Exploring The Disused Railway of Bentinck Colliery in Nottinghamshire 

Hey Bob glad you're here 😀 those signals were so eerie! Lost in time almost. Glad you enjoyed it, i usually have something new out each week 😀

us too

Morning Robert, thanks for watching and commenting too 🙂 There is a lot too see if we look hard enough. I recently did the Rufford Colliery Branch again a year after doing it the first time. I noticed a lot I had missed the first time around so much that I made a new video on it. I enjoyed the Bevercotes Colliery Branch, it has a nice mix of terrains and countryside.

There must be som many more similar locations around the UK, soon i'll have to leave my local territory. thank you for the kind comment :)

Thanks for that. 🙂 It was extremely haunting to find them in those trees

Thanks very much Mick. Glad to have you here 🙂👍

Brilliant thank you for watching 🙂 I need to go back this way at some point so I'll be sure to look. I believe it's where the source of the Erewash is too

@@TrekkingExploration Hi there. The source of the Erewash is now under the far end of the Aldi car park in Kirkby. We used to catch newts in it. The first few hundred yards were in the open. As Simon says, the valley next to the foot crossing at the beginning of your video was cris- crossed with lines. Two lines ran across two major viaducts. One went to Bentinck station, the other to Kirkby Central. In the easterly direction they converged at South Junction and proceeded to Annesley tunnel, the deeper and longer of Kirkby's two tunnels. Part of the cutting heading toward the West portal is still there. The Mansfield and Pinxton Line was originally horse drawn. Kirkby's "Summit" colliery got it's name from it's proximity to the summit of this line. At the far end of Kings Mill reservoir the original M&P 1817 viaduct over the River Maun still stands. Coincidentally, the original M&P line ran through Kirkby adjacent to the source of the Erewash (Aldi car park) where stood a line of railway cottages that evolved into the Railway pub, itself demolished in 2006. There's tons of railway history in Kirkby and a fair few bits of infrastructure still extant.

@@spyderdryverlee4581 I’ve been trying to find the source of the Erewash for ages. When I’ve looked I’ve just lost it at the back of Portland park where the railway foot bridges are. Always wondered where it started. Is there none of it visible at the back end of Aldi car park? Thanks 😀

On my way to remind myself now 😁

Thank you :) It had some amazing finds

Hi Mike glad you found us 😀 That's a really great suggestion and I'll look into it. The Denby branch is also on the agenda. I've been to Chesterfield quite a bit the past few months, for the Chesterfield Canal and the railways around Staveley too

You'll have to book a UK Railway exploring holiday next year, tell her its a history vacation ha ha ha

@@TrekkingExploration as soon as this covid stuff dies down I have sorted a few walks and places of interest thanks a rail tour oh yes

Thanks Helen it looks like you are catching up fast 🙂

Trying to Ant x

@@helenthorne8451 they get worse the closer you get to the first 🤣

Looks like you get about abit but I'm enjoying watching them i think one of my favourite was the cooling towers x

@@helenthorne8451 awwww thanks 🙂x

That track just sat there like that, a strange surprise. Especially as the first half looked like a farm track that was never a railway at all

It’s all down to cost. When I worked for Ashfield Council in mid 2000s along with the County a number of old lines around Stanton Hill, Teversal and Tibshelf / Newton were converted to a network of paths. There was no track left, BR had scrapped it, but there were loads of concrete sleepers in situ, when we did the sums - removal / disposal / crushing it worked out cost effective to donate a load to Butterley (MRB) and I think Crich and possibly one other heritage line, a win win!

Newstead coal also came out of Bentinck Drift i remember seeing the Newstead coal transferring into the underground vertical bunker at the bottom of the surface drift during early eighties

@@trevorharrison9617 all of newsteads reserves were allocated to annasley and men transferred there to Shame really cos newstead was one of best producing Pits in notts

Hi Eric, it is on the to do list :) Probably not until August though as the next 3 " should " be the GNR Friargate to Derby, and Bennerley Viaduct. Also the Rochdale Canal. If you have any other suggestions at all, pop them over :)

@@TrekkingExploration The Lancaster canal would be a good video. Also the Glasson branch of the Lancaster canal. 😊

I love the Lancaster, took a boat along it twice last year. Walked as far as the third lock on the Glasson

Hello, thanks for watching. The music and commentary difference has been improved in recent weeks so should be OK now 😀👍

Interesting, thanks for that :)

I saw the sleepers when I visited Seymour Junction in May, I'm assuming the rails are further south?

@@TrekkingExploration tracks are down as you enter the pit itself & ive no idea how far back they go as the siding dissappears into the undergrowth next to the industrial estate same trackbed eventually comes out at the canal basin you previously filmed its just that it goes the long way round i visted bolsover as Gmaps still showed it to still have some buildings still standing including the weighbridge building

@@jasinere35 i think I'd better get to Bolsover quite sharpish then 👍

they are working on the old chemical works at this moment & it wont be long before they move onto the coalite site

It's called accent. Had it for 43 years so doubt it's change 👍

The accent and colloquialisms are perfectly fine in all of his videos. Your comment just seemed a little rude and unnecessary. Glad you love the videos though.

regional dialect....they all talk like that rouund ere ya daft bogga....