The Abandoned Heritage Railway - Will it ever see trains again?
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The Abandoned Heritage Railway - Will it ever see trains again?
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According to a Yorkshire Post article from December, the track has been lifted for an archaeological site survey & plans are in place to resurrect the line. Time will tell if this will happen.
Any abandoned railway is sad but an abandoned heritage line seems somehow worse. Think of all the volunteers who put time and effort into it, very sad, Great video though
It's unbelievable isn't it? I can't understand it
Grey-haired old men playing trains? Poor management? No management? Inadequate planning and financial control?
@@EllieMaes-Grandad So what's the Conservative party's excuse for royally fvcking up the country ?
They're none of those things.
And sadly this ain't just the only one
Because it is worse.
I found a small article end of 2022 in Yorkshire Post, and it says why some of the track has been lifted, and Barnsley Council are planning on reopening it: “Over the coming weeks, sections of the modern track in the station area, laid since the 1990s, will be lifted so archaeological digs and ground investigations can take place. This will also allow small temporary structures and cabins, which belong to third parties, to be removed from the site. We are also doing seasonal maintenance work to the rest of the track route."
That sounds rather reassuring. I do hope you're right.
Who could ask for more? Railway and Canals. Absolutely awesome thanks Ant. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
I was a volunteer at this railway, I was so so sad when the railway had to be closed! Hopefully we can get back up and running! I always felt at home there on the steam engines!
I really hope this happens. I really do
@@TrekkingExploration Me too! So much of South Yorkshires Railway history no longer exists considering how prominent the county was in the Railway world! It was an honour and privilege to volunteer at the railway! I will miss it sorely!
Where abouts is it?
@@markworley3382 Elsecar in Barnsley South Yorkshire
Why did it close? I went there four months before the closure. I am sorry to hear about you. Hopefully, it will return in very short time.
A lot going on here in a very small area. A well compiled and documented piece of video. Thanks once again Ant for drawing us in to our forgotten heritage.
Excellent but sad vid Ant. Unfortunately we are going to see a lot more abandonment of places of interest as our population continues to change.
It's quite possible isn't it. Very sad 😢
We've really enjoyed this place over the years so it's good to see the work progressing on site. I wish them well getting it back up and running.
I took my kids there in 2018 and so glad I took the time to visit it. From I've been told the local council have a lot to answer for in regards to it being shut down. The line has potential but it won't amount to much unless the level crossings are fully reinstated and the line extended.
Seeing Elsecar station like that is a sad sight indeed. Thanks for making the film though. Much appreciated.
Another really fascinating exploration Ant really well put together with amazing photography and lovely music. Many thanks for sharing.
There is something so relaxing, yet so sad about these videos Ant. It's memories of a time gone by that we will never ever get back, I think it's called progress. Nostalgia is a brilliant thing, but it doesn't pay the bills. The reservoir shots at the end are so lovely. It could have been a Mill Pond way it looked there. Thank you.
Thanks Ant,you never cease to amaze me with your quality work
Thanks Simon you are very kind
@@TrekkingExploration Here's one you'll like. czcams.com/video/vXObks_y5es/video.html
You do find some really interesting places to explore, Ant. Thanks for another fascinating video, I do hope they manage to get the railway running again
I do too Michael and thanks very much
Awesome as always Ant 😄👍🏻Still love the drone footage. What a station that could be again if it ever comes back to life.
Interesting stuff Ant. I remember when both Cortonwood and Elsecar pits were working. Hemingfield was used as a pumping shaft by then, discharging into canal basin. Great 'dronery' by the way.👍
Quite an interesting industrial archaeology visit! The Cromford and High Peak Railway is another interesting one to do, if you happen to visit that area. Thanks for uploading.
Really liked this one and the superb weather helped make the scenery look good too.
Thanks very much 😊
Superb footage, the Railway must open again. So sad to see it all standing idle. I live in Lincolnshire and there is a Railway walk between Woodhall Spa and Horncastle.
We visited the heritage line in the mid nineties & we took our young son on a Thomas the tank steam engine ride it was a fun experience so sad its closed, all that hard work the volunteers put into making the line a great place to visit. Hope it opens up again soon. Thanks for this video Ant, great camera work again. ❤😊
Another great video Ant. So sad to see the line & buildings just left and no longer in use 😢. Your enthusiasm is so infectious - makes us want to go out there and see a lot more of our remaining heritage.
Thank you Ant, just love your enthusiasm for the history, its so good you are documenting it today, as sounds like it will all be lost. Take care.
That's great to have many of the actual rails available. When a railway is decommissioned, they're normally pulled up to discourage looters, not to mention removing a trip hazard. I'm far from local, but I do hope trains can see this area again.
