Railway Remains Found at Rothwell's Lost Colliery
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Join me as we explore the different sections of the abandoned East & West Yorkshire Union Railway. In this video we are looking at the section starting at Oddy's Bridge in John O' Gaunt's and working our way down the Stourton Incline heading towards Stourton Station in Leeds. We also pay a visit to the site of the Rothwell Haigh Colliery (Fanny Pit) at the Rothwell Country Park to see any remains of track left over.
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Old Maps Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
A.L Barnett & Railway & Canal Historical Society
Outwood Community Video
Britain from Above
Lost Railways Yorkshire.co.uk
Railway Ramblers Leeds
Woodlesford - The Story of a Station
Paul Johnson - Transports of Delight
Friends of Rothwell Country Park
Rothwell & District Historical Society
John Shaw
Steven Craven
Mike Kirkby
Howard Benson
Steven Hall
John Holdsworth
Christopher Wren
Andrew Johnson
Les Dews
Darren Ward
Keith Long
Paul Needham - Cinder Oven Bridge Pictures
Derek Rayner - Photograph Archive
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Really enjoying these. Look forward to next one. The time you must be putting in to produce these gems is really appreciated.
All part of the fun. Currently working on number 11 & 12. Still more to come. Part 8 is out on Sunday.
Das war wieder sehr gut.
Deine Landsleute müssen doch stolz sein, daß du noch einmal an das vergangene erinnerst.
Mir gefällt das gut 😊.
Thank you Darren 👋🏻👍🏻
My Rayner is a very generous man and the blending of past and present is blooming marvelous.
Another view interesting video. I always like it when exploring and old railway and find some rails still in place.
Thank you for the tour of the rail yards. Cheers buddy!
For a man who claims not to be a railway buff you are doing a bang up job tracking down all this lost history
ha ha, I wasn't when I started. I was just a history person, but now it's growing on me and I'm getting better with the terminology.
Three episodes today, fascinating thank you.
You're doing well.
My Grandad worked at Fanny Pit in the early to mid fifties. The last pit he worked at before his retirement.
Another good one, great pics of the pit thanks Mr Raynor too. Think the tracks you mentioned in country park could have been actually from the fanny pit stores yard as they filled 'cars' (wagons) to go underground as the pit had a Drift to take stores underground, forgive us if too much info! There were 3 shafts in that pit.
Thanks for watching
Interesting I must of been past there loads of times on the motorway 👍
Terrific pictures from Derek.
Yes they are
68869 Shedded at Ardsley, built March 1902 in Doncaster. Standard Great Northern shunter. Withdrawn in March 1961.
the more i watch the more i learn thanks darren
Cheers.
Very well thought out . Thank you.
I think we used to swing on an old fire hose hanging off Webster's Bridge in the early 80s. It was quite a substantial concrete structure. People also used to race old cars immediately on the north side of the mainline, near the first concrete arch bridge.
I bet that was scary, I think it was around a 50ft drop.
@@AdventureMe it was pretty high yes, it was a proper thick fireman's hose. 50ft might be pushing it but easily 30.
Not easy to hang on to, especially when it was wet
Well you have beat me there.
i`ve being around the country park umpteen times on the push bike, and never seen the old rail lines.
On the other side of the main line from the country park was the reception sidings for Skelton Grange PS,
which ran across the 2 arched concrete bridges, over the canal & River Aire.
on a good day you can still see some rail lines on 1 of the bridges.
btw 68869 came to being in March 1902 from Doncaster Works & was withdrawn from service on 20/3/61 from Ardsley depot
Yes, I knew they were there but it took some finding. Same with the Cinder Oven Bridge remains I found there too.
There is some old rail crossing the road on Eshald Lane in Oulton/Woodlesford, I think they went through what is now Water Haigh Park for transporting coal.
Yes, that's a different line to this one. But you are correct. It's for the old Water Haigh Colliery.
AdventureMe have you any plans doing that and maybe the old Lemonroyd Lock and the houses that were there? I met the last lock keeper’s son once, he lives in Wakefield now, and I took a pic of the aerial photo of the old lock and surroundings as it was. Quite a lot of interesting history around that. Or are you concentrating on just rail?
@@Admiral_Pumpout Yes, it's at the top of my list for summer. I have a video planned on the St Aidans flood and Lemonroyd Lock. Would I be able to see your picture you took, that would be interesting.
