The Lost STOURTON Station - What Remains?

[@a11csc]

the day of watching just gets better and better by the minute

[@AdventureMe]

lol thanks. Hope your enjoying the binge watching.

[@denharrison7704]

The youngest girl involved in that accident died in 1997, she was 93 and is buried in nearby Oulton. We used to travel over Cinder oven bridge very regular, but we just called it the hump back bridge. A little way further up, there is still a road bridge that is still carrying the road, I'm guessing it was filled in but I have often wondered if the old road is entombed inside.

[@alanc973]

Too true Simon, back seat of a single decker bus, that used to bring your stomach up. My first job on leaving school was down at Bison concrete, then about 7 years later, I worked up at Girllingstones, now the motor auctions. Loving the videos, bringing back a lot of memories. I was born on Gillett lane, at the bottom of Abraham hill, and remember going on Mrs Cotton's trips from Rothwell station. Looking forward to more video's.

[@AdventureMe]

Thank You. More to come.

[@stephenharper9961]

Love seeing the tracks inbedded in the road and cobbles, we have alot like that in the north west as well

[@AdventureMe]

Yes me too Stephen.

[@clivebroadhead4381]

Another great forensic video Darren. The original works were closed and demolished and the local population were left to pick up the bits. It was slash and burn.

[@georgeb6414]

My grandad had a garden on the collery side of the Cinder Bridge where he raised pigs, hens and rabbits in the 1940/50. I had many happy hours there with my cousin David. We explored the whole line from the collery down to the canal. We used to collect coal for grandad to boil the food he fed to the pigs at the garden in a large cast iron container, along the old track line that was washed down during rain. Happy times.

[@AdventureMe]

Great memories. I wish I had a picture of the viaduct. But never seen one. Do you remember Stourton Station?

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you Darren for another trip back in time. Cheers mate.

[@W5wdw]

We used to call it belly hump bridge when we were kids!

[@michaeltheref]

Congratulations on an excellent study of what is the historical heritage of Rothwell and surrounding areas. It brings back so many memoirs. Thank you so much.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@marknorris5269]

The Cinder oven bridge bricks , I think is so sad. Along with the story you told about it. Surely it should be brought out of the bushed into prominence. Perhaps in Rothwell centre as a memorial to the girls hurt in 1900 and plonk. :)

[@AdventureMe]

All down to money I suppose. Knowing the council, it will cost £1.2 million to move it lol

[@fatlad5090]

I used to tip rubble in that yard through then arches behind you. at beginning of video. It used to be Tommy shears yard. he used to recycle all rubble and soils. I've got photos were your stood taken in 2000

[@railmaster.7752]

"The original remains", loved that one! 😀

[@davidrice9880]

Another very interesting railway, thank you.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching! More to come

[@1_5RCBiker]

Cinder Oven Bridge now lives in legend but I had so many adventures over it. A naughty jump even at slow speed. The lip going back to John O' Gaunts even more. :)

[@AdventureMe]

I never got to experience it.

[@clivebroadhead4381]

I remember workers travelling from Knottingley, Pontefract and Castleford to the factories next to Sturton Station. The area was an early trading estate, similar to Trafford Park in Manchester.

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

Enjoying this series Darren. Some people might thithink that the cinders bridge was positioned where its laid now .

[@AdventureMe]

I hope I cleared that up. lol

[@Equalrich]

You stomach would jump as you roared down from Rothwell on the bus to Leeds...weeeeeeeeeee

[@AdventureMe]

I wish I had tried it.

[@mickd6942]

Between stairfoot and wombwell near Barnsley is a bridge known as Aldam bridge , it crosses the river dove and once crossed the dearn and dove canal , it has exactly the same WRCC Bridge rebuilt in xxxx inscription on it in exactly the same type of lettering

[@HenrysAdventures]

Very interesting video! Happy New Year!

[@clivebroadhead4381]

I remember a big factory in Stourton called Yorkshire Copper Works. You could see the works cricket field from the train from Pontefract.

[@jonmills5097]

Thank you so much for these videos , I’ve just started this series and I’m HOOKED . Sat here with google maps following your adventures on a total binge ! Thank you 🙏🏽 can’t wait for the next video . I have to stop myself watching all in one go otherwise I’d be up all night 🙈 I’d have none left to look forward too! What a fascinating little branch line 😊 well done . Ps I loved your series on the lemonroyd area and quarry breach too 👍🏽

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Jon. Enjoy the rest, plenty more others too.

[@jonmills5097]

@@AdventureMe can’t wait 😃

[@chrisnelson2705]

Hello everyone. This post as brought back bad memories for me. With regards to Martins comments about getting airborne you certainly could. Back in july 1990 (6th to be precise) late night right on cinder oven bridge was a pretty horrific crash involving a Renault 21 estate car and a west riding double deck bus. The car lost control becoming airborne off the bridge heading to down to leeds and smacked straight into the bus. The car was severely damaged badly injuring the driver and causing lesser injuries to passengers in the car and bus. The cause was a lack of knowledge of the bridge to the newly qualified driver and a lack of correct notification of the bridge and the danger there after. How do i know this? I was the driver of the car and still carry the severe scarring to my head. I wonder if anyone remembers the crash.

[@AdventureMe]

Sounds horrific. Thanks for sharing.

