A Part of this Disused Railway Became a Theme Park - The Heanor Branch
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- A Part of this Disused Railway Became a Theme Park - The Heanor Branch
The Great Northern Railway opened a branch line off the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension in order to serve numerous Collieries and other industry popping up in the area.
Stations along the route were also opened.
The line closed almost 60 years ago, and in Part one of a Two Part walk, i'll follow this former railway route and uncover what remains and see how it all used to look.
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With me working in many collieries in North Notts 35 years ago, i love to see disused colliery railways vlogs. Keep up the great work. 👍 Spent many of weekends at the American Adventure, kept getting discount vouchers on the way out to get you to come back again. My mate worked on the go karts an i remember you got a prize is you hit the golf ball across the lake and got a hole in one.
If I remember correctly you actually won a car, I want to say a Nissan Micra and I believe it was never won, I photographed my daughter on the teeing green which was still there about 6 years ago
I have to confess I have never heard of the theme park. It's amazing how, in the space of 70 years one piece of land has been utilised in three completely different ways. Railway, theme park and now housing. It must feel so strange sitting in your front room knowing that at one time heavy steam trains thundered through the exact place where you are now.
Looking forward to part 2 now.
Absolutely brilliant video my dad did is training at wood side colliery as young man the big wooden structures are of the log flume can’t wait for part 2 👍
Another very interesting video Ant. Surprising how many theme parks have closed down.
I can't believe how much of the old railway lines are lying about. especially when the price of steel is so expensive, everywhere on the main lines rails just waiting to be picked up.
Looking forward to part 2.
Keep those rails down ontbed where they wo spread !
Preserve preserve preserve....
Another brilliant educational video.Its amazing how mother nature has reclaimed her land.l wonder how many miles you walk a year ?
Great video always good to see finds of old trains tracks and stuff from railways back in the days carmt beat it keep these good videos comming
Really enjoyed that thanks Ant. A couple of bridges, love them. Enjoying the history. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
Thanks Linda ☺️
Another great episode Ant. I love that you were able to find some old pieces of track still in place. Thanks for sharing.
excellent video👍 can't believe so much has gone and over grown is that cottage by the side of the railway line still there looking forward to your next video
Some lovely history on display there , the station remains were fantastic.
I used to work at the American Adventure, fun times! The original pit headstocks for the surviving winding house were dismantled in about 2000. The tacky blue memorial appeared some years later.
Two Mapperleys so close, could have been a bit confusing back in the day?? Another excellent wander finding relics in the bushes👍👍👍
Yes I've known people get mixed up with mapperley colliery in Derbyshire thinking I mean gedling colliery near mapperley in the past 😂
Hello Ant - How exciting to find all that old track-work at the start of your video 🙂 Yeah I can still find bits of Coal along the Monsal Trail if you look really carefully 😉🚂🚂🚂
Great video showing the history of the railways. I’ve always wondered what happened to the land these old lines ran on such as did British Railways sell them off or are some parts still owned by them ?
There used to be a burnt out Ford Escort close to the area where you are at 7:16, I was fascinated by it as a kid 😂😂
It was removed around 12 years ago I reckon.
Another interesting video with so much history...
Lovely - just catching up on videos as we have been away!
I hope you had a good break away
@@TrekkingExploration Sure did - 2 weeks without any internet in the Lakes!
Looking forward to part 2 ! Great video.
Thanks for that video,Ant, I look forward to the next episode. That's one railway system that I don't really regret it's passing! Or the collieries! We now have countryside! ( And housing, I suppose!)
Another fab video. So much to see. Well spotting the old culvert. Pity a bit muddy at places for you. But great filming. Walk was well documented by yourself. Your brain must be like an encyclopaedia regarding trains, pits and railway lines. Thank you Ant.
Any plans to do the Stafford to Bramshall line, Ant? I know part of it is walkable. Part of it is called the Isabel trail. I also remember sitting on an old platform in Cheadle Staffordshire. Just some memories I'm curious to know if you are going to explore Ant. No problem if you aren't. I'm just curious. Thank you for everything you do. I love it.
Great video cyced it many times , 1000 roman coins found when mapperly station being dug out. My back garden fence line is where the trains went under the main road to turn , Heanor GNR station across the road. Looking forwards to part 2.
