The line at Cromford Road near Langley Mill was a colliery line, not BR. It linked Moorgreen and Watnall to massive interchange sidings a couple of hundred yards north of Langley Mill & Eastwood station. It passed the GNR line near Eastwood & Langley Mill station and interchanged there, too. I knew the original Stoney Lane very well. My Grandfather would take me along there to feed the swans and ducks on the canal near Vicar’s Lock in the mid-fifties. The Pinxton branch crossed the road there and the keeper lived in what may well have been originally the lock-keeper’s house. British Waterways and the NCB had to do a deal very quickly to close this section of the Cromford and the Nottingham canals for opencasting. People were beginning to kayak along them, which might have been enough to prove continued use. A mate said he fished in the Nottingham one weekend and returned the following weekend to find the canal breached and all the fish dead.
@IS-L
Жыл бұрын
I hope this gets started soon. But please slow down on the camera panning, it’s better to take long shots rather than pan. We don’t get dizzy and appreciate the views a bit more.
@briyeo
Жыл бұрын
That area was our playground back in the 1950's and early 1960's. When the canal and railways were still there. We were always hanging around the canal from Langley Mill up to Codnor Park res. My brother myself and a friend even made it on to the Langley Mill and Aldercar Cooperative calendar one year when we were photographed fishing for sticklebacks next to Lock 13. My father worked at the Moorgreen Colliery and sometimes got a ride back to the Cromford road level crossing in the cab of the Locomotive. My mother always referred to that railway branch as the Paddy LIne, We went down to look at the work being done on the canal a couple of weeks ago. If only it could have been left how it was when I was young.
@themackeler5011
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant Ant I used to fish a stoney lane lock and watched the bulldozers fill in the canal with earth think the canal will still be under all the earth
@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling
Жыл бұрын
It's brilliant that they are resurrecting this Ant. Thanks for highlighting this for us.
@ukman9797
6 ай бұрын
It goes full circle. The railways replced the canals. Now the canal is replacing the railway. Great video.
@TrekkingExploration
6 ай бұрын
Thanks very much indeed 😃
@malcolmrichardson3881
Жыл бұрын
Great to see an imaginative re-use of a former railway to enable the Cromford canal extension. In the past, it was often new railways which took over canal routes. Nice to see the tables being turned!
@angelaknisely-marpole7679
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant, thank you. We belong to the Chesterfield Canal Society and they are doing really well at re-opening the canal!
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
I walked that when I first started doing these in 2019. Maybe it's worth re doing
@williamoates1754
9 ай бұрын
What a fantastic addition to tourism in the area. Imagining the canal trip from Cromford to Langley Mill and back is heartwarming, even though i doubt i will live to see it. What also comes through in your inspired video is the way our industrial heritage has been vadalised by so called progress in the past, which was likely caused by lack of forward planning, and short term gain.
@lesbendo6363
Жыл бұрын
It is amazing how much history you have all around you. And how far back it goes in time! Where I live; Fort Langley BC, Canada National Historic Site Built 1827 (original) 1839/1840 (second site) Original use - Trading post Rebuilt 1957-58 Current use - Living museum. 🇨🇦
@v8cool231
Жыл бұрын
Most of the time we take it for granted though. Virtually every village in the UK has a church that dates back to at least the 1400's, and you can more often than not just walk in them. Although I sometimes sit back and look what we have and it hurts my head thinking about the the history here . Where I used to live there was a church with an Anglo saxon vault underneath and you could visit it. The atmosphere under there was astonishing. 1000 years of people entering it, and it was totally unspoilt, unrestored. Today, I visited a castle where Katherine Parr (Henry VIII last wife) lived. And Queen Elizabeth 1st lived there with her. To think I actually walked under the same archways as Elizabeth 1st did, blows my mind. And in this castle theres original locks of Katherine Parrs hair, and one of her teeth.
@alanlake5220
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic stuff Ant, hope it goes ahead, and yes keep popping back to see what progress is being made .
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
It's great it's definitely happening. I'll be back
@martinbell8369
Жыл бұрын
Great video. I lived in jacksdale and I remember walking around there when I was a young lad with my grandad in the early eighties. We walked from brinsley and the old canal was filled in so you could see the bank walls in the fields. That was all lost when it was opencast. I would love to see it reopened again even if it was only a short way.
@cadburysclub1807
Жыл бұрын
Grew up just up the road from the level crossing in Langley Mill, (1972 until 1992)unfortunately the Durham Ox my childhood home is no longer there but remember the coal trains from Moorgreen colliery using the line and the slag heap behind the A610 before it was covered over, Hall road was built to allow the coal lorries from Woodlinken open cast mine to get to the A610 duel carriageway ( before the extension was built where the brick bridge is) hope this information is useful
@michaelmiller641
Жыл бұрын
I did enjoy that, Ant, Another fascinating video! Fancy that! Building new canals in 2023!
