The Disused Pleasley to Bolsover Railway - The Rowthorn Trail Walk

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thanks for the video and Chat. Always a grand tour. Thanks Ant! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂👍🇺🇸

[@carlbentley80]

Growing up in this area and having these trails coming out from Pleasley in all directions is what has given me a lifelong passion for disused rail lines and old rail infrastructure as well as an interest in the mining industry and model rail. I live in Australia now but your videos are always a reminder of where I am from and give me ideas for places to cycle to when I next get back there.

[@stephengiles2873]

Interesting stuff again the old pictures really make a difference in setting a picture of what these places were like. Thanks for taking us along on these journeys

[@TrekkingExploration]

This was such a tricky one for the images, unsurprisingly though given it all closes almost 90 years ago. Glad you came along 😀👍

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

Once again a cracking video on a beautiful day, the Autumn sunshine did you proud. I just love the way that these old railways are used as points of recreation by the councils, if you are a railway buff, or even if not, they are a fantastic way to unwind.

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's true, there wasn't much at all to see railway wise compared to others I've followed, however it was still thoroughly enjoyable

[@sarahwinfield3989]

Another os your wonderful videos to catch up with. Thanks for posting

[@b4mouse]

Great film Ant, I recommend your channel at every opportunity as the lines you walk aren't on the usual radar of most rail enthusiasts.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you John. I try to go for the not so obvious locations. It's easy to go for a mainline like the GCR, but i like the unknown in some of these lines that many don't know about

[@lindamccaughey8800]

I did thoroughly enjoy that. The history alone was great but beautiful countryside to see too. Thanks for taking me along

[@TrekkingExploration]

Hello Linda hope you are well 😊 It is indeed a lovely area and thankfully there is more to cover around there 😀

[@johnrogers2826]

That was lovely. What a great treasure you have in Britain with the extensive use of rail lines and canals for recreation. I don't think I would ever be inside. Thanks!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thankyou John, it is indeed a glorious location and there are a few others in the area to look forward too 😀

[@frankfitzgerald5832]

Slowly making our way through your films Ant..Really enjoying them ...love these old trackbeds ...keep up the great work ..Frank & Lee...

[@TrekkingExploration]

Hello, you're almost caught up 👍🙂

[@paulh2525]

Well put together Ant. I too enjoy walking the history and reckon you have done an excellent job. It is fascinating to look at the old maps from NLS and research old photos. I expect as time passes the features that are barely discernible now will fade and eventually disappear. However may your video live on for others to follow. I look forward to more. Great work.

[@lindamccaughey8800]

I very much look forward to it. Really enjoy your videos

[@Nelg230]

RAF Hardwick Park was a satellite landing ground for aircraft storage in the grounds of Hardwick Hall. The Airborne Forces Depot was also there so the tunnel was ideal for ammunition storage during WW2. I was stood on the 'platform' yesterday and nearby found a Hardy & Hansons Kimberley Brewery bottle with the stopper dated 1936! Have also seen the north end of the tunnel now blocked.

[@lorrainemerry8661]

I'm loving your videos. Beautiful drone footage on all your videos. You should call your channel. Trackbeds and towpaths. Keep up the great work x

[@TrekkingExploration]

I like that name if only I thought of it a year ago 😀 Glad you enjoyed them and thank you 😊

[@saxon-mt5by]

You comment on the name of the stream - the Merril Sick: sick is an old Derbyshire name for the source of a river. For example the River Hipper that flows through Chesterfield has its source on Beeley Moor where it is known as Hipper Sick.

[@simonballard6413]

Great video-but all of yours are! Many thanks again. Most interesting.

[@daystatesniper01]

Excellent upload

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@bewseybill3691]

Very very interesting. Your knowledge of local history is truly amazing. Shame that so much of our industrial past has been swept away but nice that you have managed to trace the old track bed.

