Disused Railway Walk - LD&ECR Beighton Branch Creswell to Langwith Junction
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- Опубликовано: 11 мар 2022
- A disused railway walk down the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) from Creswell to Langwith Junction down the Archaeological Way.
The LDECR Beighton Branch opened from 1897 and was a 12 mile link from the main LDECR to Sheffield.
**Links to prev videos**
Part 1 Beighton to Killamarsh - • Disused Railway Walk K...
Part 2 Killamarsh to Spinkhill - • Disused Railway Explor...
Part 3 Clowne - • Clowne Derbyshire Disu...
Part 4 Clowne to Creswell - • Disused Railway Explor...
In previous parts, we saw the sections from Beighton Junction, Killamarsh, Spinkhill Tunnel and Clowne. We start this explore from the site of the former Creswell for Welbeck station, which closed in 1939. The lost railway line headed out past Creswell Colliery towards Langwith Colliery. This section was closed in 1967 due to duplicate alignment with other lines, the coming of the M1 motorway severing the line and the poor state of the Markland Grips viaduct.
We lose the line for a while as this has been turned to private land. However we pick it up again near Langwith Colliery Junction and the new chord constructed in 1967 to divert traffic from the southern end of the line to the Robin Hood Line. This only lasted until 1974.
At Langwith Colliery Junction we can see ruins of the old trackbeds, signal box and tin hut. We take a look at the Colliery line, which ends as it crosses the Robin Hood Line due to a demolished bridge.
The LDECR Beighton Branch now disappears underneath Poulter Country Park, which was the spoil tip for Langwith Colliery. However we pick it up again at Nether Lagwith with half of a bridge still standing on one side of the road.
The final section of the former line starts on an embarkment before entering an imposing limestone cutting on the approach to Langwith Junction station.
The site of the station is now a housing estate. It opened in 1897 but closed in 1955. It was renamed Shirebrook North in 1924.
Later, the LDECR was bought by the GCR (Great Central Railway) and later LNER. The Beighton branch was closed by 1974 north of Langwith Junction.
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Great video, I lived in Langwith watch trains go buy in the 60`s ,the history of HM Factory is fascinating
Cheers Anthony. It must have been great to see the junction active back then.
Nicely done mate. I enjoyed that. Those sharp trees are a real nuisance! 😁👍🏻
Haha they sure are😄
Really enjoyed your journey from Creswell towards Shirebrook, having worked as a PE teacher in both locations from 1977 to 2010 and having run along some of the path you used.
👍glad you enjoyed. You must seen the landscapes around those places change considerably along those years.
Thank you for the great videos I walk round hear quiet a lot and lived in whitwell most off my life and never took the history in !!
Cheers Luke 👍 a very underated area with lots to find
Another quality video with plenty of history many thanks 👍
Cheers Steven.i enjoyed making it 👍🙂
Another informative video to finish the series thank you for posting.👍 Should have taken the dog he would have loved those puddles 😀
Thanks Adrian. If the dog was there I'd be there facedown in a puddle 😄
Thank for another interesting video
Cheers Steven 👍🙂
A Dam fine episode only got to the Norwood cross road in 90s well done for braving the weather..can't wait for you to revised spinkhill am guna get that lamppost listed 😉
😄😄. I had a dream that lampost suddenly came to life and was a huge beacon a few nights ago.....I need a break.
Can be good chill out zones these places we Rome depending on ya state of mind ..when solitaire in a cutting its a bit spooky..
@@WobblyRunner hi Paul dropped you a line on messenger not spam.
That was a fascinating series, taking in so much of the railway history of the area, a real shame for you though as it ended on such a wet note!! It was nice to see the old station house still there at Langwith Junction, I love it when those buildings are preserved. The fact that it was only twelve miles amazes me as there was so much to see along the way - nice one WR.
👍🙂 my pleasure. I would love to have been around to see Langwith Junction when it was active.
@@WobblyRunner What a sight that would have been.
The foot bridge and those two bases at the end was actually an elevated sewer pipe that's only gone quite recently. Also about five hundred yards before Norwood crossing there was the LEDCR crossing - the house on the right was the crossing keepers cottage and you can still see where the rails crossed the road..
Cheers Paul.
I did wonder about the crossing near Norwood. Other than the house I couldn't see much. But I did wonder if it was a crossing or bridge.
It was a level crossing exactly like the one that’s still there. You can see the hump in the road where the track was. 👍👍
Very good 👍 lots of stuff I've never even noticed, recently saw a few concrete posts recently where that black connector line is, and I'd seen the brick wall a bit further down, but completely unaware of that signal post, only tend to use that path in dry weather though so it's probably well overgrown then.
You didn't find enough stone to rebuild the bridge to connect the loop over the Robin Hood line then 😆
Oh and all that stone where the Poulter car park is, it's clearly from the other abutment but yet I've never put two and two together 🤷🏼♂️🤦♂️
😄 I couldn't fit the big stones in my rucksack to move them
Excellent video, really enjoyed this series, thank you - out of curiosity, are you planning to go back to Seymour Junction and follow it up through Staveley and towards Barrow Hill?
Cheers as always 👍🙂.
Yeah that sections on my to do list. I was a little bit apprehensive as there's been work going on and I wasn't sure if you were meant to be on there