The Walk - EP 95 - Railway Explore - Upperthorpe & Killamarsh To Spinkhill Tunnel - Derbyshire
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Following on from my walk around the lost railways of Killamarsh in Derbyshire - • The Walk - EP 94 - The... , I continue my stomp on the former Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway.
I pick up where I left off at Upperthorpe & Killamarsh station (that I keep calling Killamarsh and Upperthorpe), and follow the line all the way down to Spinkhill tunnel.
The line closed beyond the tunnel in 1939 but fortunately the section I'm walking remained open until 1984 to serve Westhorpe Colliery, so there are plenty of remains to be found.
Remains of bridges, stations, colliery branches, brickworks, and tunnels, on this stomp.
Plus a lonely colliery siding lamp post, just abandoned in the woods.
Despite the thorn bushes, falls down embankments, and flooded trackbeds, this was a fun stomp!
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Great video Gareth, many thanks for sharing. Jess
Thanks mate.
Awesome video as always and very informative hope you phill n gang well ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Thank you. Out with Phil today. Try and get it up in a day or so!
Awesome 😊
Thank gosh for the boots! Great trek. Looks like the kayak would have been good for the tunnel. And fence post excitement to boot!
Haha.
So glad you made it back ok Gareth , another very interesting look into fairly modern history and what they achieved in those days and how quickly it disappears , thanks very much . Wouldn't it be great if with all our modern technology and earth moving equipment we could clear these old track beds of overgrown trees and lay some hard core / gravel type flat tracks for the general public to walk and enjoy and maybe run "dotto" type trains along them for tourist attractions ? It's not gonna happen though is it . All the best and keep on truckin good buddy .
Dotto trains reminds me of being a kid. Hitching a ride on the back of them on roller blades.
Hello Gareth really good video again I am literally not for from Rother Valley I live in South Sheffield I ones walked round Rother Valley as a kid it nearly killed me lol haha and one more thing you love your ballast lol haha keep up the good work take care peace and love xx
It's lovely up there, mate.
@@IckeWalks I know especially in the summer xx
Nice one Gaz. Very interesting video. I thought the double lamp in the trees bit was good, especially with the photo afterwards. Always fascinates me how nature takes over.
I know mate. Don't think the camera did the boggyness justice though!
@@IckeWalks I could see it was a mare mate
a group of volunteers tried to open that line from Upperthorpe Killamarsh to Junction but could not get people interested. the trank was in down to the junction. I have to walk through the tunnel
I wonder if it would get more support now?
Hi Gareth, my partner, Alan and I have only recently found your 'Walk' series and are playing catch up. They are great items and being in my case Derbyshire born and bred (between Heanor and Belper) and both of us being into local and industrial history, we are really enjoying them.
There is a book you may be interested in, though not about railways, called "Packmen, Carriers and Packhorse Roads" by David Hey, published in the 1990s, which is about the road and trackways used for centuries over the Peak District. It really is amazing how carters would be delivering goods by foot / pony and trap etc over the peak, sometimes in the dark. Unimaginable today!
Loving the walks and hope to see many more. They are inspiring me to get my walking boots on! Best wishes, Louise
Oh that book sounds great. I spent three years in kilburn, so probably not far from your neck of the woods?
You lived very close to us then, we're Horsley Woodhouse. In my view, everywhere has a history, even the most innocuous of places. Next time you go through the village have a look at the history boards I compiled and designed for the parish a few years ago. Hope you enjoy the book. Kind regards Louise
Oh I will do! Horsley had a big history too, with the Roman road and the castle.
This part of the overall length of Roman Ryknield Street as a lot to answer for! If it wasn't for that, there potentially wouldn't have been the settlements (and subsequent industry / castle / churches etc) of Street Lane, Kilburn, Horsley, Woodhouse, Morley ond so on.
Best of luck with the walks. Louise
Thank you. I lived just off that road, on Chapel Street.
@@LouiseHeaton-rr8fp
“I think I might have gotten a little bit too excited by the fence post there.” - lol :-)
It got me.
The bird you hear at 7:58 is a 'Great Tit'. Sounds like a squeaky gate. I hear them on all videos I watch at the moment. One of the first signs of spring, which we are well into now.
I must sing like that bird because I get called that all the time.
I can't see what you said! That street light triffid was amazing. Some great discoveries in this episode.
I wanted to say hello at Ickonic Live but had to leave :(
Oh no, that would have been nice. Another time!
@@IckeWalks absolutely will visit again.
It's amazing all that time money and effort to build these railways and for what ?, it's like pissing on the graves of all the people who helped build the railways