The Great Northern Railway Daybrook to Bestwood Colliery Railway Walk
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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The Great Northern Railway Daybrook to Bestwood Colliery
As part of the Great Northern Railways Derbyshire & Staffordshire Extension between Nottingham & Derby.
We begin at a section midway between Mapperley Tunnel and the former Daybrook Station passing Daybrook Junction. Soon we head towards Leen Valley Junction where we head off the GNR Mainline and follow the Kirkby & Bagthorpe GNR line and off towards Bestwood Colliery via the site of Bulwell Forest Station.
After a look at the surviving parts of Bestwood Colliery, i finish off near the site of Bestwood Colliery Station
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These are fantastic videos. Brilliant to see such enthusiasm for history of the railway. If it wasn’t for people like you, it would be lost in time. Keep up the brilliant work
Excellent. The drone footage of the old colliery buildings was superb. Glad to see we are still holding on to some of our heritage rather than bulldozing it for housing.
Glad you enjoyed it & thank you. Those building are great and i didn't expect them to lok so good d :)
You’ve walked quite a way there. I lived in Daybrook from the age of 3 and just about remember the station.
Boy O Boy how this takes me back to my days as a kid in the 50's and 60's. Used to train spot at Bulwell Common Station and I remember Wriggly's Wagon Works on the other side of the common behind the Golf Course. Relatives used to own farms in the area where Top Valley and Sellers Wood Estates now stand.
My Dad was a Blacksmith at Bestwood Colliery, and my Uncle Arthur was a winder man there as well.
Also remember the line from Daybrook that went to Cinderhill and Babbington Collieries and Bulwell Shonkie Pit and Sanky's Pottery, where my Grand Dad and Great Uncles all worked as miners. It's all an age far removed from today and so little of it still exists. Thanks for bringing back the memories good and bad
I wish I'd come across this route earlier. I knew about the end between Aylesham Avenue and Arnot Hill Park - my first childhood home backed onto the former railway line - but the bit alongside Hucknall Road would have been good to know about when I had horse riding lessons in Bestwood Village. Getting back into Nottingham after a lesson would have been far nicer on the railway path than the main road.
I grew up in Bestwood and used to play along those embankments and track beds. My dad was a miner although never at Bestwood colliery but he did, interestingly, used to play football for Bullwell Forest Villa. Great memories. Oh and by the way, I too was born at Nottingham city hospital.
Great video, I was born on Sherbrook Rd and spent a lot of my childhood in and around Daybrook station, happy to say I even caught a steam train from the station before it closed such happy memories from my childhood
To think I've passed by and been to both Arnot Hill Park and the Retail Park opposite numerous times in my 24 years of life and had no clue of it's history. Truly fascinating and eye opening. Glad I came across this video and channel.
My sons were playing in Peggy's park and found old railway tracks in that park.
This was really fascinating. I am originally from Bestwood village and I have used the old railway route from there to the Hospital as my cycle route to work but I'd always thought it was the Great Central railway line and that it entered the tunnel at the Hospital. Well I learn something new everyday. Thank you for the videos. Yours Sincerely from another Nottingham City Hospital born resident.
The GCR line is close to Fenton Rd off Arnold Rd near where I live. BTW my great great grandfather helped build the line back in the day.
Thanks for the video and chat. Cheers Ant!
Fantastic camera work and the drone footage of Bestwood Colliery was something else, like you I love seeing that old stuff being looked after and kept for the public to marvel at. The trackbed was pretty much intact and the cuttings gave it a real feel of a railway. I'd say born 1979/80, the tail-end of the greatest decade!!!
I was pleased with the drone around Bestwood as it was so dull and occasionally drizzling. It's a different railway walk to the majority I do, doing this one got me interested in doing more around there
Brilliant. as ever !!!
Thanks very much Stewart
Great video and good information! I live right next to Bulwell Common and the path to Mill Lakes and beyond is my default route to take when I fancy a stroll.
Wonderful, I live just off Hucknall /Arnold Rd junction. I've known this line most of my life.
When you go up on the irst embankment and have to cross a footpath cutting the embankment in half there used to be abridge called marble arch. I remember in the 70s track being still down.
When you reach bestwood colliery site there's a transformer on 2 poles. That's my channel logo
I wished I was there with you.
Enjoyed your walk and local history lesson. The old BW photos were great..Nice edit, enjoyed the appropriate background music...
Wounderful video love it only lived in Nottingham for 12 years but love the GCR and love railway history never knew there was such a nice walk so close and railway that I love thank you so much
Thank you so much for watching and you're kind comment.
