Silverwood Colliery and it's extraordinary Disused Railway

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Silverwood Colliery and it's extraordinary Disused Railway
Join me as i venture into South Yorkshire as i explore the former railway that once served Silverwood Colliery until the mid 90's.
Our starting point in the former colliery site, before starting our trackbed walk towards Silverwood Colliery Sidings where there are some eerie reminders of this once busy railway area.
We then follow the route North under and over bridges before saving the best until last, you'll have to wait and see.....
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[@gmc3500turbodiesel]

My granddad was the train driver at silverwood the first road bridge at the colliery end my dad used to run down to track level and jump on the loco with granddad and go for a ride .. my granddad passed away in 1995 and my dad 2021 glad I listened to there stories while they were alive 😢.

[@westernmonitor]

Sorry to sound boring as I have said it before. Ant this type of video is my favourite as it shows me another place from my past that I visited in the 1980s. It makes me a little sad as it reminds me the days of our heavy industry is now past. Thank you so much for this wonderful record and please keep your videos coming they are fantastic.

[@MyMarlinman]

Really enjoyed your trip to Silverwood Colliery. I started work there as an apprentice back in 1966 . I worked there until the early seventies leaving to work for British Railways at Tinsley Marshalling Yard. Alas they are both gone now. I think it’s called progress.

[@trooperstravelstherawmarsh4457]

I used to as a kid climb the iron bridge climbing up the rivets.great memories and thanks for visiting

[@philipatkinson7039]

Me too ✋️ pal and fishing the three corner pond's. Great times indeed pal 👍 👌.

[@blw896]

Top video Ant and just goes to show what our country run by absolute 🛎 ends over the years has ended up like this Derelict abandoned and totally forgot about Tell one day it all might hit home But I doubt it 👍👍🤔

[@showmanpete2805]

great vid..there was something special about industrial britain....sadly there is nothing left

[@bexhil7]

A good video of Silverwood Colliery and it's extraordinary Disused Railway!.❤❤🧡🧡💛💛💚💚💙💙💜💜🤎🤎🖤🖤

[@michaelhollingworth1536]

Worked many a train via the junction,from where you could see the colliery tips and headstocks,but never worked any trains over the branch,so thanks for educating us with what it was like,yet again we’ll narrated,and nice to see what’s left.Just another closed line,made by reckless decisions,and now paying for it,thanks to countless governments.

[@apexqc04]

Awesome archive train pictures help bring the history to life. Excellent little trek.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much. I'm pleased you enjoyed it 🙂

[@simonballard6413]

Really liked this video - particularly the River Don bridge. Loved the piggies, too! Well done again, Ant. Keep them coming!

[@benGBRf]

Very interesting video Ant. Sad to see these old collieries go and even more now we are in this so called energy crisis.

[@philipatkinson7039]

Spent many happy days playing around that bridge which everyone knows as the iron bridge. There's another one not very far from it for the steelworks and we called that the yellow bridge.

[@Soggybudgie]

Waiting for you to explore the Dearne Valley line that separates Goldthorpe from Bolton on Dearne in places.

[@tunflin6805]

😀 Thanks for showing us Ant 😀 it does wonders for us (almost) housebound "oldies" to take a wander around the sort of places that we'd have played in in our misspent youth.

[@craigy_baby]

Great video Ant. Closest one to me yet! The dismantled railway at the start of the clip headed off towards Maltby and Thurcroft. I remember watching them dismantle one of the bridges over the road near Maltby with my dad in the very early 70's. They did it on a Sunday. The abutments still remain. It went close to Thurcroft & Dinnington collieries. Whinney Hill is still affectionately known as Whinney Hill to the older end in this area.

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

This colliery and it's associated rail connection, must have been quite a busy place in its day, Ant. Amazing to see how many concrete sleepers were left behind after the closure of the place, in 1994. I suppose that they'll just remain there. It's interesting to see the coal sector class 56 locomotives on the merry-go-round trains in the photographs, they were Toton based, but I wonder if it was Tinsley depot that provided the traincrews. The bridge with the recesses in it, I've never seen them before, and that bridge over the river Don is a spectacle. Many thanks for this video showing, a great job done.

