Your very Clever Ant finding all this Railway bit & pieces - specially @ 6:27 - The Island Platform!!! So sad about these Forgotten Abandoned Railway Station - Thank you Ant for rediscovering them 😊🚂🚂🚂
It's striking that you can be in a lush wooded area and find yourself in a train station. Great video as always, and always relaxing. The archwork on that bridge toward the beginning with the steel beams was quite unexpected and interesting to see.
Who'd have known, just looked like a walk in the woods but with your excellent nose for the lost and forgotten a whole station complex appears in the minds eye. Great walk Ant, thanks👍👍👍👍
I'll hold my hand up I didn't know either 🤣 I did research putting it together and saw something on it so went back. You may have noticed a change of clothes 😉
@@TrekkingExploration I did the notice the quick change act 😂😂 but it's the content that counts unlike some people who'd rather rudely comment on what you wear🙄🙄
Great video, I always find it relaxing watching disused railway videos, it’s very interesting. Looking at that site initially you’d be forgiven for not knowing there was ever a railway station there it’s so overgrown, it’s only when you watch videos like yours you get to find these places out, so thanks very much.
Although very little remains of what must once have been a busy section of line, these disused railways have left us with wonderful greenways along which to walk and explore. We should make more use of them. Thank you for a very enjoyable video with some marvellous archive images.
Good video, my friend! I started work as a Countryside Ranger at Shipley Country Park in 1979, under Head Ranger Frank Bacon - 30 years my senior - who was a leading-light of The Heanor & District History Society and a fount of knowledge on the Miller-Mundy Estate at Shipley. The station you explored was in a better state in those days - much drier (!) and the footbridge was still there, although the decking was so bad, you couldn't safely go across it! Frank told me that the station was unique in a few ways stipulated by Alfred Edward Miller-Mundy - The station was signed as 'Marlpool Station for Shipley Hall', was painted in the 'estate green', rather than the railway company's colours and 'The Squire' had his own carriage kept in the siding, which he could have connected to any train of his choice! I met the then owner of the station master's house, who told me he bought it, as a sitting tenant, in the '70s for £3,000! The level crossing alongside the site of Coppice Colliery was once the scene of a gruesome suicide around the turn of the century, when a discrepancy found inthe accounts at the colliery resulted in one of the accountants lying with his head on the tracks there when the train from Heanor Gate Station was due! ...Just one other thing - the cutting where you discovered the road bridge over the line was called Raikes Cutting -after an engine regularly used on the line - the 'Cecil Raikes'. That's as much as I can remember for now - hope it's of interest! Thanks again
Thank you so very much for this very interesting and informative video presentation which is very much appreciated. It looked like Heanor station had not originally intended to be a terminus but rather the line may have been intended to carry on. It is most unusual for a terminal station to be an island platform and especially as you pointed out the way the road had been constructed to pass over the railway when it could have more easily passed around the end of the line. It was certainly an early closure but I knew of a closure not too far away from here which was a 1925 closure to passengers and a number of more passenger closures in 1930 though this may have been as a result of the depression as well as the onset of the bus. There is certainly, always, an interesting backstory to these railways, why they opened and why and when they closed. Thank you, as ever, for taking us along with you.
I am local and use lots of the trails round there cycling and walking am absolutely amazed what used to be there and I never knew I’ve cycled over that bridge 100s of times and never realised a track once ran below 🤯
Another interesting walk! You never cease to amaze me, how you manage to find all these fabulous locations.Wish we had more disused lines here in Warwickshire - but there is always the Leamington Spa to Rugby line. If you ever do that, let me know and we'll have a beer!
The old Heanor station masters house is still extant, Ant , used as a private dwelling. It's on the opposite side of the road bridge as you follow the line to the headshunt. Also, at 13:47, there is a turning to the right which takes you to the headshunt for Newcastle colliery. Being newly local to the area I found your video very interesting. Thanks mate 👍👍
The photo you showed at Osbornes Pond looking over the track and the water to the hill was at Shipley Lake I believe, looking towards the hill and woodland that Shipley Hall stood on. I'm glad you found my Google Earth image with the overlayed map useful. I have a photo of Heanor Gate station with my house in the distance. The trackbed of the Heanor Branch around Marlpool Station is a designated footpath shown on the Derbyshire Council footpath map. They should fix the drainage, it didn't used to be like that when it first opened.
