Alderney train
A short train trip across Alderney in the only train in the Channel Islands.
A mixture of drone and camera video including actual sounds and background music.
Alderney Railway 2019
Alderney railway Drewry hauls former underground stock on the Channel Islands only railway service.
Alderney
Alderney (/ˈɔːldərni/; French: Aurigny [oʁiɲi]; Auregnais: Aoeur'gny) is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide. The area is 3 square miles (7.8 km2), making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick. It is around 10 miles (16 km) to the west of La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, in France, 20 miles (32 km) to the north-east of Guernsey and 60 miles (97 km) from the south coast of Great Britain. It is the closest of the Channel Islands to both France and the United Kingdom. It is separated from Cap de la Hague by the dangerous Alderney Race (French: Raz Blanchard).
As of April 2013, the island has a population of 1,903 people and they are traditionally nicknamed vaques after the cows, or else lapins after the many rabbits seen in the island. Formally, they are known as Ridunians, from the Latin Riduna.
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Alderney Railway Trackside 2016 Braye Road to Mannez Quarry
Trackside footage following the Alderney Railway from its current harbour/beach 'station' up to its depot/terminus at Mannez Quarry. Filming commences about 100 yards/metres from Braye close to the island school, drowned out by a strimmer!
Shots from above the former quarry show the train arriving at its final destination, recently designated 'Mornington Crescent'.
Filming took place over three running days.
The railway was built in the early 1840's to link several quarries to the harbour, stone being crushed for export, or used for protection of the island's 3 quarter mile long breakwater.
The locomotive is a Vulcan 'Drewey' 0-4-0 Gardiner engine diesel shunter; named 'Elizabeth' by the work-force when built, after the Newton-Le-Willows factory nurse, Miss Elizabeth Poole. The coaching stock are a pair of 1959 London Underground Northern Line control trailers.
Alderney 2019 (13): Railway (6)
The train leaves Mannez on line 2, with the 15:00 service to Braye Road. Notice the German look out building on the top of the quarry cliff, if that look doesn't give off evil I don't know what does. I carried on filming to show just how quiet the island is, and to listen out for the whistle. Mannez Quarry depot.
Alderney railway.
The Alderney train which runs along Braye beach to the quarry where the lighthouse is situated. The coaches are from the London Underground Railway and the train i am not sure where they got that from. It is a ride of about 15 minutes max. It is run by enthusiasts who maintain it.
Alderney (1) A day in the life
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Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide. The area is 3 square miles (7.8 km2), making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick. It is around 10 miles (16 km) to the west of La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, in France, 20 miles (32 km) to the north-east of Guernsey and 60 miles (97 km) from the south coast of Great Britain. It is the closest of the Channel Islands to both France and the United Kingdom. It is separated from Cap de la Hague by the dangerous Race of Alderney (Le Raz Blanchard).
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Places to see in ( Alderney - UK )
Places to see in ( Alderney - UK )
Alderney is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is 3 miles (5 km) long and 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) wide. The area is 3 square miles (8 km2), making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick. It is around 10 miles (15 km) from the west of La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, in France, 20 miles (30 km) from the north-east of Guernsey and 60 miles (100 km) from the south coast of Great Britain. It is the closest of the Channel Islands to both France and the United Kingdom. It is separated from Cap de la Hague by the dangerous Alderney Race (French: Raz Blanchard).
As of April 2013, the island had a population of 1,903; natives are traditionally nicknamed vaques after the cows, or else lapins after the many rabbits seen in the island. Formally, they are known as Ridunians, from the Latin Riduna. The only parish of Alderney is the parish of St Anne, which covers the whole island.
The main town, St Anne, historically known as La Ville (The Town), is often referred to as St Anne's by visitors and incomers, but rarely by locals (who, in normal conversation, still most frequently refer to the area centred on Victoria Street simply as Town). The town's High Street, which formerly had a small handful of shops, is now almost entirely residential, forming a T-junction with Victoria St at its highest point. The town area features an imposing church and an unevenly cobbled main street: Victoria Street (Rue Grosnez – the English name being adopted on the visit of Queen Victoria in 1854). There are a primary school, a secondary school, a post office, and hotels, as well as restaurants, banks and shops. Other settlements include Braye, Crabby, Longis, Mannez, La Banquage and Newtown.
Alderney shares its prehistory with the other islands in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, becoming an island in the Neolithic period as the waters of the Channel rose. Formerly rich in dolmens, like the other Channel Islands, Alderney with its heritage of megaliths has suffered through the large-scale military constructions of the 19th century and also by the Germans during the World War II occupation, who left the remains at Les Pourciaux unrecognisable as dolmens. A cist survives near Fort Tourgis, and Longis Common has remains of an Iron Age site. There are traces of Roman occupation
Alderney is served by Alderney Airport. There are several flights each day from Southampton and Guernsey, with links to many parts of the United Kingdom and Europe. Aurigny serves the island with Dornier Do 228s. Boats sail regularly between the island and France, and to the other Channel Islands. A high-speed passenger ferry is operated in summer by to Diélette in the commune of Flamanville, Manche in France, and to St Peter Port, Guernsey.
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Alderney Breakwater
The 1,430m-long breakwater – part of the new Braye Harbour - was built by engineer Thomas Jackson, who’d previously built railways and canals. It was completed by 1864 but the contract to repair breaches caused by stormy conditions in the Atlantic had to be extended.
Ownership of the breakwater passed from the British government to the Bailiwick of Guernsey in 1987. The Bailiwick (territory) consists of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and some other smaller islands. Bailiwick of Guernsey authorities have spent over £25m repairing breaches to the breakwater since 1987.
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Alderney Evacuation - 23 June 1940
Seventy five years ago today, six small cargo boats evacuated almost the entire population of Alderney and transported them to the safety of the British mainland. Left behind was a handful of islanders who preferred to face an imminent German occupation of their island home rather than leave.
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A trip by fast power boat to a small island off the south west coast of England called
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Testing new M.T.U. engines
Alderney Festival of Performing Arts 2017
Billed as ‘Venice comes to Alderney’, the 5th Alderney Performing Arts Festival took on a whole new dimension this year thanks a team of young artists who bring buildings to life using a combination technology, art, and design.
Alderney 2012
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Alderney Performing Arts Festival
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