Archive Footage, from late BR on the former Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- In this video, some unique footage from late BR is shown on the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway. This footage was taken by Willis Woodward who he gave to a friend, and a copy was eventually passed into Travis's Trains ownership, where it is shown today. Please respect the copyright.
Not that anyone would, but if anyone takes interest in using this footage just reply to this comment asking, and I am always happy to provide this footage without watermarks depending on the reason, even if it’s commercial use
Dear Travis's Trains. I stumbled across your film of the 'Peak Line' by accident and what a gem it is! I'm absolutely over the moon about it, it's made my year finding it. Being born at Darley Dale, I can remember the line and have very happy memories of trips to Bell Vue Zoo and other destinations along it, also being taken by a school mate's dad(a steam raiser at the shed) and being shown on and around various engines, plus I had the added bonus of my dad being the manager of the WH Smiths bookstall on Matlock station. So I have a great passion for it and are hoping to model the engine shed and sidings in oo gauge before too long. I have all the books (i think) I can possibly find of Rowsley, track plans, signalling diagrams etc; also I'm a member of the Rowsley Association and i have quite a lot of E R Morten's classic photographs, plus a few others too-but film in colour is as rare as Hen's Teeth! Therefore, could l please purchase from you, a dvd copy without the writing along the bottom-will that be possible? If you happen to have any more film or have photographs of the line and in particular, of the up and down yards as well as the engine shed or know of anyone who has any for sale, I shall be very interested if they wish to sell to me. Thank you kindly, in anticipation. Yours sincerely, Philip Wheeldon.
Hello, I am currently updating the website for the Derwent and Wye Valley Railway Trust (DWVRT) and came across this fantastic video. According to one of the trustee's a copy of this video was donated to the DWVRT as part of their Tracking Our Heritage project by a relative of the original author, Willis Woodward. With your permission I would like to include this as an embedded video on the new website please?
JasBo89 feel free to use the video, that’s fine with me
Philip Wheeldon off course, sorry for the delayed reply but I don’t mind sending a DVD copy or a digital copy, for anymore information my email is Travisenior@gmail.com. If you want a digital copy I won’t charge, if you want a DVD I can get one together and when I’m next allowed out my own home (due to Covid-19) I will happily send it, and I will try and keep dvd costs down, as no-one should have to pay for something so interesting. Sorry for the delayed reply, but just email for anything else you need.
Wow this is fantastic footage! It's great to see the old monsal dale/miller's dale line in action... Certainly recognise the clip at 8.00, walked the dog there today in fact! Is there anywhere I could find this video without the watermark at the bottom? Also do you have any more footage of around miller's dale? As I'm only 18 I don't really have a proper reason for wanting to see the footage without the watermark other than the fact that I'd just love to see it as it's part of my local history... Thanks, Luke
Rode over the Midland line in my youth. The expresses from St. Pancras to Manchester used to drop off a couple of coaches including the Buffet Car at Miller's Dale which formed the Buxton portion being taken forward quite often by a 2-6-4T. They were returned and attached to a southbound express later.
The Peak District scenery was a real delight as you popped in and out of the tunnels and over the viaducts through to Matlock. Sadly I can only dream as I ride my bike along the route today. It's a good cycleway, but was even better as a railway!
Wonderful footage reminds me of travelling on it in the 50's so sad its lost forever, and it could and should have been saved.
I had to stifle a tear or two watching this, the route between Bakewell and Blackwell is one of the prettiest in the country, or was. If only it was open today it would be a major attraction and bring a lot of money into the local economy. The shots of Monsal Dale and Headstones Tunnel were beautiful. Thank you so much for making this available.
How interesting to see footage of a line over which I worked for perhaps 2 weeks in 1966 as a (very) new fireman on BR.
Having just been on holiday in the Peak District and walked this line it was brilliant seeing film of it in the days of steam engines. This would be a fantastic line for tourism nowadays.
This is brilliant and fills a large hole in cine photography of this part of the line. I lived in Manchester and travelled on the line down to London in the 50s a few times as a child but cannot remember much except for the dull and to me, rather forbidding landscape. I then moved to Sheffield by which time the line had been taken up. Many visits to Monsal Dale and Millers Dale, Bakewell and Rowsley often by bike on the Monsal Trail as now called, as well as just catching the opening of the tunnels including Headstone and Chee Tor. So, wonderful to see Monsal Dale station, Headstone Tunnel, Monsal Dale viaduct and Bakewell and Darley Dale quite close to Rowsley if I have got this right. I have never seen video of these locations before now, except for one or two of trains crossing the viaduct. So many thanks for posting this. And is that a Scot approaching Matlock from the north on an express passenger or is it somewhere else?
