i used to work there years ago and was always overawed by the almost volcanic forces full of smoke and streaming molten liquid which I felt surely must last forever - and yet I am still here and that era has all vanished. The real invisible powers are actually the ever-changing economic forces which continue unabated, only now it is technological forces that prevail. I used to work on the railway as well as a trackman. Great changes have taken place there as well; steam is now a relic of the past and who remembers that now? All that power gone in the blink of an eye - sometimes it feels like everything in life is just a dream!
Brings back memories. My grandad used to make casting moulds at Stanton. As a kid in the 70's, I remember steam trains (which looking back now was surprising) running through the works and diesel shunters carrying the huge containers of molten steel from the blast furnaces. Still red hot. The site was still huge then. As a kid my family used to go to the seven oaks pub. There was the fire station next door, and I was allowd to get into the engines, start the lights and sirens...even got to wear some kit and and jump down the fire mans pole. Lots of very fond memories of the area. Mountain biking down or walking down the Nutbrooke trail and Erewash Canal. Great video. When you coinsider how heavily industrialised the area was with the steel works (17k emplyees ant Stanton and Staveley), pits and Toton Sidings (largest railway siding in Europe with 400 steam engines at its peak ), it makes me shake my head in disbelief that some folk are opposing the HS2 line. Good to hear the local accent again! I've been living in South Wales for sometime now and they "dunna talk rate dow'n ere!" :D
This brings back some nice memories,I used to love sitting on the backgarden wall at my grannies house on Moorbridge lane looking over towards the 2 blast furnace's at the side of the canal.I used to love the glow in the sky when it was dark ,I would of been about 10-11 years old (1965-66).
Hi, I walked around this area last Mon, Jan 3rd. There isn't a single tree left. you can see across the whole site no matter which boundary you are on. Last March me and my lady got as far as the Exhibition building on the rail line before being caught. It was a lady security guard with the biggest dog I have ever seen. she was ok and told us to keep safe and enjoy our walk. Twenty minutes later a bloke in a van was waiting at the crossing lights and although he could see why we were exploring he said we had to leave the site there and then. A few months later the engine house caught fire at Stanton Recycling on the northern side. I got up there first thing the following morning and the fire brigade were damping down. Since then, what was left of the building has been demolished and it looks like a new canopy has been erected. There is still quite a bit to see on the south of Lows Road. The pump house is still there with equipment in situ. I was on there one evening last summer when a security guard drew up in his van. A pleasant chat ensued and he said " I'm the only one on site tonight and as far as I'm concerned I haven't seen you. Take as many photo's as you want." A result or what ? Only just found you, enjoying your explores. Ben, now residing in Nottingham.
Great video, As a Driver based at Toton I used to work up the branch to stanton. At the end of its life we used to work up to collect pipes. I have a few photo's taken in 1999 when we went to the top end (through the locked gates) and up to the loading dock with overhead gantry. The 2 roads were used to run-round the wagons an propel them into the dead end, under the gantry. The photo`s I have show working up with 08776 and also 58007. I have a few photo`s of 56047 underneath the old signal gantry on the canal bridge just before the motorway bridge. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for this video. As a child in the 60s, I remember lying in bed listening to the sound of the shunting engines in the distance. We lived within sight and smell of the iron works, you could never hang washing out on a Sunday, as this was the day they cleaned out the Coke ovens, covering everything in Black/Grey dust, so much that we had to sweep it off the garden path. Fond memories indeed.
As a young fitter at Toton TMD, I remember attending to a class 08 shunter that was positioned not far from the end of the line where the broken buffer stops was. I can,t remember the exact reason, but I think it was something to do with topping up the coolant, as the loco had failed. It was on a pipe train as the author has correctly described. Great video.
This was uploaded a while ago but I've just seen it. From what I remember as a lad (c.1980s), the lower of the two lines you were talking about on the map, I remember being a series of sidings that almost joined in the middle, I didn't think it was one complete line, unless it was before or after that time. We used to spend a lot of time riding bikes down there, back when 'Westies' (West Transport) was a small yard near the top of Nottingham Road, Ilkeston. We'd ride along the lines from Manner Floods through Stanton to the Erewash Canal and then out of town, we got as far as Donnington once :) The Nutbrook Canal would be a good trek, a lot of it was still intact through Manner Floods and on to the mine water reed beds just before Shipley Lake.
