Another fantastic explore - including a minor favourite of mine - the fifteen yard section of surviving track alongside the Seymour link road. I will be taking my turn filming in February hopefully although have shot plenty of the former rail junction site in preparation. All the best. D
Yeah that bit of rail is very random isn't it. Amazed that nobody has pinched it for scrap given its right by the road. Just watched your Clowne video this morning. Nice work. Great job fitting it into 18 mins 😃
@@WobblyRunnerCheers matey. I left out about 2-3 further mins worth of the Seymour Junction stuff I was going to include - this will be used when I do the Bolsover/Stockley trail branch instead.
Nice work chaps. I've certainly been able to smell that Coalite plant residue in the past, when we used to visit friends in Shuttlewood. We went to see a house in Bolsover today and passed that model village you mentioned. Didn't know of it until the past couple of days and now it's cropping up everywhere 😄👍🏻
19:02 this is bittumen works the coalite is bottom of image you have yet to cross raod then you come into coalite & colliery which takes up a vast area of land some colliery building still remain you'll pass these when you come to the little bit of trackwork thats still down on the right in the form of an industrial estate, last time i visited some of the building still stood along with one of the weighbridges & water treatment(washerytank)on the coalite site, 24:33 the industrial estate on the right was the bolsover colliery
the Bolsover branch was finished by 2004 and the final coal train from Oxcroft was on the 26th January 2006, the Peterborough Re-Re Avoider railtour ran to Oxcroft and back on the 4th March 2006 and was the final train ever to be controlled by Seymour Signal Box. the line did reopen for 3 weeks in November 2007 in order for Oxcroft to sort through the remaining coal tips although even by that point Seymour Signal Box was so badly vandalised that all pointwork had to be clamped and all signalling was suspended even as far as Hall Lane junction. so the last working would of been at some point during November 2007. by 2014 much of the infrastructure at Seymour was stolen/vandalised and Network Rail lifted any remaining trackwork at Hall Lane during December 2015.
Some brilliant finds in this one, contrasting well with other videos I've seen of this journey. It seems to me that there is so much to see that any number of videos could be done and you'd still never do it justice. I love finding old track and the junction @24:15 was something special. Nice too that you found some old huts and telegraph poles, all adds to the authenticity. By the way, did you come across any sleepers?!!!!!!
Cheers Nigel. Good job we're not PW engineers 😁. Oddly, I'd never noticed the little orange things before. But there are hundreds of them left around once you do notice them.
The railway line was still on the Markham Vale redevelopment publicity brochures till only about 5 years ago. The plans might have finally been stripped out when HS2 was diverted into Sheffield city centre, rather than the first version of the plans which was to come right through Markham Vale.
I assume that's all in the rear view mirror now Jim around hs2? I wasn't sure if they were still wanting to join with the MR old road somehow? I can't keep up 😄
Fantastic video, I’ve been waiting for this one, interesting comment about rail never being needed for Markham Vale, rail connected industrial land alongside the M1 has considerable value now, could get £1m an acre (look at the old Stanton Ironworks which has recently had its rail connection restored), but I guess extending the line to Markham Value now is too much of a distance.
Definitely a shame to see the old railway stuff disappearing from the Coalite site, I knew the bridge was going but as you say, hard to see where the line used to be apart from that telegraph pole that remains (there was one closer to Buttermilk Lane that's recently gone along with the bridge). Hope they keep that pole, and section of rail in place, especially if they do indeed continue the extension to the Stockley trail, it needs some railway memorabilia to give it some character. I think I may have mentioned to you last week, but I think also the bridge at Station Road is going to be replaced with a smaller subway type bridge in due course. I'd forgotten about that section of rail next to Seymour Link Road, that's the only piece of rail remaining in place at the poolsbrook end, as for that small piece a little further along, it's probably dizzy from the number of times it's been moved off the track, then back across it again.
@@WobblyRunner I've no idea, I think your mate summed it up best that it was time to knock off so it got left 😄... Perhaps they could put a couple of tubs on it with flowers in, make a feature of it.
@@WobblyRunner yep, although when they would have removed it the Seymour Link Road wouldn't have been there, Erin Road is still alongside though, guess they did the removal work from off the old Seymour sidings, still makes no sense why that little bit was left though. Erin Road has been realigned a few times over the years, originally (when the colliery was open) it joined onto Markham Lane that ran under the M1 alongside the branch line, then Markham Lane became an internal road to the landfill site - it used to pass over Erin Road where Seymour Link Road is now, so perhaps when they created the link road they had to remove a section of track and perhaps that had rails too. I'll have to see if there are any photos from before the link road was created.
Awesome day out! Thanks so much for having me and editing it together so well! 😀
Pleasure 👍😃
Another fantastic video many thanks for your hard work👍
👍🙂 cheers Steven. Pleasure as always.
Another fantastic explore - including a minor favourite of mine - the fifteen yard section of surviving track alongside the Seymour link road. I will be taking my turn filming in February hopefully although have shot plenty of the former rail junction site in preparation.
All the best. D
Yeah that bit of rail is very random isn't it. Amazed that nobody has pinched it for scrap given its right by the road.
Just watched your Clowne video this morning. Nice work. Great job fitting it into 18 mins 😃
@@WobblyRunnerCheers matey. I left out about 2-3 further mins worth of the Seymour Junction stuff I was going to include - this will be used when I do the Bolsover/Stockley trail branch instead.
