Bevercotes Colliery & the Disused Railway Walk & Explore

[@Carolb66]

Another fab video Ant the aerial footage was amazing. So sad all the pits have gone. 😢❤

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Carol 😀

[@lenasjogren7912]

Hi thanks for a nice and lovely video have a good life my friend 😁 😁 👍

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Great vid. My partners Dad worked at Bevercotes and she went to the training centre on occasions. Thanks for the happy memories. 🙂

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thanks for the video and chat. Hope your OK after the tripping along the trail. Cheers Ant!

[@EnglishTurbines]

Enjoyed the walk and history lesson again...So many Pits closed during the Thatcher years as we imported cheap coal instead....🤔😳🇬🇧

[@troublejw]

We went to Boughton tunnel recently, got half way down the tunnel and saw signs of homeless living there (sleeping bag, toilet roll, deckchair), so went back in case we upset anyone. Will have to try again as want to follow your route.

[@jonny-simulation-gamer]

because of you i got fassonated wih finding old railways now

[@johnofypres]

Excellent as always. Thank you for posting.

[@martinwarner1178]

I'm a Mansfield fellow, so I find your work so interesting. Peace be unto you.

[@davesimon3861]

I worked at Bevercoates colliery in the 80's . So sad to see it now . We walked the line to Boughton many times and stood in the refuges in the tunnel which locals call mummys tunnel . While coal trains we're running graet video mate 👍👍

[@mallard0]

The huts on the bridge over the river Medan is where the run around started. Well it was when I worked down the over grown track about ten years ago

[@philliphammond399]

Hi Ant, another excellent informative video. Your skill flying your drone really adds to the perspective. Thanks for all the work you put into your productions.

[@jontownsend8090]

Thanks once again. This route would make a great cycle path, including the tunnel ofcourse. As always, very well put together, the music adding to the atmosphere of an abandoned relic.

[@garyrobinsonpcgamingmodelr7942]

Great video, brilliant viewing especially the weather. I really enjoy these kind of railway walks that you do because I am a huge fan of the mighty class 56. Best regards Gary.

[@christinegibbins6105]

Thank you Ant. Love the drone footage and history you document. Take care.

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Hard to believe I did this line on a railtour in June 1992! It was a 56 throughout with assistance from a pair of 20s on the branches. It was a warm day from what I remember.

[@sbeggsuk]

The local videos are great!

[@Xpl0r]

A very enjoyable walk and talk along the old lines , some of that signage is in better nick than some I pass on journeys around the northern rail network ! new sub atb Dave

[@steamsearcher]

Loved your latest TRIP down memory lane!! Thank you ever so much for leaving it in, we Both feel for you. It is raining again in Reading so not venturing out even to the shops. 31 tea bags left! Enough food for 4 days. Work abandoned on my live steam models. Totally enjoyed your latest video again. Lily and David.

[@darrenpickering247]

walked from Walesby to Bevercoates with Sean the Postman in 2010, tracks were still down, took ages as it was summer and most of the route was overgrown with brambles.

[@2H80vids]

What an unusual set-up, the lineside huts on the river bridge. Seems like a strange way to do it; maybe saved buying a tiny bit of land for the huts but made the bridge somewhat more complicated.👍😁 Lovely morning for a walk too.👌

[@tonyrobinson362]

I did my underground locomotive course there in 1978, Good times.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you for watching 🙂

[@NXRayA]

Did this walk back in 2021 and then again today (17/11/2023). What a difference...and not in a good way! Had to abandon it because it's too overgrown and almost impassible in places. There are now many large sections of very thorny brambles which are just too difficult to get through. I might try it again in the depths of winter when hopefully a lot of it will have died back. Not holding out much hope though because even if some of it dies back it's still accumulating year on year. I suspect in a few more years this former line will be almost invisible let alone walkable...very sad. On a positive note...you can park up at Bevercotes colliery and walk around what's left of the site which is well worth doing. The place is quite eerie and has an apocalyptic feel to it.

[@richardpettet9996]

Another great video. It makes you realise the amount of infrastructure required to rail connect the pit. Cuttings, embankment bridges and tunnels. Would they do it today, no they would use road transport.

[@HaroldRoad]

Another superb video from an area I'm very interested in, superb editing, brilliant easy to follow where you are commentary....your videos just get better...more from that area please Ant

[@bobingram6912]

That was a good old walk, lots of railway stuff in the bushes and you even met Buzz Light Years mate - Trip Hazard!!!! Loved the B&W with the Bristol RE bus. 👍🏻

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's amazing how much I covered compared to the first time 18 months ago. I couldn't leave the trip out, it was genuinely funny 😂

[@richardhaywood4123]

I've actually ridden on that bus back in the day!

[@bobingram6912]

@@richardhaywood4123 Lucky fella!!!! Did they belong to the mines or were they Bus Company? Interested in as much that we had some ex Trent Motor Traction REs down here.

[@richardhaywood4123]

@@bobingram6912 they belonged to the bus companies up until denationalisation, but not sure after that as we had left school and started jobs.

