IT'S NO WOTH ITS PRONOUNCE WATH LIKE BATH WORSBROUGH ITS PRONOUNCE WUZBOROUGH ASK ANYONE IN BARNSLEY

Shame the actual track sound is faded out.

Utterly scary lyrics to the accompanying song - I’d rather hear the train and rails clanking …

This should be one of the Beechings Cuts that gets reversed. Connect it into the old Hull and Barnsley Railway and send express services down there. That would serve better than HS3 / Northern Power House Rail which seems to only want to duplicate the existing infrastructure between Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds

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My dad used to work a signal box where the train went under the A628 just outside of Millhouse Green. That would be late 1950s or early 60s. I remember my Mum used to take me there to visit a couple of times. So thank you for that blast from the past1

We made a walking and droning video of part of this route from the Glasshouse Crossing at Worsbrough down to the Aldham Junction before heading to the Stairfoot area, the Ardsley Tunnel and Viaduct which of course is now part of the Trans Pennine Trail and incorporated some of the footage into our video which can be seen here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iomrnmxobdegfq8

Amazing rare footage butchered by awful music 👎

Very good video, final years of passenger operation beyond Hadfield. I wonder if London Road powerbox signalmen ever inadvertently routed an AC loco onto the DC side of Piccadilly and v.v., and the drivers duly took the signal? Maybe they had local train describer codes to make sure only diesels used the connection.

At 1:54, it's an under-bridge from the point of view of the railway.

Is there a video that it shows a recording of the train travelling from Halifax North Bridge Station to Queensbury Station??

Was any attempt made to sell them the EM1s after the woodhead route closed?

Penistone,',once a thriving goods town'. How thatcherite! 😡

Closing this was like cooking a great big meal and then eating a few bites before binning the lot.. senseless 😐

Having walked the route yesterday, seeing this feels strange but sad at the same time.

R.I.P John Lennon !!!

I can remember this railway line as I live close to where it was but now known as the pennine trail which is very busy with walkers and bikers

Just loved the EM1/2s spent many happy hours with my mates on Sheffield Victoria after it had shut down to see these in their final days.Usually filthy with no name plates but just iconic looking loco's.The signal man used to be OK with us as he knew were doing no harm and even let us in the signal box once as it was so cold.Can you imagine that today ?

NS got one hell of a bargain with these old girls, a testament to the worth and solidity of the original design. Never saw one in operation in the UK but the remaining Dutch loco was parked outside Rotterdam station when I visited some years ago.

Why we got lefty John bleeding lennin

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Looking back at decision making in the early 1980's closing woodhead tunnel was yet another poor choice as it turned out. Nearly forty years later in 2020 the so called northern powerhouse regional regeneration plan could be benefiting from having woodhead in operation. Foolhardy decisions regretted in later years.

Fabulous to see this route was filmed for prosperity. A great pity it was discarded in the way it was.

What unit is this driving?

3 tunnels side by side and all now closed, daft.

Really shame this line closed. Still mourned today nearly 40 years after closure. It could have been converted to 25 KV at the fraction of the cost BR was quoting. They knew what they were doing once passenger services were withdrawn. GMPTE wanted to sponsor a service across the line, but BR wouldnt have any of it.

It's a pity they can't open that line again because there are power lines in the tunnel

I worked on this line briefly in 1977 it was a pleasure to go to work

Got this film on video. Must’ve been a rather grey day considering the lack of colour!

Wonderful memories

It is over 50 years since I last drove over that road.i stil think about it and the men I worked with.

It was very short sighted to close this route, scandalous in fact. The Manchester-Cleethorpes services could have gone over it, plus the Liverpool Nottingham services, (which could have run via Barnsley), therefore freeing up paths on the Hope Valley route. It would have also made Barnsley and Penistone within commuting distance of Manchester, not to mention Dunford Bridge as well. Ramblers would have been well catered for at Woodhead and Dunford Bridge. Real shame.

Why am I as a taxpayer being asked to northern power house cross pennine links when we one but closed it !

Working in The Loud House:1954-1956(GB) Working in Floopaloo:1956-1968(GB) Working in Peppa Pig:1969-1975(NL) Working in Rick & Morty:1975-1986(NL)

I love Class 76 good old fashion Electric locomotive

This looks like a trip before closure . Chartered trains were not allowed normaly . Br said it wasntbsafe for passengers due to subsidence in places . This might be a rare charter ?

It's disappointing that the newer tunnel had power lines installed in it, sealing its fate.

When the government decided to close the route they knew about the coming anilation of the coal industry , coal was the reason for the wood head route and the reason it had no future , there was never a chance for 25kv electrification as it's main Traffic had or was about to be wiped out And thatchers government knew it, I do still think that increasing passenger numbers And increasing transpennine road traffic will see The manchester sheffield bit reopened all be it with A new tunnel built to modern dimentions for intermodel freight but the wath branch is gone for ever, that being said i can also see the barnsley doncaster line reopening eather as rail or supertram at some point.

Even with the anoying naration you can make out the sound of the class 76 and it's nothing like the olivias trains sound, i grew up with these locos running past my house

Nice video I liked and subbed 👍

3:16 something crossing the tracks.

And the Horn

The Brake sound also gives it away that it is a DMU

According to social media this trip on this DMU was filmed in the last week of operation in the middle of July 1981

You can see why the line was ultimately stiffed. A reliance on a declining traffic, riddled with manual boxes and speed restirctions and non standard electrification. They were never going to, or never had the money to, upgrade it.

Ironic it was closed down in the late 70's and now it seems electrification and rail is the way forwards in the UK .. I remember the route functioning and was caught multiple times in having to stop for crossing rail traffic. There is talk again of a multi-million cross Pennine rail link (although it will not happen) It is all cycle route now, part of the trans Pennine Trail. I have ridden it many times on my mountain bike as I live very close I rode pretty much this exact route, It was a hard slog cycling up to and through (cant get through now though) the Silkstone tunnels, but coming back down was all free wheel :-)

I will reiterate a Mexborough to Hadfield or even a Hull to Hadfield reopening is needed. This will be an all electric railway: Diesels will soon go the way of steam.

Such a shame it was dismantled it would have been great if it beat the cuts. My dad remembers the line and I've read about it done all the routes possible on train simulator in the correct loco. I remember seeing it at woodhead in the 80S as the line and electrifications hadn't been removed.

This was a really wholesome freight railway hat could have survived with the decline of coal as a route from Hull and Immingham. I would love the route from Mexborough to Hadfield to reopen as part of an electrified railway across the pennines