👍😄 Seymour could be half hour in itself. Passed through on foot this morning just by chance
Nice work chaps. I've certainly been able to smell that Coalite plant residue in the past, when we used to visit friends in Shuttlewood.
We went to see a house in Bolsover today and passed that model village you mentioned. Didn't know of it until the past couple of days and now it's cropping up everywhere 😄👍🏻
There's one in Creswell too. Looks nice when it's been done up. Some nice characters to the old colliery buildings.
Model village that is
19:02 this is bittumen works the coalite is bottom of image you have yet to cross raod then you come into coalite & colliery which takes up a vast area of land some colliery building still remain you'll pass these when you come to the little bit of trackwork thats still down on the right in the form of an industrial estate, last time i visited some of the building still stood along with one of the weighbridges & water treatment(washerytank)on the coalite site, 24:33 the industrial estate on the right was the bolsover colliery
glad i got the photos when i did cos now it looks nothing like it did back then
👍changed loads hasn't it
the Bolsover branch was finished by 2004 and the final coal train from Oxcroft was on the 26th January 2006, the Peterborough Re-Re Avoider railtour ran to Oxcroft and back on the 4th March 2006 and was the final train ever to be controlled by Seymour Signal Box. the line did reopen for 3 weeks in November 2007 in order for Oxcroft to sort through the remaining coal tips although even by that point Seymour Signal Box was so badly vandalised that all pointwork had to be clamped and all signalling was suspended even as far as Hall Lane junction. so the last working would of been at some point during November 2007. by 2014 much of the infrastructure at Seymour was stolen/vandalised and Network Rail lifted any remaining trackwork at Hall Lane during December 2015.
Thanks very much. Great information. I find the area fascinating with it being so recent history.
Some brilliant finds in this one, contrasting well with other videos I've seen of this journey. It seems to me that there is so much to see that any number of videos could be done and you'd still never do it justice. I love finding old track and the junction @24:15 was something special. Nice too that you found some old huts and telegraph poles, all adds to the authenticity. By the way, did you come across any sleepers?!!!!!!
Haha no sleepers on this one. Well I didn't notice any 😁.
But you're right. I struggled condensing it down to 30 mins there was so much going off.
Your mate put the”buscuit”,the little plastic shim ,on the wrong side of the rail fasteners ,and upside down.
Cheers Nigel.
Good job we're not PW engineers 😁.
Oddly, I'd never noticed the little orange things before. But there are hundreds of them left around once you do notice them.
The railway line was still on the Markham Vale redevelopment publicity brochures till only about 5 years ago. The plans might have finally been stripped out when HS2 was diverted into Sheffield city centre, rather than the first version of the plans which was to come right through Markham Vale.
I assume that's all in the rear view mirror now Jim around hs2? I wasn't sure if they were still wanting to join with the MR old road somehow? I can't keep up 😄
Fantastic video, I’ve been waiting for this one, interesting comment about rail never being needed for Markham Vale, rail connected industrial land alongside the M1 has considerable value now, could get £1m an acre (look at the old Stanton Ironworks which has recently had its rail connection restored), but I guess extending the line to Markham Value now is too much of a distance.
Yeah it's a shame isn't it. Was virtually all there until very very recently too. Both sides of the m1 now just full of lorries.
@@WobblyRunner for reference the track was lifted in 2015
Very interesting, very well presented, and something you should be proud of 10/10
Thank you very much 👍🙂
Definitely a shame to see the old railway stuff disappearing from the Coalite site, I knew the bridge was going but as you say, hard to see where the line used to be apart from that telegraph pole that remains (there was one closer to Buttermilk Lane that's recently gone along with the bridge). Hope they keep that pole, and section of rail in place, especially if they do indeed continue the extension to the Stockley trail, it needs some railway memorabilia to give it some character. I think I may have mentioned to you last week, but I think also the bridge at Station Road is going to be replaced with a smaller subway type bridge in due course.
I'd forgotten about that section of rail next to Seymour Link Road, that's the only piece of rail remaining in place at the poolsbrook end, as for that small piece a little further along, it's probably dizzy from the number of times it's been moved off the track, then back across it again.
What's the story of that random bit of track by the road on the Seymour end? Seems a bit odd they left that bit and took the rest.
@@WobblyRunner I've no idea, I think your mate summed it up best that it was time to knock off so it got left 😄... Perhaps they could put a couple of tubs on it with flowers in, make a feature of it.
@@eggy77 😄
@@eggy77 Seemed to be the easiest section to remove too, right next to the road.
@@WobblyRunner yep, although when they would have removed it the Seymour Link Road wouldn't have been there, Erin Road is still alongside though, guess they did the removal work from off the old Seymour sidings, still makes no sense why that little bit was left though. Erin Road has been realigned a few times over the years, originally (when the colliery was open) it joined onto Markham Lane that ran under the M1 alongside the branch line, then Markham Lane became an internal road to the landfill site - it used to pass over Erin Road where Seymour Link Road is now, so perhaps when they created the link road they had to remove a section of track and perhaps that had rails too. I'll have to see if there are any photos from before the link road was created.
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Nice one 👍
@@WobblyRunner very open 1990 trees not took off yet.
@@mrbetamax1969 looks very different doesn't it
@@WobblyRunner surprised me and I took it..found pics from rac rally at rother Valley 1990..
2 more pics b4 I turn in...rother Valley 1988 ski slope