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Wow how fantastic was that. That was a long walk, all those railway bits and pieces. Those bridges were the icing on the cake. What beautiful stonework and of course the old iron one. I so enjoyed that. Thanks for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care

[@carlrushtonwillie]

Great vlog. Got my tablet out and followed your walk on google maps 👍👍

[@orwellboy1958]

Glad I'm not the only one.

[@mrsgenehunt48]

Me too

[@mrsgenehunt48]

Fascinating trek, loved it. Thanks

[@jontownsend8090]

Captured perfectly. A decayed former colliery line in amongst the decay of autumn.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Jon 🙂🙂

[@brianfearn4246]

Fabulous video, quite a lot of railway sleepers were manufactured by a firm called costain I remember when our local merseyrail line was converted from wooden to concrete sleepers around fifty years ago but the costain name is still visible... I know costain had a depot on Barlow Lane in Fazakerley Liverpool but that closed many years ago.

[@markeilo5065]

thoroughly enjoyable video ty

[@christinecrockford1654]

Aaaw another nice video from u Mr nice fit man. Xx

[@TrekkingExploration]

Cheeky 😘

[@michaelmiller641]

Another good'n Ant!

[@keithdarley3900]

Its pronounced locally as Thryborough, it was quite a steep incline from the pit to that iron bridge. I have worked the line when I was a secondman on the railway from Wath yard. Some loose coupled trains did actually run away in bad weather coming down the incline if the guard had not pinned enough brakes down on the wagons. The loose coupled trains used to stop on the iron bridge over the river to pin up the wagon brakes before going onto the main line.

[@baxtermarrison5361]

I find these videos both interesting and saddening. Whilst a railway is a tool, once the reason for its existence vanishes then so does the line, but as far as romanticising the railways it is sad to see remains rather than a still active line. I would be interested to see if there is anything remaining of the Brodsworth pit, on the outskirts of north-west Doncaster, and attendant railway infrastructure. My grandparents lived near by and as a child in the early 1970s remember seeing the marshaling yards in action.

[@Jimyjames73]

Hiya Ant - Be careful @ 4:15 - A bridge going over nothing!!! @9:48 Interesting how they leave the sleepers but take away the track!!! Thank you for Sharing 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@janepatricia8779]

Another brilliant video Ant, fancy finding little pigs😀,lovely Autumn colours too.keep the videos coming 😀 xx

[@jasonstevens7957]

Lovely vid with a fantastic end, thanks dude!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much for watching

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you Ant, for the well planned trip today. A great tour, and beautiful scenery. Your the best! Keep in touch. See you on the next! Cheers Ant!

[@shirleylynch7529]

Fab explore as always. Beautiful scenery.amazing iron bridge. Always marvel at the workmanship that went into all those tunnels and bridges. Thank you for taking us there. Much appreciated.

[@Volkswagon_rob]

I live right next to this its an amazing walk and watching it again makes me want to walk it again

[@UsualmikeTelevision]

Fantastic video, what an lovely place to explore!

[@bobingram6912]

As usual Ant that was worth the wait. Glad you're doing the half and half map overlays they're really helpful and interesting. Some great finds, that cast concrete marker was intriguing.👍👍👍👍👍

[@andrewnorth170]

Hi, I still find it crazy how all these sleepers are left behind and then the big bridge at the end. Great video.

[@TrekkingExploration]

The bridge at the end was a great finish to the walk. Thank you 🙂

[@markwebster7128]

What's the exact location please. Did comment but no response

[@fhwolthuis]

Very interesting, Ant. I love these explorations for old railway relics 😀❤️

[@Richard_Barnes]

"That bridge! "What a fantastic structure" indeed Ant. 😮 Brilliant stuff, thx 👍🏻

[@anthonydefreitas6006]

Outstanding video Ant, the bridge was an excellent find 👍

[@simonrichards6739]

God I feel old now, Loadhaul 56’s! 😂

[@stevenstopford9847]

Absolutely brilliant video many thanks 👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you very much Steven 🙂🙂

[@Daniel-yd6vi]

I remember playing down there as a child before the tracks were lifted. Must have been shortly after the pit closed as I don't remember any traffic. Really cool to see how it is now. Great video!