AdventureMe definitely. It’s on an old phone somewhere I think, possibly on my facey page. I’ll dig it out and email it over.
I'm sorry if I've repeated myself on a different video but I'm still amazed how much work it took to build that railway infrastructure and now its totally gone, its just mind boggling 🤔😲 oh and congratulations on 17,000 subscribers 👏
Yes so true. It was a very engineered line too.
@@AdventureMe I live in Cornwall and obviously all our local lines were shut back in the 60's but a lot of the lines are now walkways or cycle paths so we've still got evidence of what was once there but your's have totally gone apart from a few sleepers and a bit concrete 🤷♂️
@@AdventureMe caught me out again lol, just got to the bit where there's still tracks in the ground, I must wait till the end before commenting 😅
good work darren,thanks
nice to see in situ rails, google maps only just make them out and couldn't find the monument but found a huge ring?
It was a sculpture park too. That's what some of them are. The circle is probably the old mine caps.
Forgive me, but I giggle every time u mention "fanny pit" lol
So did I. I had to do a few takes.
@@AdventureMe haha
Named after one of Charlesworth's daughters.
Love it 😎
How about a video of all the old pubs that went decades ago. There was one on the canal in Woodlesford I think. The Anchor?
The sand quarried including the small one behind Haigh Terrace?
Funny enough, when I do the Aire & Calder this year, I have The Anchor on my list to look at.
@@AdventureMe Don't forget The Boot & Show at the end of Alma Street in Woodlesford and the Anchor in near Bullough Lane.
@@AdventureMe Don't forget The Boot & Shoe Inn at the end of Alma Street (Still standing but a house now)
The Bowling Green Hotel between the bowling club up Rabbit Trap Lane. It's basement doors gave the name to the Rabbit Trap football I believe. The Miner's Arms on commercial street where Reeds Rains is now?
Think i have met Dave Rayner as i have being to quite a few transport historic talks at Farsley Liberal club where i think he was a guest speaker once.
You probably did. He loves to tell a tale.
I have being to quite a few transport historic talks at Farsley Liberal as they tend to raise money for the Pudsey Steam Roller fund.
Watching this video and you showing those tracks, I used to go to two places at stourton, Leeds container base and freightliner, at freightliner there is a rail link for trains but there are also rail lines there that aren't part of that network, and you could tell they haven't been used for years, could they be part of the east west union line?
No, these are from the Midland line. But close.
You've confused me, midland line, not sure what you're on about thete
@@littlemissy2883 The midland line is the railway that runs from Leeds to Castleford through Stourton. The East West Yorkshire line came off the midland further up.
@@AdventureMe oh, right, I'm just asking, have you seen the rail tracks outside the freightliner gates, it's about 10 to 15 years since I went in there so those tracks may have gone
Watching your videos I've seen things, and I have seen things, and say to myself, yes I've driven past that and think blimey, who would've thought, but there is one thing I've seen what I haven't seen on your videos, when I used to drive up the A58 heading towards Halifax from J26 I used to see on my right hand side was what looks like a viaduct that's been demolished, do you know what I'm talking about and does it feature on any of your videos
I have some photos of the pit and yard you probably won`t have seen.
Yes please!
@@AdventureMe I wasn`t aware you were a member of Rothwell district stories and history Facebook group my mum posted some photos today.
@@DS_SPORT Oh yes, I saw them then.
Just wondered, was the Bingley bypass built over an old railway line?
No I don't think so. The railway line is right next to it. It could have been old sidings back in the day.
@@AdventureMe ah ok.. just someone told me a bit back it was, obviously they got their history wrong.. but yeah it could've been old sidings 👍
@@sarahillingworth2718 Just checked the old maps. No defo not a railway. That's in the same location it is today, right next to the road. It's built in the valley between canal and railway. Lots of empty fields, old houses and factories down there. Not much else.
@@AdventureMe ah ok, just looks like it could've been built over an old line lol, it's happened before, just was thinking of central line in Blackpool, it's now a car park lol.. thanks 👍
@@sarahillingworth2718 Yeah there's plenty around. The A650 at Gildersome is the same. But not the bingley bypass.
which curmudgeon gave the thumbs down?
Probably my mum lol.