The Widdowson brothers bought the Stanton sidings from the ironworks many years ago... They 'broke' the place for scrap & timber.. I used to maintain the 22' circular bedsaw for them back then.. They used it for ripping sleepers into fence panels.. The rail & casts were scrapped... They got very rich from this little venture....They also ran a skip company from the site... I also spray painted & maintained the skips for them. The bright yellow & navy blue ones you Used to see on everyone's drive in Nottingham back then....
i seem to remember a level crossing across lows lane just west of the fire station and the seven oaks pub, then another further along the road towards kirk hallam near wfp fabrications
Two of my uncle's worked at Stanton during WW2 all three of thier sister's did too including my mum...after the war my other uncle worked at Stanton until he retired in the late 70's.
Hi Ant. Great video 👍🏻 I remember it working in the late 70s when I visited Toton sheds train spotting 🤣 What a great opportunity to reinstate it and build some modern warehouses say for amazon rail connected instead of building them on green belt land for lorries only drrrrrrrrr 🙄
I worked for a company in sheffield what repaired electric arc furnaces in the 90s we used to go there and repair thres when ever it broke down if i remember right it was in that building to the right on the picture you posted with the loco. The was not that much left of the place when we used to go back then.
Hi, the last scheduled pipe train to leave was in 2007. Hauled by a class 60. Further movements continued slightly until about 2009 (Network Rail moves). The line is still classed as single line working, and remains classed operational.
Hi Ant, last Summer we cycled around where you walked after seeing the video so we thank you for that... The points lever had gone so hopefully that's been saved/restored somewhere? One day we'll cross paths for sure.. Cheers Chris, Derby UK..
Wow ant awesome another one of your videos I've ticked of the list great video can't believe the track work still there and beautiful pictures of the place in it's day and what a fantastic shot of class 58047 in one of my favourite liverys EWS just one of many liverys the 58s carried In there short lifes of services. Take care mate 👍
Even as a kid if I saw an old railway line I just wanted to follow and explore, no idea why. Amazing to see so much remaining here and nice to see you pull the story together with some old photos. Thanks
Hello Anthony, It's Mike Wood (Devon Boy) from Chesterfield here, just thought I'd let you know a bit of interesting news that you might want to know. Unless you already know yourself? Brought myself a railway magazine on Monday 11th January 2021 it's called: The Railway Magazine, January edition, anyway there is a small article about the old Stanton Railway Sidings, and it states that network rail are thinking of re-opening part of the line again for storage of scrap wagons, in the near future. There's a photo of a GBRf class 66 on part of the line, and it reads "the loco got so far but due to the state of the track, wasn't able to go any further" Anyway hope this news maybe of interest to you mate? Loved the video that you did here too. All the best from. Mike.
@@TrekkingExploration My Dad worked at Stanton at the 18’ Spun Plant for 25 Years. I live in Stanton by Dale overlooking the site and can see in the distance the diggers clearing the area for Wards.
Thanks for this,I used to sell to Stanton and visited all the sites here back in the early 80's and 90's.It was an amazing experience seeing their work methods ,especially the large diameter metal pipe spinning !! I also sold products to the concrete plant which I think is still in production?
Great video! I rewalked this line today, but from the other direction. The trailers and dirt mounds have all been moved quite far off the track and separated with a new fence. The track at this end was still overgrown but not quite as bad as in this video, suggesting Network Rail may have cleared it between then and now. There's also what looks like a new green fence down by the Erewash canal which made leaving the track at that point challenging, more so as I had my dog with me! Perhaps all this points to potential reuse for the small section of track leading up to the abandoned buildings.
I've had a couple of people say now this line has been cleared and Network Rail have been seen working on it.... Interesting. I suppose its just officially mothballed? Thankyou for watching :)
@@TrekkingExploration could be! Perhaps they started to clear it then lockdown kicked in... Who knows. Thanks for the great videos, keep up the good work! 🙂
Another wonderful trip down memory lane from the Ilkeston area. I remember Stanton Ironworks well. We used to cycle through the site from Crompton Street (Ilkeston) towards Toton engine sheds in the 1960's when the place was a hive of activity. Indeed, I recall the old furnaces when they were active not too far from the current Seven Oaks pub on Lows Lane, opposite side of the road. Also when cycling along Crompton Street you had to keep an eye open for a process nearby which I believe the locals used to call 'Duckhams'.... boy did it stink when the cloud of gas came over. How the people managed to live down there I do not know. Does anyone know what that was? As a matter of interest, the railway line that forked to the left used to serve a coal loading point between Mapperley/West Hallam until the 1980/1990's. I remember playing golf on the Peewit course (Ilkeston) when a class 56 engine passed by with loaded coal trucks in that period.
