The Midland Railway to the Colliery - A Nottinghamshire Disused Railway Walk
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2023
- The Railway by the Mills with the caves to the Colliery - A Nottinghamshire Disused Railway Walk
The Midland Railway had quite a large amount of railways in Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire. Some used for mixed traffic some only for freight. One such Midland Railway was the one from Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire off towards Pleasley Colliery.
This railway bypassed the iconic Pleasley Mills, still standing today. Over Pleasley Colliery and onto the still existant Pleasley Colliery that closed back in 1983.
Join me as i follow this Disused Railway in Nottinghamshire.
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Thanks Ant. Absolutely love your disused railway walks! Wonderful history and vision. Appreciated.
Welcome to my back yard. I'm from just down the road at Shirebrook and there are so many old rail lines in the area, you've not even scratched the surface. Enjoy the explore.
It's been a while since I've done anything local I've got my eye on a few locations now. Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Thank you.😃
Thanks for watching 😊
It's amazing how many 100s of miles of old track beds out there. Another great hike Ant, loving the channel.
Thanks very much Chris I'll try to keep finding them 😁
Thank you for the tour today. Always a interesting experience. The weather was grand. See you on the next, Ant! Have a cracking week ahead! ❤😊
Fab music. Very apt with your filming. Superb first class explore. Shame viaduct not maintained . Could have been great walkway today for tourists and sightseers. But next best thing Ant is you keep it alive for all your viewers. Thank you.
I used to walk this route a lot as a kid. I remember when the area was practically abandoned. My mates dad used to be a security guard at the mills.
It's a fascinating area. More caves around apparently too
@@TrekkingExploration Yeah there is. They’re pretty hidden these days, but they were open when I was a kid. In the valley back along the Medan towards Shirebrook, the cliffs are believed to have been Neolithic rock shelters similar to Cresswell Crags.
Great, as always, Ant. I particularly liked that lovely three arch bridge and the caves. Thanks so much.
Thanks very much Simon
Hi Ant, great video with amazing relics still visible. Well explaind with excellent drone footage. Thank you.
That bridge must be pretty old if it was made with just stone with no brick? Ant, it looks like you had a perfect day for a adventure. Another great watch with outstanding drone work.
the Chimney was originally higher than that it was reduced some years ago to make it safe i was the boiler fitter at the mills and one of the few who have looked up the Chimney from the inside
What a great video. Those bridges were beautiful, that gorgeous brickwork. I did wonder if perhaps the gated up cave was designated for bats. Loved that. Thanks for taking me along. Please stay safe
There used to be a pillbox just near where you started, it was removed in the early 80's, also just under the field at the start is the remains of a roman villa, it was excavated in the 1920's.
Hiya ant my fella used to ride the trail from the vale to Pleasley nearly everyday.. It has made his day seeing those caves again as he has been inside them.. Also if you look at the mills there is a huge chimney tower next to mill 1
I'd have loved to have seen inside th caves. I do wonder where others may be
@@TrekkingExploration there's a few my fella could show you if your up for a really long day down there, he can also show you other bits you missed aswell
We live local so we fair enjoyed the video thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it thank you
This is a very interesting video Ant. You've done some great drone footage of this part of the Midland. The viaduct looked a lovely construction, what a pity it was demolished. Many thanks.
Top video Ant. So many lines around this area. It will certainly keep you busy
Seem to remember a viaduct or large bridge expanse over the A617 as it came out of Pleasley Colliery, when they built the roundabout roundabout that's when it was demolished.
Thanks for another cracking vlog so interesting and informative 😊
Glad you enjoyed it thank you
Nice video Ant, love the railway walks thanks for your efforts, lovely History.
Glad you enjoyed it Chris
Great walk, done the same loop a hundred times. Our business was in mill 3 from 2007-2014. Spent some big hours down there! Amazing image of the viaduct, always wondered what was in the gap. No evidence at all.
Brilliant stuff as always. I love that very first bridge you came across (the over grown three arch one). What a great looking feature to find in the middle of nowhere. Thanks Ant, great stuff.
Lovely stuff again, Ant. Fun fact about Pleasley Colliery, after it stopped producing coal in '83 it was maintained as a fan site drawing air into the outer reaches of Shirebrook Colliery workings until that was closed in 1994.
Also, you missed the coal unloading point at Pleasley Mills, if memory serves it's a capped off concrete base, but, you can see a hole high up in the wall where the conveyor would have carried the coal into the boiler room. 👍
It's an area that might be worth a revisit. I've had a couple of people also mention a tunnel or Culvert along with actual caves
@@TrekkingExploration Only tunnels I can think of in the immediate area are Bolsover, which is sketchy as heck, and Rowthorn, near Glapwell, which is completely filled in.
Duckmanton near Chesterfield used to be accessible wih wellies ten years or so ago. Spinkhill isn't a million miles away, either. Obvs the tunnel in Chesterfield itself (very public access and filled with ochrey silt).
@iancaveney7464 I lived in Glapwell for 10 years in the 1980s and walked the Rowthorne trail regularly. One of the tunnel portals was in the car park at the beginning of the trail. There used to be quite a few of the cooping stones from the tunnel round the edge of the car park.
