Harworth Colliery Disused Railway Walk & Explore

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I start my Journey just West of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire, on the long disused former GNR Joint Railway. A short while into the walk we arrive at the site of the now demolished Harworth Colliery. I then pick up the Branch Line heading away from Harworth towards Harworth Junction before arriving at Tickhill Viaduct and finally Firbeck Junction.
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@VoicesFromBeyond Год назад

Used to play on this walk when I was a child, many happy memories

@jpbuckle6845 3 года назад

Ha! Spent many,many days of my youth the 70’s/80’s playing exactly around there,where the woods meet the road used to be a huge dump full of local rubbish,the glass bulbs had a dump nearby too which was very futuristic and cool,idyllic childhood,love the place,great video

@alparker6560 Год назад

So did i early 70s

@martinmarsola6477 2 года назад

Thank you for the long haul and safe trip. Cheers mate.

@frankfitzgerald5832 4 года назад

Great video Ant.....very interesting ..loved the Viaduct ....Thanks Keep up the great work mate ...Frank & Lee...

@seamusmcevoy2011 4 года назад

@trekking and towpaths, I've gone under the Tickhill Viaduct no end of times on my way to Sheffield and often wondered if there was a path up above, well now I know, and it's one that I'm going to tackle fairly soon. Great video mate!!

@TrekkingExploration 4 года назад

Hello, it caught me by surprise on the day, totally unexpected 😀

@Rasgazza 5 лет назад

Nice one, mate. I'm intrigued by disused railways and really appreciate the time you've spent on this video. There are several in South Yorkshire I'd like to have a closer look at, if I ever have the time.

@TrekkingExploration 5 лет назад

Thanks Gary, i'll be looking into Yorkshire a fair bit more as i have already done a few in Nottinghamshire :)

@barrythedieselelectricstea5217 3 года назад

another very interesting video 👍

@TrekkingExploration 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it, thankyou for watching :)

@irievibes82 4 года назад

Thanks for this... I grew up in tickhill during the 80's/90's and used to watch the trains all the time, especially in summer and the bridge over apy lane was my usual place. I did your same walk but in 2014 and all the track was still there apart from a mile stretch that had been stolen. Cheers for the walk down memory lane man👍👍

@TrekkingExploration 4 года назад

You're very welcome. The Harworth line was one of the first i did. I had never seen so many ants nests. Stand still for a second and my shoes were covered lol

@irievibes82 4 года назад

@@TrekkingExploration lol... It was winter when I did it so no insects at all👍👍

@chrisbayly5457 3 года назад

love to walk these lines soon..

@TrekkingExploration 3 года назад

This was a good one, a bit of everything 🙂

@socklesslad 4 года назад

Great video as always - but I never thought I'd hear you say "I think I might be about to regret taking my trousers off"!

@TrekkingExploration 4 года назад

Ha ha ha ha i know 🤣😅

@johnbrown7512 4 года назад

Great video, very interesting, thanks

@TrekkingExploration 4 года назад

Thanks for watching John 👍🙂

@zacw10 4 года назад

Used to go past here quite alot back in the 80s, retired in January when eckington pit shut. Worked at eckington welbeck thoresby Markham and firbeck main.

@TrekkingExploration 4 года назад

Firbeck is astounding, all those buildings still standing

@vernilley1 4 года назад

Was wondering how much walking i was allowed to do from harworth, along the old rail line. This helped loads. Great video

@TrekkingExploration 4 года назад

Thanks for watching and I'm glad it's helped you out 😊

@chrislaunders8283 4 года назад

The village is actually Bircotes, Harworth village is over beyond it.

@tonysoulby6686 5 лет назад

Great video. I never did get to Harworth Colliery, but i worked on steam and diesel to Firbeck and Maltby Colliery;s from Scunthorpe.. It would nice to see how it is now .

@TrekkingExploration 5 лет назад

Thankyou :) I believe only a little of the Firbeck line exists, at the Harworth Junction end. I'm sure the colliery site is a country park now

@jasinere35 5 лет назад

@@TrekkingExploration most of the firbeck buildings are still standing apart from the winding towers however where these stood is getting used to make cement blocks the as for the bed very little of it remains & you can only really see where it went via googlemaps no one knows whats likely to happen to firbeck colliery as ive asked some of the locals & kept getting blank expressions aswell as shrugging of shoulders each time i enquired, also many on facebook page are hoping the old harworth bed becomes a path but as you found out farmers are taking back the land it goes thru

@iainmccoll8442 4 года назад

Very good

@TrekkingExploration 4 года назад

Thanks Iain 😀👍

@jasinere35 5 лет назад

last time I walked that one it still had the single track down but was missing in places

@TrekkingExploration 5 лет назад

Nothing at all now :(

@stevejones8828 5 лет назад

Wot a fantastic video

@TrekkingExploration 5 лет назад

Hi Steve, thanks very much 😀

@mwspireite5713 3 года назад

Had the pleasure of working at Harworth colliery for 12 years until it's closure. I transferred there from Silverhill when that colliery closed in 93. The old railway lines in my locality have now been converted in many miles of official country walks like the "Five Pits Trail" and the "Silverhill Trail". I just wondered if there are any plans to make these routes proper walking trails? And thanks for the video.

