4 Cool Abandoned Stations

[@Sim0nTrains]

Also with Woodhead that it got electrified in the 1950s and I don't think the overhead lines could fit into one and two as well. Don't quote me on that. But do love Disused stations, great video

[@MidlandMark]

Correct: A new station was opened in 1953 by the Eastern Region of British Railways on a different site in conjunction with the opening of the new Woodhead Tunnel and electrification of the line. The station was closed on 27 July 1964 but the line remained open for passengers trains until 1970 and to freight traffic until 1981.

[@martinreed9565]

@@Sim0nTrains if you look at some of the earlier pictures of the Woodhead tunnel before the war they clearly is overhead wire aiming towards the two twin tunnels so they must’ve changed their mind partway through and built a new tunnel. I can’t find any information on that whatsoever of course the new tunnel didn’t open until after the war. Another silly fact about the tunnel I understand that the wire was generally much much higher than its sister wire on the great Eastern and would’ve taken 25 kV without any problem. Shame you could’ve had electric trains from King’s Cross via Sheffield to Manchester.

[@bfapple]

Millers Dale is another nearby recommendation of mine. A former four track junction station in the middle of nowhere.

[@kevinellis8869]

As you say, slightly different to your normal videos, but from a railway perspective rather than travelling it's really good. Please consider doing some more in a similar vein.

[@Nooticus]

Excellent video! Very Geoff Marshall in format and style to my eyes! A lot of places that even I, a railway nerd, never knew, so thanks

[@garyhornbuckle2693]

Great Video Nick. Agreed Woodhead is my favourite of the 4. The route is on my bucket list to cycle.

[@martinholland3938]

Great video Nick. When you were at Brightside there was another just up the road called Attercliffe Road. This was closed around the same time as brightside. Not many services stopped there mainly early morning services and some in the evening.

[@bfapple]

Attercliffe was superseded - for better and for worse - by the Supertram.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

That was a really good "experiment" Nick. The way you were describing the bridge steps at Brightside made you sound like an estate agent, trying to make a wreck sound like a dream home!

[@R_T_Ralph]

Brightside to sheffield is affercliffe station. we have loads of stations in sheffield, that we gave up. Beighton has 3, and others nearby, maybe a new series for you .

[@rogerfozzard2902]

All your videos are interesting, but this variation was really interesting as I used to travel through Rotherham Masborough and Brightside when I went to Sheffield Trainspotting in the 1960's.😐

[@grahamquinton9695]

As Monty Python sang "Always look on the .... of life". Eric Idle wrote the song after the station closed.

[@andrewnelson4057]

@@grahamquinton9695 Nope. The song was written in 1978. The Station closed on 28 January 1995....

[@appl3_p1ez69]

Great vid Nick as always! I do indeed love the disused stations in the northern area, also i heard you met my friend, Wowkidswow. He is a nice person but anyways, great vid as always! ❤

[@SamsVlogstrainsmore]

Great vlog Nick interesting to see all these abandoned stations!

[@therebel2187]

nice brightside transition

[@DoubleZeroChallenge]

I was about to come out of my cage just to say that.

[@williamcoleman4589]

Good to see you actually walking in shot well done it adds value to the video.

[@dlpjosh]

Just wanted to say that I really liked this style of video for you. I think you allowed a little more of your interests to shine through. Hope to see more!

[@dave771]

Like the new style. Always good to try something new.

[@EddieHutchinson-jm9zc]

6:42 Cool abandoned football stadium. Millmoor, the former home of Rotherham United, still very much intact 17 years after the club moved out.

[@homelab-student]

Really loved the new format Nick! The Woodhead route and the Stainmore line are two of my absolute favourites. It's such a shame that neither is likely to reopen, but what a wonderful thing it would be if they were to somehow be reinstated.

[@transportdave5008]

Great video. Would recommend Mangotsfield station on the outskirts of Bristol - it was a triangular junction and the platforms are all still there as well as some bits of the buildings. Very cool.

[@ReubenAshwell]

Brilliant video Nick, disused stations are always interresting, I travelled through 2 of these on the train. A real shame about the Woodhead tunnels, that's a line I'd love to see reopened as well.

[@SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk]

2:59 Love the old Stations Fluorecent street lights still hanging on.

[@Jonathan_55018]

Great video I remember traveling the wood head route in the very early 80"s

[@Vanmanyo]

Nice video Nick! Would recommend going to all the stations on streetview and look 'back in time'. At Brockleby you can see the station signs are still present if you go back to 2008!