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much Michael. It's quite exciting
@2010ditta
Жыл бұрын
Hopefully they will leave that bit of track alone...maybe put a couple of wagons on it or a coach etc. Lovely video again..all the best.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
I hope so. I fear it'll get buried in Canal spoil
@nottyash2316
Жыл бұрын
The railway you mention several times was not the Midland Watnall branch. This came through Kimberley and joined the Erewash Valley main line near Awsworth. They also had a branch up to Watnall Colliery and brickworks, but no further. The line crossing the canal and the Erewash just north of Langley Mill was a colliery line owned by Barber Walker and later the NCB. Both trains you show are NCB trains. Barber Walker had a quite extensive system of branch lines feeding from various collieries in the area to the canal and the Erewash Valley line, as well as the Great Northern. Otherwise a very interesting video. Thanks.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
I've just checked my usually reliable maps online and the line that joins near Awsworth is the Babbington Branch? I've also followed the route of the line in this video and it heads on over to Watnall and Watnall Junction. The other line from Watnall was the Basford to Ilkeston Midland Railway joining by Bennerley
@nottyash2316
Жыл бұрын
@@TrekkingExploration The MR Watnall branch (or New Watnall Colliery Branch) ran north from near Watnall station on the MR Bennerley-Bulwell line to Watnall Colliery only. Here it connected with the Barber Walker colliery lines which ran south to Nuthall and north west towards Beauvale Priory before turning west through Moorgreen Collliery to Langley Mill. Barber Walker also had several branches joining this line to various collieries and landsale sites, plus connections to the GNR and MR at Langley Mill and elsewhere. Old OS maps will show this pretty clearly. I could understand how the map makers of your reference might think the MR line carried on to Langley Mill, but with local knowledge I can assure you it didn't. There is a good reference to the Barber Walker lines and various photos, maps etc in the The Great Northern Railway in the East Midlands: Erewash Valley Lines, Pinxton Branch, Awsworth - Ilkeston, Heanor & Stanton Branches book - see www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31586923109&searchurl=an%3Dhenshaw%2Balfred%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dgreat%2Bnorthern%2Brailway%2Beast&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title3
@Mark-yk1ny
Жыл бұрын
Outstanding video thanks ant 👍 I hope they keep that bit of track too 🤞
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
I hope so too. Thank you 😊
@leswallace2426
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating stuff....so great to see canals being restored and the commitment and initiative of volunteers.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
It's wonderful isn't it? I shall definitely be back for updates 😀
@terryansell6641
3 ай бұрын
You always a excellent job with your videos thank you from New Zealand
@v8cool231
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful old photos. Its amazing all the hustle bustle, and smells these places saw every and heard everyday. People clocked in and worked there like its a normal day, using those old buildings, and not thinking much of it, not knowing that people in 2023 will be looking at them with some form of romantic nostalgia.
@simonballard6413
10 ай бұрын
Very interesting indeed. I wish Butterley tunnel could be reopened, too !!
@petergrant2366
Жыл бұрын
Brilliantly put together, I love your passion and so nice to see the old Cromford canal being extended, even though its not the original route.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much Peter thank you I shall be back here soon
@johncarold
Жыл бұрын
Hi Ant, WoW ! This will be great to see what happens through the years. It would be nice to see your boat chugging down the locks.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
It's a two year project I believe so progress may be pretty good
@JosephWood1941-iz6mi
3 ай бұрын
What about the severed section of the canal at Ambergate? This occurred in the mid 1960s when Ambergate electricity substation was either expanded or possibly built. The canal was severed at this point. I walked the cansl route from Cromford to Ambgate before 2015. The canal at the Cromford terminal connected with the canal-that-never-was that became a railway. The Cromford and High Peak Railway.
@michaeljohnson-li5nn
Жыл бұрын
As a lifelong resident of Jacksdale, and someone who is interested in our industrial heritage, it’s heartwarming to see the restoration of the Cromford canal. From my perspective it would be interesting to see what was needed to further extend the canal to Jacksdale and maybe up as far as Codnor Park reservoir. To fully restore the canal it would need the Butterley tunnel to be made navigable again. This would be a major civil engineering project, and I would imagine an extremely expensive one. Looking forward to your updates on this project.
@stuart3383
Жыл бұрын
Made my evening thanks Ant.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much Stuart
@colleennewton7882
10 ай бұрын
Great stuff Ant, in my doorstep too. Can't wait to see how it progresses.