It's the first time I've walked it and it's rather pleasant 🙂
Stumbled across Bestwood while out on my travels with work, nice to see the headstock and winding house preserved, hope something similar can be done at Clipstone..... I’m going to guess at born in 1982 ...
It's in great condition I thought, well looked after. It's definitely important about Clipstone. Thank you for watching 🙂
1979 😉
That was really excellent thank you...what I really like is that you take the time to tell a story. Loved it, good luck with your channel...it will be a great success. 👍
Great to finally have the time to sit and watch my favourite UA-cam page. Really enjoyed this vid and will be working my way back through the stuff I have missed.
Films like these are so interesting, but make me sad about what we had and threw away. See, I can still remember what we had. People say what a pity, but the pity is we will never get that back again. It is like sand. We just let it fall between our fingers. But if we had held on tight enough we would have retained so much more. We would be in a better position now to deal with traffic and congestion, and the ever increasing costs of public and private transport.
Ant, yet another fantastic video, have walked this many times as I live on the other side of the mound at Bestwood colliery, would love to join you if you do the suburban route, this was my first explore of disused railways when I was a kid, there are 2 station buildings left and if you look hard enough a line side building at Sneinton!!! Oh and the tunnel!!!! So regarding your age, think born about 1984ish!!! Anyway, keep up the great work that you do here, its brilliant mate 👍 👍
instablaster.
At 9:36 that empty waste land used to have a park and markings for a small football pitch I used to play on there as a kid and I'm only 23
YOU DO SOME EXCELLENT VIDEOS AND THE NARRATION IS SUPERB, WELL DONE AND THANK YOU IT IS NEAR MY OLD HOME ASHBY
Another great walk Ant, and like a few others really impressed with the drone footage at Bestwood. Looks really excellent condition, credit to teams that look after these buildings. Inspiring to view, and already explored a couple of your walks, and Cromer and East Runton coming up for me soon, and maybe even the 5am start on the pier! :-)
That Cromer Sunrise, you'll probably get a bit longer in bed when you go too with sunrise being later. Thank you for watching as always and for you're support ☺️
Thanks for another great vid. If you get the time to cover the route of the Nottingham Suburban Railway I'd be very interested as I was born in 1949 in Thorneywood House at the junction of Carlton and Porchester Roads. I believe one of the directors of the NSR built the house and across the road the Thorneywood Stationmaster's house is still standing. As a kid Thorneywood station was my playground and we often went through the small tunnel to the brickworks under Porchester Road. The tunnel to the north of Thorneywood goes directly under my parent's house on Radstock Rd. Thanks again and as a resident of Norfolk since 1973 I also enjoyed the Cromer visits.
Thank you for watching and supporting too 🙂
I'm really looking into the Suburban, tunnel locations and stations. Passing Daybrook Station and Junction made me think I'd like to have a go at it quite soon 🙂
There's a set of three books on the NSR by David Birch, loads of pix and info.
Cheers
Great little film, thank for taking us with you 1987-88?👍🏴
Hi Ant, great post this will give me something to do next time I’m in Daybrook, we visit and stay in Daybrook when visiting our grandchildren and this will give my wife and myself a nice little walk when out with the grandkids, often wondered where the line you’re walking went to as I used to see old signalling when driving along the nearby road, talking about the city hospital 3 of our grandchildren were born in the city hospital and it does help when they’re mum works there as a nurse, I’m guessing that you’re a child of the ,70s please don’t delete me if I’m wrong 😇
The rail bridge over Hucknall road was an experience to pass under when sat upstairs on a double decker bus to Nottingham, clearance wasn’t large and you felt it was going to be a ‘can opener’ occurrence ! A bit of excitement ,
The bridge long gone, memories of a solitary nine f sat on the rails waiting for a signal change to proceed towards Nottingham ,also I believe Wrigleys wagon works where Tesco is , showers of cutting torch sparks from rolling stock being scrapped seen from an upstairs bus ride.
Great stuff, nice to see the headstocks have been preserved, wish someone could do the same at Clipstone.
Thank you. Clipstone needs dealing with now it's getting a bit silly.
Another golden nugget there Ant' always nice to find bit's or surviving relics ,keep 'em coming mate
Thanks so much, I appreciate it 😀
Thank you Ant, that was a fantastic walk and a great bit of history. When were you born? 1977-79 I would think, I reckon I have a good 10 years on you. I agree, the little bits of evidence that you find discarded on embankments and cuttings, or even old fence posts serve as a nice reminder of the past.