Another super explore. Quite nostalgic with the before and after photos. As always filming and narration so good. Well done Ant. Another masterpiece. Thank you.
At the end of the track at Heanor Gate Ind Est. there was a level crossing and a small cottage. I use to play in the cottage and on the track sleepers. The opposite side I use to pick blackberries on the old tracks leading to where the Heanor station was. Great memories.
Always manage to find something interesting in what at first apparently is a featureless piece of countryside! ... any plans for more Reservoir updates as enjoyed the last year and this year water levels comparisons!👍
The GN had plans to extend the line around the back of Ripley, to Ambergate. They wanted to pinch goods traffic off the Midland, hence the two track bridge, and the over extended headshunts at Heanor. This never got built, and was probably 'blocked' by the Midland Heanor Goods branch from Langley Mill to Ripley, that didn't really serve much purpose, as all the industrial sites were already served by mineral lines or tramways. The Heanor GN Station Master's house still stands the other side of the road from the station site itself. There used to be some floor tiles on Marlpool Station platform that were a floor of one of the buildings. It used to be an easy walk from one end to the other, not an overgrown swamp like now!
The Shipley stretch is also part of NCN67 - Nutbrook Trail taking you all the way down past Straws Bridge and down to Erewash Canal. Squire Miller-Mundy - owner of the Colleries in Shipley paid for Nutbrook Canal construction and did a deal with Stanton & Staveley to go through the ironwkorks so they could use the water for the steelworks. at Marlpool Station if you can see the brick pillars where the bridge use to cross over the station. The footpath is still in use leading off to A6007.
These once grand Estates, there upon found minerals below, a repeated story, as with Hunloke Hall, Sutton Scarsdale etc, the find ended up devouring the finder - estate no more, house, mainly, gone... Amongst all this post railway dereliction, mind them olde track dets - there's still some about.!!
Yes it would make a fantastic layout but it all depends on how big you make it I have been doing mind in loft for going on 11 years total length or the way round about 50 feet Bill
"Woodside pit still pumps water from the No.2 Piper shaft, where three (used to be 4) submersible pumps are used to absract anything up to 25 million gallons of minewater per week. The water is delivered to the six settling lagoons West of the Shipley View estate, principally for precipitation of iron compounds by oxygenation then sedimentation prior to removal as slurry. Water discharges to the Nutbrook at the South end, which is very dependent on this treated minewater for its flow and current improving aquatic health. Obviously the treatment process has to work correctly or this could affect the Nutbrook and other watercourses/bodies dramatically. "
The 1880 map clearly shows that road at Heanor existing before that station, and the 1898 map shows the odd layout of the station with the overbridge with the odd kink it in.
Great Video. Marlpool station, was built for the useage of the Miller- Mundy family of Shipley Hall. The bay at the station with the brick wall was were the family, and visitors including royalty would get of the train. It was also a dock for the horses to be unloaded. The big house you mentioned with doors and windows missing was called the Coppice In the 1950s/60s itvwas the home ofbthe Natoonal Coal Boards Area Manager. My uncle lived there for a few years.
If this building is the one painted white with a large tarmac area by the road, I am pretty sure it became the Coppice restaurant which was a popular destination eatery for a time between about 1965 and 1975. I remembered going there with my fiance and her family around 1969/70 but couldn't remember where it was until I did a walk in that part of Shipley Park about 5 years ago. Using Street View and some photographs from one of our visits I could clearly identify the buildings to be the same. Amazing. Does anyone else remember the Coppice Restaurant?
@@alanandrews4179yes, then after it became the “inn on the lake" when that closed think it became counter solutions, an electronics company. When they left it went into rack and ruin but I know someone has bought it, but they may not get their "wish" with the building.
