Whitwell Colliery & Railway - Abandoned Site of Derbyshire Pit

Whitwell Colliery & Railway - Abandoned Site of Derbyshire Pit

In this weeks video I come from my home village of Whitwell. A former mining village in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire. Near Worksop, east of Chesterfield and south east of Sheffield.

Mining in Whitwell goes back to 1890. The colliery closed in 1987. Within a little more than a year, the majority of the colliery buildings and infrastructure had been flattened. Other tha.n a few industrial units finding a home there until recently, the site is now a ruined landscape with little more than rubble and fly tipping.

We can however walk around the site and see the areas of the Duke railway sidings, as well as rails still in the ground near the colliery complex. A short section of narrow guage line, probably from coal tubs is still left not far from the entrance.

As well as the colliery, we also had a line to the Whitwell Quarry, now seemingly cut off from the mainline. The old Whitwell station was taken away brick by brick and now resides at the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley.


Thanks to Phil Sangwell for his cracking photos. You can see more of Phil's work here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/onemana...