Glad you enjoyed it, its 1979 lol
Thankyou as always for coming along and commenting too :)
daybrook station was a wreck....dumped pallets....we played there as kids....a person-sized access tunnel near the arnot hill park reservoir....all the tracks were gone....windows smashed....holes in the roof....people pissed in the derelict rooms....was knocked down 196? ....
excellent video 👍very fascinating to the past sad to see disappear
This was rater a nice route, not a lot remaining until the second hlf however you could feel the history :)
Great history there, just wandering if those railways were still operating today, how they would serve the Nottingham suburbs and make journeys much easier than by what has become the present form of transport and all the problems that comes with it. Poor air quality, reduced mobility, etc, ect.
That Nottingham Suburban Railway which I have yet to look at, would have had huge benefits for today, local and hassle free. Sadly missed by many. Thank you for watching
Good to see creative development of a former trackbed BUT sad to read wholely inaccurate text on a picture of Nottingham Victoria Station on the Edwards Lane 'Peggy's Park' Information Board. It shows a Stanier 'Jubilee' 4-6-0 locomotive over the title 'Nottingham Victoria Station in the late 1800s'. Well, er, NO! That Stanier was not built until at least 1934. It only took me a few minutes to check that, such a pity that the creator of the Board didn't.
Nice one Ant, good to see you with that vrtual coffee I bought you!!🤣🤣🤣 You sure know how to get me interested - start off with a B & W!!! What's with that horrible blue bridge😝 Excellent drone footage 👍🏻❤
Morning Bob hope you are well 🙂
Yes thank you, it didn't just stop at a coffee it was a Gregg's Bacon Roll too 😂
I was very pleased with the amount of images I was able to obtain for this one. Sometimes I come up with 1 if I'm lucky
Hi.
Have you ever walked the Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve? It contains part of the Great Central Railway track bed. From the outskirts of Ruddington to where the new tram tracks use part of the old track bed at Ruddington Lane tram stop?
Hello, no i have never been up that part yet. Worth doing?
It is a nice walk. There is still a bridge over the track bed. Don't think there are many railway "nuggets" to be found... Perhaps you could link it with walking by part of the tram track?
There is a website for the cutting
@@shavedphil I shall give it an internet search this evening 🙂
I could send you a couple of photos I took but not sure if that works on here.
Ant brilliant video again I'm going to say you was born round about 1985? Keep up the good work 😃 kind regards Gary
I cant wait for the lockdown to be over so i can take my great nephew to Nottingham city
That was a great video
Glad you enjoyed it Steve :)
The colliery site is now Bestwood Country Park and the winding house is the start/finish point for Bestwood Village parkrun.
great walk ant and great drone footage of the buildings at bestwood[born 1986 ?]
1986 is the best answer yet :)
1979 though lol Thanks for watching :)
nice pedestrian bridge there
I was born at Nottingham City Hospital ... January 1971 ... I’m a old git ... as someone else said, be great to join you for the suburban line ... I’ve got a few books all about that line and I’m really interested in it 😀
Hi Tim, there are still some relics to see on the old suburban line, be great to have a chat if you want to at some point, glad there is another old git on here!!!!! (Me 1972) Mart 😃😃
martdebs222 yeah that would be great 😀
It's definitely something I'd like to do. I've already been looking into the former tunnel locations, and then visiting Daybrook Junction last week made me think Yeah I should do this soon
Brilliant , I live in Arnold so will give this a go,how long did it take you ?
Hello 🙂 Maybe an hour and a half. I think. Definitely not 2 hours. Thank you for watching 🙂
I was born at city hospital in 1953
I think they missed a trick with Arnold Road, should've been Arnold Lane but seeing as I think you were born about 1985, you'll miss the Pink Floyd reference!! Great video though.
I was going to say that you are around 35 also. Phil
Ment to say where exactly was or is the the rathole tunnel ,somewhere in Basford or Bulwell, can you take us there ?
I've never been to the location of the Rat Hole, it's something i should do. Over the past few Months i have been working on, although very slowly, a video of the lost tunnels of Nottingham :) I should include this
@@TrekkingExploration Thanks
You mentioned Nottingham suburban why would that be closed Nottingham not shrunk has it..
The timber / concrete object you mention at around 10:00 near Leam Junction may have been part of a ground frame bench or similar.
1982
Not far off, 1979. Thanks for watching :)
1990
1983 is my guess
Close 1979. Thankyou for watching :)
1985
I'm going to guess at your DoB as 1978.