[@jacobporrett]

Thank you for sharing Nick. Interesting video.

[@joarnold448]

Great video! My dad has walked through the tunnel there. Walked the three miles to the far end, found it gated off. So, he had to turn round and walk all the way back. At least he got to walk it twice!

[@NickBadley]

Wow! That sounds fun!

[@Trond_travels]

Most interesting. Thanks for making videos like this 😊 Feel free to keep make more similar videos.

[@PkmnNinjaOzzie]

Have you ever visited kettleness Station, near Whitby, it’s not in use now with no tracks, but the platforms are there and also the station building which is used for scout camps, a bit further down the line I believe is a disused tunnel

[@niallu286]

Try Killin Junction, Penmaenpool, Midford and Torpantau. All really atmospheric.

[@watsonwatt7984]

A Fantastic video and i was visiting relatives in Manchester along with a trip to photograph the Woodhead Line only to find that the train drivers had gone on strike to protest about the lines closure and the only picture i obtained was a single light engine class 76

[@susaneb1954]

Like it! Who doesn't love a disused station.

[@bobbythomas200420032]

Hi Nick another excellent video and what a fascinating story behind those three tunnels and the four disused stations.

[@teecefamilykent]

Brilliant video sir.

[@seany84uk]

Great change of subject video :) keep doing it :)

[@Dinoteddi]

Quite an intresting video. There is always something intresting to be said about disused stations. Would be intrested to see more

[@mcmarky1985]

Awesome video Would love to visit Woodhead one day. Would love for you to come to see some ones in Norfolk someday (appreciate it's the arse end of nowhere) but some great disused ones here. Honing, Felmingham, Wolferton and Little Walsingham are my 4 pics!

[@Susurrate-qi5zw]

Brilliant video Nick, the section about Woodhead Station was particularly interesting. As a regular user of the Stockport to Sheffield line and it's associated overcrowding problems (what a complete P in the A that is!) I was quite gobsmacked to learn how a possible solution to this was discarded in such a crazy, shortsighted fashion, relatively recently. Great work in exposing this!

[@jameshodgetts7541]

Thats the thing, its relatively recently, and with todays eyes it seems bonkers. However, rail travel was in terminal decline and was still declining 30-40 years ago. Its only the last decade or two we've really seen rail take on its role as an important infrastructure again.

[@RichardFelstead1949]

G'Day from Australia. Great video Nick. I like these disused stations. Rebecca and Paul Whitewick were covering a lot of disused stations but they're videoing Roman roads etc.On the former Culcairn to Corowa branch in New South Wales there was a Brcklesby Station .This branch closed in 1981 although the tracks are still in situ.

[@andrewholloway231]

A wonderful video Nick... Nice to see Rotherham Masborough station.

[@connorgeorge6294]

I recently made a visit to the former West Meon station in the South Downs. Very cool to walk along the old platforms in the middle of the forest

[@SiVlog1989]

I liked it one disused station that has always fascinated me is Mayfield Station in Manchester. Opened in 1910 as a relief station to Manchester Piccadilly to reduce the overcrowding, it closed to passengers in 1960 and after a period of time as a depot for parcel trains, it closed to all traffic in 1986

[@billie_js]

been down to the woodhead tunnels myself, long walk but well worth it

[@garybroadhurst3548]

I've got some great photos of me and my brother at Woodhead in about 1978 - little kids in proper 70s fashion. I must dig them out. We'd go there regularly and I've been in the signal box while it was operational. You should have looked for it on the Manchester-bound platform. You can still found the outline of where it stood. I like this as a new series - there are SO MANY cool abandoned stations for you to discover.

[@infinity7682]

Another cool disused station is Bramley just south of Guildford, both platforms are still there as well as the station signage and one of the waiting shelters

[@OlliesTrainsGaming427]

Please do more of these, loved learning about the disused station near Barnetby. You could maybe come and do a Scunthorpe steelworks tour as part of your experiment for vids :)

[@EddieHutchinson-jm9zc]

It's well out of your way, but there's a nice old abandoned station at Bramley and Wonersh, about five miles south of Guildford on what was the old Guildford to Horsham line via Cranleigh. The old metal and concrete station place signs are still there.

[@master59JAF]

in my area(East Yorkshire) according to disused station website. Used to have burton Agnes, Carnaby and Filey Holiday Camp(that is in north Yorkshire but I have to mention that but track are gone)

[@NigelFreeman-x1d]

Great video! more on abandoned/disused stations please !

