The Railway that served Nottinghamshire Last Deep Coal Mine - Thoresby Colliery
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The Railway that served Nottinghamshire Last Deep Coal Mine - Thoresby Colliery #disusedrailway
Join me as i take a look at the former railway line and colliery site, once home to Thoresby Colliery in Nottinghamshire, the last deep coal mine in this region to close back in 2015.
7 years later a lot has changed, the track has gone, the colliery buildings have alomst gone, but redevelopment is very much underway.
Lets take a look at what once was whilst comparing it to the present day with historical images, drone and ground level footage as we walk towards Thoresby Colliery along the disused railway.
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I used to work here from 2002 - 2009. I'm so proud that I got chance to be a part of this once great industry. You are treated like family by the lads and I will never forget them. I wish I could go back and experience that brotherly connection. Thank you Thoresby.
I went to Thoresby the day of closure,sneaked in ,wandered around, took some photos and video. Did the same at Kellingly as well
Never fails to make me sad seeing things like this, the amount of industry lost when coal mines in the U.K. closed. From the simplest of things like brown paper packing bags to complex machinery, even getting overalls sent off to Sketchley to be dry cleaned, or even bars of soap with P.H.B. stamped on them. Hundreds of thousand of jobs gone, yes I am bitter, I started work at Coventry Colliery (Keresley) way back in 1981 when I left school.
I was at The Lanchester Polytechnic during that time doing Industrial Design and managed a couple of walks out to the workings. Finished and was unemployed for 6 years. Got bits of jobs and worked my way back up. All through School we were promised wonderful things but these vanished as I graduated. Yes sad times. We are always watching trekking. David and Lily. Reading.
Once a coal miner always a coal miner it’s really sad seeing the eira and peoples passion and love taken from them
It’s heartbreaking what has happened thank you for the epic drone footage it’s to remind people to never forget the coal industry and to what it once was and is
Good film tinged with sadness. All the traction I grew up with now gone and all these lines consigned to the history book. 👍
That bloke at the end knew.. he definitely knew and proved right all these years later
Great video Ant, I'm a DRS driver and was last on the test track in the autumn, I'm sure Thoresby crossing was still open then. Ironic they shut that as people get on the line all over. About 18 months ago we were about a mile from Clipstone with a huge HOBC train I saw what I thought was an animal in the distance between the rails . I slowed right down luckily as as I got closer it was a couple having a shag!!! The horns made them jump a mile and run off!
Cheers Russ
Oh my goodness thats shocking but so funny at the same time ha ha ha. I imagine its a nice run down that line.
I wonder if she had the imprint of a sleeper on her arse and gash as she ran away. 🤔
How about the changing face of tinsleys old hump shunting yard. Looks lome theres some new development there..
So sad to see our industrial heritage disappearing, it’s what made our country great.
I agree. Thankyou for watching :)
Thanks for all the effort and knowledge you put in to all of your videos, it’s something that is disappearing fast and will soon be forgotten if it wasn’t for enthusiast’s like yourself.
Nice video and nice music, it's amazing how fast mother nature takes over.
Interesting and in the same breath sad. Cheers, Bob
Excellent video 👍
I don't know whether to be sad or angry that all the collieries have been closed when we still have so much coal below the ground, and of course we are all suffering the consequences of relying too much on Russia for our energy requirements
Love the guys comment at end if they want to turn gas off they can he knew what was coming great video
He was correct too! I thought that when i first watched it
That last sentence is quite haunting
I thought that when i first saw it
Hit the nail right on the head didn't he,. We sit on 400 years worth of coal. Get the UK population down, stop all immigration and let's get back to a coal fired economy, free of foreign interference. Stop wasting gas on generating electricity, gas is for cooking and heating, coal is for generating power.
It's difficult to comprehend how a huge coal mining complex could close and nearly everything on the site obliterated, Ant. I can feel sorry for the men that had their jobs terminated at the colliery, after all the years of employment. I'm sure there'll come a time when there's deep regret about
coal being stopped as a source of energy, and all the power station closures! Great pictures of the Class 58 locos that frequented the merry-go-round trains in the area. No doubt Toton depot was the supplier of the traction and the train staff. They must have felt the pinch at the depot, with all the mining closures in Notts, and East Derbys. It's always the case too, that housing ends up on industrial sites that produced employment for locals. Great video/music, and many thanks, Ant.