You wouldn’t believe what has happened to the site now. It’s fenced off, trees and vegetation cleared out(very open now), and lots of cars and construction vehicles parked up. Me and my friend got on the site after 5pm on a Sunday when no security is there. We got in those two buildings as they are still standing and sat in a bull dozer.
Some of the track where the West Transport now stands was purchased by Peak Rail in mid / late 1980’s at auction. The buildings were camouflaged in khaki green etc
Trekking & Towpaths - if I remember correctly the individual rail lengths were 39 foot long as they were imported from the US and this the longest length to fit in a ships hold. A scrap man got the buildings and other scrap and Peak Rail paid £15k for the track etc
Yet another great video uploaded, I might pop over sometime myself to have a look at the place, nice to see the Rails still down and intacted too. On another note, have you by any chance searched out the old Railway lines at the former Butterley Brick works in Ripley yet? There's an old Railway line that runs from there into the back of Swanwick Junction, it's the line which they used to deliver or take goods from the factory with a junction onto the Erewash line at the end near Ironville, then after the factory closed, butterley used the track bed for transporting locos into the Railway museum at Swanwick, but sadly it's not used anymore and very overgrown in parts. I myself have walked it all the way into Swanwick Steam shed museum a while ago. On the outside of the old factory building on Coach Road, there are signs saying cctv in operation, well ignore those signs as I know a few people who live in the area and there false, it's mainly to keep out those traveller's type of people, so your alright to walk the old track bed, plus most of the line is still down too which is interesting. Anyway just thought this might be of interest to you and hopefully another video upload I hope? Once again keep up the good work and hope to see some more new 2019 videos soon on TH-cam. From. Mike In Chesterfield.
Hi Mike, the area around butterley has crossed our mind and is a fascinating area with lots of history. Thanks for watching, and a new video is available right now 😀
Another excellent and enjoyable video. The run round loop is remarkably weed-free indeed it looks in better shape that some of the national network! The old warehouse you went in to, if you look round the front of the buildings in Google Streetview you'll see one says "Training Centre" above the front door, the other says "Exhibition Centre"
I did wonder if the line had been laid on some contaminated ground from the ironworks. The two buildings are pretty eerie. It's a shame no other accessible buildings still stand. Thanks for the kind comment too 😀
Interesting video of a place I knew from around 1980, and it was sad to see it decline from a shadow of it's former self to a total wasteland. The rail network on the site was extremely extensive at one time, and the line you saw diverging left at around 6 min into the video was probably one of at least two which crossed Lows Lane to serve the works on the south side of the road. One line crossed under the road and one crossed it on the level. And at one time the works was also served from a branch off the GNR Derby Friargate to Nottingham Victoria line, some of which is now the Nutbrook trail. I believe at one time a train could, in theory, go from the Erewash Valley line at Stanton Gate, through the works and onto the GNR line. There is so much railway and industrial history around there, great to see videos like this covering it.
It's amazing to think what was there. I remember as a child going along the canal and all the brick built buildings alongside it. I'll be following the Nutbrook at some stage soon. Thanks for watching 😀
I've been there but I come onto the railway from a different direction Also the building that you went in that previous video , I went in and heard a whisper an legged it out of there and there also is an air raid shelter not to far away
@@TrekkingExploration just out of curiosity what's being removed off the site ? You know more than than me ,I'm into military Aviation I find more what I'm after and your topic you know what your looking for I'm into raf fairford abit over your head . I noticed a TH-cam video gbrf train running along where you was at West transport land all cleared ,going to have a look tomorrow.
@@TrekkingExploration I looked at immingham on Google maps makes no sense, when the weather improves I'm going to look at the old Melbourne line love my history I do know it ran threw swad I found bits out when delivering in the area ,seems along way to send a desile unit down ,when I go down tomorrow I'll keep you posted on what's been done 👍
@@TrekkingExploration Where did you find this info ,can you point me in the rite direction ,I do like your videos ,I think at 1 time that line carried onto west Hallam I did cycle the old line about a 1 year ago.👍
There's an old picture before the m1 bridge was there of a passenger train coming from stanton no stanton hill there ,the pics been taken from moorbridge lane bridge where stanton gate station used to be thats on Google it's finding it.👍
@@Adventures_with_Sog hey again dude! 👍 You should have your mate in the historical society look into the story of the 'Lady Sylvia' moored up on the Trent.. The 'little ship' that saved many lives in Dunkirk... There is a little 'mystery' attached to this boat... I've been trying to track how it ended up here on the Trent? Your mate might have better luck than me...with his history society connections & all????