[@johncox7890]

Hi Enjoyed the film. Lived very close to the Rowthorn Tunnel if you had gone on further from the Hardwick Station you should have seen the stones from the tunnel entrance. Its part of the car park. Was told by local historians that Hardwick station was only used by the upper class from Hardwick Hall. Hope this helps. I am now miles away but hope to walk it again. John

[@TrekkingExploration]

I've never been to Hardwick Hall, I probably should. You have to imagine the station was very rarely used. I bet the tunnel is still there all hollow and hiding it's history behind the buried portals. Thanks for watching

[@bobingram6912]

Once again you have donned your deerstalker and gone into Bloodhound mode - erm, not much railway stuff, I think very old sleepers, platform edging and bridges tells us otherwise!!!!! Great pics as usual, nice Hymek!!! Tunnel near me was used for the very same purpose.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Yes i think because the route was so long, and in comparison to other routes I've done it didn't feel like much. Ill be back in the new year to walk the others in that area. Glad that you enjoyed it 😀😀👍

[@Living_Life_RN]

I really don't know how I haven't seen this sooner. I have walked the line many times and have researched various parts of its history. I have also explored the section you missed between Rowthorne tunnel and Glapwell colliery. The cutting there has steep slopes on both sides and there are still a few sleepers and signal stumps laying about. I even found the rusty remains of an old fishplate. There really is some amazing history behind a line that seems uninteresting at first so I'll share with you a few events I've heard: In 1890, an empty coal train at Glapwell Colliery collided with a passenger service, seriously injuring 48 miners and injuring many more. Many sustained broken bones and other injuries around the head, shoulders, and thighs. There were no noted fatalities but some were too badly injured to return to work. There was another event in 1887 when an 18 year old office worker was hit by an oncoming service when trying to cross the track leaving his body mangled. He passed away in hospital later that day. In 1910, a group of young children were hit by a train of empties at Carr Vale crossing. They had returned from seeing a film at the local cinema and were excited to return home so likely were too distracted to notice the oncoming train. Of the 6 children, only 3 survived. Although you may not see much of the railway around when exploring, it's important to remember the lives of those lost to it. My thoughts still go out to the relatives of those lost to railway and mining accidents, both now, and over 100 years ago.

[@greg5639]

Hi duck. The 6 children being hit with tubs, was that the Bathurst accident ? I read up on a piece where children were killed crossing the tracks for Bathurst colliery ?

[@fenman150]

another great video.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks James 😀

[@darrenbush4491]

Great video Ant I have lost count how many times I have cycled down these trails , I have missed the bit where the tunnel comes out at Clapwell end though I will have to try and fine it , I have been down on the Teversal Trails today on my mountain bike.

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's a lovely area, I'm looking forward to going back next year. I think I'd also be out on the bike if I lived closer

[@peterrobinson903]

Thanks for this Ant. It was a real trip down memory lane for me. I lived in Glapwell less than a mile from the Rowthorne Trail between 1980 and 1992. We walked the trail regularly during that period and frequently cycled the Teversal Trail and others. The Stockley Trail didn't exsist as such back then. In the Rowthorne Trail car park there were some really big capping stones from the top of the tunnel portal lying abandoned on the ground. As you approach Bolsover on the old Doe Lea branch trackbed just before you get to Bolsover Model Village (which wss on your right) was the point where the LD&EC railway crossed the branch on a stone viaduct before going on to the other Bolsover station and into Bolsover tunnel. I don't know if there is any evidence of the viaduct still there as it's been over 35 years since I last visited. The story is that when they came to demolish the viaduct it was so well constructed they had to have two attempts to blow it up. Here's a link to a local history with some info on the viaduct you may find interesting. www.oldminer.co.uk/the-viaduct.html

[@TrekkingExploration]

I could see no trace of a viaduct whatsoever, so they did a good job in the end of getting rid of that. Such a shame :(

[@leegreveson]

The embankment of the LDECR is still there, quite high too which gives you an idea of the height of the viaduct as it swept down into Carr Vale. There is also a memorial plaque where there was once a level crossing, sadly the site of numerous fatal accidents, mainly children.

[@nigelcox9870]

Good Video keep up the good work

[@stevejones8828]

Wot a beautiful video

[@TrekkingExploration]

Morning Steve and thank you. It's a beautiful and long trail ❤️👍

[@janepatricia8779]

Nice day for this explore 🤗

[@TrekkingExploration]

It was quite pleasant 😀

[@martynbrailsford3943]

According to my Cobb Atlas the Ramcroft Colliery Branch did indeed join at Ramcroft Colliery Jn

[@TrekkingExploration]

Oh excellent, quite pleased with that, thanks for sharing 😀😀👍

[@greg5639]

Rowthorn tunnel was filled in with the muck from heading the Bramley Vale drift .

