[SALTERGATE]

Doubt Michael Portillo will feature Sheffield to Doncaster on the series, Rotherham, Swinton, Mexborough and Conisbrough !!

[Westbars Spireite]

One good thing about giving this evening a miss is not having to set foot in South Yorkshire.

[ELTON 2020]

Westbars Spireite, on 24 November 2015 - 12:31 PM, said:

One good thing about giving this evening a miss is not having to set foot in South Yorkshire.

Actually discovered Stavlely works station the other day. What's left is next to the hub at Hollingwood on the Canal. The bridge over the canal and the platform in the undergrowth behind!!-

[Mr Mercury]

Elton John 1866, on 24 November 2015 - 01:45 PM, said:

Actually discovered Stavlely works station the other day. What's left is next to the hub at Hollingwood on the Canal. The bridge over the canal and the platform in the undergrowth behind!!-

It was the same at Tibshelf for years. Where the traffic lights are now for the five pits trial, just after the church was the railway bridge, which until recently the trial went under. Then on the left after the bridge on the trial you could stand on the old platform. Indeed when I was a kid where the trial runs now was an old railway cutting and embankment we used to play on..all filled in now!

[ELTON 2020]

Mr Mercury, on 24 November 2015 - 02:43 PM, said:

It was the same at Tibshelf for years. Where the traffic lights are now for the five pits trial, just after the church was the railway bridge, which until recently the trial went under. Then on the left after the bridge on the trial you could stand on the old platform. Indeed when I was a kid where the trial runs now was an old railway cutting and embankment we used to play on..all filled in now!

Funnily enough(its great to get away from the football!) I was walking along the canal last year and remember seeing the old site of the railway from staveley works station to wheeldon mill. There's still a bridge at Bilby Lane I think, but all the track is filled in. Our industrial past is still with us. Agh! The thatcher years!
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[Bankrobber]

SALTERGATE, on 24 November 2015 - 12:18 PM, said:

Doubt Michael Portillo will feature Sheffield to Doncaster on the series, Rotherham, Swinton, Mexborough and Conisbrough !!

Proper one horse towns.

It doesn't get any better if you stay on after Donny either!

[Coastal]

An aptly named thread as I am on a train at York heading to Doncaster for the game. I spent my pre-school years at Staveley Works station as my grandmother was a porter there until closure in 1963/64.

[ELTON 2020]

Coastal, on 24 November 2015 - 05:39 PM, said:

An aptly named thread as I am on a train at York heading to Doncaster for the game. I spent my pre-school years at Staveley Works station as my grandmother was a porter there until closure in 1963/64.

If you look hard enough, the plates over the subway between the platforms are still there...in the undergrowth!

This post has been edited by Elton John 1866: 24 November 2015 - 06:30 PM

[DIFH]

Mr Mercury, on 24 November 2015 - 02:43 PM, said:

It was the same at Tibshelf for years. Where the traffic lights are now for the five pits trial, just after the church was the railway bridge, which until recently the trial went under. Then on the left after the bridge on the trial you could stand on the old platform. Indeed when I was a kid where the trial runs now was an old railway cutting and embankment we used to play on..all filled in now!

I remember catching the Wembley school boy international at Westhouses station Merc.

Best days train spotting ever 😊

[Misnomer]

Elton John 1866, on 24 November 2015 - 03:56 PM, said:

Funnily enough(its great to get away from the football!) I was walking along the canal last year and remember seeing the old site of the railway from staveley works station to wheeldon mill. There's still a bridge at Bilby Lane I think, but all the track is filled in. Our industrial past is still with us. Agh! The thatcher years!
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I used to love hearing the 'bump bump' of the trains on that line, at night....used to go on forever (well, as a kid, it certainly seemed to) and send me to sleep.

[Jud]

Westbars Spireite, on 24 November 2015 - 12:31 PM, said:

One good thing about giving this evening a miss is not having to set foot in South Yorkshire.

Steady on, old boy. I'm a south yorkshire resident and damn happy about it. That being said I'm only just across the border. If you've gone beyond S1, you've gone too far.

[ELTON 2020]

Coastal, on 24 November 2015 - 05:39 PM, said:

An aptly named thread as I am on a train at York heading to Doncaster for the game. I spent my pre-school years at Staveley Works station as my grandmother was a porter there until closure in 1963/64.

1986 clip of the lock and station

https://www.youtube....h?v=5s0jhgUAuZs