@@shuftipplonk6370 Yes mate. Sorry I've still not followed up on it yet, I've been a little preoccupied with personal stuff and have also been in the middle of moving house. I haven't forgotten though my friend. Thanks for the info on the boat, very intriguing. Out of interest, whereabouts on the Trent is the boat moored?
Unfortunately this site is no longer accessible lots of work is being done on it and those two buildings are now demolished. I did get onto the site during early stages of the development but got caught by security.
i have explored in that area, it is worth the effort to get in there, and it might all be gone soon, as there is going to be a housing estate built on that land, and my video is on my other channel, and i went under the motorway bridge.
It is worth a look. At first glance when you arrive at the two double tracks, there is little od interest. Once you back track to the canal and walk the length its worth it indeed. I'll have a look at yours 👍
Completely demolish the works but leave the track in place, weird!!!! If those rails weren't rusty you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a live line. Rosebay Willowherb, dead giveaway you're on a railway line!!!!
I was on a rail tour called 'The Pye Bridge Pieman' some years back. We went around as much as we could of Toton depot, and went along the old ironworks track. We kept stopping, I found out later from the travelling tech with the front loco (56312) that it was to clear odd bits of rubbish from in front of the train. We got as far as a set of gates. Guess it was the same gates as in the video. We had a 92 on the rear to pull us back.
i used to work there years ago and was always overawed by the almost volcanic forces full of smoke and streaming molten liquid which I felt surely must last forever - and yet I am still here and that era has all vanished. The real invisible powers are actually the ever-changing economic forces which continue unabated, only now it is technological forces that prevail. I used to work on the railway as well as a trackman. Great changes have taken place there as well; steam is now a relic of the past and who remembers that now? All that power gone in the blink of an eye - sometimes it feels like everything in life is just a dream!
A test train ran along this line in December 2020. It’s going to be reopened for nearby Wards recycling for scrap metal trains.
Good to hear of the railway being reopened rather than lifted.
Brings back memories. My grandad used to make casting moulds at Stanton. As a kid in the 70's, I remember steam trains (which looking back now was surprising) running through the works and diesel shunters carrying the huge containers of molten steel from the blast furnaces. Still red hot. The site was still huge then. As a kid my family used to go to the seven oaks pub. There was the fire station next door, and I was allowd to get into the engines, start the lights and sirens...even got to wear some kit and and jump down the fire mans pole. Lots of very fond memories of the area. Mountain biking down or walking down the Nutbrooke trail and Erewash Canal. Great video. When you coinsider how heavily industrialised the area was with the steel works (17k emplyees ant Stanton and Staveley), pits and Toton Sidings (largest railway siding in Europe with 400 steam engines at its peak ), it makes me shake my head in disbelief that some folk are opposing the HS2 line. Good to hear the local accent again! I've been living in South Wales for sometime now and they "dunna talk rate dow'n ere!" :D
This brings back some nice memories,I used to love sitting on the backgarden wall at my grannies house on Moorbridge lane looking over towards the 2 blast furnace's at the side of the canal.I used to love the glow in the sky when it was dark ,I would of been about 10-11 years old (1965-66).
Glad you enjoyed it. I have a few memories from the 80's, the smells and the sounds. The railway itself is back open again too
Hi, I walked around this area last Mon, Jan 3rd. There isn't a single tree left. you can see across the whole site no matter which boundary you are on.
Last March me and my lady got as far as the Exhibition building on the rail line before being caught. It was a lady security guard with the biggest dog I have ever seen. she was ok and told us to keep safe and enjoy our walk. Twenty minutes later a bloke in a van was waiting at the crossing lights and although he could see why we were exploring he said we had to leave the site there and then.
A few months later the engine house caught fire at Stanton Recycling on the northern side. I got up there first thing the following morning and the fire brigade were damping down. Since then, what was left of the building has been demolished and it looks like a new canopy has been erected.
There is still quite a bit to see on the south of Lows Road. The pump house is still there with equipment in situ. I was on there one evening last summer when a security guard drew up in his van. A pleasant chat ensued and he said " I'm the only one on site tonight and as far as I'm concerned I haven't seen you. Take as many photo's as you want." A result or what ?