[@jasinere35]

2021 & bolsover colliery site is now being leveled out this includes the coalite site i dont have info on whats to become of the site

[@darrenpickering247]

Another fantastic video, seen signs for Stockley trail as I’ve come from the M1 j29 up to Palterton, is the walks in this video any part of the 5 pits trial?

[@TrekkingExploration]

The 5 pits is something i have yet to look at. I'm sure this goes near it or connects onto a line that connecte onto the 5 pits. That was a mouthful. Thanks for watching :)

[@socklesslad]

It looks as though Rowthorne & Hardwick station is in the middle of nowhere. Is there any reason they didn't build it closer to a public road?

[@TrekkingExploration]

Hello 😀 Iater found out it was paid for and built for the owner of Hardwick Hall at the time. Sounds about right. He probably hardly used it

[@grumpybore863]

Hey, Ant, I really liked the beginning drone footage/music. It made the vid seem like a dramatic film! Truly, not teasing/funning, really enjoyed it. I was noticing "Phoenix Greenways" on the first few place name signs. Being a Yank, I have no idea what that refers to. It SOUNDS like some sort of golf course. Please enlighten me without laughing too much at my ignorance. :D I noticed your jacket with the T&T logo. Do you have a website for selling shirts and jackets that I haven't heard about since I first came across your channel a few months ago?

[@TrekkingExploration]

You can tell a walk that's been done more recently as the clothing has the logo on, superdry is being fazed out 😂 I think the greenway term comes from environmental areas, traffic free routes. The intro music on here is one of my favourites, used it maybe 3 times. I think the rest of the music was new. No clothing website yet 😂

[@grumpybore863]

@@TrekkingExploration SuperDry PHASED OUT????????? no! you can't do that! :D

[@TrekkingExploration]

@@grumpybore863 I'll bring one out occasionally just for you 😂

[@helenthorne8451]

Really interesting

[@leegreveson]

It's hard to imagine the tunnel as now the cutting and tunnel entrance is buried and is now the car park. However, I wonder what the Glapwell portal looks like, or has that too he infilled???? Again the tunnel was suffering from subsidence. Interesting too that the Stockley trail passed over Riley Hill (the road from Jct 29 to Palterton) on a bridge. Difficult to visualise now.

[@TrekkingExploration]

I couldnt find any trace of it. Im led to believe the tunnel itself is still hollow though and not filled

[@freddiebozwell7049]

You can access it from Ault Hucknall Lane, down the field. I did it last year but you will struggle to get out at the main road. Me being slim scraped through to the surprise of queing motorists!

[@alantraish3368]

@@freddiebozwell7049 You mean you can actually access Rowthorne Tunnel? I thought both ends were buried?

[@freddiebozwell7049]

@@alantraish3368 the actual entrance is blocked by a sloping mound but the very deep cutting is visible at the north entrance.

[@vincent5525]

The Rowthorn trail has now been fully re-surfaced from the car park all the way to Pleasley.

[@karensmith8953]

Walked though the tunnel as a kid it was filled with household waste glass bottles by the ton to be found one day?

[@TheAdge50]

If you Google a guy by the name of Derek Gelsthorpe, he's built a model of Rowthorne & Hardwick station

[@tml136]

Have you got any plans for doing the old railway line of Sutton-in-Ashfield

[@TrekkingExploration]

Through to Pleasley or the other way?

[@tml136]

From Sutton to pleasley

[@TrekkingExploration]

Yes i put it up last Saturday, here is the link to it :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5mndaOtetpooNk

[@tml136]

Trekking & Towpaths ok I have a different path for you to take do you know where Teversal visitor centre is

[@TrekkingExploration]

@@tml136 I've not been for a long time no, i plan on going in January though.

[@lindamccaughey8800]

Yes I am well as I hope you are too

[@paulh2525]

Probably because I walked this in January I found some rails near the wooden sleepers (5m 30s) these were set into track bed. See- www.komoot.com/tour/306169011?ref=wtd Also Rowthorne tunnel - click on icons to see old photos www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1H7d7OxGJ3-BQvSOIavEgnbIgLMjT6lDV&usp=sharing

[@markwng]

Damn, thought I was watching a new Arry Potta movie for the first 54 seconds..

[@TrekkingExploration]

Ha ha excellent 😀