A very interesting video, with some evocative old images. It would be good to see the heritage line reopen again. The canal too - though it will require a lot of effort and money to restore. but, railway and canal would be a great twin attraction.
Sad to see the Heritage centre like that. Hopefully one day...especially as the track is nearly all there. Very good. All the best.
Love the old time photos, it's great to see what it all looked like so long ago and some recently.
Absolutely brilliant. Filming amazing. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Music so apt. You sounded so excited at your findings . Rubbed off on us. Thank you Ant,
Lots of people don't realise what a knife edge Heritage Railway finances are on. I started my railway life on one. And even in good times things could get close. As we see with railways having to cut their cloth todau
Ant you take us to places where we cannot physically reach ourselves especially us more senior ones, another great piece of our historical heritage brought back for us to enjoy
Glad you enjoyed it John thanks very much ☺️
I remember taking a ride in that very brake van behind that same diesel Shunter just a few years ago (it may have been 2018/19). It was actually a reasonably pleasant run out and back, although I only recall going as far out as those headstocks. Therefore it surprised me to see that the line actually goes beyond that road. It’s also strange to see the yard so empty, as I can remember seeing the station filled with those MK1 carriages, and the rest of the sidings being absolutely covered in Industrial locos of varying condition. I particularly remember there being an orange steam sentinel on sleepers with its wheels draped out as part of its restoration.
Great Video. I’m going to follow in your footsteps as this walk has everything I like. Fresh air, beautiful scenery, railway! Thanks Sir 👍
Excellent film sir, love the old photos merging into the current view, very well done, i wonder what archeology there is under the trackbed? Must be quite a bit to nessatate lifting it? ( or is that just an excuce to get rid i wonder) thanks for your time
I was thinking the same 🤔
Love this, hope our heritage here is saved
Very kind thank you Allen
Brilliant video Ant!
Love the jumper! 👏🙂
Ha thanks 🙂
I did some voluntary work there over 20 years ago. It was a nice place and I hope that it reopens soon.
A little bit of history, Elsecar and Cortonwood collieries were ground zero for the 1984 miners strike
Another first class video, Ant. Great if the railway opens again. Thanks for the information about the canal and it's connection with the colliery. Many thanks.
More houses and coffee shop garages
Thank you for the refreshing video today. Beautiful weather also. Always look forward to these videos. Brighten up my day. See you on the next, Ant! Cheers mate! ❤😊
Thanks very much Martin I'm so pleased you enjoyed it. Take care mate
I remember this place, when i lived in the UK, they had plans to extend it to a shopping centre south of Barnsley, with a new station.
Wow Ant that was amazing loads to see and nice to see some beautiful historic buildings enjoyed the drone footage too
Thanks for showing us some beautiful walks and shame it's not in use now xxx
Cortonwood proposed closure was the catalyst for the 84 strike.
Reading comments below it looks promising for a re-opening after the archaeologists have done their work. Wouldn't it be great to also restore the canal and basin and make it an integrated experience, seeing as they were very much linked previously. Would make a lovely day out, nicely planted up, and of course, the wildlife would also come. Thanks for another lovely explore!
Great trekking the site with you, mate. I love to see such old sites resurrected, spruced up and turned into leisurely strolling sites. You have a great eye and a quick wit for explaining it all, and quite a pro with the camera and the chat to make it all quite interesting. THANK YOU.
just came across this .. very interesting to watch from the other side of the world in nz enjoy the heritage rail in uk thanks for sharing
Their closer sounds like the sort of thing that happened here in 2020 to stop covid. Every organisation that had volunteers was shutdown by the local council. For some of them the local council are yet to be permit them to recommence operations.
Hi Ant, thank for the video, sad to see but hopefully it will be used again in the future, love all you video's which are may I say are very well produced, thanks again, Pete 👍
I am binge watching your series, having learned of you from a collaboration with Martin Zero. You have such a gift between the great photography, the sincere interest in your subject and the impressive music and the historical information and pictures. Thanks for sharing these gifts with us. I live in the US so the history is magnificent!
I've only recently moved into the area; Cortonwood Retail Park is my nearest Morrison's store. I've seen the brown signs for Elsecar and keep meaning to go there, but I gather from this that it's presently closed. Last summer I walked a short distance along the Dearne Valley Railway trackbed near my home, but I fear that is largely overgrown now. I find it had to visualise steam trains running up and down there to the coal mines.
Absolutely fascinating, many thanks indeed! Let's hope for a revival of this most interesting line.
Didn't get to visit this railway unfortunately.Thanks for the video Ant.
stunning ,always look forward to your videos always something different and very well thought out and planned. Thankyou my freind
Really pleased you enjoyed it thanks very much 😊
Hi yet another fantastic video very enjoyable i do really enjoy your videos on the old abandon railway line's
Thanks very much Craig. Very kind
Another great video to stir the emotions Ant!
