The Shortest Colliery Branchline in Nottinghamshire?
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- The Shortest Colliery Branchline in Nottinghamshire?
Join me as I return to the Nottinghamshire Coalfield as I follow a former colliery branch line railway near the town of Shirebrook in Nottinghamshire.
Warsop Main Colliery closed in 1989 and the connecting railway soon after once the stockpile had all gone.
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00:00 Introduction
02:13 Warsop Colliery Location
05:02 Warsop Cilliery Railway Walk
09:18 Warsop Yard & Sidings
10:34 The route to Shirebrook 
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Started working at warsop at 16. In 1976. I used to drop the wagons off to the washery . We used wooden lockers to locker up thee wagons as they built the speed up into the washeries. You couldn't imagine it this day and age a sixteen year old kid learning how to push a locker into the wheels. I went down the pit at 17 and started my voal face training a week after my 18th birthday. I actually loved this pit . Even after i witnessed watching what i thought was a track /haulage rope inspector checking the road way for the paddy car on the main brights or high hazel seam. I was 17 at the time. I watched this bloke for many minutes until he turned to his right, my left and disapeared into what i thought was a man hole. He had a cap lamp on this is what has always stuck with me. I walked inbye with my mate and i checked every man hole and nothing. Were some 1,500ft down no gates coming off yet there was mo evidence of a miner! I never spoke about this until i was sround 40yrs old. I do remember telling my dad at the time and he reasured me that it was my mind playing tricks upon me due to working early hours. However i never felt scared in anyway about ghost's throughout my whole career even after a workmate died on the deep soft seam. R.I.P. Magsy. 👍🏴
You might know my dad Colin Gosling
@iangosling3694 rings a bell. Was he from Langwith ? It's a long time ago duck, you've deffenately got my grey matter. Sloshing about in this cranium of mine.
great video Ant, still waiting for the Friargate station video!
Hi Ant, really interesting video, looking forward to the continuation. The research and older photos are really appreciated. Thank you.
At the beginning of the video (approx 3.00) you show a piece of track in concrete. This was the track that served the rapid loader bunker and the track went further east towards Church Warsop for about 1/4 mile so the full length of the train could drive all the way through and then return slowly filling up from the bunker. (sorry can't add photo's of this). At approx 5.00 the track across Williamwood Lane was one of two tracks that crossed the lane, the other one one being about 20m towards Warsop Vale. Although no line went to Church Warsop itself, another line that served Welbeck Colliery was built in 1929 by the Midland Railway. This left the Midland just north of Shirebrook Station via a new cutting and ran just north of Church Warsop, through the woods to Welbeck. Bridge abutments of this track are still there and can be seen on Wood Lane at Church Warsop and also one is visible at the top of Cuckney Hill on the A60. From Wood Lane to Shirebrook the track is now a bridle way and from Wood Lane to the A60 the old track line can be seen on Google Earth as a different colour of soil through the fields, from the A60 to Welbeck the track is now under the tip.
Another lovely video. Many thanks for posting.
Ant, thanks for the history lesson. It looks like you had a great day for recording ----"A little rain never hurt."
Thank you for todays video. I am hoping you’re Isle of Wight trip is going well. Take care, and see you through the trip of the Isle of Wight! Cheers Ant! ❤😊
Fantastic as usual Ant. Those bridges were gorgeous. Such lovely countryside too. Look forward to next one. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
Welcome back to my home, Ant. Hope you're enjoying the explores. Thanks for sharing these treks with the world.
I do like the archive pics,. you find to put in. The ones in this one were great. Very enjoyable. All the best.
Perhaps i'm getting a bit sentimental in my old age (I'm 59), but I love seeing the old photos. Where did everyone go? How many are still with us? Do any of them or their families sit and watch your videos Ant? So many questions!!!
Wow it is incredible all the lines that were in that area. At least the High Marnham line is still open like you said Ant
Another great one Ant. I always watch all the way through. I know what tge yt click through is like. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Ant. Fascinating history and images mate, cheers.
A great video about this very busy area at one time. According to the photographs of the colliery, it seems that the employees housing was smack right near the pit. You did a great drone footage of the site as well as the presentation of the locomotive photos. Unbelievable (as usual with collieries in the Notts./Derbys.area), that the places have totally and sadly disappeared, when there should be good use made of coal!!!
