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There were water troughs inside the western end of Standedge Tunnel. They were supplied from a water tank which still survives at site of Diggle Station.

In the US, these troughs were used by several railroads including the Pennsylvania Railroad. The troughs were heated by steam to permit year-round use and in the winter the first several cars would be thickly coated with ice, making railroaders’ work even more hazardous.

Diesels also used the troughs, classes 37, 40 and 55 all had water trough shoes to replenish steam heating boilers. I remember watching a film about the water troughs on the Settle to Carlisle line and how this bloke had the cushiest job in that his job was to keep water heating equipment stoked up to warm the water going into the troughs from freezing up, was even entitled to a railway cottage and all he had to do was keep the fires burning day and nite with the occasional wood and coal wagon would turn up to replenish his bunkers.

Interesting video. I remember the troughs on the North Wales Coast line at Mochdre, Colwyn Bay and Aber. Many thanks.

What a fascinating piece of archive film. You have included the best pictures of a Francis Webb LNWR compound I have ever seen and it is of the most famous of them all No 1304 Jeanie Deans. You can clearly see the outside high pressure cylinder and the valve rod of the Joys valve gear operating and the large inside cylinder at the front.

6:47 Clinker shovel aka bent dart

Wonderful post, thank you, greetings from a brick collector.

Link to the video on the ongoing restoration of the Chesterfield Canal ua-cam.com/video/_uxoGeMZXvE/v-deo.html

Excellent as usual Paul..

Interesting Paul, I had no idea they were there. . I wonder if there was any kind of filters. I think those cut outs are refuges for swimmers 😂

Great video and Kudos to the owner for allowing access brilliant .

GCR water troughs ,Swithland ressie watch this space

Hi Paul, KB Co Ltd is the Killamarsh Brick Company Limited. It's unlikely that water for the railway came from the canal as they were bitter competitors.

Brilliant video Paul. Shared with the CCT Volunteers who are working on those very narrows every Thursday.

I bet sleeper changing was fun under troughed sections. You can always tell a troughed section when line inspecting as your socks get wet.😂

Great watch from begin to end 🤙

Rams bottom wonder what he did during the day. Another good one sir keep em comming

Picking up water from the troughs was an exacting task for the fireman and there were running in boards indicating the start of the trough where the fireman lowered the tender scoop and if done right he could get a full tender of water in seconds and as it approached being full he had to wind the scoop up quickly. If he didn't then there would be a tsunami of water coming down through the coal space onto the footplate bringing the coal with it. There was also a risk of smashing the tender scoop on the end of the trough. If you were seated in the first coach you kept the window closed because often the spray of water would give the first coach a shower The area around the water troughs was constantly wet and as soon as a train had passed over the troughs they were automatically refilled ready for the next train. The refilling was done very gently with a long thin pipe right along the length of the outside edge of the trough so as not to waste water.

Loved this video!

Arthur Scargill

MCJ3 Engineers Line Reference

I think you missed out the bridge over the river Avon. Smaller version of Ashlawn. Also, there is a small dank tunnel under the realigned canal.

How fascinating! Love the lone signal post, the lock remains, culvert and possible water trough mechanism. I wonder how deep those recesses in the lock wall go? Must say the robin coming in bold as brass was a delight. Away from gardens, pickings must be very slim at this time of year. Will this part of the canal be restored do you know?

Lots of spelling mistakes. Killamarsh

Such an exighting project.

If you`d like to see what Jim described of how it looked the other time that he went there, Middy posted a good video of Helmdon Station a couple of years ago.He was suffering real pain and anguish as he moaned about" what lengths he goes to for the sake of this channel" !!!

My favourite part of the old GCR Paul, love thatbold sighal post so many artifacts & bridges in that area plus the other lines that were there & the live one of course. Handy having the canal fir a water source for the steam trains too, you could have found the remains of the water troughs Paul I'll go with that! Great explore Paul. 😊❤👍

Great to get permission Paul & Jim from a kind landowner! I would love to look around an disused station so much to see, owner has done a great job of clearing the land so you can see the platforms. It has great potential that site it could be a fab attraction for rail enthusiasts with a bit of money & imagination. Cheers Paul & Jim. 😊👍❤

Great 1 .. enjoyed that.. cheers

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Fantastic explore lads and an impressive piece of platform - the condition of the brick face and platform edging pretty well reminds me of those at the Derby Friargate site which I had more than one explore of while ago added fencing made it inaccessible. This fella is of a nice substantial length (at least that of the new rebuild at Dore and Totley) so I'm guessing it took a few slightly longer trains in its day.

That's a long old platform for the middle of nowhere station.

They did intend having trains running but there was a lot of complaints on the idea which was surprising considering the sparseness of this area. I think it was on the idea of what came about at Finmere and surprised that group didn't consider Helmdon when they lost that site. Perhaps they had learned something from the failure and strength of negativity experienced at that time. It's fantastic to see the platform so clear again but with the amount of grass, bushes and trees that took hold it will quickly return if they can't keep it up. It would require a team with suitable equipment to keep this clear. It will be interesting seeing how far this goes or if it has a future of some kind. As with Brackley that also had two lines and stations I found it incredible at the strength of opposition against any railway reopening in these two places. Soon, Brackley will have trains running past at around 200mph with them still with none.

I'm amazed that the platform is so intact. I wouldn't have been surprised if the decades of tree growth had pushed between the brickwork and dislodged coping stones.

Many thanks, the footage of Rhosydd Mine Chapel at 16 min was really useful to me as it enabled me to view the state of it last June compared with after the December Storm, which I have just posted here: ua-cam.com/video/d0IeA2ykeTs/v-deo.html

If this had been a railway in Nottingham , then that title could take on a mistaken double meaning lol

excellent video 👍what a waste i agree with @Stephenscope 7178 the Victorians would turn in there grave all the hard work undone if beeching was alive he should be ashamed of himself

Great to see that has been cleared. I understand one of the reasons for the island platforms was to leave room for another pair of tracks either side of the ones that were built. Sadly it didn’t happen

Don't forget Finmere as well, now sadly lost to HS2.

What knobhead decided to bury the magnificent Lamp room🤔🤬 I suppose it hasn’t been demolished so can be dug out later on. Good stuff boys👍👏👏👏

What will happen to the viaduct? Hope it is preserved

Another great video. I have visited this station many times since the closure and seen it in various stages of destruction. A group tried to reopen it a few years back but that all fell through. The blue bricks were quite expensive and think they just saved that on the GCR stationmaster houses.

Saw you walking by Renishaw on this day. Didn’t realise it was you till I’d passed.

What a Crime closing the GCR was one of Beachings accomplices worked for a Motorway Civils co.

Great effort to get this fantastic footage!

I always really, really enjoy your videos. Thank you so much! I live very close to Helmdon and last visited the station site in 2020. As Jim said, it was heavily overgrown with trees then and so I'm delighted to see it cleared. Perhaps the owners will relay a short section of track? This has happened elsewhere adjacent to closed station platforms. Stretching the point, some camping coaches in the station would be fantastic. I'd hire one! Looking forward to the viaduct video to come.....

Great video again, Paul & Jim.....will be fascinating to see what the station looks like in the future

Victorians must be turning in their graves at what beeching and co did to this railway!!

Do you know Paul - If I didn't already know this route, I could have mistaken the towpath at this point as some former narrow gauge rail embankment. As always up to your usual standards. I'm also surprised however, that they haven't started work on dedigging the canal here as this little stretch is the straightest and easiest to tackle, Especially with the bowl of the original and also access beneath the bridges still in situ