Disused Railway Walk Killamarsh - Beighton Branch - LD&ECR Explore Part 1

[@WobblyRunner]

00:01 Intro 02:11 Abandoned viaduct 06:09 Old bridge for Waleswood line 07:55 Crossover cutting & Old Signal 09:39 River Rother bridge 12:15 Killamarsh Road Bridge 12:51 Old Railway Wagons 13:06 Tunnel Walkway under line 14:00 Chesterfield Canal bridge ruins 15:44 Old brick discovery 16:30 Site of former Upperthorpe & Killamarsh Station 17:48 Old signal box site

[@witheredrose2620]

i live just up the hill from there i went walking on this line and found a track chair. needless to say it was very heavy, i've found all sorts of different metal components from the line sadly no rails though.

[@WobblyRunner]

They're heavier than they look those track chairs aren't they😄. It's a great section. I lived in Beighton so was always out walking it and noticed new stuff everytime. Happy memories.

[@witheredrose2620]

@@WobblyRunner Ye I Never knew that pile of bricks on the great central was a signal box

[@WobblyRunner]

@@witheredrose2620 I didn't realise until a few years ago. The amount of times I'd been past that 😄

[@baza130a]

Thank you very interesting

[@WobblyRunner]

Thank you. Was a very interesting walk.

[@derrekleigh6644]

Love the predictive text 😆

[@kevinmulhall]

Good to see it again, I walked this along with Zoe Hunter a few years

[@WobblyRunner]

Thank you. Always plenty to see and I find something new every time I've walked it since.

[@mrbetamax1969]

12.28 on video was a gasometer in the 70s opposite the new houses.. allotment there now I think?

[@richardpashley1926]

It's a telegraph pole support bracket

[@WobblyRunner]

Thanks Richard. I've seen loads scattered about along a few of the disused lines around there.

[@mervynsands3501]

Great vid, remnants of a bygone era, but what a tremendous route it was in its day, through the heart of England to the south, and was going to go to a channel tunnel to France, but the Government of that time, blocked the building of it. Anyway thanks for posting. 🙂👍

[@WobblyRunner]

Thanks for watching Mervyn. I agree, it would have been a temendous route. I'm always blown away by how imposing the embankment is above Killamarsh compared to the other lines towering over the houses below.

[@mrbetamax1969]

Hi w/r...I see now beginning of ya vid railings up in 90s it was a free run down there right to beighton signal box...cheers top product 👍

[@WobblyRunner]

Think there was still track down and a siding until just a few years ago?

[@mrbetamax1969]

@@WobblyRunner put a classic on my KZbin for you before they got the diggers in and elf n safety took over I was wet to the bone that day could hardly stand up.

[@mrbetamax1969]

@@WobblyRunner yes that's the bridge in the background no meadow Gate housing

[@WobblyRunner]

@@mrbetamax1969 ahh yeah the steel girder bridge. what bike is that?

[@mrbetamax1969]

@@WobblyRunner suzuki x150

[@mrbetamax1969]

The yellow line what goes east up to Kiveton pit had a bridge going over road near angel pub...we walked up to m1 looking for a tunnel. Never needed railway track pulled up 1963 m1 laid in 1966..lol

[@WobblyRunner]

Did you find anything? I know the cutting is still there the other side of the m1

[@mrbetamax1969]

@@WobblyRunner it was the 1990s when I was looking.. the posts give it away...pebbel dash style. But with it been farm land soon got used..

[@richardpashley1926]

This old trackbed is also a haven for grass snakes

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

As you can see I'm working my way through your vids and really enjoying them. I have one question though, how come you keep meeting dodgy characters on these walks!!! I remember the Fiery Jack episode which was interesting, and indeed corroborated by myself when I went down there. Look after yourself mate, these vids need to keep coming. This railway ends up going all the way to Lincoln over the Fledborough Viaduct (a really impressive structure), there are some great stations on the route. When you get to Lincoln you can follow the old Lincolnshire Loop Line which has a branch to Boston and another one out to Louth and then on to the coast. There are a couple of tunnels along this section as well. I have some great photos of every station (bar two, but working on them, privately owned and not near the road/fields) on those lines and the tunnels.

[@WobblyRunner]

You're right. I seem to keep bumping in to undesirable folk when I'm out and about. Same thing happened this week with two youths on what I suspect was a stolen bike :D. Glad you like the videos.

