That sound absolutely beautiful

Wonderful! I grew up near here as a kid and often wondered about the old railway in this area. This is very interesting, thanks for this. I lived on wainman street which was very close to an old railway road bridge and i went to the school there. I beleive its the same line that was next us that you have explored. Thanks again 😊

Like the video i remember when mr marvels theme park opened back in 84 i was in my late teens . It was a great park in its day and the chairlifts were always great fun . Its a shame to the park closed in 2002 and been left abandoned for 22 years now

Great video - very interesting. Thank you for going out and making it - very much appreciated!!

what a waste of a beautiful viaduct.great vid tho boys

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I remember them lifting the tracks when I was a kid. We used to bmx on the old airfield at Broomhill on the small slag mounds that were on to stop vehicles, and when they lifted the tracks to the marshalling yard it was fantastic on there for the bikes too ! Vaguely remember cycling on Broomhill road too before they closed it

what a hell of a change in a few short years

I wouldn't mind coming with ya one day. The National Lottery paid us to make a mini-series about the Dearne Valley which included Manvers then and now.

Great video man ! Really enjoyed Lots of cuttings lost ! That mexborough Junction looks unbelievable and more like a river tunnel Amazing how much land has been reclaimed too 😵

WALKED ACROSS THAT VIADUCT SHAME IN NEVER GOT USED FOR PASSENGERS & FREIGHT FROM LEEDS TO YORK GET A GREAT VIEW FROM THERE

Love exploration type of content. Thank you.

nice one ,how near to the A64 is it

Lovely Video. I didn't know there was a lovely viaduct in Tadcaster, you learn something every day.

Nice structure !

Excellent detailed tour of that area, just a pity it all was passed off to history.

My friends forced me to walk through alone😢

great collab Jonny,but what a shame all these engineering masterpieces left to ruin

What was the building with the 2 huge square intake/chimney things for?

Great explore this! Thanks Jonny and Pete

Is this the line with Sledmere, Fimber, Wetwang? Gooorgeous tunnel, thank you for this video❤

Impressive and good bit of research .

i want to do that jonny

Have you walked Darfield line

Have you got the coordinates or a nearby road name? I live in Stalybridge and would like to nip over for a look but I cannot for the life of me figure out where it is.

Brilliant! Very informative

As a little boy I lived in Pye Avenue at the Spark Lane end from 1947-51. Mother used to let me run to the level crossing to watch the engines go by when I heard them coming.

mother nature sure holds nothing back

Another brilliant video this day. Always enjoy your walk along. Cheers John! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

used the dvparkway or 8 years and never knew that .just think what the value of these lines would be worth today

Brilliant video John. Remember much of the route from the 70s/80s and have cycled on it loads of times since. But your video is still bringing out new and interesting stuff. Always struck by the power of nature to reclaim her own. No one would ever know, looking at today’s scene, the scale of industry that used to be there. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for the walking tour this day. Informative and very helpful to me. See you on the next, John. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

I think it is the only tunnel on the line that doesn’t have a gradient,well done lads now go and get yourselves dry.

Love it here, was only there at bank holiday weekend

Thank you as always, guys!

another gem boys

You are correct , the canal bridge had a metal span and a stone section with a horse tunnel on the tow path , the viaduct over the dove was a mini swaith but built from stone with three stone piers , and near the junction was a stone bridge identical to convicts tunnel but without the concrete bridge on top , it was a low stone bridge with the embankment going over the top as convicts would have been originally , it crossed the aldam mill goyt ( South Yorkshire railway cost cutting ) they were notoriously tight with money and wouldn’t pay for a full height stone bridge .

I used to play on the disused aldam curve as a kid , a class 47 with HAA’s derailed just after ash inn bridge , it was heading for wombwell main junction , the track was the old type with wooden noggins in the chairs which locals took for fire wood so the rails spread under the 47 , it hadn’t been used for years before that ,the track was lifted in 76 and the bridges cut up at the same time , my bedroom window overlooked the junction of aldam curve and worsboro branch so could watch the 76 electrics to as far as swaith viaduct and 20 31 37 45 47 56 diesels going up to Barrow pit .

The Brick cut out that New oaks box sat in is still there , it is adjacent to the TPT on the edge of the concreted area , it has been extended by the brick works at some point , never saw new oaks box as it was just a pile of ashes and metal in the cut out when I first saw the area In about 75 .

Brill vid Jonny ! Loved that Aldham curve part. Nice to see it ! And the viaduct remains Are good to see after seeing it on OS maps a lot when we did worsborough incline Good to see now and understand how all those lines operated !

Interesting video,not even noticed the bridge over the M62 before and passed below it hundreds of times.

It’s surreal seeing it 2 years ago from what me and Ashton saw on Sat, remnants of the buildings are lost for ever in the undergrowth now, but on your video you can make them out. Top job, you’re an absolute fountain of knowledge!

If you had told me in the mid 1970s that Butlins at Filey would soon be closed and Primrose Valley caravan site would replace it I would have thought you were mad. It's incredible the pace of change. Butlins as late as the mid 1970s was seen as the more selective type of holiday yet it was to die out completely with the arrival of cheap flights to foreign destinations.

Should have kept the railway station at filey and could served the new holiday camps on the East Coast now

We used to run through these tunnels, all the way to the oil terminal, back in the fifties!

There's quite a few very similar old pillboxes etc on the beach between Barmston and Bridlington , and i think at the Brid end an old gun emplacement has been turned into a ice cream place it's been painted white , it's just down a few steps from the park and ride , i'v walked from Barmston to Brid along that beach a couple of times , lovely place .

Local to Barnsley ❤

Thank you for this day’s video. Walking along the shoreline is very relaxing to watch. See you on the next. Cheers John! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

Think the brickwork on the beach john was from the pumping station

Brilliant 👏