The Village Railway Station with the Secret Hidden Platforms

[@stephenpalcso42]

I've been to Southwell Racecourse several times by train and I've always thought it a shame the rather attractive building on the island platform didn't survive.

[@JulianAnsell-c7p]

Just amazing Ant. I was last there in May 1958, under rather sad circumstances, so this was very emotional. I will have to pay it another visit now. Huge thanks - Julian

[@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling]

A great bit of research and beautiful archive footage, too. Those platforms were a great find, Ant. Thank you so much for sharing a piece of history with us.

[@richardcalcroft6671]

Great video. All of Mums family came from South Well (not southall!) as a child she regularly travelled from Newark Castle to Rolleston and changed onto ' the paddy' to get to Southwell. Great to see some of the other videos. Excellent. Keep up the good work!

[@petedemaio168]

Marvelous work Ant. Amazing the platforms are still there after all that time.

[@Jimyjames73]

Loving the old B / W footage of the old times Ant - thanks for sharing 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@MisterHughie]

Great to see the three Staythorpe ‘A’ power station chimneys in the background of the archive footage too, really enjoyed this, having travelled over that level crossing a thousand times and never knew what lurked next to it. Thank you 🙏

[@KarenG.-qs7wc]

I love how Nature reclaims everthing so effortlessly.🌳🌿🌳🌱🌿🌳🌳🌳

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's very true. You definitely wouldn't see this unless you knew it was there. Thank you for watching

[@simonballard6413]

Your videos are truly marvellous - and your enthusiasm is so infectious ! Many thanks again, Ant. Looking forward to some more!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Cheers Simon I've got quite the stockpile to put out there 😉

[@levelcrossing150]

I agree, they are cracking videos.

[@sarahwinfield3989]

Another excellent trek through our railway history. Thanks for posting.

[@TrekkingExploration]

I'm pleased you enjoyed it Sarah thank you

[@ukman9797]

Amazing find. Love your channel, and the archive footage. Thanks.

[@bobjackson6524]

Beautiful vid throughout, as always, Ant, Particularly the intro. Outstanding. Straight into maps as usual for me, Which means i'll be up for hours now discovering hidden treasures across the country 🤦‍♂️ Cant wait for the next vid, Thank you

[@Marc_von_Hoffrichter]

Bloody brilliant. Thanks Ant, as always. Cheers mate.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it Marc thank you

[@shirleylynch7529]

Fab explore and findings. Your enthusiasm rubs on to us. Love the old photos too. Well done Ant. Very interesting.

[@JoOtterH]

I'm old enough to remember tth Southwell trains, though I never travelled on one. They were just a curiosity pointed out to me by my parents as we passed on the train from Newark to Nottingham.

[@mikewoodman7700]

Have to say a big thank you to the people of yesteryear, who took film & photos probably not realising how much their efforts would be appreciated by us today.

[@ianr]

Brilliant video again Ant! Hope your well.👍🙂

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Ian you too ☺️

[@dilwyn1]

Given this a like already, as I know it will be good !! Will make a nice cup of coffee and enjoy the show

[@Carolb66]

Me too! 😊👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

I hope you enjoy it, thank you 😊

[@jetsons101]

Ant, almost every time I watch one of your vids, or one of your fellow "local" Utubers, I'm always amazed how fast Nature takes over, must be your local weather because things seem to grow so fast. Thanks for your time, work and posting..... mike

[@levelcrossing150]

Back in the 60's and 70's when I was a youngster it was so easy to see the clean ballast of trackbeds and the remains of many buildings that had been the casualties of Beeching's axe. Since then my attentions were caught in other things like getting married and bringing up a family. Without me realising it, these sites have been quietly progressing to another stage where nature is repairing itself, sadly making it more difficult to detect what wonderful infrastructure was once there.

[@jetsons101]

@@levelcrossing150 I enjoy anything vintage steam, I'm about 5,300 miles away, but over the course of many UK videos I have learned that Beeching is not a very popular railway figure...... lol

[@levelcrossing150]

@@jetsons101 No he was not popular at all. It's common knowledge that Earnest Marples who had an interest in road building at that time, was inappropriately appointed Minister of Transport from 1959 to 1964, when he oversaw Britain's entry into the Motorway age. At that time he sponsored Dr Beeching into drastically pruning Britain's railway network. Is it any wonder why? It would not have been so bad if they had been mothballed, but sadly many sites were obliterated shortly afterwards and quickly developed, so most have gone for ever.

