Ha! Spent many,many days of my youth the 70’s/80’s playing exactly around there,where the woods meet the road used to be a huge dump full of local rubbish,the glass bulbs had a dump nearby too which was very futuristic and cool,idyllic childhood,love the place,great video
@alparker6560 Жыл бұрын
So did i early 70s
@VoicesFromBeyond Жыл бұрын
Used to play on this walk when I was a child, many happy memories
@martinmarsola64772 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the long haul and safe trip. Cheers mate.
@chrisbayly54573 жыл бұрын
love to walk these lines soon..
@TrekkingExploration3 жыл бұрын
This was a good one, a bit of everything 🙂
@seamusmcevoy20115 жыл бұрын
@trekking and towpaths, I've gone under the Tickhill Viaduct no end of times on my way to Sheffield and often wondered if there was a path up above, well now I know, and it's one that I'm going to tackle fairly soon. Great video mate!!
@TrekkingExploration5 жыл бұрын
Hello, it caught me by surprise on the day, totally unexpected 😀
@barrythedieselelectricstea52174 жыл бұрын
another very interesting video 👍
@TrekkingExploration4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, thankyou for watching :)
@irievibes824 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this... I grew up in tickhill during the 80's/90's and used to watch the trains all the time, especially in summer and the bridge over apy lane was my usual place. I did your same walk but in 2014 and all the track was still there apart from a mile stretch that had been stolen. Cheers for the walk down memory lane man👍👍
@TrekkingExploration4 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome. The Harworth line was one of the first i did. I had never seen so many ants nests. Stand still for a second and my shoes were covered lol
@irievibes824 жыл бұрын
@@TrekkingExploration lol... It was winter when I did it so no insects at all👍👍
@frankfitzgerald58324 жыл бұрын
Great video Ant.....very interesting ..loved the Viaduct ....Thanks Keep up the great work mate ...Frank & Lee...
@zacw104 жыл бұрын
Used to go past here quite alot back in the 80s, retired in January when eckington pit shut. Worked at eckington welbeck thoresby Markham and firbeck main.
@TrekkingExploration4 жыл бұрын
Firbeck is astounding, all those buildings still standing
@jasinere355 жыл бұрын
last time I walked that one it still had the single track down but was missing in places
@TrekkingExploration5 жыл бұрын
Nothing at all now :(
@socklesslad5 жыл бұрын
Great video as always - but I never thought I'd hear you say "I think I might be about to regret taking my trousers off"!
@TrekkingExploration5 жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha ha i know 🤣😅
@chrislaunders82834 жыл бұрын
The village is actually Bircotes, Harworth village is over beyond it.
@Rasgazza5 жыл бұрын
Nice one, mate. I'm intrigued by disused railways and really appreciate the time you've spent on this video. There are several in South Yorkshire I'd like to have a closer look at, if I ever have the time.
@TrekkingExploration5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Gary, i'll be looking into Yorkshire a fair bit more as i have already done a few in Nottinghamshire :)
@tonysoulby66865 жыл бұрын
Great video. I never did get to Harworth Colliery, but i worked on steam and diesel to Firbeck and Maltby Colliery;s from Scunthorpe.. It would nice to see how it is now .
@TrekkingExploration5 жыл бұрын
Thankyou :) I believe only a little of the Firbeck line exists, at the Harworth Junction end. I'm sure the colliery site is a country park now
@jasinere355 жыл бұрын
@@TrekkingExploration most of the firbeck buildings are still standing apart from the winding towers however where these stood is getting used to make cement blocks the as for the bed very little of it remains & you can only really see where it went via googlemaps no one knows whats likely to happen to firbeck colliery as ive asked some of the locals & kept getting blank expressions aswell as shrugging of shoulders each time i enquired, also many on facebook page are hoping the old harworth bed becomes a path but as you found out farmers are taking back the land it goes thru
@vernilley14 жыл бұрын
Was wondering how much walking i was allowed to do from harworth, along the old rail line. This helped loads. Great video
@TrekkingExploration4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching and I'm glad it's helped you out 😊
@anthonydefreitas60063 жыл бұрын
The Signal was a very good find 👍
@johnbrown75124 жыл бұрын
Great video, very interesting, thanks
@TrekkingExploration4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching John 👍🙂
@janepatricia87795 жыл бұрын
very good Video, its such a shame these lines are left like this.they ought to be turned into walking/cycle tracks.
@TrekkingExploration5 жыл бұрын
It's worth making it into a path if only to save the viaduct :)
@stevejones88285 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@mwspireite57133 жыл бұрын
Had the pleasure of working at Harworth colliery for 12 years until it's closure. I transferred there from Silverhill when that colliery closed in 93. The old railway lines in my locality have now been converted in many miles of official country walks like the "Five Pits Trail" and the "Silverhill Trail". I just wondered if there are any plans to make these routes proper walking trails? And thanks for the video.