[@TeriWilde]

Great videos, I do like these British Industry history vids... and 10/10 for pronouncing Rov'rum correctly 👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

Ha brilliant thank you. I just need to get Thrybergh correct for when I go back for something else 🙂

[@chrisbayly5457]

Great video as always, very interesting....

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you very much Chris

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

Another great walk, with the best bit coming at the end and that fine piece of railway engineering spanning the Don. Very enjoyable. Well done!

[@suesmith4366]

Love this too amazing 😎

[@TrekkingExploration]

Brilliant thank you

[@philliphammond399]

Hi Ant, really enjoyed the video, especially that iron bridge. Nobody wants concrete sleepers, not like timber. The map overlays were a great help as well. Thank you.

[@johnmakin178]

Superb video as always Ant .Thank you.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you very much John

[@lilchris26]

Another nice video Ant, you have plenty work into these informative videos. You seem to be getting farther and farther away from home , but that bridge was worth it what a superb structure. Chris

[@mcmarky1985]

As always a fantastic explore made even better by the Autumn colours! Superb bridge at the end was really great you could get on it and can't believe how many sleepers are still present!

[@grahamkent2868]

Great video!

[@andrewmaurer6267]

Top man fantastic as always keep them coming very best regards

[@dr.t.]

Fantastic channel 👏👏👏

[@christopherforster6555]

Lovely video thanks.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you Christopher

[@xboxcrazee]

Nice work.👍. Reminds me of an old junction investigation down in cornwall I did a few years back.Plenty of old slag around suggested it hadn’t been used since steam days. Found a shovel propped against a tree. No doubt also had been there many years. Soon as I touched it it crumbled like something out of raiders of the lost arc. Habe pics somewhere..

[@suzyqualcast6269]

What was the one in Nottm, offov the A610, bigun, pub in front, Silvertown ?

[@pete.i7057]

Another quality presentation. Thank you for taking the time to research and document our industrial heritage and for presenting it in such an enjoyable program.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it Pete :)

[@damedavidfrith55]

Thanks very well put together and interesting 😊

[@micklebring]

An oft forgotten traffic flow to the lower end of the line was treated sewage waste from Meadowbank sewage works to a tip in Thrybergh beside the river.

[@iantwigg6983]

As always Ant, great Vid and please keep the side by side, map fades etc coming as they really do allow the mind to wander into yesteryear when this once great country had some balls and did everything for the greater good. Love the stone bridges too - they’ve been there a 100 years and they’ll look exactly the same in a 100 more. Amazing how so many sleepers were still there too. Keep up the great work 👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you very much Ian. The maps make a great addition and I'm pleased I tried them out a few videos ago 🙂

[@ExploringWithEmAndStu]

Brilliant! Love a good abandoned railway explore.. thoroughly enjoyed watching 👍

[@johnlaw3323]

Great vlog Ant many thanks for sharing.

[@malcolmfoster2937]

Great video as always. Keep up the good work and stay safe. 🙂

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you very much Malcolm

[@williamroche9025]

Just came over from Martin's page...love what I'm seeing so far.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Brilliant William thank you very much 🙂

[@tomhowarth31]

Thanks for this. I moved here in 2018 and walk my dog on this route a few times a week and have always wanted to know more about how it was back in the day.

[@simonbooth6662]

I played on the sidings as a kid,where the line goes under Doncaster road,it was known locally as the Shittys

[@dr.t.]

I take my dog for a walk in the woods there and there's all sorts of concrete foundations and previous structures in the woods, all very interesting but I've never seen this which i shall be walking, thank you 👏

[@robincurwood]

Hi Ant,I reckon that you could make a bit of money if you made a book of some of your travels, especially the railway tracks that may be easier to travel? Keep up the good work.