[@shirleylynch7529]

Thoroughly enjoyed this fabulous walk . Must have taken you ages. Sorry about your fall although I did laugh when I saw you ok.music really good with the filming. You are a genius at this. Well done and thank you.

[@janepatricia8779]

What a lovely day you had for this walk Ant, ,,a lovely trip it was too😂 xx

[@deanbrown29]

Another classic, thank you once again

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you so much for watching and you're support 🙂

[@davehanson7764]

Great video Ant, there really is nothing left of the Bevercoates site, back in the late seventies I was exploring Mickleover tunnel and when I was at the top I tripped and slid at high speed down the right hand side drainage gully and almost went head first into a plate layers hut which used to stand at the mouth of the western portal :) 😃 ahhhhh the good old days .

[@steadyred1832]

Good that you got West Burton & Cottam Power Stations into the initial drone shots, remind everyone why we needed collieries in the first place. Looks like a fairly easy walk, undergrowth was under control. I have never seen a tunnel where the walls slope like that, some parts of the tunnel look like they are local sandstone without any lining.

[@showmanpete2805]

great vid mate thanks for sharing

[@fenso6664]

Great video. Bet you weren’t expecting to bump into someone while trekking down this overgrown abandoned line. At least you know you’re both there for the same reason I guess!

[@gazclass58]

Brilliant video ant and great photos from people that have kindly past on to you for your footage. Nice photos of the class 56 and 58 and if a 47 to. Take care and stay safe ant

[@neillindsay1351]

Really enjoyed this, especially this time of year.

[@roytabberer7427]

Another interesting video, glad that you are OK after your little tumble and the fact that you were able to make light of it afterwards. The coal mines area is very different from when I used to deliver catering equipment to the pits around that area in the early 1980's. Also I noticed at 22:10 'NUM PICKET' painted on the bridge wall.

[@oliverwalters1638]

Thank you, really enjoyed it.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you Oliver 😊

[@psychokeef]

Brilliant, I’ll call you the Fall Guy the well known stuntman from now on lol Great video and well informative as usual 👍

[@exileinderby51]

Another brilliant video, thanks for taking us along on another adventure

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

Absolutely fantastic, a really enjoyable journey. I loved the photo of the train by the huts over the River Meden showing how it used to be, the amount of stuff left on the line was fascinating too. Good job mate.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Cheers buddy. I've been saving remaking this one for almost a year. Glad I did 😊

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

@@TrekkingExploration Can't wait to get down there myself.

[@jerviservi]

The 45 tonnes is likely the maximum design weight for the bridge. The standard for road bridges (I should I say bridges carrying roads) is to be able to carry a vehicle weighing a maximum of 44 tonnes. Since the heaviest standard load a vehicle can be is 44 tonnes.

[@mwspireite5713]

Great video as usual, did my initial mining craft training at the now long gone Lound Hall Training centre starting July 83 and did a cpl of shifts underground training at Bevercotes. Remember going past there on the bus every day on the way to the centre.

[@grayladish]

Another great watch, interesting content and good production values as ever. I like the walk a bit, then you show the route via the drone, works well. You should show us how you fly the drone - if you haven't already.

[@MultiEsme2010]

Great video Ant and the sign outside the tunnel reminded me that someone as cut the signal down on the Markham pit line.

[@thomasmann9216]

Very interesting journey with beautiful scenery on a lovely day. Thank you.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you 😀

[@richardperry8774]

Cracking video, nice seeing it in winter time. Thanks 🙂

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks so much Richard 😊

[@frankfitzgerald5832]

Superb walk really enjoyed it including your tumble.. lol listen Ant its something we all do mate in a future podcast were gonna chat about our fails lol ...wanted to ask you after leaving the tunnel i noticed loads of holes bored into the embankment any ideas what they were for mate....once again many thanks ... great stills too of former coal workings...stay safe and upright ... Frank & Lee......

[@simonrichardson5077]

Always great work,thanks

[@rogermorris6957]

Another great video Steve keep up the good work

[@TrekkingExploration]

Cheers Roger, thank you 😀

[@isa_archinterior4612]

Excellent !! Very lively video, full of artefacts , my fav !!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Definitely worth the walk to get there in the dark

[@jarmoFI]

Excellent and enjoyable presentation, thanks again Ant

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you as always 😀

[@seany84uk]

Now thats what i call an explore! :)

[@TrekkingExploration]

Feature length 😃 Cheers Sean 👍

[@mirutanable]

this was incredible to watch... so much history in a place that's pratically in the middle of nowhere.... they said on a calm night... if you listen hard enough you can hear the trains trundling down the rails carrying their heavy loads to their destionations..... or so the saying goes... also what was the music used during the section where you walked underneath the b road at 22.12.. im curious because it fits the atmosphere so well

[@longbar2344]

what i hate is slipping down the ballast into brambles on a curve in the track

[@stephenkirk6876]

A very nice walk there ant.. hope you come and do the Blackwell trail and others around Derbyshire

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks Stephen. I definitely need to get over that way when we can, I've done nothing in that area I don't think

[@stephenkirk6876]

@@TrekkingExploration well if you manage to do Derbyshire give me a shout and I'll come along

[@Macc1]

Diesel power replaced steam power at a cost...?

