Stainland Branch Line ( Greetland to Stainland )
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- Join me in my venture of the Stainland Branch Line in Halifax Also Known as The North Dean Branch Line
Opening to serve a local textile mill aswell as coal and passengers between 1875 and 1959 . We will be exploring what’s left of this disused railway . please Subscribe to the channel for more content!
One thing you didn’t mention is that the later halts were opened when the steam railmotors took over from the locomotive and carriages trains. The railmotors were meant to compete with the trams which were handier, so additional stations were opened.
The viaducts were wide with no refuges so that the line could become double tracked if required. They never were.
This was especially true of the nearby Rishworth branch, which was planned to tunnel through to Hollingworth Lake and become the main line to Manchester, leaving the present route as a secondary local line. Of course, that never happened.
They certainly had ambition in those days 😅
Great video you deserve more recognition 😊
Thank you 😀!
Fantastic stuff as always! This whole route should be fully re opened as a greenway walk.
Thank you ! Yes it would be great if they did that !
fantastic vid ashton been a few years since ive been under stainland viaduct
Your final shots of the railway were from the road bridge overlooking the original station site .If you turn round and walk back up the hill there is road off to the left which went down to the station entrance .This should be easily noticeable on the OS map of the area
Thank you 🤩! I’ll take a look back
I did the same walk as you a few years ago .I think you have made an excellent job of capturing the " feel" of the branchline in your video .The drone footage was very impressive . By going further up the road and turning to the left you can actually get onto the original approach road to the station . Really enjoyable .
A great presentation of a line that served the local community well.Very interesting keep up the good work.
1st January 2025 is the 150th anniversary of the opening of the line.
Thats mad !
It could do with some history boards to commemorate all the stations and what used to be there
Just to clarify my previous comment. I was talking about the entrance to Stainland and Holywell Green Station.
Thank you ! Is that where the embankment has been demolished ?
That embankment area at 4’29 - when I was a kid in the 1980s it was still possible to scratch around and pick up coal. There were also huge rotting piles of wood which I now realise must have been stacked sleepers that were never collected.
At 4’37 as the camera pans towards the Clay House direction you can see the old wooden remains of some buffers. There were also a set of buffers and a track panel left about halfway back towards Greetland Junction, but I imagine these have been covered over now. I haven’t been in there since the early 1990s.
When I was last back there I walked on the converted track and pretty sure there was some exposed track from when it was dumped there in the 60s. Roughly on your right at 13’36.
I’ve seen pictures of tracklifting in the 1960s - the pipe bridge was there then so it was obviously built to cross the railway.
Again back in the 1980s the trackbed from Rochdale Road to the Viaduct wasn’t converted, the viaduct was blocked off (although you could climb around the barrier) and the part from Long Heys to the viaduct wasn’t half as overgrown. Plenty of ballast and ash underfoot.
LOVED your drone footage - I’m a West Vale boy living a long way away.
Thanks for the extra information ! 😃 some good facts thier ! Nice to get some feedback off people who have seen it before its current state!
Thanks for all the feedback and glad you liked the drone shots 😀
That old pipe you were looking at was an underground spring. Or it was underground before the cutting was dug.
Thank you!
I've been trying to figure out the route behind Clay House for a long time and this finally explains it.
The picture dissolve from new to old at 22:11 is quite astonishing!
Very interesting video. Thanks.
Thank you !
Yes it was quite hard to discover ! But it made sense following the route on maps 😃 !
I discoverd a picture of the level crossing at west vale only after I published the video I could have done another photo dissolve of that !
The thank you for watching 😃
nice video and great info!
Thanks man
Enjoyed that. I grew up close to this line, and explored the branch's remains in the late 1970s. Those fenced off sidings were used for oil/petroleum deliveries.
Thank you for the added information 😎😎! Appreciate it !
And glad you enjoyed it
@@exploringthepastandthepres9793 Maybe worth mentioning: the large, green, empty plot of land (clearly visible in your drone shots) next to West Vale viaduct is the site of West Vale Mill, which was demolished, in stages, over a period of years. I remember sneaking in, through an open door, on the way home from secondary school, when the mill was operational. The noise from the chattering looms was deafening! When we were kids, in the 1970s, much more of Stainland viaduct was visible. It's a shame subsequent tree growth has masked the structure.
I was fascinated by this crazy Victorian branch line when i lived up that way. Double track main line construction for such a short way!
And thanks for the beautiful drone footage. They really knew how to build nice things in the 19 th Century ❤
Thank you!
Great info and vid, thanks so much. 😊