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tread carefully Ashton we need you

Excellent work keep them coming, stay safe 🤔watch your footing.

keep up the good work

Nice seeing you and wet dog again exploring our industrial past when we were great! Keep up the good work boys.

Be careful Aston it looks slippery poor you 🎉🎉😢😮😂

The old station building on the opposite side from Station House, is still complete. You need to go into the small industrial estate, called New Lodge Foundry. There are more modern industrial buildings, but you can clearly see the Station building made out of stone. Its now a powder coating buisness. If you went onto New Lodge Foundry, youd easily see it. Im sure the guys would let you have a look around.

Im so glad you have done this area as its always had my interest, i would love to see the old Crossley mill tunnel and slope dug back out again.

The "Stones" on the large scale plans are a line of marker stones to show the line of the north edge of the tunnel underneath. Presumably they didn't want either excessive loading or digging above the tunnel arch.

Often wondered why the little cafe at the bottom of Clifton Common was called "Pickle Bridge" now I know it was to do with the name of the railway line. Sadly it has closed down now but they had some great pictures inside of the bridge that stood just by the cafe.

Always wondered about this building so it was a nice video to see and learn about it. Thank you and fantastically out together.

Thanks so much ashton 😮😮

Ive walked past ovenden station so many times and didnt realise how much is left in the debris. They should preserve the station before it fall to bits

Enjoyed that mate.... well done.... Glad people were helpful.... keep doing the cracking fading in picture features cheers

That arch/hole in the wall by the road with pipes and a valve looks like it might have been space for an outside toilet maybe

Overden station used to be a scrap yard in the 80’s to the late 90’s, I spent many a day there pulling bits out of cars with may farther and then we paid for them in the old station house, Also used to explore the area with my friends, I now live up the road from the station in one of the Victorian houses that were built for the mill workers.

That railway van body is a standard 12ton ventilated body,probably for carrying fruit or general freight goods.The frame was angle iron with ply wood sides and doors

Great series of videos

Great footage. I grew up around here and its fascinating to watch.

one manc did this 3 years ago.

Incredible video!!! Always wanted to no how the station building looked inside

you certainly are uncovering some gems Ashton

I always really enjoy your videos. Thank you for all you great work.

As always an excellent history lesson with some great accurate research, good footage 👏👏👍

Thanks again

Lived on Nettleton Road growing up and played on the track just off Jagger Lane for years, it looks like it has been built up a fair bit now and you could get under the bridge it was a fair way down to the bottom.

Brilliant footage pal👍 love the old map pictures great channel keep safe mate looking forward to your next adventure 👍👍👍👍

It was never intended to be filled in, but due to the council's mess up with the road design and the inadvertent realignment of the road, it now became too close to the tunnel roof to be thought safe. So it was decided to fill in the southern end with a very weak sand/cement mixture, first tipped and bulldozed in, then near the top and not enough headroom for the bulldozer, it was blown in.

Well done mate .. keep the content coming !!! goodman

Good video 👍🏻 , luckily managed to take mi lad on the heritage railway on their xmas express they used to do , was brilliant for the kids … but someone was very eager to rip all the lines out asap after covid making it almost impossible to it ever coming back , as you saw nothing has been done since , pure sacrilige

Great video mate! I was in the other end recently, but I've always assumed this end was flooded, and it looked too boggy to even risk climbing down!

another great vid boys

I was the engineer overseeing the filling of the sout end of the tunnel during the A629 improvements. This was necessary due to a colossal mistake of the council engineering department in try to design the road improvements "on the cheap" rather than employ a professional consultant, as used on the A58 ring road. It cost the rate payers untold extra costs on this and other consequences of this penny pinching exercise.

The air shafts were called the pepperpots. Belongs to the scouts on Mapperly plains. Pepperpot scouts next to Arnold Lane.

I used to play in this tunnel when i was 10 years old back in the 80's. There was a rope swing nearby and we called it pit swing. Great times

great vid Ashton

Great video Ashley. I would have thought the stone building with metal case on top was a water tower.

Nice little explore, the viaducts are great, nice day for a walk too.

What a lovely old train line , amazing history and engineering 👳🏿👳👳🏿 . I should take a walk along when springtime arrives . It looks like nature will thrive there .

Ashton this became a route on Train Sim World 3 last year Peak Forest route.

It's good those old mills are being used for something. Very interesting.

I was living in Wyke when the end was bricked for a second time (I think) previously it was just left open at the far end and I think over the years some of the masonry had fallen off as it was evidently at the bottom. (assuming this wasn't left over from the demolition). I remember the huge black sleepers and barbed wire that blocked off the viaduct with the red and white "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted" sign on it.

Enjoyed that mate. Im the lad you met outside the boxing gym, who was inspecting the old culvert. Im guessing where we were stood, where my van was parked, was the old track bed of this line? Either way i enjoyed it. I have recently done an inspection of the culverted river that runs beneath the North Bridge and Sainsbury's. Shame i hadnt met you before, you could have come and had a look at that one.

Top video that buddy... Great mixing old and new.... gives you alot more understanding of the area.. well done Sir !! Keep the content coming

there is another fully filled in tunnel on the line the Royal Geroge tunnel where layby is near the pub of the same name Royal Geroge

Another great video mate and some goood relics still lurking ,your picture fades are getting better by each video crack on

Great content as always . Walked this line yesterday from the meadowhall end with a view of completing it all . There is an old steelworks with a very distinctive footbridge still there about a mile up from meadowhall. Any history on this would be greatly appreciated . Again , keep up the good work !

The north end of lee bank tunnel is still there, it is fully bricked up. I visited it a few years back you can get to it from old lane by going down next to the rail bridge, it is very hard to get to due to the foliage and trees but when the porthole suddenly appears through the trees is worth the struggle getting to it

Well done Ashton.🙂👍

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