Thanks cobber! Bloody brilliant!
I’m really pleased you took my advice and came to Elsecar. Your film really makes my lovely village look even nicer. You’ll enjoy the Barnsley canal trek as there is a lot to see and discuss.
Thanks very much Paul im pleased you enjoyed it. I'll be back for the Bransley in the summer i think
@@TrekkingExploration Good there’s a lot to see in Barnsley. Old pits, railways, canals etc. should keep you busy for a while. I’d also recommend you look around Penistone. Some good industrial stuff around there.
Superb video - Thank -you so much for showing us all this lost heritage - Hopefully it will all be restored in the future ( when we can afford it :)
Glad you enjoyed it Peter thank you :)
I've been to the Elsecar Heritage centre hundreds of times, as family are in the area, but the railway was always out of season or shut for "unexpected" reasons. I made plans to go specifically in 2020... then was nearly in tears in November 2020 when the company folded
What a brilliant informative video well done 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Very kind Roger thank you for watching ☺️
What a great find, watched the video with interest as I’d been taken to the heritage centre by my brother years ago. I was saddened to see the station closed but heartened a little to hear that it may be reopened sometime in the future.
Great video so will be looking at your others and subscribing.
Thank you for watching Jeff. Very kind of you ☺️
Thank you for this. What a beautiful part of the world. If I lived a bit nearer I would make an effort to do the walk myself
Brilliant as usual Ant,such a shame the station is left like that,it's a lovely building and I could visualise it done up and tubs over flowing with plants outside,,music was good aswell, ❤x
Great video Ant...so professionally done.
Thank you Trevor very kind 🙂
Brilliant video and content. Thank you 😊
Thankyou very much Michael 😊
Concrete sleepers and Pandrol clips. This track must have been maximum axle loading, so relaid not long before the collieries closed.
Nice vid. Ta.
It's a shame to see so much of Yorkshire history, left to decay.
I really enjoyed your video, well done.
Many happy memories around there as i was born on tingle bridge lane , lv your adventures
Awww brilliant thanks for watching Andrew
Very well put together, held my interest.
Thanks very much very kind 🙂
Really interesting video and well done
Thanks very much Richard
very interesting video ant keep em coming.
Very kind Andrew thank you
Just come across this video. Very interesting but so sad to see it abandoned. I came on a driving and firing experience
course here 10Yrs ago and we went along the track you have videoed. Let`s hope it can live again one day.
Wow. Fantastic Location. Super Duper.
Good drone footage too.
And great cinematic shots etc.
I've heard of Brampton but thought 🤔 was Leicestershire ah no my bad that's Branston
Great Video anyways
The dig was a ruse to lift the track , Barnsley council destroy everything they get their greedy mits on and have been selling Barnsley bit by bit for many years , they sold the towns tithy barn and even my local parks victorian cast iron band stand to a council down south , they are asset strippers extraordinaire, they know the price of everything and the value of nothing , the extension and level crossing at tingle bridge were vital but the council would not give them permision to operate the crossing even though the NCB did for many years without incident , i am glad i had the chance to take my kids when they were young but i doubt i will ever get the chance to take my grand son , the canal and basin was dug out by the waterways recovery group in the 90's with the council proclaiming it's support for the canal group but once the bit in front of the heritage centre was done the council support stopped and they allowed bits of the dearn and dove to be built on and roads to be built on the canal line destroying historic canal bridges to such an extent that the canal group gave up the fight , the amount of Barnsleys heritage that has been destroyed or sold to feed the councils corporate greed is nothing short of a disgrace.
Might be worth having a little dig into which secret organizations potential members of said council might be party to.
All becomes alot clearer as to why they are doing what they do,by the way its nationwide.
Nice video, very interesting, thank you.
Thanks very much Rhoda 😊
Chatterley Whitfield colliery museum in North Staffordshire suffered the same fate.
You won't have any problem with Bank Holiday Monday's this May as virtually every Monday is one!
2:50this section was in the process of being relaid hence the missing sleepers the tracks you see were going to be utilised by the heritage centre until the covid lockdowns came not long after the trust found itself out of pocket & sold the entire lot to the barnsley council, from the green fence you found yourself on the 1/4 mile of bed that if it had been successfull would have been an extra station/halt for the retail park but sadly this was not to be even though the track goes over several roads via level crossings one of them was an automatic barrier that was put in but never used which was where the trains terminated a lot of locals were saddened by the loss of this heritage site & like you state in ths vid no one knows what its future is to be
Interesting to see how the Canel is following the same rout as the Railway!!! W😮W @ 20:30 - I have the nearly very same Brake Van in 'OO' Scale for my Model Railway - the 1 in your vid is No. 68499 & my 'OO' Scale Model is Number 56686. Your has the name 'Exeter' & mine has the name 'Rogerstone'. Shame that they have lifted the track - for what reason why??? Thanks for sharing Ant 😐🤔🚂🚂🚂
Another great video, Ant. Thank you so much - and your choice of music is always so apt and not intrusive in any way.