I was just here today to photograph the signal box and i was talking to a dog walker he said look you up i was already a subscriber to your channel lol small world
How sad. 800 new residential properties none of us wanted or needed but at least we can bet there will be no new schools, doctor's surgeries, hospitals, reservoirs, power stations, shopping centres or any of the other numerous infrastructure needed to be able to cope with the ever-growing population which has completely spiraled out of control. Still, at least they've got somewhere to house all the iIIegaIs now.
As always, a fantastic watch. I still have the telecommunication brackets like those under the bridge on my house.
I'd bet if the warehouse was left standing it would outlive all those toy town houses that are being built.
If they won’t to ton gas off we’ve had it never a truer word said almost criminal shutting down the mines great video mate 👍
Thanks for the memories, my dad worked at Thoresby pit between 1961-69, leaving after he was injured in a roof collapse...............
Thankyou for watching. I hope he was ok :)
@@TrekkingExploration He suffered a foot injury having to dive over the treppaner coal cutter or get caught under the fall, he was trapped for a short while until rescue. After his death I learnt that this latest accident made him fearful of going back underground, hence he switched career.
Another great video. And I totally agree with the miner at the end when he said we were making a mistake. I am sure mankind is clever enough to develop a way of burning coal cleanly, with scrubbers to take out the C02. Gas is now in short supply, and clean coal burning plants would be ideal to take up the strain when we are not producing enough power through renewable energy. Simple short sightedness thinking gas would always be plentiful.
A timely reminder of how short sighted our governments have been and now we are reaping the rewards of bad planning.
Absolutley. Thanks for watching :)
We are now shipping poor quality coal from south america for more expense than keeping local mines open. Just stupidity all around
Absolutely, we have cables running to France buying electric off them! We had the perfect power source for our electric generation employing thousands of men. What the hell has happened, the world has gone truly mad.
Tory goverments
@@40022laconia Wrong. Labour government signed up to the Kyoto green nonsense and they are full of net zero like the others.
So enjoyable and so sad to see it is all gone, great video and soundtrack Ant..
Another really interesting video Ant, we explored the former colliery about a year or so after closure
Heyup Ant - hope yer well! This brought back memories of working the MGR trains up from Toton into here (and also Welbeck and Oxcroft) for loading for them to go back into Ratcliffe Power Station then return.... You used to drive into to the sidings, then chop the loco off the train, runround the train, reattach to the 'branch' side then drive up to the loading hopper - this was a bit different to other hoppers as you had to load as you were going uphill (which was fun when it was wet). Once loaded you would set the train back to the junction/exit signal (on the end of the branch - left hand side, think you show it briefly in a clip). Set the train back into the sidings so that you were behind a Ground Position Signal then wait for your slot to leave.... fond memories!! ;-) John
Interesting to see how it's changed since your last visit. Amazing that there is still all that coal still down there. oh sorry, must think renewables haven't I🙄 Nicely walked Ant👍👍👍👍
Cheers Bob thanks for watching :)
According to the OS maps, and the Rowmaps definitive public rights of way maps, there is a Public Footpath immediately to the south of the live railway running from the B6034 at Edwinstowe (probably why they have put the new fence up) to the railway bridge across the A614 at Ollerton. There is a Bridleway from under the bridge, about 200 feet along the lifted curve, running parallel to the live railway, to the B6034 to Edwinstowe.
Superb Soundtrack
Gedling was a biggie, thick seams, big railway connections, big tunnel, now going to country park, I lived in Mapperley '48 to '56 and haze grove primary school used Gedling Colliery sports ground for our annual sportsday ... Ah memories, eh?
I’ll never forget being a kid exploring a huge site that smelt like coal. Turns out me and my mate were exploring the recently closed allerton pit. Can’t of been closed long we probably broke into the place! This is my kind of video cheers mate.
Thanks very much Peter. Glad you enjoyed it :)
Great video. I travelled down from Scotland to see Kellingley, Hatfield and Thoresby whilst they were all still intact in 2015. Memories of industry we no longer have.
Just a note, bridges that take the railway over a river etc are called underbridges and vice versa for overbridges.
Another fab explore. Music brilliant with footage. Before and after photos amazing. Great video. Thank you Ant. Excellent work.