[@chrisnelson2705]

Hi, ammendment to my earlier comment. The accident was Monday the 9th July 1990 not 6th. Thanks.

[@rosewhite---]

I use dot go on buses all round there in 1966-67 so much industry in Hunslet, Stourton...

[@howardgibson]

My mother at on time was part owner of the industrial premises where the mineral railway crossed underneath Wood Lane, the works was called Colbro, the Secretary and her husband was driving over Cinder oven Bridge about 1964-5 when a girls body was flung at the windscreen of their car, they stopped the car to search for the girl's body but they could not find anything. After contacting the police from a call box they too found nothing but they were told it was a common accourance and had been responsible for numerous accidents in the 50's

[@douglasfleetney5031]

Brilliant video, have really got into the E&WYUR over the last few days. Looking through the Cinder Ovens bridge you can actually see the viaduct for the lost line. Going by maps and angles you would not get a direct view of the current bridge. So there you go YOU DO have a picture of the viaduct after all.

[@AdventureMe]

Hi Douglas, no this is the other bridge behind that you are seeing, it's the one behind me at the start of this video. The viaduct was long gone by the time this picture was taken in the 80's. I still haven't found one of the viaduct.

[@wul01]

Wonder if I’d be right in saying that when you drove over cinder oven bridge at a certain speed as my dad used to do, it felt like your stomach came out yer mouth. That’s the polite way of putting it. Edit.. just read the other comments looks like I am right. Thanks for the series great work.

[@waynecheshire7878]

Great video I hope someone sent you some old photos of the station 📷

[@AdventureMe]

No. They never did

[@wolvoman1]

Another interesting, educational video, thanks. I'm slowly catching up on your video's.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you are getting through them.

[@adrianhudson9473]

Your picture with a train passing site of Stourton Station is a class 56 loco built in Romania from 1977 onwards so this picture must be 77 or later. Class 56 locos were not seen very often on this line and as far as I remember British rail changed all the lines around here around 81 or 82. Also further back towards Rothwell there was an unused cutting from the mainline under the Rothwell Branch line that was supposed to have served a massive freight yard where Arla is now

[@Digg3r]

Tickle belly bridge we used to call it, it was nuts sitting at the back of the single decker 168 bus to Leeds as it shot over the bridge, your belly would do a cartwheel 😂

[@AdventureMe]

Wish I could have had a go.

[@ianjohnson1796]

I've lived in woodlesford for 21 years and drive past the site of stourton station and cinder oven bridge every day. Never knew any of this existed

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to educate. Hope you enjoyed.

[@raymarshall8336]

It dosn`t look much of a hump back bridge on the photo but has people have said, you could get all 4 tyres of the road at the right, (Wrong speed). Shame my old feller never took many photos, he was a driver out of stourton shed, before moving to Holbeck shed.

[@AdventureMe]

Excellent. Thank You.

[@suesmith4366]

Fantastic 😎

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 🤗

[@fatlad5090]

were old coppers work where. Was Tommy sshea recycling ♻ yard was it's amazing how the cobbles and old rails look ok. After 100 8 wheelers a day running over them fully loaded for about 10 years

[@evan123455]

I've read that Stourton station was only a platform, there was never any building on the site. Thanks for the vlogs.

[@AdventureMe]

I have no idea, there is very little about it. The old maps show a building next to the platforms, and I have evidence of an advert for a station master. But that's all.

[@MrSimmyMartin]

You could get your car airborne if you took Cinder Oven Bridge fast enough. 😂

[@AdventureMe]

Love to have tried that!

[@Avenging.angel.no1]

I remember jumping it several times

[@MrSimmyMartin]

@@Avenging.angel.no1 So you're a racist now are you Ted? Jumping bridges too is it?

[@simonrichardson5077]

superb,thanks

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you too

[@geoffbray6099]

The coal from from Rothwell Haig, supplied Skelton Grange Power station, which was next door to the copper works.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes, I'll be doing a video on that next year.

[@robertseymour128]

A memory of the Newmarket Branch. There was a manned crossing on the junction of Castle Gate No Sanderson Lane. In the early 50s the crossing gate was controlled by Sammy Croxall my next door neighbour. The railway company found him that light duties job after he lost a leg in a shunting accident at Stanley Station goods yard. In summer his son, David, and I walked with a lunch pack for him and if we were lucky a coal train would come up from Newmarket Colliery. Further along Castle Gate there was quite an elaborate, for a lightly used branch line, footbridge which was all called The Up and Down Steps. Robert Seymour.

[@AdventureMe]

Hi Robert, thanks for sharing this great story. I know which bridge you mean.

[@geoffbray6099]

The copper works was Yorkshire Copper Works, latterly Yorkshire Imperial Metals.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes, I'll be doing a video on that next year.

[@andrewhigson1591]

Do you have a location (eg what3words) for the bridge parapet?

[@AdventureMe]

Senses, Goad, Pays

[@neilarmstrong2794]

The line is the Up & Down Midland Main

[@AdventureMe]

I know that now lol. I was just learning, still wet behind the ears then.

[@dennysaze1]

Thank you so much for this great video. It’s wonderful to hear about aspects of the old - now vanished - Stourton. I have memories of the railway bridges and embankments that were along Pontefract Road and my dad worked at Copperworks. Here’s the beginning of a recollection of one incident by the bridge featured in your film dennysaze.blogspot.com/

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks