Five Disused Railway Finds

[Music] [Music] and I'm here in height you know of your shapes you out of the shade Oh No [Laughter] [Music] hello welcome back to another video so I'm just outside Oldham up here in the north in a place called Groton great place great place name that and it Groton anyway what I'm doing in this video is I'm just putting it together a few little bits and bolts of railway things all railway stuff there's not enough to make a full video in each one of them so I thought I'd come a to Groton because there's something just up here I want to show you it's the remains of a station and then there's something else that our suspect is there so we just got the road here I'll show you what's here there you go we just near the town of Oldham and we're looking at an area called Groton and spring head right we need to walk through the woods I think this was a railway cutting and because we're down in like a bit of a hollow here so here we are the remains of Groton station apparently only had one platform platform here I think this posh house over here was the stationmaster's house I'll just show you from the from the other side but yeah not much boy obviously we like this sort of stuff don't we not enough to make a full video that's why I'm gonna go to another location in a bit but the remains of Groton Station it's how they call Groton station or Groton and spring head station I'm not quite sure I'm sure you better tell me so Groton Station was one of nine along the railway line from Oldham to Delft via Greenfield the Greenfield to Delft section was nicknamed the Delft donkey and it was used that name was used for the trains running between Oldham and Delft there's various stories as to why it got that name what the trains were just basically made up of two carriages and a Tank Engine and they were either pushed or pulled depending on the direction of travel so I guess the little two carriages and the little Tank Engine got nicknamed the Delft donkey so it's actually quite a long platform it goes all the way down here so the end down there like say just the station was always small he just had this one platform here and over that side was the stationmaster's house there was a footbridge as well I think I've just took some pictures of the little notice board down there but surely the some pictures in a bit ball still air on the platform and that's how it used to look apparently there's a nice house that I showed you that is now a private house little footbridge that has long since gone and he had the signal box as well and there's one of the one of the terrain crews there now the station opened in 1856 and from what I can understand it finally closed around about 1964 I think it closed in sections and it was used for Freight for a while to Delft to Greenfield then finally the trains ceased in 1964 not a great deal to see but anyway I'm going this way I'll show each one going I'm going this way down the path here because we're in the cutting it looked like it's not very well throbbed this path but we know what's at the end the cuttings don't work that's gone see if it's there I can see what we're looking for in the distance [Music] that was a difficult walk mainly because it was like a MASH walk into this but look this is where we have the railway tunnel now I'd love to look on the old maps because this is I'll show you where it went and I'll show you the tunnel I don't know if we can get in or not two runs with you I'm on my own where's Connor when you need him well as you can see we like a quite a big big drop down from up there gorgeous evening and we've come from that way and all the way down there it's all dead boggy and marshy bit of a fence on it a gate let's have a look well into the lock nice you know well it's really locked well how interesting is this look at the old vines that growing on there Wow I remembered I think it's called the Lydgate tunnel and people would tell me about this when I did the other line over nice damage so you probably saw it on the map earlier on there's the cut in as we zoom in there ignore the red arrow but Lydgate tunnel it's called and that's where we are right now let's put the camera here see if we can have a look inside so I've got a torch here so we'll shine that in shall we no it's bright setting [Music] by different day I've left Oldham obviously and I'm in hide just in the east of Manchester and apparently just up here behind me is a bit of an old abandoned railway and something that somebody said man you need to go and see so we'll see if I can won't find it I'm just in the middle of a field of horse field and then there's a little little fella here behind me hello but I'm just gonna get out of his way because they make me a bit nervous had anything bigger than a dog and as you got it's got a mate down there proper frisky thing running around so I've done me intro let's go and see if we can find you banned the railway and bye bye right this is it this is where I wanna be that up there above that bridge is an old abandoned railway line from what I understand so just need to figure out now away getting up there without having to to to do too much climbing or ripping yourself to shreds on the on all the brambles that are there