Hi Ant, the old photos are just amazing pretty station's fabulous steam trains & even the diesel trains & collieries look beautiful. Some people say its progress what we have now but I'm not sure. When I was growing up in the seventies they were great times with most pits open & the trains running, This video shows just how the area has totally changed looks so different to what it did in he photos. Great job Ant! ❤😊
To say Nottingham was the industrial centre, one of them, the amount of visible railway infrastructure still left in place. Great videos
You can drive this line, as an add on, on Train simulator, this and the whole Netherfield to Annersley, including Victoria station, the Mapperley tunnel etc, on Train simulator (not Train sim word).
Im sure i had a simulator a few years ago on my ld laptop, ill have to try to fire it up and see which version it is :)
@@TrekkingExploration Its on the latest one, unfortunately, as DLC. Also Clipstone to High marnham is on there.
Love this, Great work. Haywood school new block used to be built against the embankment between edwards lane and the cutting leading to daybrook station. I could look out on the track bed from my form room window. All houses now as shown in your vid.
Loving the video - Also born at city hospital 1967 lived on Rise Park until 1977 when dads work forced us to move to Shropshire as M.O.D Bestwood Lodge was shut down, remember all the bridges around bulwell and playing on the former railway lines and buildings and mine slag heaps that were dotted around Rise Park, looks very different today. Thanks again 👍
brilliant video Ant, such memories of the area, the best one being the day you were born ( but i wont give the date away) :-) The Colliery drone footage was fantastic. xx
Taking me back to my younger years. Edwards lane bridge was only half filled in when i used to go to Haywood Comprehensive school mid 1980s
The Wagon Works was called Rigley's. I read that it closed in the 1960s. I went to school nearby 'Westglade Primary' and one day we had a fire drill, I remember lining up in the playground and could see lots of smoke coming from the Rigley's works, I'm not sure if I also saw flames (60% sure). But it was coming directly from the remaining Iron / steel framework of the building. It would of been 1976 or 75.
I was born at the City Hospital in 19**! You can't have been born before 1990! Did you notice that Arnold Road bridge had been widened at some point?
I was born before 1980, Just 😂
I didn't notice no but looking at the old overhead image I can see the extra width
Trekking & Towpaths Darn.. I was going to say it must have been the 80’s, I was born in ‘72 and in those days Nottingham had a maternity hospital somewhere down Mansfield Road towards the junction with the Ring Road. Still, you’re nothing like as grey as I am, so I’m going to hazard my guess at ‘79 lol
@@johnd6487 first prize 😀
Great to see the engine house & winding gear still preserved along with the generator house. So much of our heritage is lost for ever.
That Bestwood Colliery winding house is an amazing building. I don't think I've seen a pit building in that good condition for years!
(You've said elsewhere that you were born in the same year as I am, so that's 1998, right?)
what can I say but this...brilliant. I am try to do similar things to you, walking old railway lines tow paths etc. I keep walking having just retired at 62 and have found a complete new world out there to enjoy.. Thank you.
Another fantastic video, thanks, and looking forwards to seeing what's left of the surburban line. I remember Ashwell Tunnel being a feature of Woodthorpe Park in the 1970's, and my Dad (a mining engineer who I have to thank for my interest in mining and railways!) took me through Sherwood Tunnel about the same time. Re. Arnold are you old enough to remember Russell's Toy Shop? I used to love that place! My guess is 1981... don't think you've hit 40 yet!
Morning Jon, it's 1979 😉
Thank you for watching as always and commenting. The Suburban is work in progress I think it'll take a few visits 😃
Thanks for the very interesting video. Loved seeing the old winding house and glad it's being looked after. Some great old photos too!!😎🚃🚃🚂🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it, it was very enjoyable to do and im pleased you enjoyed it :)
Amazing film, so informative, thank you so much for this Gem. I am from Nottingham,, born in Netherfield 1965 and wondered about so many of the routes you have shown just in their gem of a video
1989 ? Lovely that the mine head has been preserved.
It's one great condition too considering when it closed
Another great video, I’m quite amazed at the amount of different railway lines around Nottingham and the surrounding areas.
I've only just started looking into the city and the surrounding area so I'm quite interested to see what I can do. Thank you for watching, commenting and you're support 😀
I'm a Derbyshire girl but live in Canada now, i grew up around the peak district and remember the stories about the flood of the derwent Valley.
Have you or will you do one on Eyam? And the history of the plague?
Just found you in my feed and will watch your other videos.
Thank you for reminding me of what we left behind but still come back to visit.