@TrekkingExploration 3 года назад

Thank you for watching and commenting. There is still a great deal for me to walk in that area and I do often forget about it so thanks for the reminder 😊 There are some potential good walking routes that can be created still and hopefully this will happen 😊

@stevejones8828 5 лет назад

Thanks

@janepatricia8779 5 лет назад

very good Video, its such a shame these lines are left like this.they ought to be turned into walking/cycle tracks.

@TrekkingExploration 5 лет назад

It's worth making it into a path if only to save the viaduct :)

@djp120970 4 года назад

Harwood Colliery Institute, good football team and tough opponents back in the day

@anthonydefreitas6006 3 года назад

The Signal was a very good find 👍

@Mariazellerbahn 5 лет назад

The route is new to me. Never went there ... Doncaster and Worksop men's territory.

@TrekkingExploration 5 лет назад

I'm going to be straying into yorkshire a bit more now, although i am looking into Bentink

@1963TOMB 3 года назад

Didn't this branch also serve the Glass Bulbs factory in Harworth? My interest is that my father spent 25 years as a storeman there: being originally from Yorkshire it was rumored that he never let anything leave his stores!

@TrekkingExploration 3 года назад

There was indeed a glass bulb factory nearby the colliery that I believe was also served by rail. 😊

@1963TOMB 3 года назад

@@TrekkingExploration Although I was in a foster home from the age of 3, 1st at Ranby in Nottinghamshire staring in 1966 and then at Creswell from 1973 onwards, I was at some time given my real father's '25 year service' watch dated 1977. So the factory was there in 1952.

@Get_boxed_XD 3 месяца назад

My grandad died on that pit😭

@TrekkingExploration 3 месяца назад

Oh no I'm sorry. Whilst at work?

@grumpybore863 5 лет назад

I'm going to ask a numpty question here. but my excuse is that I know absolutely nothing about railroads. at 18:08 in this video, you show a sign that reads 11m 72ch. now, I am guessing that the 11m means 11 miles, but what is a "ch"?

@deanbotterill5152 4 года назад

11m72ch, means 11 mile 72 chain. There are 80 chain in a mile, 40 half mile, 20 quarter mile. "Chain" is a railway term of measurement. Another 8 chain, added to the above, would then become 12mile.

@grumpybore863 4 года назад

@@deanbotterill5152 thanks for enlightening me on this, Dean. that was interesting to learn!

@pmf2910 6 месяцев назад

Housing estate on there now. Whose brilliant idea was that??

@TrekkingExploration 6 месяцев назад

Just like near to me at Thoresby

@SKMusic1985 4 года назад

Why did you decide to visit here?

@glynjones3727 3 года назад

It's a nostalgia for the past. To some people, this set of walks might seem to be rather odd. But there are very many people,(mainly men?) who are interested in railway colliery lines, collieries, industrial architecture and what would these places would have looked like in the not so distant past. Once you see the lines, the sleepers in the ground, the ballast, the concrete posts, the lineside equipment, the silver birch trees, you're hooked! You have to know, to satisfy yourself where the these lines lead to.You look at and old, b&w photo of a long disused pit and you want to stand in that shot.

@SKMusic1985 3 года назад

Glyn Jones It’s my home village. I lived here for 18 years before leaving for uni. I think the interest is spreading with the popularity of urbexing. Not sure the popularity is with males, but all genders are finding curiosity in where they come from, how their families earned, how their villages/towns/cities were established. These types of walks often have disused buildings along the way, allowing good opportunities for photography & a bit of history.

@alistairstanyon6976 3 года назад

On our way to the pit one Day the tablet machine had been pinched that gave us permission to be on the single line

@dirtbikerman1000 2 года назад

I grew up riding motorbikes in bircotes wood where the video starts Its actually called the top wood. Here's a video of riding thosetrack on a motorbike...it could be me riding but for legal reasons we'll say rider unknown ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T3ezog7p6m8.html