Trains Stored and Awaiting Restoration at Peak Rail Rowlsey Yard
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2023
- A look around the yard at Rowsley South Peak Rail. Many locomotives stored either awaiting restoration or stored awaiting their fate. Some in better condition that others.
Including 37310, 97301, 73138, 50029, 50030, D1501, countless shunters & the class 108
The future of 46035 seems less certain.
As well as engines, there is the turntable, engine spares, parts of footbridges and other station infrastructure.
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Peak Rail is a preserved railway in Derbyshire, England, which operates a steam and heritage diesel service for tourists and visitors to both the Peak District and the Derbyshire Dales.
The preserved railway line runs from it's base at Rowsley South to the town of Matlock.
The railway initially opened as Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway in 1849 and closed fully in 1968. The line rose again in 1987 when the trackbed was aquired by Peak Rail. It opened to passengers again in 1992. In 1997 it was extended from Darley Dale to Rowsley South and in 2011 it ran into Matlock national rail station. Future expansion plans include running all the way into the centre of Rowsley and then onwards to Bakewell in the Peak District. Beyond there the trackbed turns into the Monsal Trail.
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A great little video showing us all the extent of the hard work that these heritage lines undertake. The amount of effort that will be put into restoring these wonderful trains is immense, this video shows the challenge extremely well.
Agreed 100%. If only there was a deeper money pit.
Thanks Paul. Cheers mate.
Great video. Shame to see so many locos in that condition ,but at least they may still get restored. I didn't realize there was that many shunters there awaiting an uncertain future. I was at Crewe Heritage Center ( got the pics) when 46035 was loaded and left for Rowsley.
I know some of the shunters came from the railway at Meadowhall too.
I assume the 46 was Waterman owned back then? I wonder why he no longer wanted it.
@@WobblyRunner great collection of preserved shunters there, let's hope more get restored.
Yes, as far as I know, he still owns 46035, just never done anything with it.
A great video hope some of these locos will run again some day.
Agreed. Money is hard to come by at the moment, but would be fantastic to see them running again.
Amazing place
It really is!
Hi Paul, great to meet you today at the YWR thanks for visiting and glad you got back safe and sound. Love the video some superb stock there. Best wishes Julian.
Thanks for being so welcoming and showing me round. Appreciate you giving up your time 👍🙂
Pleasure Paul anytime, hopefully next time you visit the site will have been changed around for our move forward towards extending the line 👍🏼
Some history there almost toy like from above 👍
Could spend hours looking around yards like that
Hello again, I’m pretty sure Pete Waterman has a couple of engines there being restored 👍
It takes a lot of time and money to bring these things back to life but it's great they survive to be restored one day.
Hi Paul. The Class 73 (the yellow one 73138) is being stored on behalf of Network Rail. Its currently up for sale by sealed bid so get an offer in and you might get lucky! :-)
Ahh is that one of those? I did read about them putting 73s up for sale but it never dawned on me
There are two others stored at the Severn Valley Railway. They are ready go I believe. 73138 was withdrawn in 2017 so it’ll need some work to get it running again.
What's the story with the NR 37, sorry 97 😄
Not sure, maybe it was used to drag the 73 there? I’ll do some research!
Was going to volunteer on the class 50 restoration group…but went on the canal instead
Great job you do too Michael.
Would love to see the 50s up and running though.
I remember seeing them built….so copped a few of them….then copped them all down at Paddington, Old Oak Common, Bristol and Exeter. One of my favourite locos….i always keep up-to date what’s happening on the Repulse & renown build
hi there, great video. just noticed an Anglia Railways mk2d coach there, hope it gets attention soon,as for the others its down to "cash" at the end of the day. they are not quite like hornby locos.
Agreed. Not a lot of money about at the moment. Hope they can move on the restorations soon.
Is that all original sidings certainly have some great stock and other stuff 👍
I'm not entirely sure if it's all original or not. I know there were sidings and a shed there going back to steam days though.
Can i please ask, can you just walk around down there. i would like to go..
Hi Paul. We were unsure when we visited as there were no signs but nothing to stop you walking where you wanted(within reason of course), but we saw there were lots of people wandering around the engines, the yard etc. The sheds were closed but generally the locos you see in this video were all in areas you could walk around.
Wow, they've got some stock there. Do they then have plans to cascade various items I wonder?
Good question Bob. I believe a lot of the stock belongs to various groups based at the railway.
Is that blue Peter's old tender tank
I'm honestly not sure. Doesn't seem to be much information about what it is from.
Looks like it