Really interesting video, the atmospheric music is brilliant I have to say!! Love all of those pictures of "Bones" and "Grids" doing what they were built for. I'm not sure I'd buy a house on the site of an old colliery TBH especially as those shafts were rather deep........
Wonder if insurance will be a problem !
You must have done the walk after we did,because we got to the colliery entrance,it was fenced off,and very muddy.The building work had started,but has obviously advanced.My thoughts with the local crossing being locked,as a retired railwayman,is this,as the line is now a test track,and high speed running maybe taking place,all gates will have to be locked before running commences.We had to do a proving run on the Edwalton test track before running commenced,for the same purpose,it was in the instructions for the line.Have you walked Tibshelf to Pleasley Colliery including the Sutton Colliery branch.Pleasley Colliery still survives in some form,with a mining Musuem and tea room.
The title picture of 58043 entering the bunker was taken by myself and not RCS as credited. Happy for you to use the pic but would like to be asked/credited. Great video !
Hi Mick yes you are right i'll change that in the description. There were a few by Robin in there and i must have got the name stuck in my head, i know you have allowed use of images in the past, alwats gratful. Thanks for watching :)
Excellent in content but somewhat sad to watch and the music gives an air of melancholy but these videos are fascinating and I look forward to watching more.
As usual a brilliant video Ant,love it 👍
Thankyou very much Graham :)
Another excellent and informative video, thanks.
Nice video Ant, nice and relaxing to watch thanks. Chris
happy 2023 ant the videos have been lovely cant wait for more content
You too Nigel & thank you :)
Great alround video. thanks so much brought a lot of good memories back will watch again. Best wishes mate.
Glad you enjoyed it thankyou for watching
I was shown round Thoresby Colliery shortly after closure. The thing that struck me was/is the complete lack of strategic planning in the UK.
OK I accept that coal was declining rapidly but to effectively totally rely on imports particularly from Russia was and is completely insane.
Thoresby was one of several local Collieries to be owned by the Bolsover Coal Co prior to the formation of the NCB on Wednesday 1st January 1947.
When I look through my late father's various copies of 'Guide To The Coalfields' and I realised that virtually everything described in the books no longer exists.
Quality video Ant,thanks lad
Thanks very much Simon :)
Yeah first,thanks for another cracking vlog 🎉
Cheers David thanks for watching :)
Happy New Year to you & Mrs Ant.
Thanks for another interesting video.
Happy new year! Thanks for watching as always :)
thanks for doing these. happy new year.
Happy new year Caroline. Thankyou for watching :)
Nice video and narration. Love the old pictures. Meriden, Kansas.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Happy New Year, Ant! Beautiful video ❤️😃
You too Frank thanks very much 🙂🙂
So glad you are revisiting the old Collieries in the Mansfield area with all your new format superb music score and drone footage. I feel like I'm watching a TV series, so proffesionly done, im hoping you re visit Clipstone Junc and Mansfield concentration sidings at some point, if you do, go opposite the water tower up the bank and follow it North, lots of discarded signal pulley posts and other detritus that was thrown there when the lines were lifted, thanks for doing these superb videos, I look forward to each railway one you do...take care, John
Another great video today. Thank you for the mention last video. Very soothing music as always. Thanks Ant! Cheers mate!😊
Glad you enjoyed it. I'll let you know the music soon :)
@@TrekkingExploration Thanks!
A great video and wonderful music too
Glad you enjoyed it Trevor and thank you
Another excellent video! Wish I had time to do more videos, yours always make me jealous!
With respect to the level crossing closure, it appears there are footpaths either side of the railway, the southern side being alongside the railway and the northern side being a but further clear of it.
No right of way shown across it.
Great documentary video, very professional as always 👏 👍
Thanks for watching Steve much appreciated
Thank you for another really enjoyable video, it's a shame you couldn't explore more of the area. It would be nice if you could share your first visit to the area when the tracks were down and show the change. I look forward to seeing your next video.
Thanks for another great vid Ant. I would definetely be interested if you redo the colliery branch line vids with drone footage. I loved the last ones. I also like all the old pictures you throw in especially of the 56's and 58's. I have a piston from a 56' sat in the kitchen corner 😂 Mrs uses it to put the orchid on 🙄
Beautiful. The old rail line through Pleasley vale would be a good one, It started at Pleasley Pit and you can walk through as far as Outgand Lane in Pleasley Vale. It also takes in the massive old mill in Pleasley vale too. There are some old coal depositing facilities there too from back when they used steam on some parts of the mill.
