Exploring the old disused railway of Royston to Thornhill Branch Line or the Chevet Branch Line. Starting with a section from Old Royston towards Crigglestone, we take a look at some nearby oddities on route. Like the mystery Swimming Pool in Seckar Woods and Newmillerdam Country Park.
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34 Comments
Brilliant video and very intresting!any chance of the doin the barnsley canal one day please not many people even know we had a canal
Great one Darren, always like the railway content. Cool swimming pool history too. Cheers!
Lovely video. Reminds me of the pool and summer house which is now part of Cefn On park in Cardiff. Built for the son of a rail superintendent to help his recovery from TB. I covered it in my Cefn Onn station video if you want a look. This was a really good way to see a line though, need an E bike!
Your bikes brakes sounded like a train whistle, I was expecting a fade to the old track when I heard it…
Great video! Is that your dog? 🤩
Another excellent vid my friend. Living so close to here I have visited with my camera many times. I love the park the dam and the wildlife you get to see. The other direction I wait for your vid on that. The exact line wasn't that far off where I live. I have been told that it followed the route of the Barnsley canal for a while. I cant wait for the other half, two viaducts of grade 2 listed. Denby Dale road at Calder Grove- and Huddersfield road at Horbury junction. Or Netherton, depending on your perspective. All that railway stuff there well nearly there. Then there's the canal bank from Broad cut road to the Bingley arms at Horbury bridge junction with Netherton. I once walked all the way from Royston junction to Thornhill, Dewsbury. Took me almost 7 hours. Going using the old track lines and the old iron bridge across the canal.
A million per cent thank you, Darren, for coming to my corner of Yorkshire. You've shown sections I've never accessed. That bit of line I never imaged seeing it. Having only accessed Newmillerdam via Haw Park Wood, along the disused canal, or car parking of course. Smawell Lane would have brought you out by Notton or close to Bleakley (the top of Notton and close to Old Royston).
Excellent video, thanks Darren. Interested to see if your travels venture into the Horbury area?
Always amazed at the amount of man power needed back in the day to build these railways.
Funnily enough, I have been looking at this old line, but have never quite worked out how to get on this trail. But I have been to Newmillerdam and it's a lovely place, I have also yet to visit Seckar Woods too. Yorkshire Vlogger did videos on these sites separately, but I never realised how close they really were. Thank you for the video, I look forward to seeing more of these videos, and some day will give this route a try on a big day out!👍👏
Hey Darren, i dont know that part of Yorks at all but do remember in the 60's the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper gave away a new build detached house at Newmillar Dam in a competition. Cheers matey, DougT
Looks interesting 👌
Fascinating video, Darren 👍 👌
Ooh. There's an old bathing pool in Gipton Wood, Leeds, have you ever been? Its all fenced off but i think you can still see it.
I like your old railway history good to see what remains of the Branch line around uk .
Great video Darren –
you'll have to come to the Wirral – we also have an old line now known as 'The Wirral Way' which today is a long walking/cycle route and is part of the Wirral Country Park!
Along the way is a former station called Hadlow Road Station in Willaston (Wirral) and it's set as the station would have looked back in the day.
It's complete with the former ticket office, red phone box on the platform, waiting room and it has a café.
It also has a pop-up cafe every few weeks on a Sunday with bacon butties, cuppa and a live singer!
The single track line used to go from West Kirby to Hooton and closed to passengers in 1956 then closed to freight in 1962!
You would love it Darren! 🚉 🌳 🙂
Excellent video Darren
Royston born and bred and I walked that route a couple of years ago
Nice viaduct along the way
Great video,plenty of hidden history.Cheers Darren.
I think a viaduct is made to cross an area of lower land and a bridge is made to cross a watercourse or track – but your "three arches" makes sense as a definition. The pool reminds me of the one in Calverley Wood – when I was a teen I did look into the history but I seem to remember that a lot was conjecture. Edit: Oh, great video by the way. 😊
If it crosses a road, it's a viaduct. If it crosses water, it's a bridge. My rule. 😂
Great to see you in my neck of the woods, I walk round there quite regularly. I love this style of video too, very watchable.
Also there's the remains of a menagerie in Newmillerdam woods!
Also, carry on from the end of the ride to the Barnsley canal and loop back to Wakefield.
Interesting video Darren 👍🏻
By the way, you need to put the saddle up on your bike 😉
Es war ein interessantes Video.
Aber mit dem Teich hab ich nicht alles gut verstanden. Na klar, wenn man nicht genug englische Sprache beherrscht 😅.
Thank you Darren 👋🏻👋🏻❣️
Hast du einen neuen Begleiter auf vier Pfoten?????????❤
That looks a very enjoyable cycle route with some impressive railway architecture – and what must have once been an idyllic woodland swimming pool. I wonder if its still deep enough for some 'wild swimming'? Thank you for an interesting video.
Hi Darren, love these types when you can, was hoping for some of your amazing fades.
Great to see return to historical unravelling!
BTW only just visited your website (as in the description above) Well done it's fresh and the Map index of videos is really nice, clearly a lot of effort was put into its creation.
I'm really interested in the next video as I've travelled this route for over 20 years. Also lived both ends of it too and I have experienced things on that route that no longer exist 🙁 I'm interested to see the detail that you cover. Very fond memories for me.
Great video as always 👍
A bridge has many pillars, example the Forth road bridge, but the Ribblehead viaduct is called a viaduct confusing ? At least when it carries water it’s an Aquaduct 😊. Good video Darren.
A viaduct has more than one arch, so 2 would be a viaduct: the term "viaduct" seems to technically denote the fact that the bridge is bearing on the ground in multiple places, typically at fairly regularly spaced intervals
Good video, I like things like this 👍
Oakhampton in Devon has a similar swimming pool. on the south side of the river about opposite the castle
Always enjoy these kind of videos.
When's the other way to see those superb viaducts…oh and Middlestown Jn.