Could this be the next Canal Restoration? The Cromford Canal and The Abandoned Railways
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Could this be the next Canal Restoration?
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The Cromford Canal and the Disused Railways
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Join me as i follow the Cromford Canal in search of lost history and old abandoned disused railways along the route.
In this video i complete my journey along the section from Codnor Park Reservoir / Jacksdale to Langley Mill.
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Railway images of the derailment taken by John Moss.
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Hi, Im one of the cromford work party volunteers and I would like to answer your questions regards to the langly mill end. The deep excavation with the brickwork in is infact a flood mitagation scheme as we are having to compensate for the flood plane that will be lost when we build a new embankment for the new locks. The bricks you can see with the flag stones are the old lock. You can see the straight edge of the lock on one side and the remains of the buttresses sticking out to the other. We have also spent the last few weeks working along the end of the canal by the boatyard, clearing it for survey work with the aim to start ceating the chanel as far as the new locks. Thanks for the great videos your makinging along the cromford.
Great to see the restoration of the Cromford canal has been started,
What are the plans for Butterly tunnel and the reservoir at Ambergate ?
@@darrenfranklin3569 As far as Im aware, It would cost far too much to restore Butterly tunnel but never say never as we have found a soloutin to the A610 problem. I have no idea about any plans for the resevoir at Ambergate as of yet however it would be nice to be able to get the trip boat as far as Ambergate. The volunteers have quite a lot of work just to maintain the areas we do manage throughout the year as well as the restoration projects underway so we would always welcome anyone to lend a hand or spread the word. :)
@@neilcuthbertson72 thank you, when I'm home next I will have to have a look at the progress.
@@darrenfranklin3569 Yes feel free to pop down. The site is a bit boggy at the min but we should be continuing as soon as it dries out a little. It should change quite a bit this year so maybe another video later in the year would be good.
Hi mate, I am an angler are they putting fish back in the canal when they have restored it.
Hi Ant, the 'beautiful building' you refer to near the pottery lock belongs to my partner and his dad. They've owned the property for a number of years, once running a canal boat building business from there. It's full of history! The cast iron sign on the side of the building was found in a nearby garden by a local resident who asked if it could be put in a prominent place as a tribute to the codnor park pottery, hence where it is. Another brilliant video, thank you 👍🏻😁.
Hi Ant I started watching you from the beginning when you went exploring with your family and may I congratulate you on how you have developed your channel and how professional it looks now compared to when you first started( which was good anyway) I can’t believe you’ve nearly hit the 500 mark and that you’ve been doing this for 5 years doesn’t time fly. Well done mate and keep up the good work 👏👏👏👍
That was quite a complicated one with the railway, road, ex railway, canal, river and tramway all involved but you managed to make it make sense. Well done again.
You do a fantastic job of not just filming, but explain what was there in the past thanks again
Hi Ant, Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these video's. I enjoy everything that you uncover about the history of our country, it is so very sad that so much has been abandoned. Have a great Christmas and new year...
Another excellent explore. Really hope this canal is brought back in to use, and glancing at comments, it seems to be a work in progress. Thank you for your very enjoyable films. A very happy New Year to you!
Before watching the rest of your excellent vid, I've got to state that the mapping @ 1:00 in is very legible, explanatory and clear.
I've just finished watching in entirety. Wow...I'm sure others have commented on the superb quality of production. For me? I'm deeply moved. Seriously, as a child emigrant from the UK, this really tugs at the soul.
Thank You.
Great video Ant. my father was the signal man in the signal box at the sidings near Codnor Park in the sixties. That area was my stomping ground as a youngster.
Another wonderful video. Thank you for reminding me of my old stomping ground and lovely dog walks before I moved to the Scottish Highlands . I bet you went to KFC opposite the Canal road bridge afterwards for coffee and and a Chicken Burger 😁👍 I always look forward to your next one.
at the end of each clip I really appreciate the atmospheric photograpic pictures & music 🙂
Another cracking video! Thanks so much, Ant - I loved the little bird carving in the stonework. Now have a marvellous Christmas - you've earned it!
Great video again Ant!
Have a great Christmas and New Year.👍🙂
Thanks Ian you too 🙂
Another interesting and informative video. Lots of history and can see all the hard work of restoration being done. Thank you Ant. Brill viewing.
Thanks
Very kind thank you ☺️
Thanks for another very interesting video. Seasons Greetings.
Thanks Malcolm you too
Great vid Ant again, I remember fishing in locks bottom of stoney Lane when I was 12 also cycling all the way from Langley Mill to Codnor Park brought back good memories, silly politicians destroying our infrastructure during the 60s so short sited .
A great year, Ant, and I've thoroughly enjoyed every video. Happy New Year, and I'm looking forward to seeing your videos in 2025.