@@TrekkingExploration Ideal time would be next year; prep work for the 200th anniversary is well under way. My bro lives in the nearest private house to North Road station, & I used to live just round the corner; the new visitors' car park is out the back. And the pub I use (the Half Moon) is a few properties down from Pease's house, where discussions about the railway took place. If you make it next year, please contact me for any logistical info (& a few pints of good ale!)
I hope you don't think me too critical Ant but maybe you should check your rights and lefts. You got them the wrong way round [9:54] and, if I remember correctly, you got them the wrong way round in your last video too. Keep up the good work though. As an ex-footplate man from the Midlands (retired) this is of great interest to me. I worked all over the Midlands, east and west, north and south, but never around these areas that you have filmed. Fascinating stuff. Stay safe.👍
Goods siding on the right, trackbed heading south and signal box on the left, footbridge poking out on the top right hand side? I can't quite see where it's wrong.
Amazing how nature reclaims the land!!
I really enjoy and look forward to your superb videos, full of hidden gems, photos and super in-depth information.
Very kind Graham thanks very much 😊
As always excellent, very atmospheric lovely, but sad too.
Thanks as always Nick
Your very Clever Ant finding all this Railway bit & pieces - specially @ 6:27 - The Island Platform!!! So sad about these Forgotten Abandoned Railway Station - Thank you Ant for rediscovering them 😊🚂🚂🚂
It's striking that you can be in a lush wooded area and find yourself in a train station. Great video as always, and always relaxing. The archwork on that bridge toward the beginning with the steel beams was quite unexpected and interesting to see.
Great watch as usual, breaks over -- will finish at home....
Thanks to Ant for his time, work and posting.
@@jetsons101 thanks for watching Mike
@@TrekkingExploration With all the walking you do, you must have a shoe delivery store on speed-dial.
@@jetsons101 ha yes I did 19 miles on Monday
Who'd have known, just looked like a walk in the woods but with your excellent nose for the lost and forgotten a whole station complex appears in the minds eye. Great walk Ant, thanks👍👍👍👍
I'll hold my hand up I didn't know either 🤣
I did research putting it together and saw something on it so went back. You may have noticed a change of clothes 😉
@@TrekkingExploration I did the notice the quick change act 😂😂 but it's the content that counts unlike some people who'd rather rudely comment on what you wear🙄🙄
Great video, I always find it relaxing watching disused railway videos, it’s very interesting.
Looking at that site initially you’d be forgiven for not knowing there was ever a railway station there it’s so overgrown, it’s only when you watch videos like yours you get to find these places out, so thanks very much.
Absolutely stunning Ant. Thank you for hunting these gems down for us.
Very interesting really enjoying you videos. Britain has so much railway history.
Although very little remains of what must once have been a busy section of line, these disused railways have left us with wonderful greenways along which to walk and explore. We should make more use of them. Thank you for a very enjoyable video with some marvellous archive images.
Quality as always fantastic watching top man keep them coming 👍
Good video, my friend! I started work as a Countryside Ranger at Shipley Country Park in 1979, under Head Ranger Frank Bacon - 30 years my senior - who was a leading-light of The Heanor & District History Society and a fount of knowledge on the Miller-Mundy Estate at Shipley. The station you explored was in a better state in those days - much drier (!) and the footbridge was still there, although the decking was so bad, you couldn't safely go across it! Frank told me that the station was unique in a few ways stipulated by Alfred Edward Miller-Mundy - The station was signed as 'Marlpool Station for Shipley Hall', was painted in the 'estate green', rather than the railway company's colours and 'The Squire' had his own carriage kept in the siding, which he could have connected to any train of his choice! I met the then owner of the station master's
house, who told me he bought it, as a sitting tenant, in the '70s for £3,000! The level crossing alongside the site of Coppice Colliery was once the scene of a gruesome suicide around the turn of the century, when a discrepancy found inthe accounts at the colliery resulted in one of the accountants lying with his head on the tracks there when the train from Heanor Gate Station was due! ...Just one other thing - the cutting where you discovered the road bridge over the line was called Raikes Cutting -after an engine regularly used on the line - the 'Cecil Raikes'. That's as much as I can remember for now - hope it's of interest! Thanks again
Very interesting? Thanks Ang
Thank you so very much for this very interesting and informative video presentation which is very much appreciated. It looked like Heanor station had not originally intended to be a terminus but rather the line may have been intended to carry on. It is most unusual for a terminal station to be an island platform and especially as you pointed out the way the road had been constructed to pass over the railway when it could have more easily passed around the end of the line. It was certainly an early closure but I knew of a closure not too far away from here which was a 1925 closure to passengers and a number of more passenger closures in 1930 though this may have been as a result of the depression as well as the onset of the bus. There is certainly, always, an interesting backstory to these railways, why they opened and why and when they closed. Thank you, as ever, for taking us along with you.
