Drivers Eye. Gainsborough - Shireoaks Via Retford & Worksop. A Covid Lockdown entertainment feature.

Here is a silent film from a few years ago. The journey is from Gainsborough Central to Shireoaks Via Retford LL and Worksop. This piece of railway is now a shadow of its former self when Coal was King. We leave Gainsborough Central head over Gainsborough Trent Jn onto the Worksop line passing the upper Trent valley power station of West Burton. Going on through Retford Low Level which opened in 1849. Sorry for some reason the editing software dropped the date off the footage.
Passing Thrumpton East , known locally has Whisker Hill, As we carry on to Worksop just before Worksop at the 19m00s mark we pass the sidings that was formerly Manton Colliery then through Worksop station and passed the yards and see the rows of stored HTA coal vehicles awaiting their fate. Some have been re-purposed into stone wagons with the rest being cut up. The yards are now owned by Harry Needle RC and they use the yard for storing new and used vehicles.


The Robin Hood line diverges to the left after Worksop and we carry on to Shireoaks station with the now derelict signal box on the right.


Like all the older videos Sound recording was not permitted. But we hope it doesn't spoil your viewing too much.

Creating these videos involves many hours of editing, rendering and uploading and takes time and effort and if you wish to support the continued work please feel free to donate via Paypal at
https://paypal.me/martin45144


I have just switched over to the Go Pro 8 Camera and as you have seen the footage is awesome.
Go Pro 8 https://amzn.to/3kCbvMK
Other equipment I use.
Garmin Virb Ultra Camera: https://amzn.to/3hMnNjo
Mount: https://amzn.to/3gaBDLY
Adobe Premier Pro: https://amzn.to/310bmJJ
Adobe Creative Cloud: https://amzn.to/3hLgeJz
Camera Backpack: https://amzn.to/2PbvanX



Locomotive Services LTD operate trains for
https://saphostrains.com/trips-tours/
https://www.statesmanrail.com/
https://www.railcharterservices.co.uk/
https://inter-city.co.uk/