Interesting story for you. A few years ago, I was walking through Headstone tunnel with my other half and we stopped to examine parts of the tunnel walls which were still covered in soot remnants.
I then heard the faint voices of a large group of men singing rudolph the red nosed reindeer (it was September), yet there was nobody around. I can best describe it as really hearty singing like in films of old times with men singing around a fire.
I dismissed anything spooky at first because I assumed that song was far too modern to have been around when the railway was still operating. However, I later discovered that the song was released in 1948 and the railway didn't close until the 60's! Spooky!
JUST FANTASTIC, how rare to see the line in action around Rowsley shed and both yards and Monsal dale station and signal box, what a great scenic line which I'm sure would thrive if it was brought back into the network, thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing! As a link in a route system from Bournemouth to Wick, it's long overdue reinstatement in its entirety into the national network.
Thank you. Great to see this footage... I had never seen any video of Rowsley yard before now and I am too young to have seen it in reality. So it was great to be abled to see trains actually running in the yard.
Fantastic, i come from an area near Sheffield, we would visit Monsal Dale often but i never got to see trains go over the viaduct, it closed before i was born (1960) i believe. I have walked from Millers Dale to Bakewell through the tunnels and now i have seen the trains on the line through this short film it gives me a real thrill. Thank you again.
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This is absolutely brilliant and thank you for posting it. I lived in Manchester in the 50s and 60s and travelled on this line quite a bit as a child, usually to St. Pancras from Central. Although one of many trainspotters at that time, I did not appreciate it. Too late. I moved to a 5 minute journey away from the line at Hassop in 1989 but of course it had long gone. So for the next 20 years, I walked and cycled every inch of it from Haddon to Great Rocks Dale, tunnels excepted, trying to imagine what it would have been like in its heyday. Now I don't need to imagine, thanks to your splendid film with all its atmospheric detail and never seen before footage. And finally, they opened Headstone, Chee Tor and all the other tunnels northwards so that our imaginations could run riot. Fantastic.
Congratulations on this wonderful historic footage. Having just cycled the Monsal Trail it's amazing to see what was once there. And as a welcome bonus, a Mozart symphony I've not had the pleasure of hearing before. Bravo indeed.
Magic memories. I was 11years old and was on the RCTS EAST MIDLANDER special that ran from Nottingham via Walsall, Crewe, and the very unfrequently used back lines of Stockport and then back to Nottingham on this special line. My Dad and myself are seen at Millers Dale Station in a railway memories book with the 9F that hauled us during a water stop and photo shoot at the station. Priceless. Nige Dawson 1966
Marvellous footage of my era around the Midland line through the Peak, but the music!!. I can't hear The Ride of the Valkyries without thinking about a sky full of Hueys in Vietnam pouring fire and destruction on a suspected Vietcong village - "I justlove the smell of napalm in the morning, it smells of victory!"
At around 7.20: is that Upperdale Stn, i didn't think there was a Monsal Dale Stn but the platform signage clearly proves otherwise.
Lovely footage of a lost treasure of a route-Monsal dale, which sadly will never be regained as too many of the walkers, hikers and nimbys that now populate this route are against reopening (all 11 miles) , tho not this one! Some commentary or data on the screen would have been nice. Was the engine shed at the start Buxton or Rowsley?
This is really cool as I'm a local. Do you know if any footage of Kirkby in Ashfield survives?
Amazing
This is amazing! I have been wanting to see more footage of this line for ages, particularly Monsal Dale and Headstone Viaduct.
I wonder what the light engine Jinty is doing up there?
Might have been a banker? Or could just be changing shed
Hello, could I have permission to enhance this marvellous video a bit? I have in mind a bit of sharpening, and brightening some of the underexposed sections. Cheers David
Peak Rail plan to reopen this in the not too distant future.
Why did you have to interrupt Mozart with Wagner at 4.56 ? ! ! !
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This is TheGreatBear125
Yay