I am local and use lots of the trails round there cycling and walking am absolutely amazed what used to be there and I never knew I’ve cycled over that bridge 100s of times and never realised a track once ran below 🤯
They found a thousand roman coins at Marpool Station , voluntary group clearing the station now. Great Vid good information.
Dankeschön, es war ein interessanter Einblick in die Vergangenheit.
Thank you ❣️
Thank you so much for watching 💙
Thanks
another excellent video 👍you wouldn't know there was a platform until you look hard to see where it was
Another interesting walk! You never cease to amaze me, how you manage to find all these fabulous locations.Wish we had more disused lines here in Warwickshire - but there is always the Leamington Spa to Rugby line. If you ever do that, let me know and we'll have a beer!
The old Heanor station masters house is still extant, Ant , used as a private dwelling. It's on the opposite side of the road bridge as you follow the line to the headshunt.
Also, at 13:47, there is a turning to the right which takes you to the headshunt for Newcastle colliery. Being newly local to the area I found your video very interesting. Thanks mate 👍👍
Another fascinating and, simply, lovely video from Ant. His jumper is pretty cool too!
Aaww thanks it's one of my better jumpers I shouldn't really be wearing whilst out doing these 🤣
Fascinating as always. By the way, the casting that attaches a length of track to a sleeper is known as a "chair".
Those little nuggets occasionally slip my mind when I'm talking about things 🙂
The photo you showed at Osbornes Pond looking over the track and the water to the hill was at Shipley Lake I believe, looking towards the hill and woodland that Shipley Hall stood on. I'm glad you found my Google Earth image with the overlayed map useful. I have a photo of Heanor Gate station with my house in the distance. The trackbed of the Heanor Branch around Marlpool Station is a designated footpath shown on the Derbyshire Council footpath map. They should fix the drainage, it didn't used to be like that when it first opened.
Good film as always. You could visit the abandoned hall or house called 'Carlton Hall' in Northamptonshire. It's a big structure!
Another super explore. Quite nostalgic with the before and after photos. As always filming and narration so good. Well done Ant. Another masterpiece. Thank you.
Very kind Shirley thanks very much. South Wales is coming up soon
At the end of the track at Heanor Gate Ind Est. there was a level crossing and a small cottage. I use to play in the cottage and on the track sleepers. The opposite side I use to pick blackberries on the old tracks leading to where the Heanor station was. Great memories.
Thank you for the video Ant, really enjoyed it, cheers, Pete 👍
Very kind thanks very much indeed
Thanks for that video, Ant. Fascinating!
That bridge near to Marlpool Station was built by the local Butterley Company in 1890
some nice hidden finds there Ant
Thanks for watching Chris
Always manage to find something interesting in what at first apparently is a featureless piece of countryside! ... any plans for more Reservoir updates as enjoyed the last year and this year water levels comparisons!👍
The GN had plans to extend the line around the back of Ripley, to Ambergate. They wanted to pinch goods traffic off the Midland, hence the two track bridge, and the over extended headshunts at Heanor. This never got built, and was probably 'blocked' by the Midland Heanor Goods branch from Langley Mill to Ripley, that didn't really serve much purpose, as all the industrial sites were already served by mineral lines or tramways. The Heanor GN Station Master's house still stands the other side of the road from the station site itself.
There used to be some floor tiles on Marlpool Station platform that were a floor of one of the buildings. It used to be an easy walk from one end to the other, not an overgrown swamp like now!