@orwellboy1958
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Ant. Another interesting presentation. Funny how things change, it was probably the railway that killed of the canal and now the canal will be resurrected via the railway.
@janetdods71
Жыл бұрын
Just love watching all your videos its amazing how much history you have shown us with either videos or old pictures well done mate xx
@Marc_von_Hoffrichter
Жыл бұрын
That is amazing. I certainly hope it all comes together! What a great effort from a committed group. Will be wonderful to check in on this. Thanks Ant, appreciated cobber.
@eggy77
Жыл бұрын
Love to see all the old canals getting restored to their former glory. I wondered regarding the Chesterfield Canal as there's an old railway tunnel that goes under the M1 parallel to where the Norwood tunnel is, I wondered if they could use the railway tunnel instead of rerouting the canal... I was looking at the course if the old Nottingham Canal yesterday, I wonder if there's any plans to restore that, but it's been built on around the Lenton area so that would need a fair old detour.
@benGBRf
Жыл бұрын
Another fantastic video Ant. Thank you 😊
@martinmarsola6477
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the walk along tour with you today. An interesting conversation about the past and future. See you on the next. Cheers Ant! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Martin. It's something a little different isn't it and worth a return visit soon. I hope you are keeping well
@martinmarsola6477
Жыл бұрын
@@TrekkingExploration Slowly,but sure.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
@@martinmarsola6477 good 😊
@Tuberuser187
Жыл бұрын
Its fortunate there is an alternative route, there are some Canal restoration projects that are proving impossible when they simply cant afford to go over/under a road when it will cost as much as the rest of the entire project.
@simonrichardson5077
Жыл бұрын
Another gem.thanks Ant
@richardharris4452
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Ant. I've walked most of the route many times & knew of the plans, but didn't realise you could walk beyond the basin. The use of the former railway line isn't a bad plan b to the original line,as you rightly say, but once again, your research & and presentation are truly superb. I look forward to future updates.
@rustycyclingtrucker
Жыл бұрын
I live just round the corner from this really looking forward to seeing the reinstated bit of the comford canal. Thanks ant great to see all this as it all gets done
@michaelwhite1723
Жыл бұрын
Another cracking video Ant, very informative as usual, I was here few months ago for the festival with Python. Hope to bump into you again soon for a catch up
@jontaylor1652
Жыл бұрын
What an interesting topic, this is the first I've heard of this project. Very well done Ant and thanks.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
It's exciting stuff isn't it? Very different. I'll definitely be back for future updates
@martinbrew
Жыл бұрын
I think the "yard lamps" may have been for semaphore signals.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
I bet they get scrapped too
@Jimyjames73
Жыл бұрын
That's different - didn't expect that!!! 🤔🚂🚂🚂
@shirleylynch7529
Жыл бұрын
Fabulous Ant. Great filming. Photos before amazing. Just love your music choices. They enhance your films so much. Thank you
@F4Insight-uq6nt
Жыл бұрын
This process will have happened before many times and will happen again many times. This video in fact proves everything I have been saying on the subject of Water Ways. I didn't need any confirmation personally , buts it a nice bonus... PS: Cromford Canal = CC = 33. Canal = 'C' Anal. & Cromford Mill = CM = 33 All my own work.... Thanks once again for proving me 100% correct.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
So proud of you
@mikenorman2525
Жыл бұрын
Great video, I don't live far from there and it wasn't that long ago I cycled up from Trent Lock to Langley Mill along the towpath and I had no idea this was even happening! I suppose it's handy that the coal mining lasted just long enough (probably only by a few years) that when the A610 Langley Mill bypass was built in the early 1980s they had to provide that bridge otherwise this project would probably have been a non-starter.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
It is lucky that this particular mine and railway lasted until 1985 the route beyond towards nottingham closing years before
@lindamccaughey6669
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed that thanks Ant. Can’t wait to see the work as they do int, I so look forward to it
@andrewhotston983
Жыл бұрын
Seems amazing that people are extending the canal network at the same time as budget cuts mean that the existing operating canal network is threatened!
@amberdy12
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed the video = what a feelgood plan. Hope it's successfully completed. Wonder if Brian Blessed helped raise the money needed. I remember when he lived near here he was a member of "The friends of Cromford canal "
@simonballard6413
Жыл бұрын
Another fascinating video, Ant. I do hope it all happens soon. (lovely piano music at the beginning, by the way!) Many thanks.
@ste.h9825
Жыл бұрын
As usual a very good informative video.Roll on part 2.Thanks Ant.👍
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it. Thank you
@quercus21
Жыл бұрын
I hope they go ahead. There have been talks of re-opening or extending back onto the Kennet and Avon near Melksham in Wiltshire.