[@jetsons101]

Sounds like the type of guy that would throw his kids electric trains out the window to save a little on the electric bill.... LOL@@levelcrossing150

[@rogerchaplin9781]

What a great video, very informative about somewhere that is only about ten/fifteen miles from where I live, great use of descriptive words too, only you could make a diamond pattern brick sound so exciting, thanks for another great video

[@paulmcdougall-preece7020]

Another great video Ant, well done, keep them coming 👍👍👍

[@scottfw7169]

That wooden station building with rounded end was attractive.

[@TheDoctorhuw]

Cycled past many times and never knew that the old platforms where still there, Thank you.

[@angelsone-five7912]

Wicked stuff Ant, a station in the woods !

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it 😌

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

Great archive footage of what once must have been a very busy junction - with its young trainspotters! Amazing to find an old wooden platform still in situ. I wonder if there are any remains of the other (Southern) curve to Southwell?

[@adamcharles8088]

Brilliant video I work at southwell racecourse and always wondered about that station history with the road leading to the racecourse from Southwell been the old line 👍

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you for today’s video. Enjoyable during the week instead of the weekends. Their too crowded then. See you on the next Ant. Cheers mate! ❤😊

[@ste.h9825]

So much buried history to uncover.Thanks Ant.😀

[@AndyHull-f1z]

I traveled to and from my boarding school at Kirklington via Rolleston Junction and Southwell on the push/pull single carriage steam train. The line only went as far as Southwell back then.

[@cricketdk2024]

Just looking at the 1953 timetable I have and there were 10 trains daily going from Newark to Southwell via the junction. So it must have gone downhill passenger wise since it close in June 1959.

[@bexhil7]

A good video of The Village Railway Station with the Secret Hidden Platforms👍👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Michael

[@2760ade]

Very interesting! That's a forest!! It's amazing how much nature has reclaimed in a relatively short time! Incidentally what was the rumbling engine type noise in the background of most of this video? Great video though!😀

[@alexlawrence293]

At 12:10 - A nice shot of the three chimneys of the old Staythorpe "A" coal-fired power station in the distance.

[@2010ditta]

Get the metal detectors out. lol. Got to be something under all that greenery. Very enjoyable as always. Loved the archive footage and pictures. All the best.

[@TrekkingExploration]

It could be worth a little return visit around February march time. Glad you enjoyed it

[@lindamccaughey6669]

That was fabulous. It’s surprising how the platforms are still there. Really enjoyed this. Please take care

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Linda. It would look good if tidied up I think

[@lindamccaughey6669]

I agree

[@bobingram6912]

For such an innocent looking triangle of trees there sure is a wealth of interest in there, great stuff Ant👍👍👍👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

There's a lot in there it's extremely surprising

[@JamesE707]

Estimating the age of the trees may also give an indication on when the tracks were lifted. BTW - enjoying this video!

[@janetdods71]

Fab so glad you found the 3rd platform amazing work well done👏👏

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching Jan 😊😊😊

[@anthonydefreitas6006]

Excellent find!

[@angelajones2095]

Another fantastic video, such a shame the building was lost, but so amazing what you can find in the undergrowth. Have you ever thought of telling the story of the Railways around Golborne and Lowton and the Haydock park racecourse line? Pretty sure there's some stuff up here that you could find. Haydock had its own station near the concourse. x

[@Carolb66]

Glad to see you back Ant! Just know this will be good! ❤😊

[@TrekkingExploration]

Hey Carol I hope you enjoy it 😊

[@Carolb66]

​@@TrekkingExplorationHi Ant, just watched it & enjoyed the video very much! Esp the drone footage & old b&w photos & video. Nice work Ant! ❤

[@michaelmiller641]

Thanks Ant, interesting video.

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

Excellent informative video Ant, I've been meaning to pop down there for a while, this has now convinced me to call in. I've covered the Stations to Farnsfield, so this will round it off nicely. I'll make sure that I ask the 'nice lady' first!!!

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's definitely worth a poke around. Very easy to get too as well. Walk straight in. I'm looking for similar locations now

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

@@TrekkingExploration Looking forward to it. Apparently there is an old signal further down the disused track bed towards Southwell.

[@TrekkingExploration]

I've heard similar but no sign of it from what I could tell

[@musicgarryj]

18:00 That "Inter-City" poster on Rolleston Junction station building seems a bit strange, if the station closed in 1959. The "Inter-City" brand name was first adopted by BR in 1966, after the term was used frequently in the Beeching Report in 1963.

[@TrekkingExploration]

That'll be advertised as the station isn't closed

[@musicgarryj]

​Sorry, I'm still confused..... the photo was taken pre-1959? When was the station demolished?