Only just found you, enjoying your explores.
Ben, now residing in Nottingham.
Thanks for the walk through today and the chat. Cheers buddy.
Great video, As a Driver based at Toton I used to work up the branch to stanton. At the end of its life we used to work up to collect pipes. I have a few photo's taken in 1999 when we went to the top end (through the locked gates) and up to the loading dock with overhead gantry. The 2 roads were used to run-round the wagons an propel them into the dead end, under the gantry. The photo`s I have show working up with 08776 and also 58007.
I have a few photo`s of 56047 underneath the old signal gantry on the canal bridge just before the motorway bridge.
Keep up the great work.
Thank you for this video. As a child in the 60s, I remember lying in bed listening to the sound of the shunting engines in the distance. We lived within sight and smell of the iron works, you could never hang washing out on a Sunday, as this was the day they cleaned out the Coke ovens, covering everything in Black/Grey dust, so much that we had to sweep it off the garden path. Fond memories indeed.
Great little find and I love a disused railway when the lines are still there.
There hard to find sometimes, but worth it in the end :)
As a young fitter at Toton TMD, I remember attending to a class 08 shunter that was positioned not far from the end of the line where the broken buffer stops was. I can,t remember the exact reason, but I think it was something to do with topping up the coolant, as the loco had failed. It was on a pipe train as the author has correctly described. Great video.
This was uploaded a while ago but I've just seen it. From what I remember as a lad (c.1980s), the lower of the two lines you were talking about on the map, I remember being a series of sidings that almost joined in the middle, I didn't think it was one complete line, unless it was before or after that time. We used to spend a lot of time riding bikes down there, back when 'Westies' (West Transport) was a small yard near the top of Nottingham Road, Ilkeston. We'd ride along the lines from Manner Floods through Stanton to the Erewash Canal and then out of town, we got as far as Donnington once :) The Nutbrook Canal would be a good trek, a lot of it was still intact through Manner Floods and on to the mine water reed beds just before Shipley Lake.
The Widdowson brothers bought the Stanton sidings from the ironworks many years ago...
They 'broke' the place for scrap & timber.. I used to maintain the 22' circular bedsaw for them back then..
They used it for ripping sleepers into fence panels.. The rail & casts were scrapped... They got very rich from this little venture....They also ran a skip company from the site... I also spray painted & maintained the skips for them. The bright yellow & navy blue ones you Used to see on everyone's drive in Nottingham back then....
i seem to remember a level crossing across lows lane just west of the fire station and the seven oaks pub, then another further along the road towards kirk hallam near wfp fabrications
Two of my uncle's worked at Stanton during WW2 all three of thier sister's did too including my mum...after the war my other uncle worked at Stanton until he retired in the late 70's.
Hi Ant. Great video 👍🏻 I remember it working in the late 70s when I visited Toton sheds train spotting 🤣 What a great opportunity to reinstate it and build some modern warehouses say for amazon rail connected instead of building them on green belt land for lorries only drrrrrrrrr 🙄
Great stuff again Ant
Love your vids, these deserted places are both fascinating and eerie in equal measures.
Thanks so much 😀
Glad you enjoy them ☺️
I lived in kirkhallam from 1973 to 1997 and it looks a lot different now walking that route every day for years how things change 😳
Remember that place when it was working it was incredible when you drove round the place. Another cracking video very well presented
Thank you Stephen 😀 I'll end up doing the Nutbrook section eventually too
I worked for a company in sheffield what repaired electric arc furnaces in the 90s we used to go there and repair thres when ever it broke down if i remember right it was in that building to the right on the picture you posted with the loco. The was not that much left of the place when we used to go back then.
Hi, the last scheduled pipe train to leave was in 2007. Hauled by a class 60. Further movements continued slightly until about 2009 (Network Rail moves). The line is still classed as single line working, and remains classed operational.
That's useful information thank you ☺️ Thanks for watching 😀
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Hi Ant, last Summer we cycled around where you walked after seeing the video so we thank you for that... The points lever had gone so hopefully that's been saved/restored somewhere? One day we'll cross paths for sure.. Cheers Chris, Derby UK..
Wow ant awesome another one of your videos I've ticked of the list great video can't believe the track work still there and beautiful pictures of the place in it's day and what a fantastic shot of class 58047 in one of my favourite liverys EWS just one of many liverys the 58s carried In there short lifes of services. Take care mate 👍
Even as a kid if I saw an old railway line I just wanted to follow and explore, no idea why.
