Oxcroft Colliery Disused Railway Walk & Explore

[@westernmonitor]

Another gem for me as I was a regular up and down the M1 in the 80s and 90s and would often see trains on the Oxcroft branch as I passed. As with so much its sad to see it all closed. I know its not fashionable these days to say it but I really miss the industry and pits , happy days for me.

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Least the heaps have gone. Remember when we moved up here from down South in 71/2, and all the slag heaps either side of the M1, crikey, little did we know....

[@andrewdavis9223]

Breaks my heart to see how they let railway sites go nice video as usual 😢

[@tazzak24]

I used to work in the weighbridge at the disposal point in the late 80s early 90s, happy memories !

[@TrekkingExploration]

That was the weighbridge then at the start that had collapsed i guess :) Thanks for watching

[@davidcook8313]

The concrete narrow foundation was for the tare and loaded weighbridge when a train entered the oxcroft disposal site

[@TrekkingExploration]

Brilliant thanks for that information 😊👍

[@daveattrill2712]

Was here filming a video yesterday. (Seymour bit only as part of Staveley to Clowne/Creswell line). Nice to see the Oxcroft branch getting this much attention

[@johnwilkinson1092]

I use to take coal into the site at oxcroft from the open cast at orgreave near cat cliff and it was a very busy line in the day .the concrete pad at the end befor the m1 was a weigh bridge and cabin

[@TrekkingExploration]

I'd have loved to see the Seymour Junction area say 20 - 30 years ago it must have been a real hub of activity at times. Such ashame they didnt hold on to the route to Creswell & Chesterfield for passenger services. Thanks for watching :)

[@frankfitzgerald5832]

Fascinating stuff didnt realise there was so many collieries round ur neck of the woods....some great stills again including the dmu,s cant work out why they would have been there ..but great stuff Ant......Frank & Lee.....

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thanks for the video and chat. An interesting video today! Glad to have met Lee! Cheers Ant and Lee! See you on the next! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂👍🇺🇸

[@johnrose984]

Master class in brickwork on that bridge. Three centered arch and tumbling in courses and battered butress.

[@jch2211]

Some happy days round there in my youth!

[@TrekkingExploration]

This was a lovely little route and an interesting part of what was once an extensive area. I've enjoyed learning about it all

[@telemachus53]

It's all very complicated but I loved every minute.

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's such a vast former network of railways over that area and still much more to do 🙂

[@helenthorne8451]

Wow that was a find all the lovely bridges and bunker nice walk thanks Ant xx

[@PaulMaloney]

Great as usual Ant, love how you basically speak my mind out loud when you discover things 😀 “wonder what that is”, “wow that looks really interesting”

[@roytait]

Another enjoyable video (accompanied by the recommended cup of tea). The hole in the roof of the air raid shelter is for the emergency escape hatch, another way out should the main entrance be blocked by blast rubble.

[@gazclass58]

Wow I finally got 5 to watch this mate and what a awesome interesting walk. Do love these videos where you go trekking old desuse railway to the collieries and what a special find that was the bunker wow. 👍 Take care and thanks for sharing this one with us

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

I just love the solitude on that walk and the history that goes along with it, some great bridges too. That old bunker was a very decent find, plus @ 26.15 it looks like Thor might have left his hammer behind!!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Considering how short it is, the old line still had a lot to offer. Those pair of old bridge's past the M1 were lovely. I'll have a look for Thor's hammer 🤣

[@1963TOMB]

Your walk was just a load of ballast! Good video : brings back memories of when I lived in Creswell in the 1970s and used to cycle around the area when there was much less traffic on the roads.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much, that's the important part bringing back the memories 😀

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

excellent viewing

[@roblowe54]

Good video mate, I enjoyed watching it. A line I've walked many times. Glad you went to the former coal disposal site on a day when the dirt bikes weren't there. I think the Xmas tree has been there for a few years now. I'd be gutted if it ever got taken away! And I've spent plenty of time exploring Seymour and had no idea about the shelter! Appreciated the drone footage too. The Clowne branch line greenway has been quieter since lockdown was eased.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks Rob. I was unsure I'd get the drone up safely but thankfully I did. If the tree ever disappeared you'd have to wonder why 😂 The shelter is between where the line splits one way to Bolsover and the other way to Oxcroft junction

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for the other comment Rob 👍🙂

[@barrythedieselelectricstea5217]

excellent video👍 again you never know what's round the next corner

[@christopherbraiden6713]

