A Disused Great Central Railway Walk Between Beighton, Killamarsh & Renishaw
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- In this video we take a disused railway walk down the former Great Central Railway / Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway / LNER from south Sheffield.
In the 1890s, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway started building their line south from Beighton Sheffield towards London. Known as the Derbysire Lines, it Opened in stages from 1892. it changed it’s name to the Great Central Railway in 1897.
The Great Central was later grouped into the London North eastern Railway from 1923. After years of decline, services and stations were wound down during the 1960s when the line finally closed.
The former Great Central Railway between Beighton, Killamarsh and Renishaw is now a popular part of the Trans-Pennine Trail and National Cycle Network between Sheffield (South Yorkshire) and Chesterfield (Derbyshire).
We start from near Beighton Junction where the GCR leaves the current existing railway line to Barrow Hill. We pass the eastern side of Rother Valley Country Park where the disused and abanoned features come thick and fast. There is a old ruined girder bridge where the GCR crossed the Midland Railway. Then we see the former Killamarsh Junction signal box, numerous telegraph poles, sleepers and signal posts felled in the trees. The old signal box and brick work is left demolished by the side of the path.
After crossing the River Rother, we enter Killamarsh. One of three station in the town, Killamarsh Central station is still suprisingly intact. Platforms and footbridge still are in good condition, but the buildings and fittings are long gone.
As we continue down the lost railway line, we pass more abandoned relics such as a still standing signal post and we see the Chesterfield Canal join us for a mile or so.
Eventually we reach the former Renishaw Central Station. Now fully demolished too.
**Links to previous videos**
Previous GCR "inclement weather video" - • Disused Railway Explor...
Rother Valley disused railways - • Disused Railway Explor...
Waleswood Curve - • South Yorkshire Lost R...
LD&ECR Walk - • Disused Railway Walk K...
Killamarsh Central Station Walkaround - • Disused Station Walk A...
Renishaw Central Station Walkaround - • Disused Station Walk A...
Great Central Railway - Renishaw to Staveley - • Disused Railway Walks ...
Brilliant video, I've walked that route many a time but never realised the history that's hidden in the undergrowth.
Cheers Paul. There's so much hidden away down there :)
Only just been recommended this in my feed, 1 year later 😂. Awesome video of a fascinating railway. The little white posts that you kept turning up were gradient posts.
Spent many happy hours on Renishaw central station and goods yard sat near the signal box trainspotting
Great memories 👌
Great work. I run down the trail all the time but didn't realise how much was still there (if you know where to look!)
🙂 it still has to be one of my favourite places to go for a run 🏃♀️
That was a fantastic day with an incredible amount of railway history just literally lying around!!! The infrastructure of the GCR is amazing, they didn't do anything small at all. Thanks for the invitation, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, Gordo was the star of the day once he'd stopped barking at me😆🤣.
😄 that dog!!!
Glad you enjoyed the day. Looking forward to the next one soon
@@WobblyRunner Absolutely!!
Excellent video of an area I have walked many times but never fully appreciated. Thank you for posting.
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Cool mate. Love the explore. Good job. 👍🏻🚶🏻♂️🚶♀️
Cheers Watto. Was enjoying your Llangollen video earlier.
Very interesting will look out for this thanks
Another superb Great Central vlog, cheers Paul for keeping the passion going
Cheers Craig. Glad you enjoyed 👍
Brilliant video Paul, sorry I didn't get a tesco train in this video for you! That area must have been fantastic back in the day withal that railway and no vegetation.
I remember exploring the bit of the GC round Killamarsh in 1990 waiting for a stage to start on the RAC rally in Rother Valley. I seem to recall back then you could still walk on the bridge over the old road .
A lot of those concrete signal posts were made a few miles away from where we live in Melton constable , Norfolk
Cheers Russ
Excellent stories Russ. Yes, I bet it looked a lot different with much less tree coverage.
The lack of a Tesco train was a disappointment. I won't lie 😄
Another awesome video. I'm really gonna have to have a proper wander at RV, that tree growing out from the railway remains is great, love how nature reclaims things in such ways (not beds of brambles though). Can't recall seeing a photo of Renishaw Station, (I will have but can't remember), never really thought about why there's that dip, I just assumed it was due to that drive to whatever property is at the end of it. The station being on the bridge reminds me of staveley works.
Hours and hours of fun at RV to be had.
Amazing how much you see change from year to year too
Love watching these. Thank you for continued posts 👍
You're very welcome 👍🙂
Fantastic video many thanks 👍
Cheers Steven
@@WobblyRunner steve is fine thanks mate👍
Yes that was definitely a concrete sleeper. Gordo didn't seem as mad as usual is he any better now?
Another informative video well put together.keep them coming.
Cheers Adrian.
He has calmed down a bit...I think 🤔
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣thank you for the warning ⚠️ Paul.
Haha thought you'd like that
I thought Beighton was going to re open. My Railways Maps and Gazetteer shows this as freight as at 1982. Why were the rails lifted? It would make a great diversion route. Cute dog!
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There's still rails through Beighton, but there were several lines. I believe it was in the 80s where rails were lifted as it was used as access for arkwright colliery.
Until recently hs2 was going to be impacting some of the route, but that was early plans now dropped.
@@WobblyRunner thanks! Love your videos. Keep 'em coming. Best regards
@@railwaychristina3192 thank you very much :)
14:39 you can see the mill line abutments over the river on the right, 18:25 was that wall a long abandoned road over bridge thats been partly removed on the left
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