I live in Bestwood not far from the Hucknall Road/Arnold Road bridge, i knew the rail line ran through there but never knew it went through Daybrook/Arnold
Did you say Kirk-by? That's how I used to say it but isn't it pronounced Kirby? I'm not a local but I've heard locals say it that way. But you seem quite local. So now I'm unsure haha. Maybe I was right the first time!
You're right about the 'horrible' 1970s flats. The old photos of the line look so much better. Modern architecture is vile and the area has about as much character as.... well none at all. What went wrong? Cheap petrol and the personal car, this is still the major problem
So sad that all of the railways were closed. Just think how useful a lot of them would be now, as tramways. We are paying the price now for our love of the motor car, along with the pollution and congestion.
good to see no broken windows in the engine winding house
Its looked after well isn't it? Thankyou for watching :)
Yet another good little film!
Thanks Matthew 😀
You need to do Gedling colliery branch line, can can pick it up just at the far end of the pit tip and that line will take you to nether field 👍🏼
Brilliant content as usual and so much to see Ant.....loved the drone footage and the railway bench with beechings axe...keep up the great work mate ....regards Frank & Lee....
Yes that axe on the bench was quite a novelty 😉
It's a nice little route once you get stuck into it 🙂
Another great video Ant. What beautiful countryside you have their. Loved the pic of the old steam train. The whole hike was incredibly enjoyable. Was thinking maybe you born about 1975. Please don’t hit me if I’m way out. Thanks so much for taking me along and please stay safe
1979 😂
Glad you enjoyed it as always and thankyou for coming along :)
I wasn’t that far off
Man, that's a great No'Ingham accent!😂
1601 9f course lol joking 1968
methinks 1982? thanks, as always, the research and the maps and photos are so interesting. Thank you
Very close, 79 😂
I was pleased with the photos on this one. Thank you as always 😀
Great video no one about ??
Thanks 😊
The odd dog walker but I did start walking just before 7am
Nice one Ant. Lots of those views have been part of my commute in the past so it was good to see behind them.
I really appreciate your support and thanks so much for watching :)
Guessing similar age to myself, so born early 80’s I would think!
1979 :) Thanks for watching :)
@@TrekkingExploration Wow you're older than you look haha. I was born in '85, I thought you were only 2-3 years older than me!
This would have been an excellent video. It is spoilt by the Americanism of documentry style music. It is too over powering, spoils what would be an excellent video. By twenty minutes I could take no more and stopped watching. There is no need for such powerful music. The text should be powerful enough to convey the sentiment, you do not need music that has nothing to do with the subject matter. It is why I avoid American made documentries.
If you prefer silence then turn the TV off as I'm not going to show footage with nothing in the background.
Lovely walk. Beautiful music today as well. 1985.
Thankyou Thomas. I sometimes spend an age choosing the right music :)
Another quality video. Clearly a lot of effort goes into making these videos and I enjoy watching them, particularly the disused railway walks. So I don't mind paying a couple of quid every month for the privelage. Actually makes me feel less guilty than watching them for free! Hopefully, others will feel the same and join the channel if they can, so we can all continue to enjoy the videos for years to come 👍
Thank you very much! Really, much appreciated! I seem to be on a flurry of Railway ones recently, so we have done well in that respect :) Thank you again :)
1982
32?
Great video. When passing the City Hospital on your left part of the pad you are walking on is on top of the old platform for the then Nottingham Asylum later to be renamed City Hospital. In WW1 trains carrying injured soldiers and in particular soldiers who had been gassed were off loaded here and taken into the grounds of the hospital out of sight of the public. Often after dark.
Also the Rigley wagon works of late now Tesco Top Valley is to be found at the Midland Railway Trust Butterley. The building being the main museum on site at Swanwick junction.
That's very sad about the soldiers.
'you beat me too it!!'
i think he looks younger than he is 1971 ?
Blimey no 😂😂😂😂
Ooo! Bit harsh 😂😂
@@alicebutler2007 😂😂😂😂
no,lol
Excellent...
Thank you 🙂
love ur video and were u boron 1979
Thank you and yes I was 😊
wow that was a great guess lmao that was the year I left school, so showing my age now lol
I think 1980. It's amazing how far the railways spread before beechings axe. Fantastic video, don't know the area very well but have done a few walks round the bestwood site, need to go and explore a bit more now I think.
You almost have first prize 😹
Glad you enjoyed it and as always thanks for watching 🙂
@@TrekkingExploration is that a one year out mug then😂😂😂
@@alicebutler2007 exactly 1 year 😂😂😂😂
1989?
Minus 10 😦
@TrekkingExploration ...you got a picture in your attic???