Bridging the Gap on the Chesterfield Canal
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Join me in Derbyshire as we follow the beautiful chesterfield canal as the restoration continues in the west, aiming to plug the gap and join the rest of the restored Chesterfield Canal as it winds its way down to the River Trent.
Today we are at Staveley looking at the basin, lock and bridge and follow down through on the Staveley town deal. Under the massive road bridges and away from the old open cast line which now holds the basin. Here several railways crossed the canal which are now abandoned and the planned HS2 depot was to cross. Now the trans pennine trail needs to cross the canal at a new footbridge that takes the cycle way across the canal. We see the spade in the ground for the project as Dr Hardy starts the project which should see a bridge this year. Then the canal follows down onto puddlebanks which we will see very soon on the channel!
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there’s an Old Railway went over it and basically there’s a bridge there that got demolished in the ’70s uh this ramp was built that brought people down and basically we’re now at the stage where we need to reverse all of that and bring the canal back through so the first thing that the project that we’re sort of kicking off today is the building of the bridge over there
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Full Video – https://youtu.be/J_ii_AQNWdk
Best of luck. Wish the Beeching rampage could be reversed, even if it was just cycle ways
Did Beeching have a financial interest in closing so many railway lines?
Brother we have been at that stage for a long long time before me and you were born