so hmm apparently there is an easy way I see if I can find it [Music] right I'm up here and believe it or not I didn't have to climb I just saw it went through a field so there's something down there as it was tipped off about but I'm gonna go further down the line to where it meets the main line so this is where we are we're out on top of this bridge here now just show you over bridge over a little lane let's walk on along the path that way see what we can find so I think I don't fully understand what this is I'm sure you'll be able to tell me the railway experts out there I think this was a kind of a loop line that came off the current main line I kind of just loop around and I don't know what it was for some of the who is that many railways in Manchester back in the day and Gateshead hundreds it was unbelievable just a maze of Railways so and I'm not from this sort of eastern part of Manchester so I don't remember it I don't know when it closed or anything a child got some information at home and try and find out more about it there's not stationed here as far as a know Paul and Rebecca boom yeah at the moment one just on a woodland walk it's quite beautiful really right journey's end is defensive and the railway line the main railway line is just down there sold to us with you now seeing that the trains there and what interested in going any further for the race there's some things here Paul and Rebecca so there's something there they've all real way sort of concrete and there's a tantalising the cloaks it looks like a sort of signpost or something and I can't get to it I don't want to really rip myself apart on this fence to be honest with you [Music] and look platforms possible remains of platforms I think this was possibly godless station godless station it was possibly bigger than what it is now and a bet there was on this spur but there were more platforms and this is a little disused bits here of the old platforms and and I think it's black bunkers look there's a lot of level there ones the little wall over there or I'll tell you what we're going to brave the barbed wire fence end he's only a little bit of a slim thin barbed wire fence just to get onto the little bit of the platform there that's all just have a look over and as I got through I've ever took away this looks like there's a bees nests there don't you saw it just then I'll show you now there's a lot of be swarming around I ain't getting stung go attack my bees aim for a bloody video and there's six looking like me bees well though you shoot them out the Alex don't ya anyway let's go up here because I know there's something up here because they caught a glimpse of it before somebody else hit me off that there is the remains of something so obviously you know we're on the trap bed here joins up with the main line there and I'll turn the cam around and that's the way ahead okay so let's take a look at where we are and we're in hide and you'll see there we're at godless station and we're there the cursor ease there and where the cursor is there those are current railway lines this map is courtesy a rail map online let's flick a switch and throw in the old-fashioned railway lines or the old railway lines see the red line there that's is the little loop that we're on that we're walking on think he's now a cycle track so over to the right there where godless station is and godly Junction station that is where we are what we're exploring long since gone right I'm a short walk down the path to where we've just been and oh yes there's something here not quite sure what it is but it's definitely railway related [Music] so shall we go down into what was the turntable [Music] [Music] I love just sort of finding it like this in its abandoned state in the woods in the middle of nowhere I just walk from that way down there and you stumble across this and you know when you find it like this just kind of abandoned not obliterated not restored you just abandoned you came to feel that it's a little bit strange but you can feel a connection to what it was to what its original function was that it's still here only a few people know about it and it's just that link to the past isn't it that's the left alone nobody's tried to shift it or plow through it so this really is a little gem and obviously stood abandoned derelict for years and probably the locals know about it everything bought it's just survived beautifully in a sort of semi intact state and like I say common if you can just imagine the trains coming that way being shunted onto the turntable spun round and inspected in the pits down there what a great great little fan I think this is why I do this because I got the tip-off about this I think this is why I do this because to come out on a day like this a beautiful day like this it's a stumble a calm upon a piece of railway history railway architecture like this little lost gem in the woods I think that's why I do this yeah proper good little find definitely [Music] so I think this is some kind of inspection pit because it comes off the turntable which is just behind us and the steps going down to it the rails the rail fittings are still up here on the top and so he's definitely on Rails either side there's a grid down there possibly for waste oil so whether they are the wagons carriages locomotives on this and they worked on them I don't know he doesn't seem very log to be honest with you um but definitely definitely as an inspection plant this I'm amazed that he survived and it's still almost intact this is a proper a proper gem and as a second inspection pit here just down here the lines were the fittings for the for the lines have gone you've just got the bolts sticking up with the grid is more intact I'll show you this one [Music] [Music] but look at the side-by-side maps you'll see where I was before where nearly got stung by all the bees there's there's bit Messiah Dean's there that it looks like it's been obliterated now and even a turntable at the bottom there but if we've we've come along this way back over the lane there I'm have coming to this area here now if you look on the right side you'll see I'll lune the growth where I am now this map is 1888 to 1914 and that is where the turntable is that we're looking at but it isn't on the map now there is a reason why it's not on my map my map is to opt in 1914 but I found some information about the godly turntable apparently it was opened in the 1930s and the last train on there was in 1968 obviously that would have been a steam train now the information of God is from Facebook and there's a group of volunteers looking after the godly turntable if you're on Facebook and you type in godly turntable but you'll find this group of volunteers are looking after it and you can see some evidence of work that they've been doing around the place addy train ask them to use a picture of a steam train on the turntable and the gentleman was very kind he said I'll find out if you can use it but unfortunately it's not I've not got permission to use it in time for this video so if I do get permission I'll put it up on there I'll put it up on the Facebook page anyway there you go the the the turntable was from 1930s to 1968 oh.just turntables behind me something else look at this some kind of don't know what it is it doesn't on the old maps it doesn't say this was a station but some kind of railway building I'm guessing [Music] just seen a lot of little tiny baby spiders quite loads of them just do that wall there then I'll try and get a good shot of them for ya just Lords a little tiny baby spiders obviously gonna grow up into big monsters [Music] anyway I think it's time to go from this beautiful little place and the path goes on and there might be more that I've missed but I want to move on to another place this is Glossop again east of the city of Manchester so I'll just write on the border with a pen inés where the famous snake paths comes out of Glossop and snakes its way over the pen is over to Yorkshire in the distance there's didn't email Way Viaduct so I'm on a little little path now and we're going down here to see I think there might be some remains not sure but a bit of the moon down the path I've come off a massive Hill well down this path now and there might be something at the end let's go and take a look right it's taken a bit of negotiating through a lot of undergrowth and probably crawling with all sorts where think were found or found what I've come to see over there is Denton railway station I'm starting to see clues and I'll just show you what I'm looking at now I think I'm not sure think I found the remains of denting Railway Museum although I'm not sure and I think previous the reason it was a railway museum here was because it's right next to the railway and I think it was a former engine sheds and stuff like that the certainly evidence all around the buildings hidden in this beautiful woodland like say extent took me a bit to scramble around and stuff to find it and there's a building here let's go and take a look at this through the woods [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] think denting station of one time be more to it think this is the old station buildings a train and it's just a bit of a halt mouth for there [Music] I love this hold fire look at this look chimney on it still got the old surround I'm guessing this had to be something to do with Denton have a Denton station maybe later dents in railway museum some sort of old railway building what I didn't think this was here for a bit down there I gave up well this is quite a find again love the fireplace absolutely love it [Music] I can only guess and bind on the fireplace this isn't normal at all I think he's maybe a waiting room or something from the days when they used to port coal fires in waiting rooms they don't do that anymore and maybe you can tell me some people know out there what I mean I'm guessing it seems more station it or more like a station building and so I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at definitely railway related because the railways right there and I back out because roof doesn't look very cool and I've got no head gear on and again this probably shouldn't be here but it's one all those things where there's no fences here I've just walked straight into a bit of undergrowth and you just think wow you know this is amazing so he's some kind of its kind of borderline when we do this sort of stuff isn't it we sort of we