office that is just such a show now that is just a show it feels very just feel very apocalyptic
01:47i love the s this idea is clear and if we want to do something like that it's huge this place
01:56this is the abandoned train graveyard home to dozens of locomotives the oldest one here retired
02:03in 1932 once vital to the working industry and travel these trains now sit abandoned solely
02:11succumbing to rust and decay each engineer tells a story of a bygone era of steam and steel come and explore it with us
02:26this is the first train we've actually walked up to and this one's just kind of discarded but this is how bizarre
02:35i'm sure a lot of train fanatics out there will understand what absolutely amazing it is to walk up next to this
02:45look at the old style wheels i don't i'm not entirely sure what brand of train this was because it appears it took the name plates off
02:55or someone's oh british made 1949 so we've got a date 1949
03:02and these is what i will show you in a minute there was a turntable
03:09these are actually on the turntable doesn't work anymore
03:12back up in there
03:15these are so like compare the wheels to me
03:20they are so big they are again the old style of train running
03:25coal power steam
03:29you didn't really have a lot of faults with these that is boarded up so i don't think we can get inside of that
03:36i'll come around the actual side front bit if i can it's very very overgrown
03:43i love how vibrant trains are though the different colours like green red they're always prominent bright
03:51they're not really like so cool but we want the actual date some of them don't have the dates on they don't even have a name
03:59they're trying to pinpoint them an incredibly difficult oh wow it's actually i'm kind of glad we came to this other side now
04:06we can see what's in here
04:08lots and lots of debris
04:12oh wow
04:14that old school control panel
04:16again i don't even really know if you can stand in here
04:20at all
04:22but that's what the old pressure clock pressure levels clock as well
04:28i think they are just oh london there we go
04:32domestic fuels i think that says mining mining haulage domestic fuels so that's what this would have held
04:42what a group company what a group oh look at the roof there's a lot of mould and damp in these
04:49old school storage let's have a look at the floor
04:53i know what the floor doesn't look too bad
04:57i've chanced it
04:59i don't know why
05:01i mean it doesn't feel a hundred percenter
05:05it doesn't feel a hundred percent but i think i'm just going to stay at this bit
05:09so this would have held
05:14this would have been on the road and this would have held anything they needed so especially with this
05:18being a 1932 this possibly would have held rations first aid any actual medical devices they need any
05:26equipment if there's any faultations with the actual train wow that's burnt
05:34it's really incredibly burnt and look at the paint peel this has not been painted in
05:39numerous numerous lots of years
05:44i love the paint here in these kind of places again reminds me of an old western but this one
05:50would definitely have been on the train line during world war ii transporting goods and helping out the country
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