[@georgedane-f6l]

i used t0 work in the steelworks that you pass{thrybergh bar mill 1976-1979} i worked in an outside portakabin type office next to what was called z bay.i worked a three shift system and used to regularly see locos pulling up the incline towards silverwood at all times of the day i seem to recall seeing class 37's and class 20's. happy days in what we reffered to as "thrybitz"

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

excellent presentation

[@TrekkingExploration]

Very kind thank you ☺️

[@regcotterill7332]

Took a look at this video today (21.11.23) again after viewing it when you first released it. I lived at Maltby for 40 years until 2021 and have driven past the Silverwood pit site and over the bridges you have described in this video many times. The actual pit shaft and the pit head baths were on opposite sides of the road and have witnessed the shift change and seen the miners crossing the road from one to the other. Learned lots of new stuff even though I 've lived around here since birth. A good video and hope you keep doing what you're doing.

[@Boyracer2983]

Amazing video, thanks for taking the time to document it. ❤❤✌✌☮☮

[@robertbush6652]

Well done Ant great vlog as usual.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Robert 🙂🙂

[@robertbush6652]

your well come my friend look forward to next one

[@TrekkingExploration]

@@robertbush6652 thank you. It's well on it's way 😉

[@anthonydimbleby9562]

One moore thanks for the info on whinney Hill locals still actually call it whinney Hill even though its now donnie road

[@markjosephbudgieridgard]

Wow that was amazing very interesting I always wonder why they rip the tracks up ... Just leave them and let nature take over ....

[@fatladreviews3887]

Great video it's a great walk around silverwood

[@SuperCmorris]

Have you followed up to kilnhurst pit railway ? Love your videos, very informative, love the history of bygone eras ,

[@jamesrichards7644]

Thanks for that ant I know I kept asking you to in other videos just where you started your video where it was filled in bit further down enormous concrete blocks with iron still in which must have been for some sort of iron tower

[@thetingle3114]

Catching up with all your videos, fantastic, another couple of disused lines, from meadowhall sheffield it's now part of the TPT and goes all the way up to Tankersley Barnsley, a steady gradient all the way up thru woodland with a couple of old stations now houses and old collieries. The other is from Thurgoland going through one of the best acoustic tunnels in the UK all the way to the woodhead tunnels this is a walk and a half, this was covered by a BBC series, walking Britain's railways.

[@HaroldRoad]

This has to be one of the best videos you have done Ant, I really enjoy all your former railway Colliery walks esp the ones that closed recently, putting the pictures in as well really gives an idea on what everything looked like when the lines were active...another thing I love is the fact you say the road names on each bridge so its easy to follow on Google maps...when are you returning to Clipstone/Mansfield Con sidings?? Been a while since your last visit, id love to see an updated video down those former lines, keep up the great work....regards, John

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks Jon. I've been absent from railway walks most of the summer and then the autumn, blame Ladybower for that one 😂 I've done an updated version of thoresby, I'm waiting for the brambles and weeds around clipstone

[@HaroldRoad]

@@TrekkingExploration I look forward to seeing any modern railway colliery walks you do...your old Thoresby video was excellent, just keep doing what you do...I'm sure one day some TV company will see what you do and commission your superb work, I got on channel 5 with Rob Bell on the former M&GN at Melton Constable, so I'm sure you will get your break soon...all the best mate

[@shingerz]

Good stuff 👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Mick

[@trevorbirch797]

Great video and nice music Ant. Top class production

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Trevor

[@Carolb66]

Hi Anthony, just a thank you for this very interesting video about Dilverwood pit, itsvlocal to me I live about 3 miles away & remember it well the rail traffic & the many buses taking the miners to work, the community thrived on this bring here. It looks totally different know with the country park & all the landscaping but like you if you look there are still traces of the pit & railway. I'm so glad I found this channel. Thank you. ❤😊

[@Design2winLew]

Fascinating walk Ant is just amazing the way the lines were lifted for the rails to be sold as scrap but just left the sleepers . In all your colliery visits never fails to amaze me how the pits are totally obliterated , just wiped off the face of the earth . The bridge at the end was stunning , pleased you could get on . Look forward to the next vid . One question for you or anyone reading this , why do disused railways /sidings have so many silver birch trees ?