[@faberoony90]

Not forgetting of course the platforms also remaining at Southrey, Stixwould and Woodhall Junction between Lincoln and Boston. Those also closed in 1970.

[@kiles99]

Very enjoyable video Nick, one of my favourites.

[@LincolnshireTrainSpotter225]

Theres a couple nice disused stations in Norfolk, my two favourites are Middleton Towers and Wolferton station aka the royal station. Middleton towers station is currently getting funds for repairs to turn into a museum and coffee shop and if you time it right youll see the Middleton Towers sand train freight parked up in the freight loading site literally next door to it. Wolferton is very well preserved and was one of the stations on the Hunstanton line gen royal family used to use to get to Sandringham

[@Transportationspotting]

Really enjoyed this! Thanks Nick :)

[@craiglogistics2092]

Yes, BR (in their wisdom) closed an electrified mainline between Manchester and Sheffield because the overhead cables were the wrong voltage and the infrastructure was life-expired, pitiful excuses in my mind

[@andrewnelson4057]

At Woodhead, one of the platforms was in Cheshire, and the other in Lancashire....

[@robk23oxf]

Nice video, there are some interesting disused stations out there.

[@pacerchaser9434]

Nice video 👍 The steps at Brightside were still in position until a few years ago, I believe they were removed to deter trespassers.

[@jerry2357]

Actually, at the start of the 1980s, there were timetabled Sundays Only passenger services between Sheffield and Manchester over the Woodhead route. IIRC, this was so they could do engineering work on the Hope Valley line.

[@Thornaby37]

Excellent video, very informative 👍

[@Aysome]

Great vid Nick, like the documentary style

[@grahamquinton9695]

I would recommend you walk the Alban Way from St Albans Abbey station to Hatfield Nick. The track has been lifted but the stations and platforms are still there.

[@kevanhubbard9673]

We've got a few in the north east which still have their platforms but are no longer use;Grangetown,Greatham,Monkwearmouth.There's one along the Boulby Freight Line too which I think is Brotton,Eastgate on the Weardale line,still tracked but i don't think any trains have gone down there for a while.You have the old South Shields station on the Tyne and Wear Metro which is east of the new station and I believe it is some kind of training facility and still tracked.There are some on the Scarborough Hull line too.

[@svitapeneela]

Gristhorpe, on the Hull to Scarborough line, is nice. It's still got both platforms, the station building and signal box, and manual crossing gates that the signalman has to open and close by hand 🙃

[@aidens_uktransport]

Nice one Nick!

[@JDWG]

If you do a similar video down south you'd love Bramley & Wonersh!

[@peterdean8009]

Rotherham Masborough station was originally called Masbrough (correctly spelled) but in 1908 the know-alls at Midland Railway 'corrected' the spelling to Rotherham Masborough. I'm surprised that they didn't rename Middlesbrough.

[@PamelaBane]

Nick, that was a very interesting and informative video, please do more of the same.

[@TheSpotify95]

I love how with the first example someone turned the platform buildings etc into a private residence! I would definitely have a station platform and station buildings as private residence for myself, if I could!

[@davefreeman7629]

great video video nice one and thank you

[@TommyW-xp6zh]

Just you again best vid including point to point via point

[@chrisoddy8744]

That area of North-East Sheffield and Rotherham has a lot of abandoned stuff in it - just down the road from Masborough is the abandoned Millmoor ground (formerly the home of Rotherham United) - still there despite hosting no football in over a decade!

[@lewis72]

Yes, Millmoor is quite an interesting one. I think Rotherham FC moved out as they had a dispute with th ground owner, so now the ground owener is left with a stadium bit getting very little, if any, revenue.

[@mattpilgrim2607]

What another awesome KZbin video by you Nick! I love watching your KZbin videos as they are always so interesting 😊

[@macstyle2012]

I remember being on a stopping strain after Meadowhall opened, when there was only 1 or 2 trains day at Brightside and Attercliffe Road. Another two stations I can remember actually going to and getting off at were the old Rotherham station, and Melton Halt - near Hull, when it had one train a day in one direction - so I had to walk back to Brough to get the train back again. I also went to Altofts too in the early 1990s just because I could LOL.