Hi Ant, I used to work in Shirebrook in the mid 80's and remember seeing the collieries and the trains back then. It's wonderful how well nature can reclaim those areas again. Thanks for another cracking video!
What a lovely explore and great findings. Filming brilliant. Beautiful walk. These bridges built to last for all time. Thank you Ant.
My dad used to work at warsop main I've been to most places at the warsop pit the coal lorry washer and coal wagon washer I've seen a j97 shutting with a diesel shutter my dad was Colin Gosling
Love seeing the old photos, of how it used to look .
Had a friend some years ago that worked Shirebrook Junction signal box.
Another cracking video Ant, well put together again. Thanks for this, look forward to your next. Chris
I can't get out ,bad hip and foot so it's great to see your posts,always interesting 😃
Very interesting thanks for sharing hope your well xx
Glad you enjoyed it Helen. You too 😊
Been on a railtour along the old Lancs to East Coast railway as far as Tuxford, stopped on the bridge over the A1. Top 'n' tail 56302 at the East end, a Cl.60 on the West end. Also took in a tour of Toton depot and the Staveley works branch on the same tour.
56312 not 56302.
Second thought. It was still a North Derbyshire mine.👍👍
Very interesting, as always. I rode the Robin Hood Line for the first time 3 weeks ago.
Thanks very much Tony. Funny thing I've never rode it from Mansfield to Worksop
Great stuff, Ant
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Very good exploring Ant 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Interesting video with some nice drone footage of new forms of energy supply, replacing a fossil fuel - coal - which kept so many branch lines like this in business. Makes you wonder what the impact of the massive colliery closures of the 1980's and 1990's, has been on the railway industry.
Great vid
Nice 1 ant, what signalbox was hiding in the trees at the junction?
Millions of tons of coal still there but apparently it is cheaper to import from half way around the world lol
Most interesting - as are all your videos! How do you discover all these interesting places?
It's getting more difficult to find places in Nottinghamshire but I occasionally spot the odd one. It's important I do as this is where it all began for me
i always enjoy your videos Ant,thank you
Thank you Simon very kind
The GCR to Hucknall No. 1 branch was also pretty short and worked only by NCB locomotives due to the sharp curvature of the track at the bottom end of the branch. The GNR/MR arm to No. 1 colliery probably a bit longer than the Warsop one. At one time it also had a similar extension from the colliery yard to a factory near Rolls Royce (poss 1930s+). Very little left now other than the pit manager's house near the Texaco island. At one time there was a length of rail hidden in the undergrowth near the bottom of the bypass but it's likely been nabbed by now. There's minimal trace of 2 level crossings and it's very hard to trace the alignment.
If i rememer the concrete between the tracks was were the coal lorries washed and the shutter pulled coal wagon to be washed for filling with coal
If you'd followed the fence adjacent to Warsop Sidings you'd have found a curious railway mystery in the woods.
A blue engineering brick 'pyramid' with a door in one side that leads to a room about ~12ft square. Never seen anything like it before and was never able to find any information about it either.
Anyway, fun fact, at one point Shirebrook Junction saw 10% of all coal produced in the UK move through it.
Good stuff again, Ant! 👍
That sounds rather interesting
@@mrsgenehunt48 Yeah, I stumbled across when I went to see what was left of Warsop Sidings years ago, honestly felt like Howard Carter entering the great pyramid of Giza, alas, the only treasure to be found was a small collection of empty Tyskie cans and a grubby sleeping bag. 😕
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What drone do you use Ant? Some good footage
9:56 that Ford Sierra no longer exists
I still have my Sierra 1990.
My local line that is i live in creswelll 😀😀
Is that the footpath outside Shirebrook Station across the road?
Is there a footpath near the track to High marnham
Nottinghamshire council got the money from the government but can't decide where to build a train station in ollerton and edwinstone.
Are the terraced houses still there or have they been pulled down?
In Warsop Vale? Still quite a lot, but they pulled a lot down in 2008-2010
Great job... So much ifo in 15 mins ... Awesome