want to see these wonderful old buildings this these ruins what sometimes you think should over here should not be here and all down the turntable we were okay there because it was a cycle path this seems properly abandoned but again I've just walked straight in so I remember years ago we had a friend that used to come up to dint email way Museum and we're all kids a nice to sell a bit of into Melway Museum you should go there and we were a little bit older Muse to say now I'm not going that rubbish we've got no diesels there and maybe this is it maybe this is a remains of Vinton Mail where Museum I'm not sure and bought certainly some sort of station buildings and I wish had to come now back in the day to Denton Railway Museum I would have known what I was looking at what well okay so here's the answer again this map he's 1914 1888 to 1914 and as we zoom in you'll see din Singh station currently it looks like it's just a halt but it used to be as it says there dint injunction the line that goes top to bottom of the screen is the current line the one that goes over denting veil as you see there and and obviously were on the little arc there we're exploring the arc and you'll see there's platforms there and there was a lot more to the station than used to be so we'll look at the old station buildings now guess what I did I looked at this map after I've been to the location and you'll see that it says engine house well is there an engine house still standing this pillock got home and thought oh my god is in a log for the engine house so I'm about to add something into the video at the last minute right hang on insert this bit on the third day of coming up here quick story I'm doing some filming this on the day that the video goes up on the Sunday I've rushed back to Glossop gets home walk to the old maps Barry say it mg shed engine shed I didn't see that stats we'll look on the internet sees a picture of this classic old engine shed looked at the map and I realize that I haven't veered off the path enough and it's possibly tucked away in the woods somewhere how did I miss that I can't do this video without putting the engine shed in if it's still standing so I'm back I've come through the woods I've come off the path where I was before I found this okay remnants of an old building without further ado I found the engine shed [Music] so here we are it was worth coming back for the engine shed shall we take a walk through it [Music] [Music] [Music] I don't know whether as a kid you looked at the old home but double O gauge catalog I think we used to sit in school and look at it and we fascinated by it but isn't this just a classic on the double O gauge model engine shed it's almost perfect I'm so glad it's still here because they had a feeling when I went I looked at the pictures on the net and a feeling that had probably been pulled down here it is in all ways Beauty all its derelict Beauty really needs saving I think it's a gem and that's how I call this video railway gems or railway fines I'm probably off with it I really am I'm property off that I found a classic old-school steam engine shed [Music] and then behind me here if you can see it there with a song coming through you've got Denton Bay duct which is a massive structure that spans the little fellow that we're in here now we just take a look down there's a lovely artery over there we're going to take a look at [Music] well so Maxim one of the arches along a viaduct and you can sell it's constructed with the bricks behind me I've looked in there there's not a great deal to say to build with you and but nice lot find now to come up the let's come down the hill of death to get it well if this is a which was bricked in later because it looks like more modern brick to village with you because the very rocks is actually stolen the original viaduct is stone there you can see this fact with all straight so you see behind me the big stone pillar and then they've reinforced it over here with the brick so I think the brick one's rabbit obviously a later date there's a great great picture of a class 76 sunset going over this thing absolutely brilliant picture the class 76 has rolled sort of like electric Lawton locomotives there's a kid I used to think electric trains were like the future of modern well certainly sixes were like I think they're almost post-war and they got scrapped in the very very early eighties so there you go that's the end of the video sort of railway finds that worked out quite well to be honest with you sorry I didn't know that much about the last one Bob sure someone in the comments will know what it was what we were looking at and will tell us all about it so thanks for watching I shall see you very soon in the next video from denting viaduct bye for now [Music]

Channel: Martin Zero

Views: 308,636

Rating: 4.9133921 out of 5

Keywords: abandoned railway, abandoned tunnel, railway tunnel, disused railway, disused stations uk, railway turntable, abandoned railway station, railway architecture, urban exploring, urbex manchester, engine shed, martin zero manchester, martin zero, urban exploration, manchester history, railway artefacts

Id: fGcVsp8rGMw

Length: 35min 1sec (2101 seconds)

Published: Sun May 19 2019