Thanks for another great video most enjoyable and informative. Great to see the bunker and the old track bed and neat old bridges!!😎🐓🐓🇬🇧

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's a lovely little line, thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@MisterHughie]

Just within the past few weeks (March 2021), the Oxcroft Colliery Sidings have had a lot of remedial earthwork starting, from what I can see it was where coal physically laid rather than the actual rail area. Looking at local planning documents, it’s still owned by UK Coal and is simply to put the quality of the ground right again. Fantastic footage and history as always, thank you, now going to make a small donation and suggestion 😊

[@stephengiles2873]

Brilliant quality as always fascinating to see what is left behind

[@roytabberer7427]

Another brilliant informative video, Thanks very much for what you bring us as always Ant.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you Roy that means a lot 😀

[@steadyred1832]

Great work as always.

[@HobbiesAndSunshine]

Another great explore. Thank you Ant.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you so much as always 😀

[@eggy77]

Great video once again, see you found the Christmas tree, almost as good a find as the air raid shelter 😁

[@TrekkingExploration]

The Xmas tree was so random, the shelter was amazing. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@eggy77]

@@TrekkingExploration I've had to move that tent thing to the side a time or two when cycling through there. 😁

[@johnofypres]

Very good indeed. Thank you for your work.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@Sim0nTrains]

Brilliant Video, did like that bunker towards the end but there was some great finds on the way.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it. The bunker was a little surprise. Filmed along there twive before not knowing it was so close

[@janepatricia8779]

Another brill video Ant,,x

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you 😀

[@johntyjp]

you're not foolish to like the bridge! Ellipse arches are a favourite of mine too!!😄

[@TrekkingExploration]

It Is a good one, best of the year so far 😂🙂

[@martynbrailsford3943]

Another informative video, as always Ant. Although the route is not cast in stone, the trackbed, I believe, is reserved from where the M1 crosses the Clowne Branch then Oxcroft Jn - Seymour Jn - Hall Lane Jn for HS2 (Staveley Maintenance Depot Branch). I walked from Seymour Jn - Clowne and also Clowne - Cresswell in two trips a fortnight ago - Thursday and Sunday pm - and it was semi-quiet although popular with dog walkers and cyclists. You can also walk some of the LD&EC Beighton Branch between Cresswell & Clowne, although part is 'fenced off' on the Cresswell side of the former Markland Grips Viaduct so you may need to divert round - taken out of use over 50 years ago, so a trackbed and not a lot else... Was going to also mention the former GC mainline is available to walk, on the the other side of Poolsbrook County Park in both directions (a) towards Killamarsh - but you beat me too it, and (b) as far as Arkwright. On the approach to Arkwight, you can still see earthworks and some structures associated with former Duckmanton Jns.

[@TrekkingExploration]

The direction of Arkwright is definitely of interest, would be nice to find the tunnel location, station and give the old village a mention too. I'll have to look at that bit of the Beighton, as I've already done the killamarsh to Spinkhill section 😀

[@chrismccartney8668]

Iam always stunned by the amount unused Land in North or Midlands left empty as UK moved from Coal and Manufactoring to a service based economy really the main dereliction down south in London is Docklands admittedly a huge area of dereliction but about 60% have redeveloped but some old docks and wharves remain derelict but a new city has arisen in Docklands. If you are ever down in London take Docklands Light Railway and take cable car. as well of the huge internal dock railway and other lines many have been reused for DLR or Overground or Crossrail .. as empty land is few and far between in London..

[@exileinderby51]

That shelter was a great find.

[@TrekkingExploration]

It really was, it's so Hidden too

[@bobingram6912]

Funny how the artists favour the cute bridge rather than the brutal modern M1 version. Great photos. Not so keen on the cast sleepers, wooden ones a lot better!!! Must pay more attention when dragging up the M1, so much you just don't realise is there. Thanks Ant 👍👍👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

Totally agree. That M1 bridge was a perfect canvas for them. Those two brick bridges were really cute if we can call them that?

[@cpwadventures954]

Somewhere new to go exploring with my boys. We walk the clown branch line a lot and I ride it down to poolsbrook right through to rother valley quite often. I grew up In Bolsover and we used to be able to crush pennies and watch the old coal trucks turning around on the line down carr vale. Have you ever visited the tunnel in the canyon at Bolsover thats at the side of the tarmac estate. We used to love playing down there and would have loved to have known where that tunnel goes to.