@fhwolthuis
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting project 👍🏻
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
It's definitely something to keep an eye on
@roblubelski422
Жыл бұрын
Interested to see the progress with this. Great video as always, some cracking images and drone footage.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much Rob. Very kind
@trevorkent7916
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic
@neiloflongbeck5705
Жыл бұрын
Many early railway companies purchased canal companies filled them in and converted them into railways as lots of the infrastructure was already in place.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
That's right so it's quite ironic it's happening the other way around so many years later
@jayewaters3921
Жыл бұрын
Yes they are old lamp posts. also were used on the Uk roads
@mickd6942
Жыл бұрын
Was that bridge you were stood on a baily bridge , it certainly looked like it .
@dieselbushcraft1299
Жыл бұрын
If you’re interested in canal restoration and want to do another video on the subject do a google on Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Trust, they are carrying out a fantastic project.
@jetsons101
Жыл бұрын
Silly Question: At 1:26 in the top/right of the image there is a smokestack, what name is on it. All I can read is "VIC HALLAM???????? The green really "pop's" in you drone shots of the farm fields. Again, a very enjoyable and informative watch.....
@briyeo
Жыл бұрын
Vic Hallam made wooden buildings, sheds greenhouses at first but they also made whole new schools and Library buildings locally in the 1950's. Portacabins were big business in later years.
@jetsons101
Жыл бұрын
@@briyeo Thanks for info. I thought there was more to the last name on the smokestack.....
@marybradley7791
Жыл бұрын
Great video, this is going to be a very interesting series, is this the canal they are restoring that is going to join up with the South Yorkshire Navigation?
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
I think that may have been the Chesterfield Canal? I can't remember. Thanks very much for watching Mary
@mikenorman2525
Жыл бұрын
The Cromford canal used to go all the way to Cromford (naturally enough!) which is where it always terminated (at Arkwright's mills, the reason for the canal's construction). A severed part of it a few miles in length still remains between Cromford and Ambergate meaning there is a missing section between Ambergate and Langley Mill. Ant's video covers the restoration for a mile or so in the direction of Ambergate from Langley Mill but it would be a huge undertaking to reconnect all the way to Ambergate (and hence to Cromford), not least because of the problem of reopening (or bypassing) the collapsed Butterley Tunnel .
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
@@mikenorman2525 the tunnel will always be the problem I fear no matter what else gets restored.. thank you for watching
@richardharris4452
Жыл бұрын
Add to that , the canal would have to cross back over the A610 around Ambergate,which I can't see happening,sadly.
@bobingram6912
Жыл бұрын
That's quite a project and well explained Ant, but can you tell me what the end purpose is, I get the impression they're just extending it a bit further into the middle of nowhere but will it go on to somewhere? Did I miss something???
@sigbjrnjohansen8872
2 ай бұрын
Imponert over innsatsen som blir lagt ned 😮😊😊
@butchknapman3939
6 ай бұрын
In my book you are not far wrong former railways how they link to modern railways and canals, both interesting subjects
@davidedmundson1208
Жыл бұрын
Great video as always, but I’m afraid this will just become a new housing development, really hope it doesn’t but not holding my breath !!!
@thomasmann9216
Жыл бұрын
If the new route of the canal is going to pass under the A610, why not revive the old route and have it...pass under the A610?
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
There's no bridge for it to pass under on the original route
@vinylchaser5115
Жыл бұрын
They will probably electric barges
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
Plans are for you to take your own boats and also trip boats I believe
@a11csc
Жыл бұрын
this is a deffo must ant to document this
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
It's exciting isn't it? Couldn't miss this opportunity
@davidh4514
Жыл бұрын
Old railways shuuld be repurposed fkr transport use, roads tramways, bus lanes raiways even or cycle paths and so on.
@angelcoops511
Жыл бұрын
They’ve rerouted canal’s before, so I’m sure they can do that. Would be great if they did.
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
It's definitely happening. Good stuff
@geoffsharp6163
Жыл бұрын
Amazon contributing? AMAZON ARE YOU CONTRIBUTING ?!
@TrekkingExploration
Жыл бұрын
Are they?
@annoyingbstard9407
Жыл бұрын
They need somewhere to dump all their old shopping trollies.
@cargy930
Жыл бұрын
Always good to see another canal being slowly returned to an amenity for everyone. I got significantly distracted by the Bailey Bridge at 9:10 though. Clearly a much later addition, but still potentially ex-MOD WW2 stock.
@garystanley6097
Жыл бұрын
Hi there love the video. Very detailed and informative. Could you please add the track list of all the music you use in all future videos. Thank you.
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