[@2009numan]

very interesting video really enjoyed watching it

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Kevin

[@gilesestram]

Hah, me and Wobbly Runner didnt brave the weeds and Nettles when we were there at the end of the summer !

[@TrekkingExploration]

This was a couple of days after Babet so 3 weeks ago?

[@gilesestram]

@@TrekkingExploration Well I seem to recall we had no wellies and little time but could see the platform through the railings on the station but the other end through the weeds was pretty muddy to say the least

[@TrekkingExploration]

If you go back you definitely don't need wellies it's rather dry underfoot 👍

[@michaelwhite1723]

Great video again mate, great to see there is still history hidden away, I was going to ask if you had walked this line through Farnsfield to Mansfield. Have you done Woodhead tunnels yet too?

[@mattlund8170]

Another great video ant 👍, do like your railway themed ones but also.like the others too

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Matt very kind

[@stuart3383]

Brilliant again

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you Stuart ☺️

[@Richard_Barnes]

Cheers Ant 😄 👍🏻

[@111cccccc]

Know the station well & knew about the junctions & its History having been responsible for Rolleston station & many others for a few years while working on the Railway

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's a lovely little hidden gem. I wonder who owns the land currently? It would look great tidied up

[@railwaychristina3192]

Thank you so much.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you for watching ☺️

[@iancaveney7464]

Lol, just reminded me of the time I was scratting around in some undergrowth in South Wales looking for some disused station platforms and the cops turned up saying they'd "had reports". "Well, officer" I replied, "...its like this..." Such a nerd, like you, pal. 👍😂😂

[@TrekkingExploration]

The security lady seemed bemused at first I told her I'd been sent there to record historical evidence. Well most of it was true 🤣

[@johnm-wv6bo]

another great video pal but what happend to the matlock mine teaser you put up months ago ??????

[@barrythedieselelectricstea5217]

very interesting video sad to see what it was like in it's heyday as a working station by the archive footage and to see what it is like now do we know why it closed seeing it was a busy junction will you be doing a video on the rest of the track bed to Mansfield

[@AFCManUk]

I think I recognise that station from a video I saw a while ago. A couple of youtubers investigated it overnight, as it's apparently haunted?

[@AFCManUk]

Yep,,I found it again...kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6e6qKWwaJVgqas&ab_channel=HauntedFinders

[@johnhalley974]

Cracking video…

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much John ☺️

[@Teddystream.]

The picture of the station at 18:00 shows a sign with British rail and two arrow logo which did not come out until 1965 so the station building was still there so were not demolished soon after closure.

[@TrekkingExploration]

That's right the actual station building stuck around for some 20 odd years after the other line closed

[@roytabberer7427]

Very interesting as normal Ant, would the water course that was seen through the trees be part of the old Grantham Canal?

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's a small brook / drain made far worse by Storm Babet

[@roytabberer7427]

@@TrekkingExploration Thanks very much for correcting me.

[@johnspurgeon9083]

As an aside you ought to be sponsored by the maker of your outdoor gear - the brambles and scrub you have to scramble through on these excellent videos really test the outer layer!

[@TrekkingExploration]

I occasionally do get those kind of emails, bags, camping gear, clothing and those annoying VPN adverts. I avoid them as I'd rather not distract from the viewers experience for a few freebies 😌

[@sarahwinfield3989]

I just wanted to add, what i like about your videos is generally the lack of females and your ability to negotiate the undergrowth now hiding so much infrastructure and your willingness to explore.

[@TrekkingExploration]

On a rare occasion I have company of some kind, I'm so used to doing it all alone I guess. That helps sometimes with how far or how much I'll look at somewhere without thinking if the other person is also willing to go as far as me. It's a long long time since a female has joined me that's for sure

[@JamesE707]

Nature buries everything eventually, probably including us too.

[@shortangrybloke]

It'd be nice to see it cleared and tidied up, but then the spray can brigade would show up.

[@TrekkingExploration]

I agree I thought it would be a lovely little place to tidy up. You'd have to wonder who owns that land now too

[@orwellboy1958]

I wonder what archaeologists in hundreds of years time will make of all this.

[@TrekkingExploration]

I often wander that with many places that I visit

[@GarethL2008]

What’s a push pull service?

[@TrekkingExploration]

Locomotive at one end and the front carriage has controls and cab like area to drive from in the opposite direction. I think one is shown on the black and white footage

[@2009numan]

when you say southall do you mean southwell

[@TrekkingExploration]

Bit of both really