[@EarlX99]

Silver birch trees colonise very easily, they produce a massive amounts of seeds so any disturbed land allows for the seeds to self plant and new trees grow and they are a very quick growing tree so seem to sprout up everywhere.

[@davidw2942]

Hi there Have recently subscribed to your channel and just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed your videos so far. Thank you, wonderful stuff!! All the best. David.

[@jameswalker4766]

Sounds like fryber. Enjoyed the video went to school just up the road from there

[@TrekkingExploration]

Brilliant Thanks very much for watching James 🙂

[@b4mouse]

The highlight of the Class 37 going over the bridge was surpassed by the Pigs, were they wild or had they escaped?

[@margaretsmallallan28]

An excellent video, and the colours of nature are vivid with autumn foilage throughout. My only problem is the speed of the camera when turning round, to show where other interests have been. It is likely old age (me ) and I felt a bit sea-sick!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching Margaret. Its my favourite time of the year for colours. I feel ive slowed that down since this was made

[@margaretsmallallan28]

@@TrekkingExploration Thankyou. I do enjoy seeing all the "retired" railways, and wonder if you'll do a few in Scotland?

[@angelamccaw8656]

So very interesting. Thank you. Have you done any videos on Doncaster railways and pits please?

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you. I've done very little in the area but it's on the horizon. I've done Conisbrough

[@angelamccaw8656]

@@TrekkingExploration watching Conisboro now. Thank you. Scary but great😇

[@julianlane8313]

Great vid as always Ant thank you. Thinking back to your video around Ollerton during lockdown I was wondering if you knew which other line into Ollerton apart from the Network Rail test line. When I used the Newark road going out of Ollerton I went over another railway bridge but cant find any information on it. Any ideas? Cheers Julian.

[@poo7481]

Get urself to Rother vally sheffield. Park at back entrance free. So much of this!

[@TrekkingExploration]

I'm working my way down that way I've just done Arkwright to Staveley last week. Thanks very much for watching

[@markwebster7128]

15.31 those 2 lines.was it a r/r point at the dead end of the colliery

[@chrismccartney8668]

Odd we now buy coal from kazakstan to save the world somehow ?. Andvwe now pay a huge price for the few coal powered power station to run having decided to throw it all away, pay thru the nose costing more than we mined it for !!

[@andywilliams949]

Yes it was called thatcherism.she was the communist tory leader of Britain in the 1980s and shut most of the collieries.and sold off everything british.what an awful woman she was and her government.and this government is still the same today just a bunch of t___s.

[@barrybristow4646]

So true , like so in Australia.

[@MrJoffster]

Could those sleepers be the access for the locomotive and equipment used for lifting the rest of the tracks and sleepers from the sidings and when the sidings were all lifted they lifted the track as they left the site hence those sleepers were left behind 😉

[@keyrone77]

It’s a silent g in thrybergh 👍🏼 also whinny hill is still ‘known as’ whinny hill it’s just part of the A road to Doncaster

[@Spike20101000]

28 minutes in and the River Don bridge, the river course has clearly changed a lot. Whether naturally might be up for debate.

[@Anthony-vm1jc]

Imagine what you could build with all them sleepers in other lands every one would have houses walls n sheds for miles around 😂👍✌️

[@stevecallachor]

The concrete sleepers are much more recent than the colliery operations. Wooden sleepers , and other weird substitutes, were implemented probably in the 1970/80s. Stavros

[@WayneHinchliffe]

Locally, it's pronounced Thry-Ber. I had a friend that lived just off Oldgate Lane from 1999-2001 & whenever I visited him we would play on the lines. Even as recently as 2001, the tracks between Doncaster Road & Park Lane were fully intact

[@gustavfenk4021]

That line didn’t just carry coal from Silverwood pit. From the 1940s to the late 1960s the “s*#t train” used to bring sludge from Blackburn Meadows sewage works in Sheffield to be dumped at Thrybergh tip.

[@philipatkinson7039]

That's correct and we used to say we are going over the shit beds on our motorbikes 🏍.

[@gardenogauge]

FYI - All the steelworks are still there alongside the line and operational