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Great video, as a local been waiting for you to cover this one 👍
Glad you enjoyed it thank you
I remember when the American Adventure first opened and they had a flypast from Concorde, it went right over my school. 😎
back when it was Britannia park?
@@williamhall667 yes, I forgot about the name change. 👍
The log flume at American adventure was the best
It really was. Especially when they did the third drop extension and the Runaway Train passed through it
Thank you for the video Ant, some great finds, cheers, Pete.
Very interesting video Ant, looking forward to the next one. I think the 'water treatment' works you mentioned and showed in your drone footage are settling ponds for the mine water pumping station at Woodside colliery. I think it was originally to stop other pits that were still open from flooding but maybe now to control the minewater from getting into the water table? Perhaps you or other viewers could add more info. I also read that the headstocks by the shaft are smaller replacement for the original that was meant to be preserved but inadvertently scrapped.
Fantastic as always,very professional,would you consider a film about Yeovil junction in Somerset? I was born there in 1956,moved away in 1964 and now live in Dronfield Woodhouse North Derbyshire..thanks again for your always fabulous posts !!
Never did go to the Theme park, but I do remember driving past the signs for it. 😀
One of m first jobs was on the Shipley Opencast site. Used to drive lorries up the old Mapperley line to the opencast site from West Hallam coal depot 😉😉
Thx Ant' 👍🏻This one had some history I have watched more of and that's the American Adventures theme park. Nice one 😄
I would recommend you explore keighley worth valley railway. And Elsecar heritage railway
many happy afternoons spent at the american adventure. if you knew the holes in the fences, you could get in free... ;)
Thanks Ant.😂
very lovely
Can you do a video about the Somerset and Dorset if your ever down this way?
At the moment we have sympathetic folks in government and I for one am going to write to the relevant folks as to asking them if the government can take a very good look at a) condemning Beeching and the whole grubby backhander way it was done by Marples etc b) to really look at reversing more of the Beeching cuts where communities have ended up in terrible decay since the cuts and reversing, reinstating even with just light rail would do far far more for our economy than a whole raft of wringy handed policies. I think if enough people actually did this, maybe throw in some petitions national and local and really push you might be surprised.
Interesting video Ant, are those headstocks preserved or do they still serve a purpose.
I believe some pumping stations still operate to keep mine water from the water table
Don't know if you've ever noticed a pipeline marker on Western approach to Nottingham Station, it says mine water pipeline
Cheers Russ
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I think your name is anthony more affectionately known as "ant". I watch your videos regularly, as you release them from the U.S.. I am curious to know why you dont carry with yourself what we call here muck boots. I think you call them there wellies? I have seen you avoid alot of muddy areas. I can understand you may not want to get stuck or slip however i have seen you avoid areas where niether would happen. Just curious. Thanks for your great videos. Love the old photos and video in correlation to where you are. Would be cool if you could line the photo or video in thee exact same spot the camera was.
Shipley lake isn't the orignal, it was drained and opencast then rebuilt in the 70s.
That'll explain the realignment then
I run the American Adventure socials, im also working on restoring marlpool station, the lake at the side of the coppice building was built at that time. Coppice was GNRS admin offices in the early years of the railway @TrekkingExploration
@@zachmoore290 is that the derelict building?
used to go to Shipley wood, lake and Nutbrook area in the 1960s. when we left in the late 60s didnt go there until 1985 when i was working on the ill fated Britannia park project. Always wondered why there was"nt so many trees , a lot of train lines had gone, and like you say , the lake had changed
roll on part 2 Ant
Thanks Chris
Bout the many mining galleries down below, they still there or was all collapsed as the pitmen withdrew ?
they are still there for the most part a lot of them have collapsed naturally. there are several schemes to control the levels of the water in the abandoned workings!
Straw's bridge adjacent to Oakwell brickworks: a great monumental construction full of old underground furnaces with cavernous brickwork - all falling into disrepair now - but well worthy of preserving for posterity. Don't think it will happen though. This is my local area. Changed so much over time after the demise of the old Industrial revolution. Also my cycle route. Know it well.
Is that the Hoffman Kiln? It's almost beyond saving isn't it, from above anyway 😕
@@TrekkingExploration Yes Ant, best viewed from underground kilns, but am going back quite a while now. Bet it has mostly gone back to nature now, Shame. Council lacks imagination.
Another excellent video, lots of interesting footage. You select excellent music, extremely poignant.
Glad you enjoyed it Nick thank you