We're up to Part 4 of our disused Dearne Valley Railway story in South Yorkshire. This time we're starting from Goldthorpe and working our way to Grimethorpe Colliery and Halt.
We've been following the lost railway from Doncaster towards Barnsley. The line opened in 1909 and connected Black Car junction with Brierley Junction near Barnsley. Passenger trains ran between Edlington and Wakefield, a railmotor car ran by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
Starting from Goldthorpe, we see the new station on the active railway line. Here was where the Dearne Valley Railway crossed, just before the Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe Halt station. A quick look at one of the colliery connecting lines and a disused bridge before we leave the village and make our way along the trackbed.
Thanks to the drone, we can get a good view of Thurnscoe Junction, the triangle and the old bridge abutments. From here the line passes the outskirts of Thurnscoe with little excitement before reaching the next former station at Great Houghton.
Many collieries line the area of the route including Houghton Main, Dearne Valley and Grimethorpe Collieries. It is here where we see the remains of the trackbed and the link from the Midland Railway that served Grimethorpe Colliery until the 1990s - well after the Dearne Valley Railway closed. Plenty of railway infrastructure left behind as well as a plentiful supply of ballast (among the fly tipping).
We can see the area of the former Grimethorpe Sidings Junction before the route of the lost railway line disappears under modern developments, until it crosses Engine Lane at the site of the Grimethorpe Halt station.
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