[@WobblyRunner]

It would be great to continue down the old line out towards Lincoln way. I've just moved house a few miles further up the line as it happens. So I've already been looking the next few stretches. Louth is one the destinations on my wish list too, when I eventually get round to it.

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

@@WobblyRunner If you ever need a 'minder', I'm your man!!!

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

@@WobblyRunner Louth is about 20 mins from me, it has a gorgeous Victorian station. The Louth to Grimsby disused line has some very interesting elements to it as well, I should know as I've photographed most of it!!! Halfway along the line you have the Lincolnshire Wolds Steam Railway that runs between Ludborough and North Thoresby, it's well worth a visit.

[@WobblyRunner]

@@seamusmcevoy2011 ah yes. I used to stay inbetween Waltham and Humberstone for the school holidays in my younger days. Remember some of the old line around there.

[@WobblyRunner]

Railway maps taken from www.railmaponline.com/UKIEMap.php More info on the K.B. Co. bricks (Killamarsh Brick Company) - eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2015/12/north-east-derbyshire-brickworks.html Old photo of Upperthorpe & Killamarsh railway station - killamarsh.org/photo-gallery/upperthorpe-killamarsh-station/ Old signal box at Killamarsh Junction - www.killamarsh.org/photo-gallery/nearing-the-end-of-its-working-life-killamarsh-junction-box-circa-1967-8-the-brickwork-was-added-in-1939-to-give-protection-against-bomb-damage/

[@eggy77]

A shame schools didn't continue that scheme of collecting old cans, there'd be far less litter all over the country if they did. I did some litter picking locally last year, found some cans from the mid 80s, with the old style ring pulls, still in decent condition. The southern entrance to Rother Valley used to be an old farm access track from Field farm to the eastern side of the railway lines, I had an explore on what I called Field Farm Lane last year, over a brick bridge/viaduct that can be seen through the trees from the TPT, underneath the bridge ran the killamarsh line. I cleared the old lane somewhat to make it more accessible, not sure what it's like now, wonder if the locals have helped to keep it accessible. 🤔

[@WobblyRunner]

You know, I had the same thought about the cans😄. Would have made a fortune back in the day. I know which bridge you mean. I was having a look around it a few months ago. Was still clear as of last week too when I walked past.

[@eggy77]

@@WobblyRunner funnily enough I've literally just watched that video now with the farm bridge on. I shut my eyes again for a couple of hours as woke up at 3am, thought before I get up I'll just watch one more vid and that was the top one. It is amazing just how much is left from the old railways in that area, bet you could keep on finding something new. I reckon we both first noticed that farm bridge at a similar time. Perhaps it was due to them thinning out the trees, and the lack of leaves on the rest.

[@WobblyRunner]

@@eggy77 that would explain why I didn't notice it for 13 years or so. Now I go past and you can't miss it. Even in summer. I was out there filming on the waleswood branch last week.

[@eggy77]

@@WobblyRunner just looking at my photos, I first noticed it early February 2020 through the trees, couldn't access it though as there was no path to it from the north end and the south end hold water in winter. It was June 2020 when I went back, without the bike, and made it more accessible, once we were allowed out in the car again. Managed to negotiate it on the bike a couple of times although it was quite a challenge haha gonna have to check it out again sometime, see if people have took the bait and kept it accessible all the way through 😁

[@mrbetamax1969]

Moto Cross City down there in mid 80s..no police helicopter back then and no ramblers. It got messed out with early 90s just after rac rally was at rother Valley. Made it more public footpathish...

[@WobblyRunner]

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[@jasinere35]

this bed your on stops at a tunnel

[@WobblyRunner]

HI Jason. I'm hoping to get up to the Spinkhill tunnel very soon to look at the rest of the line.

[@jasinere35]

@@WobblyRunner im not sure if you can cos a while back i tried looking for the same tunnel, trekking & towpaths managed it yet i still cant work out how

[@WobblyRunner]

@@jasinere35 I know you can get up to the old spinkhill station but I've never been past that towards the tunnel. I've seen few videos not not sure how they got through to the tunnel entrance.

[@WobblyRunner]

Hi Jason, I went down the other day to have a look at the tunnel. Apart from the obstacle course of fallen trees near the tunnel entrance it was easy. You can either get down through a gap in the hedge on the road just by the bridge (near the station). Or as I did, I just walked down the old trackbed from Killamarsh straight to the tunnel. Apart from a pile of mud under the road bridge, it was easy to climb over.