[@eggy77]

The tunnel goes to Scarcliffe but it's in a poor state now. Was filled in many years ago after a collapse and much subsidence caused by mining that meant the tunnel had to have ongoing repairs while open. I've seen some recent photos on Facebook of what it's like inside now, looks very dangerous and deformed.

[@jonathanrogers7278]

another nice video ant keep up the good work

[@TrekkingExploration]

Hi Jonathan thanks so much for watching 🙂

[@Richard_Barnes]

Brilliant 👊🏻

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you 😃

[@LovetheRAF]

Yes the air raid shelter😀 I remembered I've been onto a place that looked like a colliery had a big open area and few ruined buildings its not bolsover colite and not the other one on the way I've been there and now its gone sadly I'll have to have a look again when I find it I'll email you Ant if that's ok😀

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Whats the great pity is that you and your tech wasn't about to walk all these routes before they were vanished. Magic tack mate.

[@leathandrubb]

When I first started watching this I thought you were also going to show us Oxcroft pit albeit where the shafts were if they could be found.

[@Mariazellerbahn]

11:57 Just as the Dow-Jones isn't the Welsh stock market index, the Dow-Mac isn't the Scottish stock market index ;)

[@TrekkingExploration]

😂😂😂👍

[@b4mouse]

What an informative film. I love seeing the pictures with the Class 56’s etc and didn’t realise there used to be a line under the M1. One of the pictures shows a DMU at the colliery, was this a special excursion the photographer was on?

[@TrekkingExploration]

I think it was you know. I saw it on a couple of other images in different locations along the route. Those days must have been brilliant all these branchine railtours. Thanks for watching and the kind comment 😊

[@paulcharlton4788]

I read somewhere that DMU was bringing staff to and from the processing plant.

[@MakeAllThingsBeautiful]

quite complex the Oxcroft mine, also mention of opencast at some time and then the conveyor system, i found this wiki information en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Railway_Clowne_Branch though makes a complex mining/rail/conveyor/bunker etc set up seem even more complicated, seems some of that old stretch of line is for HS2!

[@MakeAllThingsBeautiful]

might as well add me petition, look at it as an extra treat .. some nice drone footage if you check it out .. www.change.org/Please-Stop-the-Proposed-Building-in-Front-of-Berry-Hill-Hall-facing-Berry-Hill-Park-Petition

[@fenman150]

interesting explore.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks James

[@dobby490]

I live about a 2 minute walk from the oxcroft colliery, they've just started to do a load of work to it, lots of earth has been moved but not sure whats going on

[@davidedwards4707]

Cute lil video that :P

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks David 😊

[@davidedwards4707]

@@TrekkingExploration hey up, i dont know what lengths you are prepared to go to explore new places, if your prepared to go the extra mile. The scarcliffe end cutting of the bolsover tunnel is a challenge to behold, just to reach the portal which is still there has only been achived by one other pair in 2010.

[@TrekkingExploration]

@@davidedwards4707 is this inside the end that's buried, as opposed to the bricked end with the open circular section?

[@Ashleybillyeald]

Anyone have any idea where the drift was actually located? I've found a compound but can't find the drift

[@sophiecass9421]

I remember as a child going for walks around Clowne to a place that I’m sure we called ‘the grips’ or something like that. Does this mean anything to anyone/where it is or is that just a name we used 😂

[@TrekkingExploration]

I did a Google & it came up with this.... Markland Grips Viaduct is a former railway viaduct south east of Clowne, Derbyshire, Probably gone now?

[@Channel-ij5px]

Went there today, Oxcroft CDP is flattened and reclamation work has started

[@TrekkingExploration]

It'll be interesting to see what becomes of it all. Thank you for watching

[@Channel-ij5px]

@@TrekkingExploration apparently the whole section from Foxlow junction through Hall lane junction through Seymour junction into Oxcroft is still Mothballed as there still remains the possibility for Opencasting in the area

[@shavedphil]

Hi. Have you walked through www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org/nature-reserves/wilwell-farm-cutting-nature-reserve It has part of the track bed of the former Great Central Railway in it and a bridge over the track bed at one end. Phil

[@maryellis3661]

What kind of drone do you have ?

[@TrekkingExploration]

I currently have a Mavic Air 2 🙂

[@maryellis3661]

@@TrekkingExploration Ta

[@Talcarnan]

Would have been better without the annoying film-music style elctronic soundtrack

[@roblowe54]

I like the music choices in his videos. Think it adds to the overall presentation.

[@butchknapman3939]

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