[@RedZu1]

Brilliant stuff as per

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks so much Ivan 😊

[@chrismccartney8668]

With the current energy crisis we may need re open so pits but reopening is very dangerous to re open so maybe some open cast mines some fracking and a newbuild lot Pit.

[@fenman150]

Brilliant video. Are you using a go pro. It looks different to whatever camera you have used on other videos.

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's the same GoPro since December 2019. I think the daylight enhances it sometimes

[@fenman150]

@@TrekkingExploration i only use a go pro, other types of cameras just get ruined by the weather. and sometimes people moan about the camera quality, but it is not them who have to pay to replace a camera every time it gets water in it.

[@lesbendo6363]

The volume of your music is just right, not too loud.

[@b4mouse]

Great film Ant, where do you get the old pictures from? It;s great seeing when the pits and lines were in use.

[@epic_liamgaming2342]

Do you know the story behind why it is called mummy's tunnel I have hered one story of it but not sure how true it is or whether it is accurate

[@p.s.anders]

Ya forgot to mention that Breavercotes was one of the deepest pits in England.

[@a11csc]

great vid

[@TrekkingExploration]

Cheers Chris 👍😊

[@timpeterbirkin]

Music went very Vince Clarke-ish at bridge number 5 ❤️❤️❤️

[@buggs4987]

How was your trip lol, love your work

[@TrekkingExploration]

That was Funny Thank you Jason 👍

[@mwicks1968]

It’s a pity that old lines like this couldn’t be converted into cycle tracks ...

[@TrekkingExploration]

This route would make an excellent one

[@paulcharlton4788]

I think I’ve said this before but this particular route is still owned by Network Rail. When they decide to sell it it’ll be valued and go to an estate agent who will market it (as they did for the Welbeck pit line recently). A local authority could buy it and convert it if they could afford to. We looked at the Welbeck one (I work for a district council) but the money just wasn’t there to do it. Plus it doesn’t go anywhere that anyone would want to cycle!

[@mwicks1968]

@@paulcharlton4788 Interesting! Quite how you value something like that is beyond me?!?!

[@paulcharlton4788]

Mike Wicks my partner is a registered valuer - I’ll ask her!

[@sbeggsuk]

Couldn’t agree more! I ride a lot in the area, this would be a great route from Ollerton pit woods down to Bevercoates. Plus, the national cycle route links up south of Bevercoates colliery already, so it would be a great addition!

[@Macc1]

Next up? Green Hydrogen replaces oil/gas/diesel/petrol for the duration...?

[@bobtudbury8505]

having worked here for 4 years i can tell you the prep plant was the biggest white elephant ever. Pumps etc were doubled up as instance "spares" ,never worked. Everything was supposed to be auto inc the rapid loader.Nothing worked . Eventually common sense took over and it was run "manually" I do have some film footage somewhere of a train being loaded in approx. 1992

[@jamieneil6123]

Any chance of doing Shirebrook and/or Calverton?

[@TrekkingExploration]

Morning Jamie. I'll have a look and see what's around Shirebrook. Calverton is on here I think I added it in March last year 👍

[@jamieneil6123]

@@TrekkingExploration ahh awesome! Shall check it out! Also great videos with in depth knowledge 👍

[@socklesslad]

Considering how important coal mining was to the economy for absolutely ages it's a shame hardly anything remains of it. Of the two pits you featured all that remains is a car park and a vast empty space. I'd like them to preserve more, although I appreciate there isn't much that can be done with the remains.

[@charlie50015]

28:08 damn i hope the floor is ok

[@roytait]

I feel things are getting a little too repetitive here. No, not the videos of course but the words that come to mind whenever I watch Ant’s latest trek. Words like “interesting”, “informative”, “entertaining”, “enjoyable”, “impressive tunnel photography” (hmm, that’s three words), “superb drone footage”, “brilliant music choices” and all-round “high production values”. For info, planning permission was granted around 10 years ago to redevelop the Bevercotes colliery site as Vertical Park, a warehouse distribution centre. Some pics and brochure at www.gladman.co.uk/industrial-space-bevercotes.php. Oh, and the title of this video is incorrect. It should of course be “walk, explore & fall” :-)

[@solidsnake4595]

"there is a absolutely beautiful sunrise and im hoping to take is with us" ok fuck the video i want to see this man hold in his arms a blazing ball of plasma without becoming ash and lets not forget that it is about 2000 times the size of earth lol

[@Macc1]

These were the days - before oil and gas - when coal was "King".

[@jasinere35]

ant you'll find that all signalling on railways are 12 volt only

[@jasinere35]

has someone been clearing the bed as the last time i went that way before & after the tunnel was pretty overgrown

[@barrieshepherd7694]

If you mean main line railways NO signalling is not 12 volts 120 volts more like.

[@deanbrown29]

Have a nice trip?

[@TrekkingExploration]

That was funny. I'm just glad it wasn't wet 😂