Great video, I’ll have to look for all the others. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it thank you
Strangely i was walking on the colliery lines on the other side of Mansfield at Clipstone.
Another Epic Video. Thanks 👌 😊
Thank you
what a lovely walk ant
Thanks for watching Chris
I think those height restriction barriers are to stop Tesco drivers taking a short cut😂😂😂😂 Great walk👍👍👍 Doesn't the passage of time show things in a different light, not a tree to be seen in the B&Ws.
More than likely to stop travellers from parking up.
Quality work as per normal Ant,thanks
Very kind thank you Simon
You find the most interesting (and beautiful) places to take us.
Thanks very much 😊
Shame about the Viaduct - @ 414 - Parts of the M. T. (Monsal trail - which used to be a Railway line until it closed in 1968) has Stone Walls alone it 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Brilliant as usual thanks
Thank you Stuart
There are some remains of the viaduct just next to Outgang line but all covered up, there was a rough path up the side of it in the 80's, you had to hang onto branches to get up. The viaduct has been certified to stay up but it was demolished and the stone used elsewhere, it was done illegally and some question of corruption behind it.
Pleasley Colliery has a connection to Florence Nightingale’s family. In 1872 William Nightingale, Florence’s father leased the mineral rights to the Stanton Company. The Colliery started life being known as ‘Nightingale Pit’
Also Pleasley Mills are allegedly haunted and was featured in the TV Paranormal series’Most Haunted’ some years ago.
Thank for a great video I love the drone footage. I look forward to your next video. Cheers
Thanks very much Steven 😄
I've not walked down here in ages. The footpath down the side of the embankment leads across the fields to Radmanthwaite and Oxclose Wood/Sherwood Pit Tip.
I'll have to have another look around there. It's been long overdue for me to do something local again
Thank you as always, Intrepid Explorer, for another detailed insight into our industrial heritage. I believe that Britain has huge coal reserves so it is a shame that we could find a way to process and use it in a way that did not contribute to climate change.
Lovely video and a beautiful walk.
Glad you enjoyed it thanks for watching
@@TrekkingExploration You're welcome and many thanks too.
Thank you so much for this one, an area which has fascinated me over the years especially with Pleasley Mill, just where you started your walk, I was told that an old engine shed still exists, is this true? Just the opposite side of the road to where you started, thanks again.
There's something over the road like a tower if you look in the opening drone shots you just see it bottom right
Another interesting video you miss one of the remaining bridges, if you had carried on over the river and pick up another footpath where there is some more track bed with a accuse bridge for footpath .which led to a tunnel under another branch line what is a long time gone the came out in the church yard
re the height restriction - just past used to be a car park hence them being there. The local residents association moaned to the council until the car park was taken out of use, they now spend their time moaning about on street parking
TH-cam channel The walk has done a video along that railway route or one of them and show a colum from a viaduct. don't know if there was more than one viaduct.
Definitely no remains of this viaduct nor any others we're local. Unsure
@@TrekkingExploration Found a few bits on the other side of the road, mate. th-cam.com/video/EjT9qiyL-Ds/w-d-xo.html
We walked it Monday but in the opposite direction.
watched both videos one after the other so may have got confused, so many lines in that area.
@@katehudson9840 it's the same viaduct and valley. We were just on the other side of the river and road. We came direct from the pit following the line. Got the stinging nettle marks as a badge!
There is loads of old railway lines round there if you follow the line from pleasley to shirebrook there is bits of an old bridge and you can get on the old track bed if the leen valley line which still has a sign iff wood lane.
I did the short stretch from Warsop Colliery yesterday. I've noticed the bit near the caravan park at Pleasley but unsure if you can get near
Yes you can on the other side of the road you can walk by the line in the fields and through a bit of small woodland, opposite the caravan park I think there is a footpath what takes you down to the viaduct ruins
@@markharrison7522 fantastic thank you
No problem I used to live there and walked all those old lines with the dog if you look on an old railway map there is loads of different lines around there and history.
@@markharrison7522 I'll be back to look at the Shirebrook to Clowne line soon too
Very enjoyable video. Pity they blew up the viaduct it would have been cool to walk across. Ah well, all the best.
You visit the mills theres information boards at some points and one has info on the caves
I'd better get myself back there. Thank you
Thank you so much! Anything left of the Southwell Paddy?
I walked that one from Farnsfield to Southwell in 2020. Quite a nice walk
Did that line eventually join up with the Midland railway at Butterley?
I know that one section went through towards glapwell. The Rowthorn line. It had a tunnel that was filled with the muck from sinking the Bramley Vale drift . From there, it turned into the Stockley line to Bolsover . I'm not too sure of the other direction towards Silver Hill and Teversal ect .Hope that's some help duck. 👍🏴
Impossible not to watch this one immediately - that class 37 is click bait! 😄
I struggled so much for a good image I took me a couple of hours 😁
It's a class 40
@@40022laconia how can you tell?
@@Peter-MH the nose is extended and more angular than a 37, the wheelsets are also 8 wheel on that, not 6 like a 37, with it being the midlands the class 40 was also far more common up those ways than the 37 would of been during the BR green era