@TrekkingExploration3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching and commenting. There is still a great deal for me to walk in that area and I do often forget about it so thanks for the reminder 😊 There are some potential good walking routes that can be created still and hopefully this will happen 😊
@Mariazellerbahn5 жыл бұрын
The route is new to me. Never went there ... Doncaster and Worksop men's territory.
@TrekkingExploration5 жыл бұрын
I'm going to be straying into yorkshire a bit more now, although i am looking into Bentink
@djp1209704 жыл бұрын
Harwood Colliery Institute, good football team and tough opponents back in the day
@iainmccoll84424 жыл бұрын
Very good
@TrekkingExploration4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Iain 😀👍
@stevejones88285 жыл бұрын
Wot a fantastic video
@TrekkingExploration5 жыл бұрын
Hi Steve, thanks very much 😀
@Get_boxed_XD4 ай бұрын
My grandad died on that pit😭
@TrekkingExploration4 ай бұрын
Oh no I'm sorry. Whilst at work?
@Nurofaen7 күн бұрын
Is this route still possible do you know? I'm trying to follow along on Google Maps but where you encounter "Harworth Industrial Units" it seems the new Simpson Park (near the Asda) is built as you see in your video, but does the expansion of that estate encroach this route? Looking to do this with the kids and end up at Tickhill viaduct
@TrekkingExploration6 күн бұрын
Hmmmmmmm I wouldn't really know now although when I did it, I got to the viaduct from Tickhill end as there was a section blocked off in two places before you got there
@1963TOMB3 жыл бұрын
Didn't this branch also serve the Glass Bulbs factory in Harworth? My interest is that my father spent 25 years as a storeman there: being originally from Yorkshire it was rumored that he never let anything leave his stores!
@TrekkingExploration3 жыл бұрын
There was indeed a glass bulb factory nearby the colliery that I believe was also served by rail. 😊
@1963TOMB3 жыл бұрын
@@TrekkingExploration Although I was in a foster home from the age of 3, 1st at Ranby in Nottinghamshire staring in 1966 and then at Creswell from 1973 onwards, I was at some time given my real father's '25 year service' watch dated 1977. So the factory was there in 1952.
@pmf29107 ай бұрын
Housing estate on there now. Whose brilliant idea was that??
@TrekkingExploration7 ай бұрын
Just like near to me at Thoresby
@SKMusic19854 жыл бұрын
Why did you decide to visit here?
@glynjones37273 жыл бұрын
It's a nostalgia for the past. To some people, this set of walks might seem to be rather odd. But there are very many people,(mainly men?) who are interested in railway colliery lines, collieries, industrial architecture and what would these places would have looked like in the not so distant past. Once you see the lines, the sleepers in the ground, the ballast, the concrete posts, the lineside equipment, the silver birch trees, you're hooked! You have to know, to satisfy yourself where the these lines lead to.You look at and old, b&w photo of a long disused pit and you want to stand in that shot.
@SKMusic19853 жыл бұрын
Glyn Jones It’s my home village. I lived here for 18 years before leaving for uni. I think the interest is spreading with the popularity of urbexing. Not sure the popularity is with males, but all genders are finding curiosity in where they come from, how their families earned, how their villages/towns/cities were established. These types of walks often have disused buildings along the way, allowing good opportunities for photography & a bit of history.
@alistairstanyon69763 жыл бұрын
On our way to the pit one Day the tablet machine had been pinched that gave us permission to be on the single line
@grumpybore8635 жыл бұрын
I'm going to ask a numpty question here. but my excuse is that I know absolutely nothing about railroads. at 18:08 in this video, you show a sign that reads 11m 72ch. now, I am guessing that the 11m means 11 miles, but what is a "ch"?
@deanbotterill51524 жыл бұрын
11m72ch, means 11 mile 72 chain. There are 80 chain in a mile, 40 half mile, 20 quarter mile. "Chain" is a railway term of measurement. Another 8 chain, added to the above, would then become 12mile.
@grumpybore8634 жыл бұрын
@@deanbotterill5152 thanks for enlightening me on this, Dean. that was interesting to learn!
@servicecrew68134 жыл бұрын
My old mates dad worked there.. when it shut he went down hill, he ended up a transvestite escort.
@TrekkingExploration4 жыл бұрын
Blimey that's quite the career change 👍
@dirtbikerman10002 жыл бұрын
I grew up riding motorbikes in bircotes wood where the video starts Its actually called the top wood. Here's a video of riding thosetrack on a motorbike...it could be me riding but for legal reasons we'll say rider unknown kzbin.info/www/bejne/imTIq6KdbNVpo5o