EXPLORING THE DISUSED RAILWAY OF THORESBY COLLIERY 

The question of the missing track ?. It was probably the best quality section of rail and sleepers ?. To be used some where else , Especially if it was flat and straight ?. As there would have been less head wear on the rail and as they were reclaiming the rail they might as well take the sleepers etc !. It probably went into a siding or goods yard some where ?, I used to be a track supervisor permanent way on the nsw railways in Australia oour railways were a carbon copy of yours except for the rail fastenings we used timber sleepers and plates and dog spikes lock spikes . they changed to concrete sleepers in the eighties and pandrol clips when the started doing continuous welded rail as the old system wasnt strong enough !

Good walk there x

Thank you for the walking tour. Quite historic and interesting. Cheers mate! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂👍🇺🇸

Fascinating video always enjoy wandering where theres a stretch of track still down although walking on ballast can be a bit uncomfy......Great stills at the end ..Cheers Ant...Frank & Lee..

Great Video, lovely walk and also liked the photos at the end of the test trains and MPV, I have been over the High Marnham Test Track, travelled the line back in 2017 on the Great Central Lament Charter which which was worked by two Class 66 locomotives top and tailed, even got off the train at Ollerton, to have a look around,.

Another great video! Happy New Year!

Yet another awesome video! Just had to see this for myself so walked it in April 2021 and the only remaining track is between the Thoresby Colliery signal box and the point in the video at 03:43 - there is no more track after that point. There's also a new building development going on further up which "interfere's" slightly with the trackbed. I actually managed to walk right on to the former colliery site; the fencing under the last bridge is no longer there. There are some pit buildings still standing and a lot of junk/rubble but the site has mostly been cleared. Well worth checking out!

very interesting video of days gone by of the colliery 👍

Many thanks for sharing this video with us. I went down Thoresby Colliery as editor of a magazine called Colliery Guardian in early 1989. Thorseby was for many years the most productive British Coal Corporation mine. I was shocked to learn it had closed.

Having only discovered your channel the other day I`m having a binge watch at the moment and enjoying all I see. How would one go about stealing a railway?

Very interesting🤔

The buildings that still stand stand on the site, the long building, and the white roofed one, they were workshops and a winding house.

That yellow device looked like a flange lubricator, probably due to the tight curve going into the colliery. The tight curve is not really visible on your video.

just subscribed as being a driver at shirebrook 10 years and enjoying all i see.

4:45 Method of working when I drove up and down there .. drive into the sidings (from Shirebrooke end) and run round the train .... drive train up to the colliery with loco on the front and load as required ... when loaded, reverse all the way back along the branch to the repeating signal and wait with rear of the train at actual signal. When signal cleared, reverse into sidings ready to depart. For that method of working, the farm crossing would have been out of use.

The track went straight under the bridge at the entrance and through to the rapid loader.

I used to be a secondman on the coal trains from Thoresby to Whitemoor 1975 to 1982 era, From Whitemoor the coal mainly went forward to Norwich Victoria Coal Depot, we also went to Ollerton, and Mansfield Concentration Sidings, along the way we passed a derilect ruin of a house where a escaped man from a well known jail in that area murdered all the occupants, can any one remind me of the name of the jail or the terrible event itself? When we got to the coalfield area we never knew if we were going to Thoresby, Ollerton or Mansfield Concentration Sidings causing the driver some stress, we always had a dirty Tinsley Class 37 for some unknown reason rather than a nice clean March or Stratford 37. The dates of the trips are all recorded in my diaries with the drivers name and loco number. the name of the jail was Rampton i think.

Another interesting video,What is the difference between a coal mine and a colliery ?

Worked here from 1985 to 1995. Real shame.

4:06 The "gizmo" is a rail greaser. The train hits a treadle that squirts grease onto the wheels to stop squeal and wear on the curve.

Ime suprised the sleepers are still there or were they concrete ones

Is there anything left of the colliery