A walk along the old New Mills to Hayfield Branch! 

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Me and my mates used to go to Hayfield on the train before heading up to Kinder. I remember being on the platform one afternoon, waiting for the train and reading the notice saying the line would be closing. After that, going by bus wasn't as enjoyable. It was sad that the the line had to close but the worst thing was that a few years later I visited by car. Not only was the old station gone but what felt like a dual carriageway seemed to cut through the town. I'm sure it was welcomed by the villagers and took heavy traffic off the high street but still, it seemed quite brutal to me. Still does as a matter of fact!

You missed a couple of old railway relics. On the right hand side of the trail between New Mills and Birch Vale, in a field are the remains of the embankment of the original line. Work was interrupted and when it restarted they changed the route slightly to the existing alignment. At the crossing between Birch Vale and Hayfield there are the remains of the old crossing warning sign and an old goods wagon in the field. Look out for them if you ever walk this way again. Great video, thanks for posting.

When I was at school the tunnel wasn't blocked off and you could walk back towards the station, occasionally meeting the train which had terminated before returning to Manchester. The sidings at the end of the platform you refer to was for the Sheffield train which turned round at New Mills.

Great video - and subbed! We lived in a house that backed onto the railway near Thornsett. The railway was still down when we moved in, even the signals etc. It wasn't long after it shut that the council came along and ripped it up though sadly... One relic to look out for if you (or anyone else for that matter) is up there, just past the site of Birch Vale station, there is a section of wall to the right that has been reinforced with one of the old track rails. It takes some spotting as it's buried in foliage. Also, just before New Mills tunnel (doctors side), there used to be a gradient sign just over the wooden fence as the bridge crosses the river. I couldn't see it when I was last up there so I can only assume it was nicked or it was removed when they did the remodelling of that section of the trail.

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Only did the line once, it was a DMU in those days, late 60`s. The platform at Hayfield was bare from memory, not even a shelter, just a single empty platform.

They did some filming in Hayfield for the TV series The Village. some lovely places to walk , and a lovely place to watch the cricket in the Summer. having walked the line on many occasions I think the reopening of the line is now out of the question, too many banking's and bridges have been removed, it should have been taken over before the destruction.

Great video. Many thanks. I live in Edale and go to New Mills often on the train for the chippy and the pharmacy. I often go down to the old mills area just to chill before getting my train back if I have a time to wait. Often wondered what that fenced off tunnel was about and what it was like inside? Thanks for resolving that for me. I hope you enjoyed your day. Great video. Thanks.

Just discovered your videos! Really interesting. Thank you so much.

Great vid...I was wondering about the history of the line to Hayfied...we walked along the old track bed a few days back...jim

Arthur Lowe was born in Hayfield. In 1976 the Dad's Army cast played a cricket match there to raise money for a new pavilion.

Thanks for the video, I've been to Hayfield many times, We used to camp at the site up towards kinder scout

So I just discovered your channel, and as someone with a passing interest in abandoned railways who grew up by Brunel University, regularly walked the canals and rivers up to Denham and beyond, worked for a period on the Bluebell railway, and now live near Hayfield and work near New Mills, I am finding all these videos fascinating. Keep up the good work!

I lived a couple of hundred yards up the hill from the doctors surgery for many years - and me and my dog walked along that trail almost every day! You missed a bit of a trick in New Mills: if you’d stayed on the Millennium Bridge and walked away from the station, you would have walked past the site of the longest continuously working mill in the country, and one of the first publicly owned hydro electric generating plants - and you’d have still joined up with the path near the other tunnel entrance. New Mills is a fascinating place - it changed direction with the coming of the railway, and you can see that some of the houses appear to be built back-to-front because of it!

Im sure Arthur Lowe was was born and raised in Hayfield

Progress is sometimes counter productive - spoiling things