[@CentralScotlandBusesYT]

2:15 Good to see we had the same train of thought (pun fully intended). 🤣

[@Rgrail]

I reckon if you do a part two to this one of the stations included should be Filey holiday camp station as from what I’ve researched still includes platforms

[@macstyle2012]

Just had an idea. Like the tube challenge, has anyone done a visit every station on the West Yorkshire Metro map in a day? That would be an interesting video for you. Get the day rover (if they still exist, not used one for a few years) - set a new challenge.

[@dillonyeardley6270]

I have also been past Rotherham masborgh station when going to doncaster

[@adridaplague-boi]

If you're doing disused railways, when you come back south you should look at the disused stations on the Portland Branch Railway and the Easton & Church Hope Railway. You can walk the whole thing now IIRC.

[@ErnestParker-e9t]

Enjoyed that nick, really informative, thanks

[@Reubentrainvlogs]

Brockleby is a nice station, I especially love old signal boxes

[@duncanrathbone2658]

Hi I live at the other end of the tunnels in Dunford Bridge we have recently had seven of the pylons removed and the cables relocated under the Trans Pennine Trail much better now.

[@SomeTrainboy]

Brocklesby's track plan kept changing, there used to be four lines to barnetby (now only 2 downs 1 up.) But in the 80s BR removed both extra ups and downs, The line that serves the freight only side of the curve were torn up aswell. But people argued that the route sustained enough traffic to deserve 3 lines aforementioned. During this time, there was a normal 2 track junction instead of the single track ladder. There was also a single down line from habrough passing the other side of the station building, but that was torn up before all of this.

[@cantliff9]

Locally, we have Worsley - which used to have a railway line - the platforms at Worsley still remain (its now a cycle path) - all the other platforms are gone. Most of the former stations are now just marked by sign posts and pictures.

[@AliceConsortium]

The old Hull to Hornsea line is now an interesting bike trail you should consider doing at some point. Not a huge amount left to see, but still a decent day out

[@EestiKurt1]

Well, nice train of thought... at least, there was a red light at the end of the third tunnel. :)

[@martinreed9565]

Yes, very tragic. I travel through this tunnel or no fewer than three occasions, one occasion by electric traction from the exchange sidings near tinsley to Manchester and back and class 47 diesel from near Rotherwood just one way

[@majorchaos2006]

There is a disused platform in my home town, the great central railway rugby central station platform still exists

[@rockerjim8045]

I’ve stood on all 4 of these platforms. Additionally I’ve visited Attercliffe & Wadsley Bridge

[@georgeyoung8887]

Those wagons at Brocklesby heading to Immingham look like the (JUA?) wagons used to transport iron ore from the port to Scunthorpe steel works.

[@kieranstravels]

Them moving the cables from 1 and 2 to 3 was a terrible decision. What were they thinking? Great viddo though Nick!

[@dillonyeardley6270]

I pass brightside station when going to sheffield from medowhall.you can see a track curving round the platform from medowhall station

[@stanley3647]

Add Miller's Dale Station to the v.2 list ;)

[@TrainsAndBusesAroundNELondon25]

7:34 is that a red signal

[@Andrewjg_89]

I do think that Rotherham Masborough station should reopen as it would serve Rotherham United FC New York Stadium. Or is Rotherham Central station near to Rotherham United stadium.

[@k1eranjames]

Great video 👍 Brocklesby Station is local to me

[@6yjjk]

Your beard should not have grown that much between Brocklesby and Brightside; I suspect Northern may have been involved.

[@gwrydd]

Ditton in Widnes near your home town Warrington is a pretty cool disused station

[@SCRguy-k3d]

nice vid nick

[@whybruh566]

some ideas for point to point: hayes to harlington via hayes & harlingtion mill hill to mill hill broadway via mills hill hadfield to hatfield via hatfield & stainforth clapham to clapham junction via claphanm high st dent to denton cross gates to new cross gate northumberland park (tyne and wear) to northumberland park (london) northampton to southampton westbury to norbury via newbury loughborough to loughborough junction

[@MichaelCampin]

How about the old Derby County Station and the Old Trafford Station only ever used on match days for Football Special Trains

[@Phil-ws5jp]

Such a waste, but then that sums up the early Thatcher years and her loathing of rail transport. I managed to travel over Woodhead on a few Railtours in 1979 and 1980.

[@user-ex4go1hp2h]

A disused stadium you can see from Rotherham Masborough too!

[@stevelknievel4183]

How did Brocklesby ever survive Beeching given the proximity of Ulceby and how little there is in the area?

[@andrewnorth170]

Hi, not sure if Treking Exploration did a video on this area, i don't remember.