A look around the abandoned Mansfield Concentration Sidings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2024
- We take a look at the abandoned Mansfield Concentration Sidings Disused Railway Yard in Nottinghamshire UK.
We’re here today on part of the old Mansfield Railway - an 11 mile stretch that connected the Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway at Kings Clipstone (by that time taken over by the Great Central) to the Great Central Mainline at Kirkby in Ashfield.
The lost railway line opened from 1916 and We’re looking at the northern end today - known as the Mansfield Concentration sidings. We’re right in the proximity of a list of collieries as long as your arm and the remains of the sidings we are about to see today played a big part of the moving of coal from the Nottinghamshire collieries to destinations far and wide - included export via Immingham docks.
Throughout the 80s, the coal industry began to shrink very quickly and many of the local collieries closed. The nearest colliery to the sidings was Clipstone, which lasted in some form until 2003. The sidings closed in 1986 although trains still passed through on the through lines until 2003.
We can find many remains of the sidings from sleepers, signal infrastructure, the old base for the water tower, signal box, yard buildings, yard lamps, electrical fittings.
We also see the area around Clipstone Junction and the old Clipstone West signal box that is still in use. On the approach to the sidings we also see a few old colour light signals.
Loved that place as a kid on my LT50.
i love that area, i often cycling along the sustrans route 6 trail. i have wanted to explore that old railway line but not had the time, i might make time next year.
You won't regret it. I could easily have spent many more hours there
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That one item that you picked up looks like the inside of an electric motor.
Thanks and welcome.
You're right. You never know down there if things are from the many pieces of car wreckage left lying around.
Interesting video made more so by the fact that I was born in that area and grew up just outside Mansfield. Moved away in 1979 and left England altogether just a few years after that but still have an affection for the place and wonder how many places I never explored as well as what the places I did used to haunt are like now.
I bet you'd barely recognise places these days. So much lost or changed into other uses
@@WobblyRunner Yes, there's always the temptation to go back and retrace your roots but in many ways it's best just to have that picture in your mind of how it was back in the day. I remember as a kid going inside the Major Oak but now I see pictures of it with a big fence around it. Of course the fence is there for a reason but it's a shame young kids today can't have that experience.
@@daveshongkongchinachannel I'm the same. I've got family photos of the major oak and having a picnic underneath it.
Couldn't believe it when I last went and you couldn't get near it
@@WobblyRunner Maybe you can sneak over the fence when it's quiet or have they got armed guards and cameras now too?
@@daveshongkongchinachannel Glasgow,and the places we visited in Scotland and England have changed beyond all recognition since the seventies and we thought things had changed then !
That was filled with great finds, the old waggon must have been a bugger to come across. Loved seeing the signals too, the new type and the older ones later in the video. The water tower is a magnificent beast it's obviously seen some action over the years. Great to see Mr Loverman himself (Shabba) making an appearence!!!
😄 shabba
A faschinating place and somewhere you could easily spend many hours just looking in every corner.
Thanks for another informative video I love seeing all the old railway relics,it a shame we have lost so much we could use some of these old railways today to transport goods greener than all those truck on the roads
Thanks Steven. Yeah I agree. Especially with all the distribution centres popping up everywhere nearby
Thanks kiddo, realy enjoyed that,at near seventy and living in Scotland I was aware of all that rail infrastructure around the pits in Nottinghamshire. I had an Aunt and Uncle whom I visited regularily in Lowdham on my way to Sussex to see my grandparents in Brighton. Never got round to covering Nottinghamshire's coal industry but in the mid seventies when I was travelling their was still quite a bit to see in both England and Scotland.
Glasgow was a wonderland when I was a kid,but I was lucky,thanks to the Kaiser and Adolf,I had Scots and English reletives all over the gaff. Remember going from that long gone cathedral of steam Glasgow St Enoch to St Pancras.
Both stations desighned by the same architect and St Enoch the first public building in Glasgow to be lit with electric light.
Most Glaswegians are ciompletely unaware of that,that and the fact Naval Intelligence used the Station Hotel in two world wars. I will never forget that journey,I reckon I must have been four years old,I started school the following September.
Imagine the delight of a young kid when he discovered that gramps before joining Whitbread had been a fireman on the GWR when he was a young man in Devonport.