Another great video. I was lucky enough to go some way down the branch on a special some years back.
Thanks very much Matthew. I bet that was great 👍
Another great video Ant,
I really do enjoy the old Colliery disused railway videos you do, especially with adding old news footage and footage of the people who worked there, it's a nice touch.
On another note, I know it's not a colliery site, but is there any chance of maybe re- visiting the Stanton Iron Works site this year?
And on yet another note, have you had a chance to look at some of the ideas in your last video of the year, to see if any interest you?
I did put a lot down, so apologies if there's a lot to go through, but when someone asks for ideas, I sometimes go a bit over board lol 😂 sorry 😆
Ps.
Sorry for asking, but what has happened to Amy and your Narrow boat, will you be doing anymore canal journey's in the new year?
Anyway all the best from.
Devon Mike.
Great video, just like Thoresby, the Firbeck Colliery site near Worksop is rapidly becoming a housing estate now.
I delivered a big grout pump to that site last year fascinating place.
Cracking video mate ,who knows when that new town is fully occupied the trackbed may re-open as a rail link,as for closing the mines ,utter stupidity ,my family worked at South Kirkby and my Uncle said when it closed there were four un-opened seams that would last 150 years of best Yorkshire steam coal .One thing that would be good is to show the caps to the shafts if possible as they have to be capped
My dad was a miner but he worked at Gedling which is now a country park what a nice piece of history so I would love you to do that area again that be brill x
I remember when i did Gedling in early 2021 one of the hardest i have ever done to date
So sad to see what happen to all the coal mines 😢 welcome to the new age and technology. But on a serious note ant great footage and brilliant photo clips from people with the class 58 56 66 my favourite picture was the two blue mainline 58s side by side.
Really enjoyed that thanks Ant. Such a shame with the closures. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
Glad you enjoyed it Linda i hope you are well
Very well thanks
fantastic vid
Glad you enjoyed it Pete
What a great video Ant. I had heard that foot crossing had closed and the reason why a while ago but can't remember what the reason was now so will have to try and find out and let you know. Top footage as always from you 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Ben. I'm wondering if it may be to prevent vandalism? Although you can easily still get on there
In the mid sixties, when I was in the school cadet force,we visited the dukeries army camp. Does that still exist? I remember visiting thoresby and ollerton, they appeared rather run down. We also visited Nottingham and I remember going to Nottingham Victoria station. Which was still there and the tracks in place. I have been back to Nottingham in the last few years via a tram from Birmingham great video, as usual, Ant!
Just subsribed to your channel! Love ist! Greetings from germany 👋👋
Hey Christian thanks so very much 🙂
Cheers Ant.
Thanks for watching :)
Hi ant all these disused colliery videos jog my memory because in late 80s I used to visit these coal mines delivering parts for mining & internal mail from coal board (worked at TNT for short time) its so sad how its all gone
It really is sad, unbelieveble really
Nice one again Ant. Lovely music too - very poignant. Have you looked into the old collieries in the Moor Green area?
Hi Ant, wonderful looking round there. Was delivering to the contractors behind the new houses at Thoresby Colliery last year. There’s a disused railway between Melton and Bourne with a tunnel at Toft, track is live only for the first couple of miles. There was an old bridge at Bourne but builders have demolished it, google bridge 234 bourne
Cheers Martin. I think theres many years of building work to go on there before its completed
@Trekking Exploration quite a lot I would think. The last remaining building looks like the old store's, delivered there when the pit was open many years ago
In Lincoln a public footpath that crossed a train line was just closed off. While the Lincoln-Grimsby line has plenty of trains there had never been an issue. It had made a great passage way across two sides of city which now takes about 20 minutes to walk to.
Excellent video Ant. Really great to document this before too much of the new development built. I assume the warehouse will be demolished it would be a shame not to keep it as something as a reminder and repurpose the building if that's possible? Good to see a country park being created will give it a visit when I'm in the area.
Thanks very much. I feel the warehouse will be lost just like the other one :(
@@TrekkingExploration would be a shame for sure Ant 🙁. Looking forward to the next video!