Amazing to see so much remaining here and nice to see you pull the story together with some old photos. Thanks
There is something that just draws you in, that you needed to see more. That's what I get. Especially when you find interesting stuff 😀
We pulled many loads of ductile product for Keetch Haulage in the seventies
wonderful job on the intro shots, Ant! very artsy. all that growth along the old tracks! amazing!
The growth was at complete opposite extremes. Like a jungle to begin, then nothing at all later on. Thanks for watching and the kind comment too 😀
It’s amazing how nature takes over abandoned sites , great video Ant.
It's crazy how it goes from one extreme to the other, from a jungle then as clear as day
Hello Anthony,
It's Mike Wood (Devon Boy) from Chesterfield here, just thought I'd let you know a bit of interesting news that you might want to know.
Unless you already know yourself?
Brought myself a railway magazine on Monday 11th January 2021 it's called: The Railway Magazine, January edition, anyway there is a small article about the old Stanton Railway Sidings, and it states that network rail are thinking of re-opening part of the line again for storage of scrap wagons, in the near future.
There's a photo of a GBRf class 66 on part of the line, and it reads "the loco got so far but due to the state of the track, wasn't able to go any further"
Anyway hope this news maybe of interest to you mate?
Loved the video that you did here too.
All the best from. Mike.
Was literally walking along the tracks today glad to find this video
Thanks for watching. I have heard its been tidied up a bit since i walked it last year
@@TrekkingExploration it kinda has still a mess though the abandoned buildings on the side of the track have gotten alot messier to :)
This line is currently being worked on to allow trains to run again for Wards. There are some old wagons that they want to move out along the line.
It's great isn't it? A flow from Immingham. Starting on the 14th if going to plan.
Thanks for watching
@@TrekkingExploration My Dad worked at Stanton at the 18’ Spun Plant for 25 Years. I live in Stanton by Dale overlooking the site and can see in the distance the diggers clearing the area for Wards.
Another good video Ant, it's good to record these places before they get redeveloped but they could be used for storage if the area was secured
The land to the right of the line is used by a recycling company. Other than that its a wasteland
Thanks for this,I used to sell to Stanton and visited all the sites here back in the early 80's and 90's.It was an amazing experience seeing their work methods ,especially the large diameter metal pipe spinning !! I also sold products to the concrete plant which I think is still in production?
Great video! I rewalked this line today, but from the other direction. The trailers and dirt mounds have all been moved quite far off the track and separated with a new fence. The track at this end was still overgrown but not quite as bad as in this video, suggesting Network Rail may have cleared it between then and now. There's also what looks like a new green fence down by the Erewash canal which made leaving the track at that point challenging, more so as I had my dog with me! Perhaps all this points to potential reuse for the small section of track leading up to the abandoned buildings.
I've had a couple of people say now this line has been cleared and Network Rail have been seen working on it.... Interesting. I suppose its just officially mothballed?
Thankyou for watching :)
@@TrekkingExploration could be! Perhaps they started to clear it then lockdown kicked in... Who knows. Thanks for the great videos, keep up the good work! 🙂
Another wonderful trip down memory lane from the Ilkeston area. I remember Stanton Ironworks well. We used to cycle through the site from Crompton Street (Ilkeston) towards Toton engine sheds in the 1960's when the place was a hive of activity. Indeed, I recall the old furnaces when they were active not too far from the current Seven Oaks pub on Lows Lane, opposite side of the road. Also when cycling along Crompton Street you had to keep an eye open for a process nearby which I believe the locals used to call 'Duckhams'.... boy did it stink when the cloud of gas came over. How the people managed to live down there I do not know. Does anyone know what that was? As a matter of interest, the railway line that forked to the left used to serve a coal loading point between Mapperley/West Hallam until the 1980/1990's. I remember playing golf on the Peewit course (Ilkeston) when a class 56 engine passed by with loaded coal trucks in that period.
Very good - pity the line got forgotten 🤔🚂🚂🚂
You wouldn’t believe what has happened to the site now. It’s fenced off, trees and vegetation cleared out(very open now), and lots of cars and construction vehicles parked up. Me and my friend got on the site after 5pm on a Sunday when no security is there. We got in those two buildings as they are still standing and sat in a bull dozer.