Great video, earlier in the year I had a great walk from Kings Clipstone all the way around to Bilsthorpe along the disused railway lines, lots to see.
👍 It's great place to explore isnt it.
Walking old raiways is the minkies,especially if you travelled on them as a kid. One of my favourites in Scotland was the Callander & Oban,which I waiked for forty years till health intervened. There are many old routes in Scotland thanks to Marples,more in England though.
@@philiprufus4427 great stuff. I was up in Scotland in October but didn't get the opportunity to see any disused railways. Maybe one day 😊
Thanks for the sneek preview 😊. So much stuff to find. If that earth was turned over again I bet there would be a load more too. Lots to explore in this area…hope you can do some more vids there!
😄👍 there are folk digging the earth banking and turning up all sorts of things
Great video yet again Paul . I regularly work trains on the test track. When I started going down there in 2011 the track was still in South of Clipstone not sure how far it went though, I heard some was stolen. I believe Clipstone box is to close next year with Shirebrook taking over the entry and exit from the test track
I have a good friend who lives quite close to you who used to work on the lines in that area in the 60s and is a big enthusiast I'm hoping to go up and have a pint with him in the new year
Great stuff.
Do you still drive trains up the test track these days?
You'll have to let me know when you're around the area!!!!
@@WobblyRunner
I do Paul I was up there quite a bit earlier this year with the huge high output ballast trains, hopefully some more next year
Is it possible to somehow send you a PM when I'm next up there
Not a area I’m familiar with but some great exploring around there 👍
It sure is. It's a little overwhelming when you see what's available to explore.
Excellent video, I've visited that site many times, still so much old infrastructure hidden still to be found, I explored the area a couple of years ago and did two videos (check then out on my channel) I can fill in a few blanks for you that may help, the 2nd 3 aspect signal Charlie 214, replaced an older signal Charlie 23 which was slightly forward of where C214 is (it was located at the end of the old high sidings and was unique as it had a semaphore signal and a colour light , the brick building you found was a small shunters hut not the signal box, the 'Con SB' was on the flat area opposite the old water tower, nothing remains of it apart from sewer pipes and drainage, the brick supports are no longer there which is odd...if you ever go back, go up the bank opposite the old water tower and explore the railway boundary, loads of old concrete signal wire posts were thrown down there, a lot still have the pulleys attached, plus lots of old concrete and wooden posts are there (again you can see these bits i found on my videos) the S and T stones are in abundance around the area, S and T stands for Signal and Telegraph, finally the foundation next to the water tower is the former drivers/shunters mess room/boothy, I have a picture of it should you want to see it and a signal diagramme circa 2000...thanks for the update on an amazing place 😉
Fantastic!!! I did come across and watch your videos after I had put this one together.
Fascinating place.
Fascinating video many thanks has the bike been put away for winter? My old Honda CB750F is wrapped up now 👍👍
Haha not quite put away. I don't seem to fancy getting it out in the cold nowadays though 😄. If it dips above 5 degrees I'll probably be commuting on it a few days
That's right next to my home, you must've walked past my house
Lovely part of the world
That 2nd colour light signal you found is the former C 214 section signal, sadly C 214 and C 19 are the only remaining colour lights left, the rest were stolen for scrap, I’m amazed that 214 and 19 are still there tbh. A place you would of loved to check out would of been the nearby Welbeck colliery branch, which up until 2020 was all there with track and signals and other infrastructure, sadly the line was auctioned off and I believe the farmer who now owns it plans to rip everything up for scrap, including the metal bridges, without knowing it had been sold I visited the line in 2021 and didn’t have the best encounter with who I assume was the owner, quite an angry bloke
Cheers for confirming the name of that second signal. I wasnt sure which one it was.
That's a shame about Welbeck. I keep meaning to have a trip there as I'm only a 10 min drive away. It's a story I'm hearing more and more often sadly.
@@WobblyRunner no harm in going for a gander I suppose, the time I visited which was summer 2021 the line had been lifted from sandy lane crossing to the former colliery sight however from the crossing back up to the mainline link the track and signals was all still there and impressively still intact. I’d be curious to know if they are still there, I live about an hour from Welbeck so it’s not a place I can just nip up to check so honestly I don’t know the current condition of it
@@Channel-ij5px you've peaked my interest now. I'll get down this winter 👍😊
@@WobblyRunner good luck mate 👍
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