Peak Rail Presents - Doug Copley's Lineside Images #15.2 Staveley Oxcroft Clowne coal lines1986-2006
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Doug Copley's Lineside Images
'Doug Copley's Lineside Images' are 68 titles filmed 1980's, 1990's & 2000's variously 12-90 minutes long. They come with Doug's own commentary and tend to follow lines of route, or particular workings, filmed over multiple return visits.
Doug's videos often include interludes of impressively vocal bird song!
In Alfred Hitchcock (filmmaker) style, Doug occasionally makes brief cameo appearances in his own films.
Doug Copley
Doug gave annual shows to Peak Rail Sheffield Branch. When he died in 2008 his films were kindly made available to the Peak Railway Association by his family so that appreciative enthusiasts can continue to enjoy his work in his memory.
During his working life as a steelworks commissioning engineer he travelled extensively and the collection includes South America, South Africa, India, Turkey (steam), and Australia. The UK collection includes many secondary lines, and also industrial railways. A treasure trove.
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Random pictures in the area taken over a period of 20 years, mostly Class 58 on mgr.
Features....
Foxlow Jct
Hall Lane Jct
Seymour Jct
Oxcroft branch arrival
Clowne line and the former LD&ECR Clowne station
former Midland station at Clowne
Elmton & Creswell Jct including DMU railtour off Clowne branch
Oxcroft British Coal Opencast Disposal Point, with shunter and Class 66
Oxcroft branch loaded mgr departure 20.1.2006, just 6 days before closure.
Clowne line points have been disconnected
pass former Seymour Yard
37 days later a Branch Line Society railtour
The railtour traversed the remaining lines between Hall Lane Jct and Oxcroft Disposal Point, top and tail EWS Class 66 with 7 coaches including one in chocolate and cream, and two in Southern green!
I notice on the old rail atlas that Clowne was originally spelt Clown.
BR re-named the stations in 1951, the Midland station becoming Clowne & Barlborough, and just 30 yards away the LDEC station became Clowne South.
Thankyou Doug for your endless patience in recording these scenes, and your diligence in unearthing the facts to add interesting narrative to your films. They are treasured.
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Brilliant Memories. Thank You
Excellent, great nostalgia, but very sad scenes.
Excellent video
Thankyou so much for posting this-i am a bit annoyed with myself,i moved to Chesterfield in 2003 but had no idea of its coal and railway history so never found these lines till 2019 when they formed an extension of the transpennine trail. I had assumed locos used in the final view years would have been double header Class 20,as was seen coming into and out of Arkwright Colliery on the relayed GCR at Duckmanton Junction. Just a small mistake i noticed with the video though-the single platform you view on the Clowne Branch is infact the Midland Railway,whearas the double track station and booking hall is actually LD & ECR,and has recently been partially restored with a replica platform edge and steam train outline in the tunnel! 😊
Class 20’s were killed off on coal trains by the class 60’s and reallocation of other type 5’s in the early 1990’s.
Great train info, good taste in music and some sound thrash! 🚂👍
Oxcroft was briefly reopened for roughly 3 weeks in November 2007 in order to sort through any remaining coal tips in the area, although even by that time Seymour Junction Signal box was so badly vandalised that none of the signalling infrastructure could be used, so all points were clamped and all signalling was suspended and the working was done by pilot man