Monsal Trail Walk Part 3 - Disused Railway - Millers Dale to Chee Dale, Peak District

Monsal Trail Walk Part 3 - Disused Railway - Millers Dale to Chee Dale, Peak District
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The third and final part of our Monsal Trail explore. We pick up our journey at the disused Millers Dale station, perched high upon the hilIl side. A spectacularly remote location for such a former busy junction. Millers Dale was the junction for passengers and goods changing for Buxton. It once had 5 platforms, including 4 through express lines. Some of the station buildings still remain, as well as the old goods shed, currently under restoration.
Straight after leaving the station, we see the Station Quarry. Typical of the land use at the time where the area was heavily quarried for it's rich minerals. We investigate some railway remains.
Just a little further one is the East Buxton Lime Works. A spectacular piece of industrial industry with the workings on top and underneath still accessible.
As we continue our explore, the line weaves in and out of the River Wye and the Wye Valley. High bridges every few hundred meters. The line disects the landscape with a further 3 tunnels.
Chee Tor Tunnels 1 & 2 and Rusher Cutting Tunnel follow the same style as the previous longer tunnels we left behind, before once again the line threads through cutting after cutting.
We finish our explore at Blackwell Mill. We learn about two more former stations on the junction - Chee Dale Halt & Blackwell Mill Halt.
From here the former Midland line splits in to two. To the right goes through Peak Forest towards New Mills and Manchester (still in use as a frieght line). To the left is the branch to Buxton, also still an active freight line.
00:00 Intro
00:37 Millers Dale Disused Station
02:10 Millers Dale Station Quarry
05:58 East Buxton Lime Works
10:32 Chee Tor Tunnels
13:13 Rusher Cutting Tunnel
14:45 Peak Forest Junction & Triangle
17:34 Blackwell Mill
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[@seamusmcevoy2011]

Once again some extremely impressive structures, those tunnels were great, but the supporting wall of the Rusher Cutting Tunnel was something else, that must be incredibly strong. This series has been a great watch, very entertaining and informative, thanks for the effort put in to it.

[@WobblyRunner]

Cheers Seamus.
Doesn't matter how many times I go back there, the structures always blow me away.

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

This part 3 is as excellent as the first two. I remember now the Millers Dale quarry kilns, from passing on trains as a lad, but with the line being closed so long, had forgotten about them. The station, by the way had a subway connecting all the platforms. It was a spectacular station when in full operation, and the traffic that went through was certainly of great interest. Nearly all the freight trains that went through had a banking engine. The sight was amazing to be seen, together with the numerous passenger workings. I worked on the section from Buxton to Peak Forest and onwards, as a guard from the late seventies to the nineties, on freight trains, but I always wished that the line would open some day again to Millers Dale and on to Derby and St. Pancras, but alas, no. Many thanks for this great presentation.

[@WobblyRunner]

Excellent story. That must have been incredible working on the trains at the time. Just to travel on the line must have been an incredible experience. These days it would be such a tourist attraction.

[@jimswannack6309]

If they reopen that line, it's only going to be a fright line for the quarry. No passengers, only 2000 ton aggregate trains.

[@WobblyRunner]

Didn't realise that. I assumed the petitions I'd seen were to reinstate a Derby to Manchester passenger route.