The old playhouse may be the Stanton Cinema, which was part of the Stanton Ironworks exhibition centrer.
I as a railway guard used to work the Stanton Gate-Stanton ironworks branch and also the branch up to West Hallam opencast coal site
I've yet to visit or walk the Denby route I bet it's thick with weeds and bushes right now
I spent quite a few years happily driving the shunting locos at Stanton. Only down side was the fatal accident that cost friends their lives.
Some of the track where the West Transport now stands was purchased by Peak Rail in mid / late 1980’s at auction. The buildings were camouflaged in khaki green etc
Since I did this I've been told all that first section behind West has all been tidied up. Good about the track getting a new lease of life 👍
Trekking & Towpaths - if I remember correctly the individual rail lengths were 39 foot long as they were imported from the US and this the longest length to fit in a ships hold. A scrap man got the buildings and other scrap and Peak Rail paid £15k for the track etc
Yet another great video uploaded, I might pop over sometime myself to have a look at the place, nice to see the Rails still down and intacted too.
On another note, have you by any chance searched out the old Railway lines at the former Butterley Brick works in Ripley yet?
There's an old Railway line that runs from there into the back of Swanwick Junction, it's the line which they used to deliver or take goods from the factory with a junction onto the Erewash line at the end near Ironville, then after the factory closed, butterley used the track bed for transporting locos into the Railway museum at Swanwick, but sadly it's not used anymore and very overgrown in parts.
I myself have walked it all the way into Swanwick Steam shed museum a while ago.
On the outside of the old factory building on Coach Road, there are signs saying cctv in operation, well ignore those signs as I know a few people who live in the area and there false, it's mainly to keep out those traveller's type of people, so your alright to walk the old track bed, plus most of the line is still down too which is interesting.
Anyway just thought this might be of interest to you and hopefully another video upload I hope?
Once again keep up the good work and hope to see some more new 2019 videos soon on TH-cam.
From. Mike
In Chesterfield.
Hi Mike, the area around butterley has crossed our mind and is a fascinating area with lots of history. Thanks for watching, and a new video is available right now 😀
Another excellent and enjoyable video. The run round loop is remarkably weed-free indeed it looks in better shape that some of the national network! The old warehouse you went in to, if you look round the front of the buildings in Google Streetview you'll see one says "Training Centre" above the front door, the other says "Exhibition Centre"
I did wonder if the line had been laid on some contaminated ground from the ironworks. The two buildings are pretty eerie. It's a shame no other accessible buildings still stand. Thanks for the kind comment too 😀
Interesting video of a place I knew from around 1980, and it was sad to see it decline from a shadow of it's former self to a total wasteland. The rail network on the site was extremely extensive at one time, and the line you saw diverging left at around 6 min into the video was probably one of at least two which crossed Lows Lane to serve the works on the south side of the road. One line crossed under the road and one crossed it on the level. And at one time the works was also served from a branch off the GNR Derby Friargate to Nottingham Victoria line, some of which is now the Nutbrook trail. I believe at one time a train could, in theory, go from the Erewash Valley line at Stanton Gate, through the works and onto the GNR line. There is so much railway and industrial history around there, great to see videos like this covering it.
It's amazing to think what was there. I remember as a child going along the canal and all the brick built buildings alongside it. I'll be following the Nutbrook at some stage soon. Thanks for watching 😀
There is a picture of the first train on the branch.
I've been there but I come onto the railway from a different direction
Also the building that you went in that previous video , I went in and heard a whisper an legged it out of there and there also is an air raid shelter not to far away
Oh the Stanton video?
Nice! Really enjoyed that. Keep them coming!
It's amazing its all still there. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it :)
@@TrekkingExploration just out of curiosity what's being removed off the site ? You know more than than me ,I'm into military Aviation I find more what I'm after and your topic you know what your looking for I'm into raf fairford abit over your head .
I noticed a TH-cam video gbrf train running along where you was at West transport land all cleared ,going to have a look tomorrow.
@@ianbriggs3821 it's something coming in I believe. Not absolutely sure but I know it's from Immingham
@@TrekkingExploration I looked at immingham on Google maps makes no sense, when the weather improves I'm going to look at the old Melbourne line love my history I do know it ran threw swad I found bits out when delivering in the area ,seems along way to send a desile unit down ,when I go down tomorrow I'll keep you posted on what's been done 👍
This line has been cleared from stanton Gate Junction right upto the level Crossing at lows Lane opposite the Sevenoaks pub
This lines got traffic again. Not sure how far up it’s going, but somethings utilising it.
