The Lost Railways of Westhouses, Blackwell & New Hucknall Collieries

Подписаться 6 тыс.

Просмотров 2,9 тыс.

50% 1

We're looking at disused railways around Westhouses, Blackwell and New Hucknall collieries in this video. This fed both Blackwell A Winning and B Winning Collieries. We'll also see some of the old Great Central Railway and sidings and how this contributed to the area - oh, and happy new year!!!
Built in 1871 as far as both the Blackwell collieries, it was later extended to the New Hucknall Colliery and New Hucknall sidings on the Great Central. The lines closed at various stages, with the latest been the late 80s
We are starting at Westhouses in Derbyshire and the site of the former Westhouses and Blackwell station. Now no longer present, but the line is still in use as the Erewash Valley line between Nottingham, Chesterfield and Sheffield. The station dates back to1881 but closed in 1967. We can stilll the old Station pub and follow the footpath alongside the tracks.
We pass some old lamps on one of the accesses into the old Westhouses depot, which is now all lost to open cast mining. The depot closed in 1987.
Continuing on the route of the disused railway eastwards - this is now called the Blackwell Trail, we come to the site of the Blackwell A Winning colliery. Closed in 1969. We can see information boards giving a little history onthe colliery.
The line continues under the M1 motorway and into Hilcote and the site of the Blackwell B Winning Collier. Closure came in 1964 and nothing remains. There are a few more lines around here to explore and this includes the line towards the New Hucknall Colliery and another towards the New Hucknall sidings on the Great Central Mainline.
We can see the point where the GCR crossed over the colliery branch as we near the site of the New Hucknall colliery site at Huthwaite.
We can this follow the branch line from New Hucknall Colliery to the New Hucknall sidings, which again has been redeveloped. But as usual this doesnt stop us having a good scout around finding lost railway items.
On the way home, we divert a few hundred yards up the GCR mainline to the bridge under the now A38. This was the site of the large cutting under the road that has left behind a lovely old bridge - that 1000s drive over everyday but have no idea exists. We can walk down a narrow path down the trackbed and the junction with the South Normanton Colliery.
Thanks for watching, happy new year and all the best for 2023!!!
Buy me a coffee - ko-fi.com/wobb...
Facebook - / wobbly.runner
Instagram - / wobbly.runner

Опубликовано:

7 сен 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 30

@paulcharlton4788 Год назад

Best time of year to explore under the A38, it’s like a swamp most of the time! I used to live over that was and it was good to see all the paths and trails I used to explore.

@WobblyRunner Год назад

I think luckily for me the swamp had frozen 🙂

@seamusmcevoy2011 Год назад

That looked like an excellent day out, a heavy frost, decent company and railway history. The lines were really crammed into the area, it must have looked like steel string from the air!!! The added GCR bit at the end was a real bonus too, I'm always fascinated by the detail and size of the structures of that line, even the cuttings were massive.

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Top stuff. Yeah as we saw, you can tell when it's GCR. 👍🙂

@ffrancrogowski6263 Год назад

Unbelievable! It's incredible to think now that there was a loco depot at Westhouses. When I was on the railway at Buxton, going back to 1979, I went on that place, just the once, when there were many pairs of class 20s and even a visiting class 44! The Erewash Valley line then was busy with coal trains, but I never realised that there was such a network of lines like what you showed us on this video, to the east of Westhouses, including Great Central lines. A very interesting showing, and so, many thanks.

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Thanks very much. Yeah it always amazes me to network of lines around there with all the collieries. These things disappear from the landscape so quickly.

@mrbetamax1969 Год назад

Better that heated front screen come in andi. Another winner paul 👍

@WobblyRunner Год назад

😄 Got to love a heated windscreen

@WanderingwithWatto Год назад

Very interesting video mate. Interesting to see the network up there. 👍🏻

@WobblyRunner Год назад

It sure is 👍

@petereaton6982 Год назад

Hi there. Not noted in the nice again Local video, The Bonus bit is / was on the proposed HS2 route? Liked the old photo fade in's especially the passenger train taken from the A38 bridge, I had high hopes of standing there watching the high speed trains passing under! the Westhouses area was not open-cast that many years ago. thanks Peter

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Cheers Peter 👍. I thought HS2 was going to be slightly West of this line?

@maestromanification Год назад

Another Great one Paul, I'm learning so much about areas I work through from your videos One reason why there was a connection to the GC may have been that prior to nationalisation the two railways belonged to different companies and each wanted their share of revenues from pits. There are a number of pits in South Yorkshire that two connections Frickley had a connection to the NE& Midland joint at moorthorpe and another to the Hull and Barnsley If two companies ended up with different owners after grouping ie LMS or LNER they would have kept two and obviously once it was all BR there was little need for two connections

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Nice one Russ. That's probably the reason. I find it confusing they would use the line that included a reverse rather than the direct line :)

@maestromanification Год назад

@@WobblyRunner cheers Paul. Some locations used to have strange methods of working. Could it have possibly been because of the length of the train especially when it went to MGR wagons

@trevorbirch797 Год назад

Interesting video..thanks

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Cheers Trevor 👍

@martinmarsola6477 Год назад

Thank you for the tour today. It’s sad that the businesses are all out of business. Cheers mate! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Cheers Martin 👍😉

@andrewmarriott4033 Год назад

That fantastic been down the Blackwell trail a few times but loved the great central bit at the end 👍

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Cheers Andrew. That was a nice bonus to see the GCR at the end.

@richardharris4452 Год назад

Great video Paul...i live about a 10 minute walk away from the location of the old New Hucknall Colliery and have walked the Blackwell trail a few times. Didn't know,however about that spur up to the Sidings,so that's straight to the top of the to-do list! The GCR bonus.....top addition....you can follow the route down to Kirkby In Ashfield where it tunnelled under the A611 (sadly infilled) and on to Nottingham. As for under the A38 bridge, was the metal table and chairs still down there??😄

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Cheers Richard 👍. I don't remember seeing the table and chairs.

@richardharris4452 Год назад

@@WobblyRunner must have put them in storage for the winter!!

@WobblyRunner Год назад

@@richardharris4452 😄

@psychicspies673 Год назад

Absolutely loved that as it brought back memories of walks exploring the silverhill, teversal and blackwell trails in 2021. That ultimately led to the Skegby trail explore we did. I had my lunch on the bench at 12:04! Did you spot the weird industrial site on the hill south east the Westhouses triangle? I think it was maybe for explosives storage.

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Aha the bench at Hilcote!!! I hope it was warmer when you had your lunch there? Yeah the explosives place. I thought they were pig house things at first 😄

@psychicspies673 Год назад

You certainly had a crisp day. It was warmer but I still had my trusty flask

@andrewdavis9223 Год назад

Please tell me how to get to spinkhill tunnel 😫

@WobblyRunner Год назад

Do you know the area at all? I walked down the trackbed from towards Killamarsh, past Spinkhill Station. You can get on the tracked from Westthorpe Hills County Park.