Christmas just gets better Ant ... I know this will be great!
Very kind thank you ☺️
Great video Ant, love watching stuff that's around the Erewash valley line as gives me something to look for when I'm on the tesco train.
Never ceases to amaze me the amount ofvold pictures you find. That derailment looks like BSC corby tipples wagons.
Have a great Christmas and thanks for all your videos this year
Cheers Russ
Another little gem, thanks Ant. Hope you're giving those legs a couple of days off over the festive period - no, course you're not!!!🤣🤣 Have a good Christmas, see you the other side, all the best👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for this great video, Ant 👍🏼😃
Fabulous video thanks Ant. Would be lovely it canal was cleaned out. Fantastic look around, loved it. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care. Merry Christmas 🎄
Great video Ant, have a good Christmas!
Very kind thank you, you too
Fascinating lost industrial landscape. Great video as usual, Ant. Thanks for rhat and happy Christmas!
Another great video Ant. Lovely bit of history thrown in as always 👍👍👍
Great video as always. Merry Christmas to you and the family.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thanks for a year of superb videos
Thanks for all your videos this year, they always give me pangs of nostalgia 👍 … Have a very merry and peaceful Christmas 🧑🎄🥳🍻
How depressing is it, Ant, to see all the shadows of lost history? ❤
another amazing video ,btw that wall is the 1 wall of the canal the stone is the canal edge and the red brick is the earth side
Nice one Ant. Happy Christmas
You too Angela thank you
Ant, the government should create a post just for you! “The minister for industrial industry and history” in woke and full of interesting facts and features just as it should be. Could watch these kinda things all day. Very well researched 👍👏👏👏👏👏
Wonderful stuff, thanks and Merry Christmas Ant.
Great video
Thanks for watching 😊
hope to see more of this Ant
Excellent ant
Thank you 😊
Merry Christmas xx
You too 🧡
Interesting clip of the Freight train Derailment, British Steel owned Coal Wagons probably on their way to Corby
Go back to take a look at the remains of the dry dock at lock no 6. My first work party with the Friends of Cromford Canal was spent clearing it out in 2008. It looks like nature is taking it over again now though.
It's a drainage channel at the restoration works are be great seeing it come to life again
It will I'll pop back again later next year
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The guard on the derailed freight was Jimmy Smith a Toton guard. The wagons are the private owner Stewarts and Lloyds wagons possibly going to Clipstone or Rufford. Apparently Jimmy ended up in the canal. Or so I was told when I worked the same jobs as Jimmy.
I give tip. The dove cannel is still present most the way from watch Rotherham it then drops in to lower Barnsley were the two arms to Wakfield and Cawthorn are still present in most of the line at manvers. In Rotherham there buttfull stones bridge between two houses estate. On the dove arm. Then there the junction up to wentworth wood house or Worsbrough basin. Which have great significance with the 5 rise lock at Tesco Stairfoot Barnsley in the trees
That could be the remains of Marshall's Lock that has been exposed, with the brick and stonework showing.
According to the Midland Railway Route Diagrams 13D, the Midland Railway ended about where the canal was (i.e. near where you were standing), and the remainder of the line was part of the extensive Barber Walker system to Brinsley (and beyond)! The Barber Walker system featured in at least one of the D H Lawrence stories.
I forgot to say before, but if you had followed the 'Narrow Lane' off the Coach Road, which is signposted to the Midland Railway Centre, and carried on the footpath past the row of cottages, this used to be a tramway down to where the caravan park is today. It is a while since I have been up there, but there used to be some rail still embedded in the road near the cottages.
The first and third photos of the train derailment has a handrail along the bridge which the other one doesn't. Probably a safety barrier to prevent the recovery team falling off.
There used to be an exotic pet shop in Codnor where I got my tarantulas. Long gone sadly
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Wow, to think all this infrastructure was created without CAD! It's so sad that the canals went into such decline, followed by the railways. I wonder how long it will be before we need roads?
I wonder whose initials were next to the robin stone carving?
Very sad to see - a poor state of the Canal & funnel how the Canal has turned into a Stream by the looks of it!!! 😉🤔🚂🚂🚂
Hi, is there any plans of putting fish back in the canal once it’s restored.
Wasn't where the canal disappeared subject to open cast mining during the 60s?
JCB to invent a new Green Hydrogen powered canal dredger...? (Water for fuel...?).
Bring back "Automated(?) Penstock Gates" to regulate water flow in times of flood and drought...?
The stone with the bird carved into it also has the initials of “C.C. & C.P.R.”. Would this be “Cromford Canal & Codnor Park Railway”?
The bridge in the black and white photograph beyond lock no 2 looks very different from the bridge you then film yourself walking under, despite your claim they are the same.