Cheers Simon Thanks for watching as always 😊
Good work .. .. ..
Thanks very much 🙂
nice to see you in my neck of the woods. road my bike on this path loads of times.
Thanks for watching. I feel there's more to do around there too
@@TrekkingExploration I was standing right in front of that diesel around 2 weeks ago. ( was not happy when i saw the tracks had been lifted)
@@scaleop4 yes it's very odd and sad
Oh you missed out, that 1787 pump house holds it's original Newcomen Atmospheric beam engine, the only one in the world still in it's original position, we visited it for a running day a few years ago.
Ive been down to Elsecar a lot over the last year as theres a great record shop there. Every time i was there i had a nosey to see whats happening to the railway and almost every time i went there was groundworks being done, looked to be deep drilling. The 1st time i went there was a tank engine boiler outside the shed. I hope it reopens, would love to be part of getting it ready for the public
Sadly, there are far too many heritage railways in the UK, and even the biggest are facing an existential crisis as they are hit with a triple whammy of Covid, soaring inflation and the problems around coal. A small railway like this which ends at a bufferstop in the middle of nowhere, in one of the least touristy areas of the country, doesn't stand a chance. I hate to say it, but rebuilding and reopening this line as anything but a cycle path would be a waste of public money... Yorkshire already has two major steam railways, plus several second-ranking lines that remain going concerns. If the council want to reopen anything locally, get the canal rebuilt instead...
Nice video Ant, really enjoyed this one some lovely scenes, pity about the disused railway, covid destroyed a lot in this country. Chris
Thanks very much Chris. Glad you enjoyed it
Magic - An excellent video and very interesting. Perhaps there is hope for railway (and canal) - But the station site looks to be made ready for housing development, speculation always wins. We need a decent housing price crash to put a stop to the vandalism of our heritage.
Wonderful! Allso sad!
Another action packed episode Ant😂😂 Good to see you Trekking & Towpaths again!!!! GWR in Yorkshire, whatever next??
When i did this i thought a canal walk was long overdue
@@TrekkingExploration It's been a long time, missing those warm, sunny jollys in the countryside👍❤️🌞
@@bobingram6912 blame Ladybower Reservoir 😂😂
@@TrekkingExploration In that case I'll let you off!!!🤣🤣🤣
(some of - not sure how many they had) carriages are now down at the Chinnor and Princes Risborough railway
Yes, they brought the MK 1 set of 4 coaches. One now in service, one being restored and two in store awaiting their turn for work.
It’s such a shame that Barnsley council let the railway fail when it needed funds to keep going
And being from Barnsley it’s a place I failed to visit
Barnsley canal should be a good explore Alan’s hopefully some good railway relics to find
I wonder if the heritage railway will ever open again. I sincerely hope so for the sake of the volunteers and the community that it served.
Thanks for this, a fascinating, if somewhat depressing (because of the lack of current investment),look at our heritage.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching
I took photos of the line when the grass was all over grown and I use it as my Lock Screen
Lets hope the line reopens Ant as it looks like a very pretty route 👍🏻
I really want to visit this
❤
Shame but all it needs is enthusiasm and MONEY. good presentation. Thank you
I think it's exactly the same now as it was a year ago
Watching this right now and it’s a shame that it’s closed down so much to see round that area and a great way to see it by steam I wonder if the group of volunteers got together again and maybe ask for it to be funded by the lottery or something and maybe get in touch with coach companies to get coach trips to the site once it’s up and running fingers crossed it can be saved
An account (and accountability) for Pandementia damage will be impossible for years.
Brilliant Ant as normal better documentaries that the BBC
Very kind indeed thank you 🙂
I can only hope this area gets the restoration it needs before mother nature takes over
I absolutely agree. Thank you for watching
Beautiful video. The footbridge was from Barnsley station. The railway will be back think positive.
Thank you very much for watching Ernest. Glad you enjoyed it
@@TrekkingExploration Just a few miles away near Stairfoot there is a lovely railway walk that goes over a lovely viaduct towards Cudworth,there is also a tunnel also near the viaduct. Worth a little exploration if you go back to Elsecar.
check out rock ferry to bidston you can walk right along and under the centre of birkenhead