Another nice walking tour this day. Always an enjoyable walk along. Makes me think I’m walking with you both. Thank you for the video! Always a great time! Cheers Paul! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
Great video for Saturday morning Paul. That signal post would have been the fixed distant signal for Parsley Hay junction. Fixed distants are a distant signal that doesnt move but tells drivers there is a stop signal coming up. They are still about today most modern ones are a reflectorised sign with a distant signal on it
Phil is Back !!! Good little run out chaps- keep the content coming.... always like to watch your adventures before work--cheers -- some cool bridges....
Hi Paul never knew there was another Gotham! That is so cool. The old steam train footage was brilliant I can imagine the train drivers dreaded winter coming in this part of the world. Beautiful scenery Paul this is one of my favourite series you have done, take care see you soon! ❤😊👍
I watched you doing spinkhill tunnel at killermarsh a few years ago I thought I just tell you in the z60s I used to do a bit of poaching round there . And I got to know a railway worker that walked the track and checked the tunnel . He told me that during the war Churchill set up a secret army to do gorilla work when Germany invaded us he told me that some workers from the goverment worked in there converting one of the manholes into a hiding place to put arms food explosives they were not allowed to look so he couldn’t tell me which manhole it was and I thought the old man was just stretching things until I watched a documentary about this they built them all over the country and only a few knew were they were. And I often wonder if it’s still there .
@@WobblyRunner it’s proberly still there when I was a kid i was born in staveley as you come into staveley on the staveley road from eckington just as you get into hartington on the left hand side there was a brick buliding in the field about a 100 yds from the road with a concrete roof with a steel trap door the door on the building was steel as well never knew what it was till 30 years after a kid who worked with me broke into it . And it was a lookout post during the war the home guard used to sit on the roof plane spotting under the floor was another steel trap door with steps down into a cellar with bunk beds and on the walls were silhouettes of German and British planes it now has been demolished I should love to have seen inside it .
@@desnorton8293there's the building on the corner of the cricket pitch at Staveley, I forget what it is now but that was used during the war too, wasn't it.
Absolutely fantastic run of videos keep up the great work please.
Thanks Dave.
You'll be pleased to hear that me and Jim are starting our next GCR series this week too.
Belting!! The drone shots really highlight the unique nature of the route of this railway, many thanks for sharing.
Thanks Larx 👍
Great vlog. Enjoyed this all your hard work pays off. Enjoyed all of yr vlogs I've watched
Cheers Dave.
Great videos interesting to watch thanks😊
Cheers Alan 👍
Another nice walking tour this day. Always an enjoyable walk along. Makes me think I’m walking with you both. Thank you for the video! Always a great time! Cheers Paul! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
Thank you Martin. Glad you enjoyed it
@@WobblyRunnerAlways!
Great video for Saturday morning Paul. That signal post would have been the fixed distant signal for Parsley Hay junction. Fixed distants are a distant signal that doesnt move but tells drivers there is a stop signal coming up. They are still about today most modern ones are a reflectorised sign with a distant signal on it
👍 is that the yellow ones on the boards you see? Like the one near Creswell
@@WobblyRunner it that on the old Clowne branch? There are some on the LD
Really enjoyed the video... New subscriber...
Thanks Chris. Welcome.
Great video and great scenery biked it many yrs ago very interesting keep up the great filming Paul.
Thanks Chris. It's a very interesting line isn't it. Plenty to look at along the route
Many years ago I walked from Whaley Bridge to the Erewash Canal over 3 days. Impressive inclined planes.
@@petercurrell9344 That's a very decent walk.
Phil is Back !!! Good little run out chaps- keep the content coming.... always like to watch your adventures before work--cheers -- some cool bridges....
Cheers John.
😄 I've just been out with Phil at the weekend filming the next 2 episodes too in the snow. 👍
the 1-4 post was a quarter mile post, used between even mile posts. There are half and three quarter mile posts as well.
Lovely walk in the summer.
Ahhh thanks Ernest 👍 makes sense. I never would have guessed that.
Hi Paul never knew there was another Gotham! That is so cool. The old steam train footage was brilliant I can imagine the train drivers dreaded winter coming in this part of the world. Beautiful scenery Paul this is one of my favourite series you have done, take care see you soon! ❤😊👍
Glad you are enjoying the series Carol. We've already filmed the next few parts too. I love it up there. The history of the place has got me hooked.
@@WobblyRunner ifs an amazing area. 😀
Great series this Paul, very interesting history in a very remote place, keep on keeping on mate👍
@@glynlittlewood7538 cheers Glyn.
Did the bit from fridon to parsley hay back in January 👍
Nice section that
I watched you doing spinkhill tunnel at killermarsh a few years ago I thought I just tell you in the z60s I used to do a bit of poaching round there . And I got to know a railway worker that walked the track and checked the tunnel . He told me that during the war Churchill set up a secret army to do gorilla work when Germany invaded us he told me that some workers from the goverment worked in there converting one of the manholes into a hiding place to put arms food explosives they were not allowed to look so he couldn’t tell me which manhole it was and I thought the old man was just stretching things until I watched a documentary about this they built them all over the country and only a few knew were they were. And I often wonder if it’s still there .
That's fascinating to think about isn't it.
A few hours with a shovel maybe 😄
@@WobblyRunner it’s proberly still there when I was a kid i was born in staveley as you come into staveley on the staveley road from eckington just as you get into hartington on the left hand side there was a brick buliding in the field about a 100 yds from the road with a concrete roof with a steel trap door the door on the building was steel as well never knew what it was till 30 years after a kid who worked with me broke into it . And it was a lookout post during the war the home guard used to sit on the roof plane spotting under the floor was another steel trap door with steps down into a cellar with bunk beds and on the walls were silhouettes of German and British planes it now has been demolished I should love to have seen inside it .
@@desnorton8293there's the building on the corner of the cricket pitch at Staveley, I forget what it is now but that was used during the war too, wasn't it.
@@eggy77 it was a pumping station
Those were mile posts, you have them at the mile, quarter, half and three quarters, it's the same still on modern day railways.
are these tracks on laylines?
I don't believe so, but that's an intetesting thought. I'd not considered it until now.