The Shipley stretch is also part of NCN67 - Nutbrook Trail taking you all the way down past Straws Bridge and down to Erewash Canal. Squire Miller-Mundy - owner of the Colleries in Shipley paid for Nutbrook Canal construction and did a deal with Stanton & Staveley to go through the ironwkorks so they could use the water for the steelworks. at Marlpool Station if you can see the brick pillars where the bridge use to cross over the station. The footpath is still in use leading off to A6007.
These once grand Estates, there upon found minerals below, a repeated story, as with Hunloke Hall, Sutton Scarsdale etc, the find ended up devouring the finder - estate no more, house, mainly, gone...
Amongst all this post railway dereliction, mind them olde track dets - there's still some about.!!
2:35 The method of building the bridge deck is the same method they used for the floors of the cotton mills around Manchester and beyond.
Great video 😮 this would make a cracking small OO layout :)
Yes it would make a fantastic layout but it all depends on how big you make it I have been doing mind in loft for going on 11 years total length or the way round about 50 feet Bill
"Woodside pit still pumps water from the No.2 Piper shaft, where three (used to be 4) submersible pumps are used to absract anything up to 25 million gallons of minewater per week. The water is delivered to the six settling lagoons West of the Shipley View estate, principally for precipitation of iron compounds by oxygenation then sedimentation prior to removal as slurry. Water discharges to the Nutbrook at the South end, which is very dependent on this treated minewater for its flow and current improving aquatic health. Obviously the treatment process has to work correctly or this could affect the Nutbrook and other watercourses/bodies dramatically. "
Ant....who bought you that jumper??? You are brave wearing that lol
The 1880 map clearly shows that road at Heanor existing before that station, and the 1898 map shows the odd layout of the station with the overbridge with the odd kink it in.
Great Video.
Marlpool station, was built for the useage of the Miller- Mundy family of Shipley Hall.
The bay at the station with the brick wall was were the family, and visitors including royalty would get of the train.
It was also a dock for the horses to be unloaded.
The big house you mentioned with doors and windows missing was called the Coppice
In the 1950s/60s itvwas the home ofbthe Natoonal Coal Boards Area Manager.
My uncle lived there for a few years.
If this building is the one painted white with a large tarmac area by the road, I am pretty sure it became the Coppice restaurant which was a popular destination eatery for a time between about 1965 and 1975. I remembered going there with my fiance and her family around 1969/70 but couldn't remember where it was until I did a walk in that part of Shipley Park about 5 years ago. Using Street View and some photographs from one of our visits I could clearly identify the buildings to be the same. Amazing. Does anyone else remember the Coppice Restaurant?
@@alanandrews4179yes, then after it became the “inn on the lake" when that closed think it became counter solutions, an electronics company. When they left it went into rack and ruin but I know someone has bought it, but they may not get their "wish" with the building.
Just before where the line crossed the road, there was a deep cutting and a signal box
I love vids of old railways. I'm a Darlington lad, but paradoxically there's very little in the way of disused railways round here
I've never been up that way yet not even on holiday. Thank you for watching 🙂
@@TrekkingExploration Ideal time would be next year; prep work for the 200th anniversary is well under way. My bro lives in the nearest private house to North Road station, & I used to live just round the corner; the new visitors' car park is out the back. And the pub I use (the Half Moon) is a few properties down from Pease's house, where discussions about the railway took place. If you make it next year, please contact me for any logistical info (& a few pints of good ale!)
@@paulbennett772 absolutely it's probably the only area I've never been to
The footpath where the footbridge was still exists
I hope you don't think me too critical Ant but maybe you should check your rights and lefts. You got them the wrong way round [9:54] and, if I remember correctly, you got them the wrong way round in your last video too. Keep up the good work though. As an ex-footplate man from the Midlands (retired) this is of great interest to me. I worked all over the Midlands, east and west, north and south, but never around these areas that you have filmed. Fascinating stuff. Stay safe.👍
Goods siding on the right, trackbed heading south and signal box on the left, footbridge poking out on the top right hand side? I can't quite see where it's wrong.
But could it ever be open up again and run trains on it Bill
An now we dont use coal although we are sitting on thousands of years coal and gas buy it in from KAZAKSTAN AND SOUTH AMERICA..