Another Norfolk suggestion I have for you is The Pingo Trail. it's an incredible remote circular walk, 1/3 of the walk is on a disused railway too with a few relics, but the star of the show is the scenery, and wildlife you will see it is fantastic. it's a proper good walk and unlike any you will find elsewhere in the country it's one not to be missed imho. Kind Regards Mark.
www.explorenorfolkuk.co.uk/pingo-trail.html
Great vid. How about doing hucknall colliery no 2, through to linby colliery and on to newstead colliery. 👍
Thankyou
You’re welcome 😊
All that energy below the surface, replaced with yet more unsustainble, car-dependent housing in the middle of nowhere.
It's interesting how much has changed in such a short time.
Have you ever been to Brinsley headstocks? I only spotted them for the first time last week on my way to Jacksdale, I was working so didn't have time to park up and have a walk down.
I've also only ever been past them on the road. I'll look at maps to see what is around there
So sad, another 10 years and it will be fully overgrown inless it's turned into a cycle path. I miss my visits to working collieries between 1988 to 1997. The branch lines are all fully overgrown and pit sites either housing developments or parks.
Seeing how it used to be…it all made sense, as portrayed by the stills submitted by our faithful railway photographers of loaded coal trains unobtrusively going about their business. Beggars the question, why no more? Yes the Miners strike period was regretful but production gradually revived, but hampered by the influx of imported coal mainly to the power stations. Hard to conceive now but I believe the reserves are far from exhausted, as we would be led to believe. Should there be a “fuel crisis” in the not too distant future, the answer’s right here, below our feet!
great video Ant ironic comment from last guy .............
Thank you. Yes I agree about the miner chaps comment
A bit of Yorkshire history, you could always do a bit of research into Masham old station and the route taken by the old Leeds Pals battalions to the training grounds, the station still exists but under different occupancy, don’t think anyone has really covered this, great content by the way. Give us a bell if you need any help with it 👌👍
What is the music playing at the start and end?
Such a shame the track has been so recently lifted with no thought given to reopening as a possible passenger line. As Ant says the new housing will only increase road traffic.
Another great & fantastic video of The Railway that served Nottinghamshire Last Deep Coal Mine - Thoresby Colliery #disusedrailway!.❤❤🤍🤍💛💛
Glad you enjoyed it Michael
Can you walk near the test track train line at Shirebrook as u go towards Thoresby??
And like they said in the very last clip the coal is still there!!!!! Madness
It's very much true. Thank you for watching
when rails and sleepers are lifted, do they not also take away the redundant ballast for use elsewhere?
Worked on the tip taking spoil up the tip.
usually not possible to buy land then change the footpath access, the owners should have planning permission, so maybe that could be checked. I wonder what happened to the rails too
The guy at the end, his comment about turning the gas off. Someone should broadcast it in parliament. The coal worker could see it but the government couldn't.
Have you done the Silverhill Trail, lots of old platforms and railway buildings
No not yet, i probably should do :)
Wasn't this a Scab Pit during 1984-85 Strike?
How about doing a video on Shirebrook ?. Just think if the track bed was still in situ, a rail service could serve the 800 new houses ??
Hi, have you though of the Harworth branch line? Cheers
Hi Gary i did this in early 2020 i think
Hi Gary i did this in early 2020 i think
How about doing the spur off the Mansfield to Southwell line from Farnsfield up to Bilsthorpe.
Yes the old Mid Notts towards Ollerton. The section between Ollerton & Bilsthorpe also has a few traceable stretches
hucknall/ linby / annesley would be of interest.
I live in Edwinstowe and there was a petition to open the foot crossing. More chance of getting run over crossing the high street.
Ironically the signal box has been vandalised since they closed the right of way.
Hi Steve, so do you think it's just about the signal box? I mean, I wouldn't do it but I could have easily crossed over the stile anyway
@@TrekkingExploration I’m not sure, originally it was closed short term as they was doing some work on the track with excavators. That’s ended ages ago but it’s still closed. Lots of local people used to cross the line before they blocked the stiles, many still do. They have only prevented the elderly and infirm crossing over and I don’t think they would be involved in vandalism. I will post on here if the issue s resolved by the petition with the parish council to network rail.
@@steveshepherd6967 it's a nice circular walk, such ashame
Ohhh eye.
Completely wonderful and a complete mistake to shut them all down, we are going to power the country on some windmills!!! Lol
might want to look into caolbrook dale surrounding area if ypu get a chance