@@WobblyRunner Tut Tut , Paul. I told you it used to have a JCB on the top when we were sat at the Pub having a rest.......must have been that half pint !
Great video thanks. I stumbled across your channel when staying on holiday in Fritchley and investigating the tunnel there. You’ve answered all the questions I had about the bridge buttresses we kept passing!
A really nice walk with one hell of a cutting!!! Good spot for the old bit of rail, it's always nice when you come across something like that. I bet when those cars were parked that morning by the bridge in the car park, they didn't realise they were on the site of an old railway.
Great area I regularly walk around this area I remember the bridge of the road but I’ve never been up there often thought about it though and great to see the bit behind the excavator pub 👍
This line obviously was of some importance when the coal industry was thriving, and had many collieries in the area. It was obviously meant to connect the main line at Ambergate, with the Erewash Valley one at Pye Bridge, with some branches in between. Nice to see some remains of stone bridges in this video. Many thanks, Phil.
My dad as a Toton fireman on steam loco's from 1948 used to work from Toton to Rowsley with coal trains for the Manchester area and further afield. over the branch through Buckland Hollow then via Ambergate north curve towards Rowsley
What steviez110 is talking about, I can verify. When I was on the railway at Buxton, we had an ex-Rowsley fireman who told me that they worked over that branch from Ambergate to Pye Bridge with coal traffic..
The Balls family sold the pub but retained ownership of the little excavator and take it to shows and steam rallies. Along with their excavators and they do a JCB display of dancing diggers similar to what the JCB manufactures do!
The only realistic extension that the MRC could undertake is a small section fron the Headshunt at Riddings Junction, round the triangle along the main line into the former Midland Railway Pye Bridge station which would make a usefull Terminus accssesible from M1 J27. Hard to imagine it though. As for the Western end......as Paul says, and in stronger wording - no chance !
The (former) bridge at the end of this video was removed, as you say, only 3 or 4 years ago because it was regularly being hit by lorries and causing massive tail backs as a result. I understand it was actually a listed structure which was why it lasted so long. Sadly, it was decided it had to go because it was always the bridge to blame, never the lorry drivers!
Thanks. Very interesting. I feel I should know this as it is so local but didn't!! Could have been a useful link between the two existing lines, but then there wouldn't have been The Midland Railway Centre, in its current location anyway.
Never took much interest in the railway lines but I remember walking down to the Gate Inn Lower Hartsey and getting onto the Cromford canal towpath and walking all the way to Cromford meadows, Over the Aqueduct over the road and the various swing bridges across the canal now all gone i would imagine.
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Im working my way through your videos Paul there is so many im spoilt for choice. Enjoyed this beautiful scenery on a gorgeous day. ❤😊
Great stuff 👍🙂.
That was a great day. Lovely spring weather. A lovely part of the world
@@WobblyRunner 🥰👍
I saw a telegraph pole tensioner on the Mineral Railway line in Marehay but I didn’t know what it was until i saw this video! Thanks mate!
👍😄 you'll be seeing them everywhere now.
The excavator pub so named as it used to have a JCB digger on its roof !
👍 didn't know that
Interesting. That's a step up from Fitapart at Staveley having half a Ford Escort on it's roof
@@WobblyRunner Tut Tut , Paul. I told you it used to have a JCB on the top when we were sat at the Pub having a rest.......must have been that half pint !
@@gilesestram 😄 memory like a seive
another great video, seeing things in your video I've passed so many times on the roads and never seen many thanks
You're welcome gaz 👍
Great video thanks. I stumbled across your channel when staying on holiday in Fritchley and investigating the tunnel there. You’ve answered all the questions I had about the bridge buttresses we kept passing!
Cheers Nigel. Hope you had a good holiday.
Incidentally, my next video includes the Fritchley tunnel and tramway.
That’s the one I’m really waiting for!
A really nice walk with one hell of a cutting!!! Good spot for the old bit of rail, it's always nice when you come across something like that. I bet when those cars were parked that morning by the bridge in the car park, they didn't realise they were on the site of an old railway.
Fantastic!!!
You're right. I bet they think it's just an old bridge. Well absorbed into the landscape now.
Great area I regularly walk around this area I remember the bridge of the road but I’ve never been up there often thought about it though and great to see the bit behind the excavator pub 👍
Such a pretty area isn't it 👍
This line obviously was of some importance when the coal industry was thriving, and had many collieries in the area. It was obviously meant to connect the main line at Ambergate, with the Erewash Valley one at Pye Bridge, with some branches in between. Nice to see some remains of stone bridges in this video. Many thanks, Phil.
Bingo. Nicely summed up 👍🙂
My dad as a Toton fireman on steam loco's from 1948 used to work from Toton to Rowsley with coal trains for the Manchester area and further afield. over the branch through Buckland Hollow then via Ambergate north curve towards Rowsley
@@steviez110 👍 excellent. I forgot about the North curve so trains could go through to Manchester and monsal railway
What steviez110 is talking about, I can verify. When I was on the railway at Buxton, we had an ex-Rowsley fireman who told me that they worked over that branch from Ambergate to Pye Bridge with coal traffic..
There used to be a JCB 3C on the flat roof of the Excavator pub, but 'wiser heads' prevailed and it was removed.
Cheers Suzy 👍
The Balls family sold the pub but retained ownership of the little excavator and take it to shows and steam rallies. Along with their excavators and they do a JCB display of dancing diggers similar to what the JCB manufactures do!
That's an interesting bit of disused railway, I wonder if the Midland Railway Centre have plans to extend their line from Hammersmith
Cheers Craig.
I think the a38 and a610 have ruled that out. Pretty much severed the line and encroached on the trackbed.
The only realistic extension that the MRC could undertake is a small section fron the Headshunt at Riddings Junction, round the triangle along the main line into the former Midland Railway Pye Bridge station which would make a usefull Terminus accssesible from M1 J27. Hard to imagine it though. As for the Western end......as Paul says, and in stronger wording - no chance !
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Hi and welcome.
Greetings to India👍
The (former) bridge at the end of this video was removed, as you say, only 3 or 4 years ago because it was regularly being hit by lorries and causing massive tail backs as a result. I understand it was actually a listed structure which was why it lasted so long. Sadly, it was decided it had to go because it was always the bridge to blame, never the lorry drivers!
Cheers Chris. Always the way.
I've had a few train journeys interrupted due to other bridge strikes over the years.
Thanks. Very interesting.
I feel I should know this as it is so local but didn't!!
Could have been a useful link between the two existing lines, but then there wouldn't have been The Midland Railway Centre, in its current location anyway.
👍. I thought the same. Ideal for diversions between Derby and Chesterfield onto the Erewash and over to the Robin Hood line.
Never took much interest in the railway lines but I remember walking down to the Gate Inn Lower Hartsey and getting onto the Cromford canal towpath and walking all the way to Cromford meadows, Over the Aqueduct over the road and the various swing bridges across the canal now all gone i would imagine.
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Some of the swing bridge are still there up near aquaduct.
Sadly I am getting old and cannot walk as far as I would like to. Happy that you chaps are putting footage on RUclips!@@WobblyRunner
Glad you enjoy them. I am planning and getting back up the Cromford Canal and even cover the Leawood abandoned arm too