Derbyshire Disused Railway Explore - Seymour Junction to Bolsover Branch Walk
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- Derbyshire Disused Railway Explore - Seymour Junction to Bolsover Branch Walk.
I continue to explore my local disused railways in North East Derbyshire. This time I start near Staveley, Chesterfield at the once grand Seymour Junction. The former beating heart of the areas many coalfields.
Today, from Seymour I'm taking the first right turn down what is now commonly referred to as the Bolsover Branch (among other things).
This is the former midland railway. Opened in stages from 1866, it was known during it's peak working life as the Doe Lea Branch. Opening in stages, it's primary purpose was the collieries at Markham Vale, Bolsover and Glapwell. As well as the collieries, the line also provided access to the Byron brick works in Bolsover and the Coalite chemical plant.
The line fell in to decline upon the gradual closures of the collieries on the line. Any remaining freight traffic ceased after 2004 when the Coalite works closed.
Heading south from Seymour Junction, we follow the route with the sleepers still in place for quite some distance. It is obvious that railway never really left this area - it simply fell out of existence.
Now interrupted by the new link road to Markham Vale distribution centres near the M1, when pick up the trackbed as we duck under the motorway and continue to head towards Bolsover.
Markham Colliery is out first area of the line where we can see obvious changes. Now a thriving industrial estate, nothing remains of the collieries once vast existence.
Following the Doe Lea Valley, we continue towards one of the more prominant features on the line today - the former Coality chemical plant. It is clear that there is still a struggle with pollution going off here as the site of the works has been flattened, reclaimation works still in progress, but the chemical stench really sits on the chest long after exiting the area.
The line for a short while appears to have been landscaped to make way for redevelopment arround Buttermilk Lane. The bridges are no more. The trackbed and path disappear in to a featureless area of top soil.
Ploughing on, we start our way towards Bolsover and the southern yard to the Coal by Products sidings. Only recently flattended, there are still tracks leading in to a mound of earth. Points, sidings and infrastructure are sat, reminders of the presense of the line in days gone by.
On our final section, we pass the site of Bolsover Colliery and the Byron Bricks works. We pass under Station Road, named so due to the fomer Bolsover Castle station. Closed the passengers in thr 1930s and now errased from history.
The abbutments to the Bolsover Colliery Tramway bridge can be seen - more information can be found at www.oldminer.c....
We finish our explore at the start of the Stockley Trail and the former Doe Lea Viaduct.
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Another fantastic video many thanks for your hard work👍
👍🙂 cheers Steven. Pleasure as always.
Awesome day out! Thanks so much for having me and editing it together so well! 😀
Pleasure 👍😃
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
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 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.
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 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
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.
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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@@WobblyRunner very open 1990 trees not took off yet.
@@mrbetamax1969 looks very different doesn't it
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