Just started watching
Great Video came via Martin Zeros site..
Hi Chris thanks for the kind comment. Glad to see you here 😀
As did I!
Good one,🤗
It would be great for a preservation heritage line
They are building a rail freight hub in stanton got sold off this week ,work starts in 2021 January 👍
Yes it's good news. First Workings booked next week for the recycling trains too
@@TrekkingExploration Where did you find this info ,can you point me in the rite direction ,I do like your videos ,I think at 1 time that line carried onto west Hallam I did cycle the old line about a 1 year ago.👍
That building you went in that used to be a yts training centre I done abit of work there in 89 on work exsperience complete wreck in your video .
Go to www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/ and search Stanton FLHH in search. Put any weekday in for next week
There's an old picture before the m1 bridge was there of a passenger train coming from stanton no stanton hill there ,the pics been taken from moorbridge lane bridge where stanton gate station used to be thats on Google it's finding it.👍
Once again very interesting.
Have you any plans of doing a vid around Cossall?
Any suggestions? I did the Nottingham Canal as my very first video back in April that's the only time I've been since i moved away
@@TrekkingExploration
I'll have a word with a mate who's in the local historical society, see what he thinks would be good. 👍
OK great 😀
@@Adventures_with_Sog hey again dude! 👍 You should have your mate in the historical society look into the story of the 'Lady Sylvia' moored up on the Trent.. The 'little ship' that saved many lives in Dunkirk...
There is a little 'mystery' attached to this boat... I've been trying to track how it ended up here on the Trent?
Your mate might have better luck than me...with his history society connections & all????
@@shuftipplonk6370
Yes mate. Sorry I've still not followed up on it yet, I've been a little preoccupied with personal stuff and have also been in the middle of moving house. I haven't forgotten though my friend. Thanks for the info on the boat, very intriguing. Out of interest, whereabouts on the Trent is the boat moored?
Do we make anything in The UK any more? Sad to see so much industry gone.
It's crazy to think what was once here. The good news is, this line is returning to use 😊
if you look on googlemaps there was a siding that veered off which is the line you found earlier in the vid
Yeah i noticed that yesterday. Gonna go back at some point and do the Nutbrook. Been to bolsover today
did you follow the bed all the way along clowne?
Seymour to bolsover today. I'll be back for oxcroft and Clowne another time
What's the music at 10.38
Nice video BTW
Thanks Nathan. I'll get back to you 👍
Unfortunately this site is no longer accessible lots of work is being done on it and those two buildings are now demolished. I did get onto the site during early stages of the development but got caught by security.
Was there any company initials on the rail chairs? Sometimes there’s a date. That buckled rail looks like a derailment. Love your vids Ant. 👍
Ps love that you get some photos from when it was in use. That battery loco is cool. Rare you see them on heritage lines.
It does look like it had a bit of a wallop doesn't it?
I believe there was a lot of these on site back in the day. Maybe some survive. I'm lucky enough to have some kind contributors of these images 😀
i have explored in that area, it is worth the effort to get in there, and it might all be gone soon, as there is going to be a housing estate built on that land, and my video is on my other channel, and i went under the motorway bridge.
It is worth a look. At first glance when you arrive at the two double tracks, there is little od interest. Once you back track to the canal and walk the length its worth it indeed. I'll have a look at yours 👍
make a great heritage setup, especially with some revenue customers
Some one has pinched the old point leaver, bit gutted know
There has been permanent way on there a couple of times recently, maybe gettig ready to lift?
The branch has been opened to serve Wards recycling.
Yes that's great news 🙂
I know where I his is because I see it every day
Excellent 👍🙂
Completely demolish the works but leave the track in place, weird!!!! If those rails weren't rusty you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a live line. Rosebay Willowherb, dead giveaway you're on a railway line!!!!
That section after the road crossing towards the terminus, with hardly any growth on it. Maybe Due to contaminated land?
Originally opened to make bombs for the war effort
Scrap metal. There’s a video on Facebook. Up to the old level crossing at least
I was on a rail tour called 'The Pye Bridge Pieman' some years back. We went around as much as we could of Toton depot, and went along the old ironworks track. We kept stopping, I found out later from the travelling tech with the front loco (56312) that it was to clear odd bits of rubbish from in front of the train. We got as far as a set of gates. Guess it was the same gates as in the video. We had a 92 on the rear to pull us back.